"Weight Stigmatization": High Weight, High Pressure: What Overweight Parents Are Fed Up With
What do overweight parents experience and how do they deal with it? Judith Pape-Greif deals with this in her research. Jolyn Muijsers reports on life with two children and 140 kilos.
Jolyn Muijsers, a 44-year-old mother from Flensburg, struggled with her weight, reaching 140kg at her heaviest. She felt pressure to be a perfect mother due to societal expectations that overweight people are not capable of good parenting. Research by Judith Pape-Greif from the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences found that parents with high body weight experience "weight stigma" and feel judged by others.
Pape-Greif interviewed ten parents, including Muijsers, and found common experiences of exclusion and pressure to meet societal standards of good parenting. Muijsers has since lost 30kg and aims to maintain her weight.
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