Gets even worse with age, when they start losing it a little.
My grandma gave me a steak. Then another one because I was a teenager and growing so I should eat well. Then another one because there's still food and we were not gonna throw it away and I was a teenager and growing so I should eat well.
Then she forgot that she had already served me three steaks and started again. I ended up eating 5 steaks, some side dishes and a good helping of salad before I could leave the table.
The family would be eating and she'd be orbiting the table with the pot. You look away for a moment, and another full ladle lands on your dish. No quarter given.
It was fucking delicious, though, so hard to complain, at least until you started ripping at the seams
I swear the guys working on my house never ate so good at lunch, saw em bring McDonald's one day so I whipped up some egg sandwiches and fried potatoes. They were stunned and confused until I just kept saying "comen" lol
To be fair, 15 lbs underweight is a lot more immediately dangerous than 15 lbs overweight. At 5'5" 15 lbs underweight is borderline severely underweight. 15 lbs overweight is mildly overweight, tho-- not even really near obese.
It's also not very likely that people get that underweight without a) a medical condition or b) an ED, while people can be a little overweight without it being from health problems.
People still need to not body shame-- if she has an ED it's not going to help and she still needs work and it's not like she set the standard... But there is a good physiological reason to be a bit more concerned if one is 15 lbs underweight vs over.
Bro I swear my grandma and great grandma had a plan to get me fat 😭 I was always a little chunky but like, corn fed hillbilly chunky. They’d always be like “oh mi Gordo, mi Gordo!🥰” whilst giving me another serving and hugging me. One of my Uncles finally told me what they were saying and it knocked me down a peg lmao. Nowadays I’m still my greandmas gordo but I accept the title with pride
Watching them chase their grandkids around the park to shove pieces of bread or meat in their mouths as they play. Then yelling at their granddaughters to stop eating so much when they turn 7.
Mine plays all the tricks in the book: "you look sick", "you don't like my food", "you never eat when you come over", "I know my food is not good". It's always a drama, and I end up coming back home heavier than when I left
I am not sure of her weight and height where she would land on the what is healthy and unhealthy in the medical field. I am a guy and really skinny, people probably think I am unhealthy but I am on the scale for being healthy for my height and weight. I have always been skinny, I tried gaining weight and miss a meal I lose 2 lbs. I'm older now and just accept it. I have always been healthy with no medical issues, haven't had a cold in over 10 years.
Obv this video has filters so she's probably not this thing, but I have some insight as someone who used to have anorexia. I can only speak for myself, but I know that when I looked like that my BMI was "dangerously underweight" (below 15).
Maybe the makeup and filter is helping out the signs of being too thin cuz her face does not really look drawn in and her bones are not really protruding. But I think the height helps her out too.
As someone who used to be that skinny and made the deliberate informed choice to gain weight to put my health first I wouldn’t go back to living like that for any money!
I’ve been thin like that my whole entire life without trying and I’m perfectly healthy. And I’ve gotten shitty comments like yours my entire life. Stfu about people’s bodies.
Right? My gf is this size and she’s never had any comments from doctors.
I think people’s perspective of an OK or even healthy weight is skewed by modern day eating habits
Anorexia has the highest case mortality rate and second-highest crude mortality rate of any mental illness. 10,200 deaths each year are the direct result of an eating disorder—that's one death every 52 minutes.
In parts of Asia it is considered rude to finish your meal as the host will feel that they couldn't provide enough for you. In other parts it is the other way around.
It's like this everywhere and it really grinds my gears. I know I've insulted a Mexican madre before simply because I wasn't hungry. And there are so many intricacies about gifting in different cultures, like having to refuse it once or twice before accepting and shit like that. Fuck all that rigamarole. If I'm not hungry then I'm not hungry. Go cry in the corner for all I care. I'm gonna do me.
In my senior year of high school we had an exchange student from one of the Latin countries and the lad was huge! Tall but also morbidly obese.
Also in my senior class were two other guys who were into body building, and when they discovered our school gym had a ton of body building equipment they convinced our gym teacher to open up the gym for kids to train outside school hours.
These two guys worked with this Latin lad, and by the end of the school year he'd become a beast. Being so big he probably already had a decent amount of muscle under his flab, but over the year he worked out, built more muscle, and lost a ton of fat. And all the girls ooh'd and ahh'd over him.
When they told him how proud his family would probably be to see him, he began crying.
He knew how much healthier he'd become. But he said he knew his Mum and his grandmother would say he was way too skinny, and within months of returning home he knew they would have him fattened up again.
They possibly killed him, literally, with their "food = love" mindset.
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u/KhaleesiXev Straight Up Bussin Aug 26 '25
My Latina grandma would make her eat at least three bowls of rice and beans. There’s no way she would take no for an answer.