Skinny Girl Problems Are Real
I was loitering on the Twitter yesterday, when @LadyW87 tweeted about how us skinny girls have some trials, and I fully agreed! Skinny girl problems are REAL, and it ain’t our fault that our metabolisms are faster than Usain Bolt. I’m here to share with you what some of them are.
And yes, I’m aware that there’s a fat girl problem to counteract each of these. But we ain’t talmbout you #doe so… KEEP YOUR SIDE-EYES TO YOURSELF!
10 Skinny Girl Problems
* We can barely give blood – We want to do good in the world and give back sometimes. So when we go to donate blood, we often get met with side-eyes from workers who don’t think we meet the 110 lb cut off. And then they make us drink extra juice just so we can get our weight up at the moment and not pass clean out. I mean, yeah sometimes their concern is legit, but I’m saying #doe. I e’em ate a steak before going to make sure I was good. You ain’t gotta look at me that hard. Hmph.
* We’re always cold – ALWAYS. Without much fat on our bones, we’re always left shivering. We can have on a tank top, sweater, scarf, leggings under our jeans, and our favorite wool jacket and we’d still be freezing. While everyone else is all “It’s just so nice out!” Lookie here… I have no buffer so ignore me while I shiver.” This is a REAL struggle. Living in Chicago winter is even tougher when you’re skinty. Needless to say, the amount of our electric bill is directly proportional to how skinny we are.
* We always get reminded that we’re skinny – Folks feel the need to let us know we’re skinny, as if we don’t already know. And they feel no qualms about it. They’re all “Damb you skinny as hell.” You won’t like it if I walked up to you talmbout “Damb G. You fat as shit.” Not ONE bit. So why must you throw my skinty in my face? This is especially true for family members.
And then folks always gotta come up with a plan to “fatten you up.”
* Our pants get baggy midday – So we put on our pants in the morning, and they’re all fitted and cute. We’re feeling ourselves and going “Heyyyyyyy…” But due to the stretching of the fabric, by noon, our pants are looking like wide-leg. And this makes me sad. How’d my jeans get 2 sizes bigger in 6 hrs??? That’s just disrespectful. It’s all saggy in the booty and our segzy is totally compromised. Then we gotta wash the pants in high heat to get them back tight. And the cycle repeats itself.
* We make terrible cuddle buddies – Lack of meat on our bones make certain joints and parts of us sharp, like elbows, knees and chins. Have you ever placed your head on his chest and he goes “OW!”
You: “What?”
Him: “Your chin just stabbed me”
You: *cries in tea*
Our #selfofsteam be TOO murked. It just ain’t right, mayne. AND TWO super skinny people together is a health hazard. Cuddling can be so awkward. And uncomfortable. Our joints are TOO sharp for that. This is why I like husky men. Me with a skinty dude would start a forest fire. And who wants that? Certainly not Smokey the bear.
True Life.
Great segway to…
* Gusts of winds are dangerous – A really windy day is our kryptonite. Have you ever had to battle a strong gust of wind that almost swept you into traffic? That joint is embarrassing. And let it be raining, so you have a punk umbrella with you and it turns inside out. It becomes a struggle to stay standing. Unless you find a pole or something heavy to hang on to, it might be deuces. REAL struggles!
* It’s hard to find knee boots that fit our calves without space left – We go shoe-shopping and try on some dope shoes, only to find that we still got a 2-inch gap where the boots don’t touch our calves. TOO disappointing. We look like fishermen in their rubber boots. And then we get sad. This is a REAL struggle. Especially for us shoe heads. I take that personally. 
* People pick us up to test their strength – Skinty girls get picked up randomly by people who want to see how strong they are talmbout “Hey lemme pick you up. Bet I could.” Yeah AND? I’m not a toddler! Put me down, fool!
RUDE.
