Fourteen years ago I met my to be future wife from the Philippines. She was an extremely petite lady weighing 40 kgs with a height of 5 feet 4 inches. I know it was natural for her to be this slim as I had seen her normal day to day routine of 3 small meals followed by occasional snacks of fruit etc…
One day I took her to a local Indian restaurant and we were enjoying our meal. At some point she needed the bathroom and as she walked away I heard a lady on another table talking about the anorexic woman who had just walked past.
That really shocked me as how can one person make a judgement on another in such a blase manner especially when said person was within earshot.
My wife and her family are all slim. It’s partly to do with diet, but also because Filipinos don’t tend to have a huge amount to spend on good quality food and protein sources.
Over the last 14 years she has slowly increased to 48 kg because of children and getting better quality food. She is still slim though.
And there she is snacking again - still slim.
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