After finishing high school, Whitney Way Thore, the star of “My Big Fat Fabulous Life”, taught English classes in Korea. “I got assaulted, cursed at, oinked at and called a pig”, Thore said.

The harassment encouraged Whitney to lose weight when she returned home, but things ended up getting worse because she struggled excessively. And when, after an exercise session, someone on the street cursed her as “fat,” Whitney realized that she was trying to make others happy, not herself:

“I realized that, at that weight, my body could do what it wanted, and I actually liked the way my body looked. I was just obsessed with the idea of other people calling me fat.”