Is skinny always considered a compliment?

skinny has no correlation to beauty ( that does not mean you are not beautiful if you are thin ) i am saying that you can take it as a compliment if you want to

No way! Skinny is a judgement. Calling someone skinny is body shaming through noticing. People should keep their body shape comments to themselves. Someone else's body is none of their business. Many of us struggle with body image and try very hard to manage our forms. Making body image comments mean you noticed. And many of us don't want to be noticed. So be careful making any body image kinds of comments. Listen and support instead.

Personally, skinny shouldn't be what you want to be. You should aim to be healthy. Health always trumps figure. If you are forcing yourself to be skinny, you need stop and get help. If you aren't, you just need to find how you feel happiest and healthiest.

Depends on what basis the compliment is given. The person can be naturally skinny and healthy at the same time. The person who is an ideal weight by healthy standard and becomes skinny/having lost a lot of weight in a short pace of time cannot be considered healthy and this unreasonable weight goal doesn't bring any benefits in a long term.

No, skinny is not always considered a compliment, and fat isn't always considered an insult. This is because it's just weight, and weight doesn't define you, and as long as you're healthy, I feel you can be whatever weight you want. You can wear whatever you want, and you an eat whatever you want. Just as long as you're happy, and healthy, then it's all good.

skinny is an objective observation to describe looks along with tall or short. Whether you chose to take it as a compliment is entirely up to you.

to me it is a double edged sword, Ed (my eating disorder) loves it; yet, it stings me because I know I'm not healthy and it means people are paying attention to my body.

No, not always, it just depends on the context. Somebody could say it in a mean way or a kind way. People always find a way to make something mean.

That depends on the person its said to, and how it is said. For some people it would be a compliment, but for others they would see it as an insult.

skinny may sometimes be considered a compliment as it is nice to look fit and healthy, but there is line between skinny and malnourished and one must be careful not to cross that line, someone saying you look skinny may be them expressing their concern