* We have to prove to folks that we eat – We’ve been asked countless times “Do you eat?” Nawl… I get sustenance off oxygen and the occasional cracker. YEAH I EAT!!! So anytime we go to restaurants, we feel pressured to clean our plates and almost lick them. When we don’t, folks be talmbout “See that’s why you’re that skinny now.” HMPH! Can I be great??? How you know it ain’t because my metabolism is on crack? HUH??? And let us not pick a super fatty dish…
“Not wanting to eat a salad in public. “Why you eating salad? You’re so thin already” BITCH I LIKE SALAD THO. – @shaydechelle
* We can’t exercise without being judged – We mention to folks that we’re gonna start exercising and they look at us up and down with this look O____o. I am skinny and out of shape. YES, it’s possible. So excuse me for tryna make sure my heart is right. Being skinny fat ain’t bout that life!
And as a bonus…
And then folks make us sit in that not-chair part of the backseat because we don’t need a lotta space. By the time we get to the destination, we’ve been assaulted by the hardness. RUDENESS!
There are COUNTLESS skinny girl problems! Which ones did I miss?
Oh AND I wanted to introduce the new tumblr called Skinny Girl Problems. GETCHU A PIECE! There are many more listed there.
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LOL – I don’t have not one of these problems, but this is cute!!
THANK YOU for giving us a voice! And I look like a pirate in my calf-high boots!
That’s what I’s here for! But lol at pirate.
Being that I’m a semi big gurl (size 12), I dont have these problems…I do hate that I can’t wear knee boots, cause they dont zip all the way up! I get so jealous of big girls that have small legs! Why they fat cant be all proportioned like mine? LOL Why they get to be built like a lollipop? Big up top and skinty on the bottom? LOL
LMAOOOOOO at you. HILAR!!
LOL. Funny post. My fiance is a skinny girl. She was a model and almost made it onto America’s Next Top Model (#truestory) but I swear that to this day she has a complex about her lack of booty and she’s envious of thick girls not even half as attractive as she.
See? Our lack of booty just messes w/ our #selvesofsteam
Dead @ the T.I tweet. Hey Luvvie I can’t follow you on twitter and I know that I’m missing out on much need ignificence
Why can’t ya follow me on Twittah?
It said you blocked me and I’m confused since it came up from the first time I tried #sadface
OH NO!!! Really??? What’s your Twitter name? That had to be by mistake.
HeavensDiva or Tara_Heaven I’m not sure how that name thing works it should be the first one though
Oh man. That was funny and I’m not even close to being skinny. I know a lot of skinny chicks and let me tell u they eat…must have a hole in their stomach or a tapeworm or something.
LMBO Oh my gosh, this is too funny. I have to share this with everyone I know. Thank you for starting my day off with a smile.
http://www.youtube.com/BeesOHoney
Luvvie you hit every one right on the head. It’s a trial and a tribulation being skinny, true people don’t know!
But this: “I am skinny and out of shape. YES, it’s possible.”
Tell them again! I’m tired of getting side-eyes if I mention my workouts. Can I be firm? Let me live!
LMAO!!@ let me live!!!!
Boohoo. No sympathy, unless ‘you skinny girls’ are ill. Other than that, no sympathy.
LMBO!!! if I wasn’t workin like an endentured servant with a handicap, I would soooooo get my #tallgirlproblems on. Maybe later! You stay tryn’a get me fired at work for laughin too loud!
Luvvie you bullshttn!! Yall skinty folks got those kind of problems?? Dayum i guess the grass is the same damn shade no matter where u standin!!
LMFAO!!! that post made my stomach hurt!
I’m going to share this post with any and everybody who will read it.Finally someone understands what I go through!!!!! You really nailed it with how our jeans end up two sizes too big by midday and having to constantly dry them to shrink them back. It’s just a skinny girl phenomenon I will never understand. In college, I used to wear tights and leggings under my jeans to help me fill them out because I had to fake a booty. Going to and HBCU will mess with your #selfofsteam . And don’t get me started on all the haters that get mad that I can eat any and everything I want without gaining weight. It used to be “wait until you hit 25.” Now that I’m 29, all I hear is “you can eat like that now, but wait until you hit 30.” They just hatin’ on my fabulous metabolism and gene pool. Now when I see the “thick” girls from college that have teetered over to the FAT side, I just #smize.
