Western Skinny - Asian Fat

I came across this article today and reading it gave a weird uplifting feeling of relief. This conversation came up time and time again throughout my club volleyball seasons in highschool. We were all asian girls - with the odd white girl, 5'2-5'8. Some of us were petit, some of us weren't. For the petit girls, they literally ate anything and everything and still were the same size. But for us taller girls who had a bit more meat on us, it was difficult to keep up with the other girls' eating habits that consisted of junk food, soda and all the carbs in the world.

Body image has always been a struggle for me, it's a love hate relationship with my body, but I'm working on keeping a positive relationship with my body and food. I work out regularly to be able to eat the tasty - but fatty foods I love. In my household, my sister and I are quite tall, standing at 5'6 and 5'7. We've played sports our whole lives don't have the typical slender body type. We've got the broad shoulders from swimming, athletic legs from volleyball and strong arms from the combination of both sports. My mother however doesn't see this as being "athletic", she sees this as being fat. It doesn't help when my best girl friends have the generic slim, slender asian genes. Don't get me wrong, I have the best looking group of girlfriends, it's just hard to stand by them and be the "big girl."

WHISTLER 2012 <3 

I definitely agree with Jane who wrote the article, it's difficult to live in a world where traditional culture and standards clash with the western culture and standards.

What do you girls think?