How did your parent's attitudes towards food affect your body image as an adult?

My family is naturally on the thin side (well, at least until they hit 40 haha). My mom usually served healthy home-cooked meals but we always had sweets in the house too and liked to eat out a lot.

I have a healthy relationship with food. There is not one food I demonize and no food is "good" or "bad" and it's easy for me to keep moderation. I like healthy food and unhealthy food and intuitively find a balance and maintain my weight within a ~3 kg range without any effort. This is probably because I never restricted myself from anything, so there was no forbidden food that was unresistable because I always knew I could have more if I wanted.

My body image isn't all that great though. I come from an asian family and the older people are ruthless and they will tell you everything they think about your appearance. Thinks nobody wants to hear.
I'm not perfect but by asian beauty standards, I'm pretty attractive - light skin, double eyelids, very small bone structure and thin (5'5 and 100 lbs). And even I got so much criticism. When I took an antidepressant that made me gain weight to about 115 lbs I got comments on my chubby thighs and that I should go on a diet. When I'm at my current weight or dip slightly below because of stress everyone thinks they are entitled to tell me how absolutely disgustingly thin I am. I'm not stupid, I know this is not ideal in regards to my health, you don't need to tell me!

I'm very insecure about my appearance as it is and people constantly telling you what is wrong and ugly is really not helpful. They don't mean to be rude but I still hate how it is considered normal in our culture to say hurtful things to young girls about the way they look. Especially since people put such a huge emphasis on appearance already. Everyone has a mirror at home and every woman will know exactly what she looks like and what she doesn't like about herself. We don't need to be told.

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