My parents, ‏both fair and good-looking, ‏were often asked the question of why their daughter was so dark? “Chandan lagao ‎(Try Sandalwood)”, “fairness cream se nuksan thodi hoga iska…(Using fairness creams won’t hurt her)”, “shaadi kese hogi iski? (How will she get married?)” ‏and many more. ‏But my parents were just a couple who immensely loved their baby. ‏After just a couple of years was born my sister who was probably the fairest baby my khandan had seen.
‏Now, ‏of course, ‏the comments of having a girl child again were there but this time, ‏my relatives started pointing out how she was going to give me a substantial amount of complex in our youth. ‏The truth right now is she didn’t. ‏But the society did. ‏I never had a bad relationship with my sister but I became hating myself. ‏The self-love was so low that I used to feel that I’ll grow up and invest my money in skin-lighting in the future but instead of growing she suicide because of listening these negative words she ‎end
‏her life because of society
‏ body shaming is not on skin tone its also on your body structure fat girl must listen a elephant is coming and slim girl listen oh hold a stone in hand because if their will be air you will fly
body shaming may can lead to high depression or anxiety so please stop it our society is only seeing your body not your soul but after death our soul will stay not our body so let's stop it,for others these words are just words but for other its emotion we dont know how many people lost their lives because of depression of body shaming
we ‎can ‎just ‎say ‎them ‎healthy ‎or ‎fit ‎and ‎for ‎others ‎we ‎can ‎say ‎cute ‎or ‎chubby ‎so ‎choose ‎your ‎word ‎wisely ‎maybe ‎these ‎words ‎hurt ‎someone ‎like ‎a ‎arrow ‎in ‎their ‎heart
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*‎based ‎on ‎true ‎story
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‎© ‏Syeda Rutaba Asaad