Should I be concerned if people say I am too skinny?

Should I be concerned if people say I am too skinny?

Divya Kakaiya (Program Founder and Clinical Supervisor) gives expert video advice on: How can I tell if someone is anorexic or just naturally skinny?; What's the fine line between strict dieting and an eating disorder?; What's wrong with trying to be thin? and more...

I really think we have major weight prejudice in our country. We comment about people when they're too fat. We comment about people when they're too thin. We comment about people when they're just right. We have such extreme forms of lookism. And we're constantly preoccupied with watching people's bodies and deciding whether it's the perfect body or not the perfect body. And does it matter with mine, and should I do something about mine? So there's this huge piece that goes on. And I think it's very important that we can look at how we do have prejudice towards really overweight people, and then we also have prejudice against people who are just naturally thin. So there will be lots of people... Because when we have a huge value system based on, you can never be too rich or too thin. So then what you'll find is, you'll find that when somebody is really thin, the majority of us women who may not be that thin feel a little envious about that person. Because how does she seem to do it? And so the way that we deal with envy is we project it out with hostility towards that. So we may make comments, that are actually really prejudicial comments towards really thin people. So I think just as much as we can be prejudice towards really fat people, we tend to be prejudice towards naturally thin people as well.