Intro to Essay

The reason I chose this topic is because I think many teens go through this without even it realizing it. I personally can not go a day without thinking about my weight. I'v never been to the point where I've starved myself  but I have been on the several diets. I was about 9 years old the first time someone called me fat, sadly that person was my older brother. I had never seen myself from that point of view, I always imagined being fat as something else, never something I would be. Since that day I started getting more comments on my weight and soon my younger brother started to follow my older brother. Now I had both my brothers teasing me about being overweight, which I wasn't, I was only robust, I've always been a bigger girl since I was born weighing almost 11 pounds! I was constantly being called names like "puerca" which means pig in Spanish, even after I had told my parents they never really did anything about it. Of course I always tried not to show my pain hoping the teasing would eventually stop. I was 14 when I grew tired of all those years, we were at the pool and they started calling me Shamu the whale, I blew up, made a scene and ran back home. Since then the name calling has stopped maybe an 80% but I still get those hurtful comments every once in a while because they know it's what hurts me the most.