Hmm, this sounds like I need to create a post about this on my Stuff Educated Black People Like website: http://www.stuffeducatedblackpeoplelike.org
Post # 27: Hating on Skinny Black Women
Good Post, love the satire. Keep up the good work.
My mama and I had this convo the other day. (My mama is in her 50′s and STILL has skinny girl problems). I have had people say…I want to lose weight but I don’t THAT skinny (giving me the side eye). Uh, beech I would like to gain weight but I don’t want to be THAT big!!! Hefer.
Then my MIL always I need iron cause I complain that I’m cold when I’m at her house. UH, no. 1) U have NO central heat. 2) It’s 20 degrees outside and all you have is a space heater to warm the Entiyah house. GTFOH!
Sorry I had a moment. But you right…skinny girls have problems too. :0)
As a skinny girl who went completely to hell post-baby, I’m giving you permission to rip on any fat girl who says stuff to you. They do it out of insecurity. I think it, but I don’t say it. Yeesh.
OK had to unlurk at * Our pants get baggy midday; i’m the mommy of a 4 year old skinnygirl and she has zakly the same problem; my mama swear i’m just dressing her any old kinda way. We thickums don’t know nothin bout this phenomenon. the more you know…ding!
Thank you Luvvie for making me laugh and reflect on my skinny girl struggles. They are indeed real.
My skinny girl problems are and can be short girl problems too. I weigh 104lbs and I’m 4’8 and will be 26 come March.
I have all of the listed problems and then some.
I hate pants that are a perfect fit at the waist but are too long OR they’re the perfect length but they’re too big in the waist. I also hate when clothes in the little girl’s dept. are too big too. (THAT struggle is embarrassing, like how are you an adult and even the kids’ clothes are too big)
I have a pair of jeans that are some years old and are still too big in the waist.
There are kids that I baby sat for and changed their diapers who weigh more and are taller than I.
I’ve been bench pressed and I even had a male friend (who was on the husky side) who decided to do me the way Jet Li did Aaliyah in Romeo Must Die (the scene where he used her to fight the chick). I was on my way to bathroom and stopped to see who was fighting. Bad idea. He picked me up, instructed me to hold and keep my legs together and used me to beat some poor guy up.
I have yet, due to my virginity, to experience how being small and skinny will affect the sex. I’ve always been told that I won’t be able to avoid being tossed, etc. And if I hear one ‘mo time how I’m going to be all baby when I get pregnant.
oh and thanks for the skinny girl problems tumblr, I follow and enjoy
by the way, I eat like there’s no tomorrow. Just not sure where it goes
I forgot another of my embarrassing skinny girl problems. When I ride shotgun the passenger air bag will NOT stay on. Unless, I sit with something in my lap or I sit in one particular spot on the seat. My mama gets a kick out of this. I also sit on a pillow when I drive
Lmao at this. An old roommate of mine could sit in the passenger seat and the light would not come on. If I put my backpack in the seat (I’m in college), the light came on instantly. She was soo pissed all the time!
THIS IS MY LIFE. SHOO Thank god it’s not just me!
This was totally awesome and I can relate too much!!
I died through this whole post. Everything you said is true! A friend sent this to me because I have specifically mentioned to her how a strong wind has pushed me a few feet down the street and how men think it’s ok to just pick me up.
I have a similar problem as Ashley’s. I am 25 and 4’11″. So I get a lot of “Girl, you so skinny” AND “Girl, you’re really short.”
I do have one bonus though. I have a regular sized woman’s booty, hips and thighs, so it makes me look nice and curvy.
LOL – I ain’t neva been close to skinty, skinny, or slim, but I can appreciate the struggle!
