Fat Shaming Ruins Lives And Does Not Even Work

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Boogie2988 lays it on the line – talking about his own experience with fat shaming and how eating helps him deal with his issues. Take a watch but be warned it contains emotions! Once you’ve watched it, it’s also highly worth taking a read of the comments under the video on YouTube – it shows you a side of humanity that isn’t pleasant but just like the broken bottle buried on the beach, it’s worth knowing it exists if nothing else…

What do you think? How should people approach the topic of someone else’s weight, or is it one of those things that we should never mention?

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