When your face gets fat and your neck disappears. When I gotten fat as a child, I looked in the mirror I noticed I have a double chin.

At eight years old, I was on my journey to becoming the fat sibling. When school started in the fall, I was noticeably fat. My slender older sister would tease me calling me “fatty” since I outweighed her. When we would run, I would be out of breath; trying to keep up with her.

I started gaining weight when I was eight years old. My weight gain was on purpose because I wanted to be fat just like my two aunts were. During the summer, I started to eat a lot of food and snacks when I wasn’t even hungry. By the time school started in the fall, I was well on my way to being fat.

Ever since I was a child. By the time I was eight years old, I was already chubby and then became fat.

You know you’re fat when:

-You get winded climbing up the stairs when the elevator is out of service.

-You can no longer tie your gym shoes; you have to wear slip in shoes like Skechers.

-You could barely squeeze into a restaurant booth.

-You can no longer see your feet because your belly is in the way.

I became the fat girl at eight years old. I spent part of my childhood and some of my early teen years being one of the fat girls. In my immediate family, I was the heaviest sibling. The weight kind of waned off during my teen years.

But after adulthood, I regained the weight back.

When I started getting fat at around eight years old, I started getting a double chin my face gotten fat.

When I was a child, I wanted to be fat like my two aunts were. I learned how to double the amount of food. By the time I was eight years old, I gotten fat. I used to be slender; but, I gotten fat by the time school started in the fall.

My mother and sister were both on the slender side; while I celebrated my new found weight. My mother tried numerous times to put me on a diet in order to lose weight. During the summer, I would go to fat camp. I would enjoy my time at fat camp because it would be other overweight kids who were trying to lose weight there.

I would lose a few pounds; only to gain more weight. My older sister would tease me calling me “fatty”; because I outweighed her. When I would eat, she would pat my belly and say: “you’re eating too much, fatty”. I would bump her down with my round bell for the fat comments.

To me; being fat in public is just a normal thing .

When I was a child, I wanted to become fat just like my two aunts were. They were round and plump. My mother took me and my older sister to the movies and we watch Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. I was fascinated with the character Violet Beauregard.

While at Wonka’s Factory, Violet chewed a piece of gum that wasn’t ready for consumption. She turned into a round blueberry. She could barely walk; but, the Oompa Loompas had to roll Violet to the Juicing Room to squeeze out the juice.

When school ended in the summer, I was a slender size; just like my mother and sister. That is when I began my weight gain journey. I would eat when I wasn’t hungry. By the time when school started in the fall, I came back double my previous weight. My mother became alarmed at my weight gain, that she tried to put me on a diet to lose some weight.

My sister would start teasing me calling me “fatty”. I couldn’t keep up with her when we would run. I would either be out of breath or walk the rest of the way. After that exercise, I would eat and pat my belly in satisfaction. Just like in gym, I couldn’t keep up with the other kids because I was fat.