The boot thing reminds me of the waistband thing for us bigbootiegirls…
i was @ hogs & honeys the other night and you speak the truth! there were so many skinny-fat chicks there…one in particular…but she had a gut…just flabby…but tall and thin. i was confuddled.
there were also a bunch of fat-fat chicks there too…hmm, one chick had her cat scratched belly sagging from the bottom of her shirt…looked post-partum…like she cut off her hospital bracelet and left the baby for the night…
Wow, see, I used to tell people that these problems were real! Especially about the boots! I hated being skinty when I was younger so I couldn’t wait to gain weight so people would stop asking me if I eat, stop testing my gansta and stop getting my boots altered (that ish is expensive!).
I can totally relate to the baggy pants midday, people picking me up (they don’t ask either), exercising and laying on top of folks in a full car. This is hilarious!
I can totally relate to this and also explains why I don’t have boots. The last time I tried to explain the space left and my friend didn’t get it. I settled for some hot stilettos.
I can relate to the inability to donate blood. I always say- I need all of mine. Ha.
Glad to read a skinny girls problems for a change.
I’m a skinny guy and I can totally relate to all of them except the jeans and boots lol But good article !
I am not a skinny girl so I can’t personally relate but this post is funny.
I do have a skinny friend and have witnessed her go through the wind thing, the picking up thing AND the eating thing. We joke on her all the time.
I am going to have to forward her this link.
I was bored and came here to get a laugh. I saw a comment I made that said I weigh 104lbs…yeah, that was then, this is now. I now weigh 98lbs
so my skinny girl issues live on
Damb dawg! You lost weight? Aw damb. :-/
yup, weight just doesn’t want to be my friend. I’on know what I did to it but it must’ve been pretty bad
I’ve accepted this though and try to embrace it since I can’t change it
I’m 160 something lbs, but I’m tall. Growing up, I was mad skinny and was called everything from Bean pole, to Olive Oyl to Dhalsim. I got a little bottom heavy after high school, but this recession is eating away my booty! >.<
And, yes, you can be skinny (points) and out of shape (double point). Pretty sure I'm going to look like a toothpick when I get off my lazy ass and start walking again.
I so relate to this. When I was a kid, I was called “panla” *yoruba accent*…was also called “lamp post”, “lepa shandi”, “el’ese toothpick”…the “sufferage” is too much. Now that I’m in South Africa, u get all these raggedy construction workers and randoms on the road screaming “slender slender! Never tire!”….uh what’s that supposed to mean o___O? Also, in boarding school, and even at home, mummy buys a loaf of bread and these kids assume that cuz u are skinny, 3 slices of bread is enough and I’m like “uhm try doubling that. Don’t try to starve me. I aint trying to disappear”…u also get those folks that make fun of you when its windy. When u come close, they like “I saw you swaying with the wind”… Am I supposed to laugh? SkiNny girl problems are real o.
Everything said here is 100% true. That is all.
i like skinny girls myself
Up until age 19 this was the story of my life…ALL OF IT!!! Now the only thing that applies to me is: the 2inch gap from boot to calf arrghhhhh i hate baggy boots…the jeans stopped being a problem when i realized if i buy high waisted jeans and low rise im okay the “regular” jeans do get the infamous sag!
this was a fun read! thanks!!!
THANK YOU FOR THIS !! I stumbled across it on and i can relate to EVERYTHING . I’m 5’8″ and i weigh 112 . My box saw my ankles once and said i looked like Anne Frank :/ . I had a very low self esteem (still battle with it) especially because everyone else in my family is THICK as a mug ! And i do too eat . You don’t know how i tired i am of ppl trying to shove food down my throat AFTER i’ve eaten like 7 plates alreaady . Sad story . And “this real women have curves” business kills me . I have curves too, they’re just not visible ! LOL
SKINNY GIRLS UNITE ! We’re sexy too !
All late to the party again, I don’t understand skinny girl problems. However you seem to have a couple of the same problems as short girls.
Omg I almost died at the twitter post: “Not wanting to eat a salad in public. “Why you eating salad? You’re so thin already” BITCH I LIKE SALAD THO. – @shaydechelle
The struggle is real lol! And the gym thing! Omg, story of my life..
being tould your under whait like there a doctor and know what there talking about
I can relate to almost all of them. Everyone is like your so skinny, do you eat??? Yes I flipping eat! I eat more than my older brother!!! People tell me, go eat a big Mac! I would if I could!!! And one day when it was windy and I was wearing baggy sweats (there ex. Small was to big (I’m in high school)) so when we were doing jumping jacks in the field, a giant gush of wind came and I swear I flew back a yard! The couches looked at me like what on earth!
