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You would be forgiven for thinking that only the obese suffer body-shaming until you meet skinny Kenyans who have equally endured barbs. Body shaming, whether you’re a bag of bones or otherwise, has led to untold psychological trauma especially when unleashed on social media.
It is worse if you’re a media personality or celebrity. Like radio girl Lynda Nyangweso. In an Instagram video in 2019, she opened up how she was called a whale and got so afraid of eating.
“When I was young, I would never eat in public. People would stare at me when I ate that I started eating in the toilet,” she confessed adding she wanted to commit suicide but was worried her mother will not find a fitting coffin.
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