Let me and my body be
Switched on breakfast TV
Piers Morgan debating personal responsibility
Says I'm glorifying obesity
Just let me and my body be
You say unhealthy but you mean fat
And how can anybody choose to live like that
When fat is the enemy
Just let me and my body be
When you say you're too big,
Or someone else is too small,
It's a reminder that my body is judged constantly,
Just let me and my body be
When I overhear someone say
She'd be pretty if she lost some weight
And a voice in my head agrees
Just let me and my body be
My fat is not a failure
Your thinness isn't a success
Your body isn't better
Because you fit a size eight dress
We live in a culture
That says women must be small
That says women must internalise
Being thin and beautiful
This fucked up diet culture
Affects you like it affects me,
But when I go to the doctors,
They assume that I'm lazy.
Just to exist in this body
I am a cautionary tale,
The before in a before and after,
Who would want to be the fat girl?
If you think that I've lost weight,
It isn't reason to celebrate,
I was as valid at size twenty-two
As I was at a size eight.
Fat people matter,
Fat people are people too
When we die of COVID
don't dismiss it as an underlying health issue.
I know you mean well,
I know you care about my health,
But when I tell you I have history,
I wish you'd let me and my body be.
I don't want to hear how much you weigh,
Don't want to hear about your waist size
Don't want a diet you'd recommend for me
Just let me and my body be.
Cos when you talk about obesity,
You talk about me.