Why I'm against the Fatkini photos!

I know most of you have seen the Fatkini craze that has recently gone viral.

If you haven't seen it yet... take a look Here: Fatkini hashtag goes viral

I am most likely going to get a ton of back lash for this but here goes:

We are promoting obesity.

While I thinks it's great that these women are trying to promote positive body image (trying being the operative word), I think they are causing more problems than they are solving and here is why:


For so long we have complained about those stick thin, unhealthy, anorexic models. They are a bad example for our young girls. They promote an unhealthy and unrealistic ideal of how a woman should look and so do these women. These women are obese. These women are a health risk to themselves. Obese women are just as bad as the anorexic ones.

Do you want your daughter sticking her finger down her throat after dinner? I sure hope not.

Why would you want your daughter to think it's OKAY to weigh 200, 300, 400 lbs?

I can tell you from experience that you don't get to 200lbs and higher by being healthy. I got to 200lbs by binge eating fast food and junk. My blood pressure is high, my knees hurt from holding so much weight, most of the time I'm tired, I have asthma, and I'm at risk for type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol  and the list goes on.

Do you seriously want a life of health problems for your daughter?

Take a look at the health risks in the photo below and tell me it's okay for our young girls to think this is how they should look!

While continuing to promote an unhealthy lifestyle these girls are not promoting positive body image at all.

I know a girl (we will call her Kim) who can not gain weight. Kim  has always been so self conscious of being skinny but she is one of the healthiest people I know. She goes to the gym, she eats clean, and her doctor tells her she does not need to gain any weight.

Kim has been hearing comments like "You are too skinny." and "Girl, eat a biscuit." for so long that she feels like she isn't pretty.

Is it ok to promote one body type while bashing another? Just because someone is skinny doesn't mean they have positive body image.


We need to promote health and with health will come the positive body image we are all looking for!