Pearl - Did You Grow Up Fat？ Your Loss LOL!

00:00:00.080 it impacts just the way you think you don't want to do anything because it's like there

00:00:04.320 might be food there oh my gosh i relate what up guys welcome to my reaction series today

00:00:09.920 we are reacting to women and men talking about how being fat ruined their childhood all right

00:00:17.920 let's see being fat will being fat will ruin your childhood if you are younger and you gain weight

00:00:26.240 it will ruin your childhood this is coming from a child who was overweight growing up

00:00:31.760 and it takes years to see what you may have missed out on the impact that it would have had

00:00:37.040 i'm telling you when you lose weight the worst part is realizing how many years you spent fat

00:00:42.960 for no reason that's the worst part on your personality and your development your opportunities

00:00:47.920 the way you showed up at school the way you showed up with your friends the way you showed

00:00:50.640 fed up with your peers. If you're a parent and your kid is gaining weight, check it. Because

00:00:57.000 I wish my mom, dad had had the knowledge to check it back then. And it didn't. That's fine. I'm not,

00:01:04.080 I'm not mad at them for it. Right. I'm an adult now. But if you can see that and catch your kids

00:01:09.100 before it is too late, you're, you're doing them a disservice if you don't, in my opinion.

00:01:14.800 I agree. I wonder how responsible the parents are for the weight of the kid.

00:01:19.460 i do think over like 10 ish it starts to become like the kid's fault but under 10 or over 10

00:01:30.080 wait sorry under 10 it's kind of the parent's fault because you're responsible for what they're

00:01:35.280 eating y'all can we just talk about the experience of growing up as a fat kid like i don't think

00:01:40.340 anybody knows how hurtful that experience is i feel like i don't know maybe i'm being biased

00:01:47.560 because yeah like i was a fat kid but i feel like being called fat was like one of the worst things

00:01:53.240 that you could be called and like the only thing like people would result to calling you if they

00:01:58.760 didn't like you so i just feel like maybe it wasn't the most offensive criticism but it definitely was

00:02:09.320 the most occurred and i guess maybe that still makes it hurtful because it starts to like

00:02:14.680 fuck with your identity and like your self-esteem hardcore and um i think the even crazier phenomena 0.81

00:02:23.320 is like when you go from being like especially as a woman a woman being overweight i mean it's 0.99

00:02:29.560 kind of a death sentence to both men and women socially i mean because kids are mean right

00:02:34.760 but a young woman being fat oh because that's like your one job is to not be fat 0.99

00:02:42.280 a fat person to like going to being a slim person and you see how different the world is and you see

00:02:50.200 how different people uh treat you and you see like all this like new you know found validation

00:02:57.400 and all of this like like the oyster bar just opened you know what i'm saying um it's so weird

00:03:04.440 because in that moment you feel like you have confidence but you don't realize that the

00:03:09.560 confidence really comes from you like from the inside so like you're basically in a new body

00:03:14.120 but the spirit is the same so you still carry that low self-esteem i'm gonna be real with y'all i feel

00:03:19.160 like if anybody has ever been like fat or like really overweight and then they get skinny like

00:03:27.240 that is a that is a sector of therapy that needs to be explored for like these people because

00:03:34.600 it is such a such a hard and difficult thing to do to grasp like a new reality that fast

00:03:42.760 so i'm just saying like and i feel like another crazy part is like when you actually realize

00:03:51.900 that you're pretty and it's not because you weren't pretty when you were fat you definitely

00:03:55.440 you were not pretty when you're fat i mean here's the thing you'll still get some attention because

00:04:00.080 you're young young fat women still get like attention but it's just not it's just there's 1.00

00:04:06.020 something about like there's a level of confidence when you get when you're doing the best with what

00:04:10.980 you have like I know when I was 20 I probably would get more male attention right because 0.87

00:04:18.160 like I'm 29 now yeah I'm like old and used I'm like a used car not too many miles though

00:04:25.680 but at 20 at 20 I know I got more attention even though I was heavier but now like when I'm almost

00:04:33.780 30 it's weird I would say I'm more confident now shockingly because I know I'm doing the best with

00:04:40.760 what I got like I you can't really change your age there's something about that like when you 0.98

00:04:45.080 meet a 42 year old woman who's just like in perfect shape you know she kind of has a level 1.00

00:04:49.920 of confidence because what else is she gonna do you know you can't get younger um so yeah

00:04:55.560 were but like the fat trauma just like trumped over like your belief and like anything else 0.79

00:05:01.920 being like successful in your fucking physical being so it's like when you finally get skinny 0.89

00:05:09.180 then you see yourself as pretty it's like yeah okay let's see this blonde woman i wonder what 1.00

00:05:14.700 how fat these people were i think that still hurts my heart to think about from growing up

00:05:19.140 fat is a story from when I was like seven and I made a whole PowerPoint presentation

00:05:23.880 on how I was going to lose weight in first grade. I remember making a whole printout binder to go

00:05:30.160 out. You realize it young. I remember because I yo-yoed a lot in my life, but I remember the

00:05:36.040 first time feeling fat was in fifth grade. I don't know how old you are. Fourth, fifth grade.

