Alexis Dash

Well when I was about 8 years old I started putting on a little weight and I get kept getting bigger and bigger as I got older. When I was about 14 years old I was around maybe 190 pounds. I remember everyone would tease me. People ate school, my cousins, my uncles and aunts; even one of my teachers and my dad and my grandparents teased me. One of my teachers told me that I looked like a hippopotamus in front of my class, my dad would always call me a fat ass and once he even called me an elephant in front of people at the mall and whenever I would visit my grandparents they would always cook some type of food for us. Well when my family and I would go visit them, they would give the rest of my family whatever food they made but they would always serve me a plate of steamed vegetables or a fruit salad and I was only allowed to drink water. My grandparents would tell me straight to my face that I needed to lose weight. Well when I was 15 my acting class had a fieldtrip to Hawaii for spring break. None of the other girls wanted to share a bed with me for the trip so they all got together and made a plan so I wouldn't be able to go. Those girls made my life hell for like 4 months straight. They would tease me all the time, call me ugly, during lunch they would always take my lunch away from me and throw it in the trash and they would tell me that I was too fat to be eating, then they would throw vegetables or fruit at me and they would yell at me to eat that instead. They would draw pictures of a pigs, whales, cows and under the picture they would say that it was me. They would do all that and a whole lot more for 4 months and I would come home and cry in my closet and if I ate I would try throwing whatever I ate back out. My parents had already paid everything so I would go months before so I couldn't change my mind about going. Anyway, I got stuck having to share a room with the three girls that tease me the most and they made me sleep on the floor without a pillow or blanket the entire trip and it was a bad time the entire time I was there. When I got back home form the trip I got to the point where I just completely hated myself. I broke every mirror in my room, I would hardly eat, and I would start over exercising. I continued doing this for two years.