Skinny Girls Have Body Image Issues Too

So the next time you want to tell a girl how skinny she is…don’t.

Janey Doe
ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR
4 min readMar 15, 2022

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Photo by Jairo Alzate on Unsplash

I’ve been told how skinny I am pretty much my whole life. Skinny — not thin. There’s a difference between the two. Inhabiting a “skinny” body has a freakish, malnourished, heroin-esque type of feel to it. Thin, on the other hand, is healthy. Refined.

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Janey Doe
ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR

Social Worker fascinated by humans, hypocrisy, and how all shitshows lead to self-discovery.