00:05:41.320 It was this one picture of me. And yeah, it was like my gut was sticking out and my friends had

00:05:47.440 flat stomachs i was like why is mine not flat in front of my parents and say to them that i was

00:05:54.160 going to go from a one-piece bathing suit because i was wearing the plus size one-piece bathing

00:05:59.040 suits from justice shout out and i was going to go from a one-piece to a tankini to a bikini

00:06:05.600 because in my head that's how it went like if you're big you had to wear one piece if you were

00:06:09.840 like you had to wear tankini because like it still covered some and then when you were skinny you

00:06:15.120 could wear a bikini i was seven i was around other girls in the playground and when it was like their

00:06:20.960 birthday party and they would have like water slides and pool parties i was seriously no oh

00:06:26.960 my gosh i i went through the same thing i never wanted to go to the beach i never i mean partially

00:06:32.400 because i mean the pale but you don't like it impacts just the way you think you don't want

00:06:39.600 want to do anything because it's like there might be food there oh my gosh i relate in pictures and

00:06:45.440 anything at seven years old was i overweight yes was i fat yet no am i here to promote body yeah

00:06:54.240 but the thing is you like know it's coming i don't know for me anyways because i i just knew

00:07:00.480 that the second i stopped playing sports that i would get so overweight and i that's why you

00:07:06.560 cannot work a bad diet but it takes like four hours a day it takes up so much time positivity

00:07:11.520 and promote obesity no it's unhealthy but i am against how much it is put on girls to look a 0.99

00:07:20.800 certain way and i still feel it i think about that little girl a lot i like it's kind of ironic she

00:07:26.320 said i don't like how it's put on girls to look a certain way she's like putting on makeup i mean 1.00

00:07:31.440 i know that i'm so ridiculously hard on myself and how i look today but i try to just picture

00:07:38.800 that girl looking at me now and just like being absolutely just astound by the way we look like

00:07:45.360 i'm not here to call myself hot stuff or anything but like i think i look pretty good so all right

00:07:49.520 here's this one i care less if you get offended by this a child should never be obese there is

00:07:54.640 no reason that it is neglect because it's the parent it's the mom not paying attention to what

00:07:58.560 what the kids are eating it is neglect to some degree um some of it's out of their control like

00:08:03.660 once the kid's in school um the kid kind of has to make choices but it is partially the mother i

00:08:10.020 should ever see an eight-year-old that weighs as much as i do as a parent you have control over

00:08:13.560 their food especially when they're really obese i mean if it's that bad and you send them to school

00:08:17.700 and they're eating i mean it might be time to go home school or something activity level so if they

00:08:22.120 are obese here's the thing i know how hard like i feel like food was just always my like achilles

00:08:28.100 heal. Like I just did not know how to overcome this thing. And it affected me so much. And I

00:08:35.240 almost feel like I'm at the end of it. Like I still have 10, 15 pounds to lose, but because I

00:08:41.300 did it with diet and slowly this time, I'm just not as worried about, maybe I will gain it back.

00:08:46.000 I don't know. Life's long, but I, I just, I know I did it different this time. And oh my gosh,

00:08:51.760 just when I was younger, it was, oh my gosh, it was just such a pain in the ass. It's simply 0.99

00:08:56.640 neglect just think how much harder you're making their life simply because you don't want to do

00:08:59.800 your job as a parent childhood obesity is setting them up for major health and social problems

00:09:03.560 chances of pretty much every disease skyrocket and not to mention getting bullied in school

00:09:07.060 not saying have them eat 100 healthy food and play every sport imaginable but there's i don't

00:09:11.720 think sports help because it just kind of pro it kicks the can down the road because if you're

00:09:17.080 overweight the problem is overeating and you need to retrain yourself to not overeat and that's

00:09:22.880 going to include learning to cook healthier meals weighing your food being able to ballpark when

00:09:28.360 you're out how much calories something is it's a skill and these are skills you're probably lacking

00:09:33.200 um cleaning up while you're cooking so it's not a big mess and it's this big hassle um and for me

00:09:37.980 because i was in sport it was always really difficult um like there's just certain life

00:09:42.800 skills i didn't have no reason they should be eating fast food for breakfast lunch and dinner

00:09:47.740 and then sit on an ipad as soon as they get home from school for the rest of the day a child should

00:09:51.520 have to suffer the consequences of obesity because of the poor choices their parents made if this

00:09:55.960 offended you i don't care there's yeah i know he's he's completely correct um again it's it's

00:10:02.120 the parents making poor choices and the kids kind of having to deal with it okay guys let me know

00:10:08.060 what you think in the comments did you struggle with childhood obesity if you did what was your

00:10:12.080 experience like and did you overcome it like the video and i'll see you next time

Pearl - December 20, 2025

Did You Grow Up Fat？ Your Loss LOL!

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