Teen Gets Fat

Teen Gets Fat
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April 9, 2009 6:50 PM Updated 13 years ago
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young women who have children in their teens are at greater risk of becoming fat than their peers who don’t get pregnant, new research shows.
A pregnant woman is seen in a handout photo. REUTERS/Newscom
“Our findings are potentially important because adolescence has been identified as one of the critical periods of development that set the stage for the onset of obesity later in life,” Dr. Erica P. Gunderson of Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, California and her colleagues write in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
For adult women, pregnancy boosts obesity risk, Gunderson and her team note in their report, and there’s evidence that getting pregnant and bearing a child may have an even greater influence on body weight and fat accumulation in adolescents.
To investigate, Gunderson and her colleagues looked at 1,890 women who had enrolled in a national study of growth and health at age 9 or 10 and were followed up every year for up to 10 years.
Seventeen percent had given birth to one child when they were between 15 and 19 years old; 4 percent had more than one child during this time; 10 percent got pregnant but didn’t have a child; and 69 percent didn’t get pregnant.
Forty-three percent of the 983 African-American girls got pregnant in their teens, compared to 19 percent of the 907 white girls.
Overall, at age 18 or 19, 28 percent of the white women and 49 percent of the African-American women were overweight or obese. However, among those who had given birth in their teens, 40 percent of whites and 57 percent of African Americans were overweight or obese.
Among the black women in the study, those who had one or more babies during their teens were heavier and had larger waists, larger hips, and more body fat than their counterparts who did not get pregnant.
Similar trends for waist size and body fat were seen among the white women.
“The excessive fat deposition during adolescence may signal the onset and persistence of obesity and elevated insulin, lipid and blood pressure levels into adulthood,” Gunderson and her team write, noting that women who give birth for the first time before age 20 are also known to be at greater risk of heart disease.
They conclude by calling for further research on the effects of weight gain during teen pregnancy on growth and fat accumulation.
SOURCE: Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, April 2009.
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Jenna, 19, got fat-shamed for wearing shorts at church. (Photo: Twitter)
A 19-year-old girl from Swansboro, N.C. was fat-shamed at church on Sunday, when a congregation leader followed her to the bathroom and told her, “Fat girls don’t wear shorts.”
The teen, who goes by Jenna on Twitter, took to her social media to share a video that she captured when a woman named Bonnie Sue confronted her in the bathroom of Swansboro United Methodist Church. When the clip starts, Sue is seemingly referring to another churchgoer when she says, “She’s a chubby girl. She’s got a dress on that’s appropriate.”
When Jenna responds, “So you’re sitting here calling me fat?” Sue counters, “Oh, you don’t think you are?”
This women followed me into the bathroom and attacked me calling me fat and that I couldn’t wear jean shorts because I was too fat pic.twitter.com/xse8lKfQdo
— Jenna 🦊 (@roo_jenna) June 30, 2019
Jenna is heard breaking down into tears, while Sue continues to taunt and threaten her.
“Don’t come back on that stage with those shorts,” Sue said. “I’m warning you.”
According to an explanation included in Jenna’s Twitter thread, the teen is a member of the contemporary band at her church, but writes “I will never get back up on the stage to sing again.”
— Jenna 🦊 (@roo_jenna) June 30, 2019
“I’m honestly shocked and upset that this happened at church,” she wrote. “I should feel accepted and loved and now I don’t want to go back to that church.”
The pastor of Swansboro United Methodist Church, G. Kevin Baker, provided Yahoo Lifestyle with a statement that was sent to the community on Tuesday. Jenna also added the letter as an update to her thread.
The lead pastor sent this out to people ❤️(since some of you found the church, also please don’t be a bully back nothing will be solved from that... an eye for an eye makes the whole world go blind) pic.twitter.com/r875AP33ak
— Jenna 🦊 (@roo_jenna) July 2, 2019
“It has come to our attention that great harm has been done in an incident that occurred this past Sunday where a faithful and very gifted young lady and worship leader was body shaming for her appearance,” the statement reads. “We are shocked and saddened by this act. The Church is supposed to be a place of safety, love and acceptance.”
According to Jenna’s thread, the pastor told her that Sue won’t be working in any sort of committee or in any leadership role at the church ever again. In an email to Yahoo Lifestyle, Baker also noted that Sue and is a church member and not an employee.
Beyond the pastor’s support, however, Jenna has received an outpouring of love from thousands of Twitter users — including actress and body positive activist Jameela Jamil.
So horrified to watch what you were put through. You don’t deserve that. You look fucking brilliant in those shorts. That woman is an arsehole. Well done for fighting back. I didn’t have the courage to do that when I was younger. You’re so inspiring. Sending you love. ❤️
— Jameela Jamil 🌈 (@jameelajamil) July 2, 2019
This breaks my heart. Her behavior is so cruel and ugly. Keep singing and keep shining. She is clearly not an authority on any kind of loving God.
— Shannon Purser (@shannonpurser) July 2, 2019
This is terrible. I hope you know you can wear whatever you want ESPECIALLY THOSE FUCKING SHORTS
— Jazzmyne Robbins (@jazzmynejay) July 2, 2019
I’m so angry you had to experience this. I have nothing to take the pain away but please kno you are loved and amazing just as you are, and that I will take time to hex her tonight.
— Dani Fernandez (@msdanifernandez) July 2, 2019
So sorry this happened to you. You are amazing.
— Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger) July 2, 2019
I wear shorts like yours all the time. You and I shall rock the world with our beautiful bodies and badass shorts💕 pic.twitter.com/ZfE3afaVQM
— we are giants🏳️‍🌈💕 (@fujiokathemocha) July 2, 2019
Jamil also retweeted the video onto her own page where she made a statement about the “daily harassment people receive over their size.”
This is the daily harassment people receive over their size. Even at the hands of people old enough to know better. Even in sacred places. Even in their own doctor’s practices. Our hypernormalization of policing and ridiculing fat bodies is what leads to this brazen bullying. 💔 https://t.co/SXfYMu80q5
— Jameela Jamil 🌈 (@jameelajamil) July 2, 2019
“Even at the hands of people old enough to know better. Even in sacred places. Even in their own doctor’s practices,” she wrote. “Our hypernormalization of policing and ridiculing fat bodies is what leads to this brazen bullying.”
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Body shaming doesn't just temporarily sting our self-esteem ( regardless of age )—it can have dangerous health consequences, too. The American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry estimates that 10 percent of young women struggle with an eating disorder, which can lead to (sometimes irreversible) damage to the gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, and endocrine systems, according to the National Eating Disorders Association .

