Adele’s Transformation| Body Positivity and Fat Acceptance Movement | Right or Wrong | My Opinion

Body Positivity, Fat Acceptance Movement, Fat Pride, Fat Empowerment or Fat Activism is a movement that started as an anti-fat bias movement and primarily focuses on changing the society’s opinion towards plus size men and women. This movement calls out every fat person to accept, be proud and love their body, the way it is, without being bothered about any other person’s opinion and honestly, I do think the motive behind this activity is truly great, I do think everyone must be proud of who they are and how they look.

I have been a fat kid, my whole life and to be honest, fat shaming is a real thing. People often put you down because of the way you look and I think most fat people will accept this.

Recently, I actually see this movement getting a bit more of momentum. I see my friends talking about it, I see people from my batch post about it on social media but I also see a toxic side of the movement and by toxic side, I imply to people, part of this movement, putting down any person who was previously one of them and now, lost their weight, to be healthy and achieve their dream physique. So, basically, a movement like ‘Fat Pride’ that started to bring in positivity in the society is responsible for spreading negativity further.

In the above picture, we have Adele, English Songwriter and Singer and recently she just went through this amazing transformation. She dropped nearly 100 lbs of weight and personally, a person like me who’s on his own transformation journey can say 100 lbs is no joke, it’s a good amount of work, sacrifice and dedication. Now, I am bringing her into this conversation for a reason and I quote some comments from the after photo post of her transformation (second image in the collage), “i really missed your old figure, you’re perfect in every shape and form”, “u are now just too thin”, “Why adele why did you lost all the weight, u were beautiful the way u were earlier, adele. Just kidding, but you were more beautiful earlier”, “you aren’t beautiful anymore 😭😭” and there are a ton of these negative comments.

I have also seen a lot of positive comments in the post but when you have a following of 39.5M, even the smallest chunk of negativity is quite significant. The matter is, it deeply saddens me. There are people who don’t appreciate the hardwork she has put into this transformation. People are unhappy and complaining about the fact that she just tried to lose weight, be in a healthy weight range and just feel good in general.

Now, if you think about the root of this negativity, trust me it comes from deep within of the people who made those comments, it’s because they used to feel good about themselves as their idol was one of them. Now that, their favourite is in perfect shape, they feel bad about them. So, all these negativity is nothing but insecurities of the general mass.

Instead, the very correct attitude will be if they draw in some motivation from the transformation, start training and exercising, eating better and healthier to be better than the last day.

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Lastly, I want you to take this message with you from this post. Accepting the way, you are, it’s great but it is better to work on ourselves to be better than the present day. I do support the Fat Acceptance Movement, but at the same time, I want every single person, part of the activity to exercise and to eat healthy, get better than the last day. At the end, we know it’s not about how we look, but it’s difficult to do things when one is overweight, so it’s better to loose a bit of weight, just to feel good and perform better everyday. In the end, Fat Pride should always be about loving yourself the way you look but should never become an excuse to live an unhealthy life and further put on weight by eating junk in the name of body positivity.