Statements about someone’s body shape shouldn’t be taken as either a compliment or an insult. Calling someone slim is just as bad as calling someone fat, even though slim is considered to be a compliment and fat is considered inappropriate. This is unfair. Both are body shaming and both can be hurtful.
Why is calling somebody fat usually taken as an insult? It’s because people in the media are often thin and portrayed as having that “perfect body.” They are usually very skinny. The average model or mannequin wears a size extra small or small, which sends the message that everyone should look like this and if you don’t then your body is bad.
However, that “perfect body type” doesn’t exist; it’s unattainable for so many people. In most cases, the models in magazines are Photoshopped, so the people in those magazines don’t even have that body; it’s almost always fake.