And while body shaming in any shape or form is hard, when it's a parent doing the bullying, that's especially painful, as one teen recently experienced. But the saddest part? She thought she might have been in the wrong, no thanks to awful parenting by her own father.

Here's how the heartbreaking Reddit thread unfolded:

"I want a perspective on this issue," started u/hopefullyhappytaurus in the AITA subreddit . "I honestly understand why my dad is mad at me, but I just don't want to put up with this anymore."

The daughter mentioned that her dad's girlfriend frequently shames her body. "[Dad's girlfriend] was a very fat girl who suffered bullying about her weight," the teen continued. "This made her change her lifestyle to an extremely 'healthy' one: She goes six days a week to the gym and barely eats. She has gone to a ton of nutrition professionals and comes back super mad because apparently, they told her that she needs to eat more protein/vegetables/whatever. Plus, she kinda hates the fact that she doesn't have a waist like a Kardashian."

(FYI: Her dad's girlfriend isn't just displaying unhealthy habits—those are telltale signs of an eating disorder.)

The poster says she frequently doles out a ton of unsolicited and cruel advice to her, including, "You should have thinner arms, so you are more attractive" and "You should consider a breast reduction and have some fat removed from the butt, just saying."

As the daughter put it: "She hates people that are fat…or are comfortable with having a little fat on their bodies."

Somehow, things get worse. The daughter recently turned 19, and the girlfriend gave her a present—an extra-small dress, even though the teen wears a size large. The poster explains the girlfriend's reasoning was that it might motivate the teen to lose weight and that she should also skip having any of her own birthday cake.

Despite the painful badgering, the poster managed to stay composed and gave the perfect clap back.

"I just smiled and thanked her but told her I didn't want it," she said. "I am happy with my body, and I don't care if I am fat or thin in her eyes." Next, the girlfriend went to the car, Dad called his daughter ungrateful, and the daughter wanted to know: Was she in the wrong?

Thankfully, many Reddit commenters had the poster's back—it's too bad her father didn't.

"The girlfriend is unwell, and the dad is putting up with it at the expense of his kids," said one commenter.

And one Redditor really got to the heart of the issue: "She's projecting her issues onto [the poster]. I find that despicable," the person wrote.

It's no secret that society has impossibly high beauty standards for girls and women. That harmed this girlfriend, and that wasn't ok. But what's also not okay is the trauma she's now inflicting on someone else. Experts stress that we need to teach kids that it's what's on the inside that counts, so they don't feel pressured to live up to an arbitrary, unhealthy standard.

Want tips on how to speak to a child in your life about fat (if they bring it up)? This mom handled it well when her daughter called her fat. She said, "The truth is, I am not fat. No one IS fat. It's not something you can BE. But I do HAVE fat. We ALL have fat. It protects our muscles and our bones and keeps our bodies going by providing us energy."

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