article_snippet: ‘merchants of body hatred who turn girls and women against girls and women own bodies’.
article_snippet: feeling fat” from the list of options.
article_snippet: ’ Catherine Weingarten, a Catherine Weingarten, a 24-year-old Ohio student who launched the U.S. version of the petition, had written on the petition's page that ‘fat is not a feeling.
article_snippet: As someone who has struggled with and overcome disordered eating, I know what this status’s like to "feel" fat.
article_snippet: I have spent years of my life consumed with negative thoughts about my body, and far too many days starving Catherine Weingarten in an effort to lose weight. '
article_snippet: But even worse than the skipped meals and the hours spent obsessing in front of the mirror was the fear of what others thought about me and my body. '
article_snippet: As someone who struggled with body image, I feel so happy that I am eliminating one form of body shaming hatred on the internet.
highlights_snippet: Catherine Weingarten, a 24-year-old Ohio student, had written on a change.org petition's page that 'fat is not a feeling'
  