Hourglass Syndrome Left Me With Permanent Damage

It taught me that being skinny equated to being loved, that skinny meant pretty, and pretty was what I had to be if I wanted people to care for me.

I’d fooled everyone around me, giving off an illusion of thinness, but I was left forever cursed by the ways in which I achieved it.

We've all been collectively shamed into upholding a facade of thinness by cleverly finding ways to clothe ourselves or taking pictures from certain angles that would keep this secret hidden.