Slender By Eudora Welty: Five Steps To Love Your Body

Slender? It is not a word for me—not in the past, or in the present, or ever in the future.
Starting in grade nine, I have always had a sense of inferiority. The envy within me towards girls who have clothes-hanger body in advertisements and tv series has driven me to think that they are the only ones who deserve glorious lives. For a long time, I was dragged into despair by the stifling pressure of getting thinner, blaming my cowardice and the cruelty of the world.
Until I realized I was not alone: Women all over the world are suffering from the extremely harsh expectations imposed by society, family, and themselves. Indignant at my discovery, I slid to an extreme——refusing to live under the judgmental eyes of others, I hoped to persuade society to accept my idea, my body, and my

Reading articles such as “Five Steps to Love Your Body”, I led a a group of four to research this issue, which ended with me directing a mini-drama to emphasize the importance of inner beauty, and presenting our survey on how teenagers are negatively influenced by their distorted body-images.
Yet, no matter how I bragged about my “advanced feminism”, no one seemed to care. As well as my own,
People’s perceptions about beauty can not be changed in one blink. Deep down, I had known that surrendering, fitting myself into the expectation of the society, rather than trying to make an exception, is always an easier way to solve my problem.
Like a gradually growing storm, negative self body-image swept me off the ground and into a whirlpool of desperation.Through those failed attempts to lose weight, food had changed from being a warm shelter for my shattered ego to a rubbish can where I could discard all my anguish and bitterness. When situation became worse, one percent of the time I would think of trying to lose weight, while ninety-nine percent of the time I would stuff food into my mouth