Everytime I go shopping it REALLY REALLY HARD to find skinny jeans. THERE TO BAGGY!!!
The smallest person in my grade can pick me up…I’m 14, and weigh 87 pounds…
I’m am very out of shape, too. I can’t run far with out being out of breath, I can’t do much with out being tired a few seconds later!!^.^
i can relate to this sooo much!i’m in the 8th grade and i’m frekin 5 foot 8!and on top of that i’m skinny.and on top of that i have to wear glasses!but strangley i have a lot a friends and don’t get picked on that much.
I can’t wear leggings or skinny jeans because I feel like people are starring at me… I want to wear leggings and just look casual but I can’t because they make me look more skinny… Sometimes I wish that I was a size 6 or 8.
My friend in high school used to hear me complain about #skinnygirlproblems and he told me to go eat me a coupla Big Macs, drink some milk and lay down. Smh. It didn’t work. I’m now 31 and weigh the same amount I did in 10th grade
I stumbled onto this article whilst searching for ways to gain weight. Wat a laugh. This is the story of my life I’ve been mocked for being so skinny been called matchstick girl I’ve been told I’m walkn on my arms lol. I’m married now and hubby mocks my skinny body as well. I wish I could wear dresses and short shorts but my legs are nasty! Aaaaag Skinnygirlproblems are endless thanx for this article its consoling to know its not just my struggle. Mmm think I should have a bag of chips now!
OMG Yes! All of these issues Plus Im Southern. Growing up during Beyonce’s Destiny’s Child era was TOUGH. No guy wanted to talk to unless you had her shape. Still recovering from that ..lol I eat more than everyone else but Ive cut back. This was cute!
OMG Yes! All of these issues
Plus Im Southern. Growing
up during Beyonce’s Destiny’s Child era
was TOUGH. No guy wanted to talk to
you unless you had her shape. Still
recovering from that ..lol I eat more
than everyone else but Ive cut back.
This was cute!
Lmfaoooo!! YAAAAS at being skinny & still out of shape. I’m around 140 lbs and still breathe hard when I try to run for more than a minute, but I was never diagnosed with athsma. My mile time was almost 13 minutes and it’s never been earlier than 11! Smh, the struggle!
Its crazy.. its like we synced on this one. I wrote a personal blog post about this! I love you more for voicing this out…
http://ianesix.blogspot.com/2012/06/skinny-anorexic.html
You forgot the long socks for the winter wardrobe! I can be wearing all that shit but if my ankles are out? It’s shot to hell. Even if I wear boots. -___-
But those whole list is the TROOF!!
I’m 5’10″, 200lbs and my calves are huge. I just bought some Steve Madden over the knee boots and had to take them back because they refuse to zip up past my calf -____-
This was so awesome. I laughed and high-fived in the air. Been a “slim” all my life and I can relate to every one of these. I had to post this article on my meet-up group for slim gals. I’m sure they will appreciate it.
The struggle is real! I was a card carrying member until I had my first child. I was 126 at 5’10″. Now I am skinny with a gut. Not cool.
In college, I used to point out all these small ass nooks and crannies I thought my skinny friends could fit through. And then I’d challenge them to do it. Like, “You could totally fit underneath the gap of that fence….try and see.” LOL.
But let me add that following a slim chick through the club is AWFUL. Y’all be winding in and out of folks with ease, people’s grooves aren’t disturbed the least bit…and then here comes my thighs trying to fit through that same window? No indeed.
Y’ap.
#selfofsteam though? I just spit out every morsel of salad in my mouth. This man next to me is ready to get up and leave, I’m laughing that hard. I’m through with you, Luvvie. Through.
Lmbo. I died
Funniest way to bring about this issue
#LoveIT
Well but Skinny Girls look more beautiful