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Anonymous wrote:one thing is for sure she is abusing herself. GIRL EAT A CARROT! Something. my goodness. I shouldn't be able to see a clavicle.
Both of them. It's ridiculous.
Whatever they’re eating the must not be feeding their oldest daughter.....she’s huge. Crying shame.
Gracie has PCOS. She's shared her story and battle with weight pretty publicly. It's a battle that so many face, too.
My sister was always thin growing up until she went away to college and rapidly gained weight. My mom, an almond mom and result of the 80s diet culture, shamed her SO much. She blamed her for having bad eating habits in college and didn't believe my sister when she said she didn't eat terribly while at school. My mom even refused to get her a meal plan her second year of college and instead signed up for one of those meal delivery services to be delivered to my sister. My mom monitored her bank account and would shame her if she saw too many fast food or Starbucks charges on there. She was also very controlling with any money she gave my sister to try to stop her from buying junk food. When I would visit my sister at college and come home, I'd have to give my mom a list of everything we ate. If I reported good, healthy foods, my mom would either not believe me and accuse me of covering for my sis or she would say something like "of course she ate clean while you were there!" Her terrible behavior for 3ish years is why my sister still has a very strained relationship with her 15+ years later. Can you imagine your mom wrapping up a pair of jeans you used to love and gifting them to you one Xmas as motivation? "Get back in these and I'll buy you a whole new wardrobe!" Or gifting you a shirt you wanted but gifting it in a size 2 or 3 times larger than you needed with the comment "you'll grow into it and it felt wasteful to buy it in the size you need now."
My mom still didn't believe PCOS as an excuse for my sister's weight gain for many years. She said she used it as an excuse and a crutch. It wasn't until she read some blog or article by a fitness "guru" she followed who had a similar struggle that she started acknowledging that weight gain from PCOS was a real thing and hard to combat.