I am BU and mean but....

[Knickerbockerglorybuns]

In my big fat gypsy wedding,is it just me or do the little girls dancing ( after their first holy communion) at the party, really need to lose the big bellies before they can pull off the dreses( as well as age another 10 years of course)

this is what goes wrong actually with received wisdom

from the age of having one overweight child in the year, or even the school, it's now normal to be overweight and "all girls should have pot bellies" and it's wrong not to

from the weight lending to early puberty, the early puberty is used as a reason for the weight

it all gets twisted around and people believe that what is not normal or healthy in a child, actually is

it's not the child's choice that's the problem, adults (ie me ) can eat the way we want, but they can't

YABU to think it and post it - your priorities are messed up. It's just you (or at least, just a few of you) who think children need to lose pot bellies before wearing inappropriate clothes and grinding like pole dancers.

It is appauling. The last episode I watched showed the girls dancing in a really provocative manner, which is encouraged, at a wedding. The girls arent allowed any sexual contact with boys and if they do then they are shunned as 'easy' by the community. The boys however were gloating about a tradition called 'grabbing' whereby they pounce on an unsuspecting female (who has been dancing nearly naked in a sexual way) and take them off somewhere private by force. They never spoke about what happened when they got there but the girls were all terrified of it happening to them.

In the same episode, someone was talking to the camera and you saw a boy carrying a girl off over his shoulder and she was literally screaming. Not in a playful way but a blood curdling, scared shitless scream... Completely irresponsible 'documentary' making and utterly appauling.

The size of the 8 year old's stomachs was the least of my worries.

We're ridiculing little girls' bodies now?

I can't say I noticed the childrens' body shapes while watching that show (too shocked by the dancing) but wondering if maybe aleast some of them were starting puberty? I remember being an awkward shape during the early stages- everything seemed round. Seemed to last forever before I got a shape of any kind.

my girls both normal height/weight with the eldest being slightly underweight. both tall and lean

but earlier puberty isnt a choice,nothing can be done about
that......obesity,there is more scope for changing it

i was referring to earlier puberty more as in body shape changes,not fatness/obesity

I'm just saying really. I believing in looking your best. A sticking out pot belly on anybody( child or adult) doesn't look good.

There seem to be a few 'first OP's' about weight today.

Has someone got bored of counting their 'propoints' and thought they'd set a cat amounst the pigeons on here?

hopefully thAt will happen to you derailed, not me.

They are normal shapes. The fact that they're in disgusting outfits is what looks inappropriate.

The dancing. Oh the dancing.

My two girls are 17 and 14, they are v fit and active. They have great figures and look good in anything. I've never been able to see their ribs, ever. They are not overweight, have never been classed as chubby but have never been skinny either.

Being obsessed about it being normal to see children's ribs is as bad as thinking it's normal to have pot bellies imo.

Knickerbockerglorybuns
I'm just saying really. I believing in looking your best. A sticking out pot belly on anybody( child or adult) doesn't look good.

well damn, someone tell those Ethiopian kids that their bloated pot bellies are unattractive. I'm sure they will make it their number 1 concern.

Shove a in your gob and do one, OP.

ILOVETIFFANY! she didnt buy it herself, her mum bought it for her!

I have .all home made of course. Don't mind if I do