Region | Discrimination, insults: focus on traumatic fatphobia

No unsaid, no pretense in Sonia’s words. Her obesity, she attributes to a childhood trauma related to the loss of her dad at the age of a year and a half. “It may have been a reflex for my family to feed me a little more to comfort me, to compensate for the absence”, rewinds the young woman crossed on leaving the Special Center on Obesity. On the eve of the world day once morest obesity, Sonia who weighs 110 kg today has agreed to confide in one of the unknown consequences of the disease, one of the most striking yet for those who suffer from it: grossophobia. An ending now entered in the dictionary which characterizes “the attitude of discrimination towards obese or
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