Miel Pangilinan opens up about her experiences with body-shaming in a recent interview with entertainment reporter MJ Felipe. She reveals, “This might get dark, but I’ve been told a lot that I was a waste of genes.
Miel Pangilinan on Being a Victim of Body Shaming
“Which is like, oh, it’s a bit… that’s a lot for people to, but yeah, I get these comments a lot.” Expressing her bewilderment with these, she adds: “And a lot of time it’s because, I don’t know, it’s weird, right?
“That you get those comments and a lot of it are from people that don’t even know me.”
Over the years, Miel has learned how to cope with the harsh remarks, particularly after she began putting her personal life out on social media bit by bit.
“I've been experiencing that for years, ever since the campaign, so, I’ve kind of developed sort of just an, not an immunity, but just the, I’ve been able to sort of block it out,” she says. “It doesn’t really affect me as much as it used to.”
Although the comments still come daily, Miel has managed to prevent them from affecting her as much as they used to.
“But, you know, those things like it, I get those comments probably every day. Not just about myself, but also about, obviously, my size.
“People are going to comment on it [because] I don’t look the way they want me to, down to like, you know, how I dress and everything.”
Miel has decided to live her life for herself and the people who matter to her. “It sort of became my mantra that there’s nothing that other people can say that can dictate how I live my life. “Unless my family is the one telling me, I won’t listen to these people.”
Miel says she is determined to live her life on her own terms: “The only people’s opinions that matter are my own and the people that are closest to me— the people that know me the best."
“The rest is noise.”
*This story originally appeared on PEP.ph. Minor edits have been made by the Preview.ph editors.
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