Dare to Show Your Face - Carrie

This is the first of hopefully many videos to show that fat people are just people like the rest of the world.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• fat
• cofra
• dtsyf
• fat_acceptance

[Meluvkatz]

that video was made more than a year and a half ago, are you still fat? just wondering.

[carriepadian]

Yep, still fat, despite all the life that's happened to me in the past year and a half. To be fair, I am slightly less fat than I was when I made this video.

[incitatus167]

I just had another thought.  I think we shouldn't comment or pass judgments on random strangers because we can't always correlate size and health. But, when the affective relationship is different - say, when my cousin is so overweight he breaks chairs and has severely impaired mobility - not doing anything would be neglectful. He *can't* take care of his own business, and it's severely impacting his health. Loving my cousin means doing something - *how* is another matter altogether.

[carriepadian]

Oooh...that's a slippery slope though. I totally agree that it's hard to see someone we love struggle with something about their body, but unless they are asking for our help, is it really our place to help them? If a person was having trouble with mobility because of, say, MS, would we still assume that the person somehow "needs" our help and "can't" take care of their own business? A person's struggles in life are their own. We can offer to help but ultimately it's their decision.

[Sweetbug74]

You're awesome! Thanks for posting this. This message needs to be outspoken more often.

[DiscoStu20886]

The truth is, people can be attractive no matter their size. Nobody deserves to feel unwanted or worthless because of their size or anything else. My girlfriend is 380 lbs and is very feminine and sweet and intelligent. I would suggest guys take a second look at BBW because many of them have hearts of gold and are so much more down to earth then fashion crazed weight obsessed types.

[carriechapmanifyful]

Your Awesome Love you! Great Message We are all Human and come in all shapes and sizes and no matter what size we are we are all Human. Hey dont let those YouTube Haters Get you Down as a fellow fat pride women named Carrie they try to get me down too and to them I just laugh at their ignorance. i cant say it doesn't make me angry but i know that at least i made a stand to tell the world i am beautiful and fat!

[ikymdls]

Nice Video:)

TRUE



[carriepadian]

I am all for healthier environments! They are a positive thing for people of all sizes, not just fat people.

And even doctors can't pinpoint whether obesity is causing those diseases or whether the diseases are causing or contributing to obesity, so trying to cure obesity which may just be a symptom, is the wrong way to go about it. I'm all for healthier environments for everybody

[incitatus167]

I agree that shaming people into healthier lifestyles doesn't work, but I'm not so sure we should "mind our own business," so to speak. When obesity-related diseases cost US healthcare $147 billion, I think there are steps we can take to create more healthful environments (sidewalks, mandating PE and banning soda machines from schools etc.).

[carriepadian]

Well of course people should care about their own health, but my point is you don't have to be mindful of MY health, just like I don't have to be mindful of yours. We're all perfectly capable of taking care of our own business and discrimination and size prejudice and shaming aren't helping anyone to be more healthy.

[incitatus167]

We need to move away from "size" and towards a more meaningful discussion of health.  My whole family comprises big people, and wehave to watch what we eat and exercise ten times harder than regular people. Yes, we have feelings like everybody else, but we also die off and suffer from heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes more than other people. Yours is an important message on how to treat people, but I think we need to be mindful of our health too.