Angelina Kirsch
Your grandma thought she was too fat!
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Experiencing bodyshaming from one’s own family – that happened to Angelina Kirsch herself at a young age. Now she talks about this formative experience in an interview.
Angelina Kirsch, 32, is the most famous curvy model in Germany and a real fighter when it comes to body positivity and self-love. This is not least due to the fact that she herself had experiences with body shamming in her youth, as she now reveals in a joint interview with her mother and RTL.de.
Shocking statement from grandma
Together with her twin sister Madlin, Angelina spent a lot of time with her grandmother and had a traumatic experience there at an early age. Her grandmother asked the two girls about their weight: “Girls, you have to be careful now because: You’re getting too fat!”, Reports Angelina Kirsch in an interview. After that, she and her sister stopped eating to stop gaining weight.
Angelina Kirsch’s mother stands behind her daughters
Years later, Kirsch’s mother was still upset about this statement. She was shocked and angry. “I’ve always struggled with my figure and I didn’t want my children to have to do that too.” She made an announcement to her own mother.
I said: these are children. And they’re not too fat, they’re perfectly normal. So: rest. If you want them here, you can’t do that again.
Upbringing in the Kirsch family
Gudrun Kirsch has always placed the greatest value on teaching her children a healthy relationship with their bodies. There was an iron rule in the Kirsch house: no diets were allowed. “If you still said: I don’t want to eat this or that anymore, I immediately countered it.”
Angelina Kirsch has now processed the bodyshaming experience in childhood. In puberty, however, she was already unsettled by the knowledge that her own grandmother would find her too fat. Nevertheless: “I prefer to be true to myself, can sleep in peace in the evening and know: I’ve got the best out of the day for myself.”