Hey, you don’t have to “feel thin” to have thin privilege.

Thinness isn’t a feeling. If other people perceive you as thin, you are thin. If you are able to walk into any clothing store and expect to see a wide range of options in your size, you are thin.

My job involves looking at photos of models who are much thinner than me, so I rarely “feel” thin.

But I can walk into almost any clothing store and expect - without even thinking about it - to buy something in my size. That is thin privilege.

No one looks at a photo of me online and tells me I need to lose weight or sees me out and about eating a cookie or an ice cream cone and sneers at me in disgust.

No one groans or rolls their eyes when they have to sit next to me on a plane or a bus.

In fact, no one comments on my body at all. The ability to move through life without people insisting you need to be a smaller size...if you don’t have to think about that, it’s privilege.

And this is something that I really need “body positive” influencers and fashion bloggers to understand.

If you are getting gigs AT ALL, it’s because you closely align with fashion industry ideals. And it is what it is, I guess.

What’s not okay is pretending that you don’t.

Once again: all thin privilege means is that your life isn’t made more difficult *because of your weight.* It means you aren’t defined things like pay raises, healthcare, and airline seats because of your weight.

It doesn’t mean your life is easy or that no one ever made fun of your appearance or that you can find everything you want in your local Target. It means societal discrimination and prejudice does not target you for being thin. It means your weight/body type are seen as “normal.”