Is skinny always considered a compliment?

No skinny is not always considered a compliment. I have a friend that no matter what she did, she could not gain weight. She was very self conscious about it. One day someone came up to her and said, "Oh how do you stay so skinny!" I saw the look on her face and she looked at me and said, " I wonder how they would feel if I said, I wonder how you stay so fat?" I knew she was hurt. We never know what someone is battling with. I think just complimenting someone on how good they look instead of their weight is always a better choice.

Not exactly. Usually, people will use it as a compliment, but skinny does not always mean healthy. I know people that have always struggled with weight gain- they developed a lot of bad habits and their weight dropped, despite being healthy before. People noticed and complimented them, but they really weren't healthy at all. It's always important to consider the circumstances around it, because it can go both ways. I've also met people that have struggled with weight gain, and lost it in a healthy and natural way. In that case, I'd say that it would be taken as a compliment.

Definitely not. Being skinny doesn't necessarily mean healthy either. It can be easily overlooked, but being underweight can have as bad consequences as being overweight. Examples of consequences can be anemia, vitamin deficiencies, osteoporosis, very low immune system, feeling cold a lot of the time, growth development issues and more, but now we're talking about actually being underweight, which is having a bmi lower than 18,5. The healthy range for bmi is 18,5 to 25. So of course, you can be skinny without being underweight, and if you've been overweight and lost some, it can definitely be a compliment!

No. Your value is not based off the shape or size of your body, I feel as though it undermines many other amazing qualities of the personality you could be complimented on. Adding to this, being skinny does not always mean someone is healthy; thinness does not equate to fitness or wellness. We seem to live in a world where the media is constantly telling us that thin equals happy and that being skinny is the ultimate goal, but it creates a very toxic basis of health, and gives an artificial goal that people can potentially harm their health working towards an unachievable standard set by the media. We've had social medias ingrain into our minds that to be beautiful, you must be skinny, and this simply isn't true.

No, actually I dont think it is. Because some people if they see themselves as fat, that could make them feel like you are lying, which then in turn can send them spiraling downwards trying to lose more weight. You should never in my opinion make a comment about someones weight you never really know who is going through what, nor how they think about their bodies. Skinny can be taken one of 2 ways. It may be taken as a compliment, or an insult. Again, just to be safe never make assumptions or comments about other peoples weight, you never know what they may be going through.

It seems like the answer to this might vary based on the context and the person saying it. I have been called skinny for most of my life, and when I was young, it certainly felt as if it was intended to be a negative trait. It seemed that it was other's way of implying that I was not strong or masculine. But then it seemed to change into being a compliment. It is a rather ambiguous statement really. I have heard it used to be critical and used as a compliment. What is most important to me is to love myself exactly the way I am naturally and healthily. If this is in place, then it doesn't matter how other people mean it when they say it.

It depends. Some people will take it as a compliment but some of them may feel bad after hearing this. Usually when we saay ,,you're so skinny, i'm really jealous of it..." we don't want to upset anyone. In the mentality of people of 21th century is a thought that being thin is something good, so that's normal that we want to compliment someone by calling someone ,,skinny". But there are groups of people with problems such as anorexia, bulimia... those people may hear it in two situations. First one is when they just started to suffer and they don't see anything wrong about it. Hearing compliments about their weight may make them continue bad eating habits. Second situation is when that kind of person is trying to recovery. That person knows that he/she needs help but hearing those kind of ,,compliment" it makes even harder for them to beat their illness. All I want to say is that those kind of ,,compliments" can have different results depending on what person is getting that kind of compliment. I hope that I helped you.

Absolutely not. I had gone a couple years of being a size zero but that was not due to me being healthy. I was depressed and not eating because of a breakup. So it was unhealthy for me to be this weight so when someone would make a comment on my skinniness it made me feel uneasy because I knew I was not mentally stable and that was the cause for being skinny. So I was ashamed I had let myself get skinny this way. I was very self conscious because I didn’t want it to be know that I was having a hard time with depression and anxiety.

Skinny isn't always considered a compliment in my opinion. It can be used in a condescending manner.

Not really its more of a way to express ones opinions some people like it some people dont. But it's just an opinion