Desi Body Image Issues: Food Guilt, Shame, Beauty Standards & Healing | Sarosh Ibrahim
<p>“Why are you eating so much?” “Eat fewer calories.” “Cut the gluten.” </p><p>In South Asian communities, comments like these aren’t rare, they’re routine. Often masked as concern, they echo a culture deeply entrenched in body shaming, food policing, and impossible beauty standards. </p><p>In this episode, I sit down with Sarosh Ibrahim, a fearless voice dismantling toxic narratives around body image, self-worth, and control. </p><p>We unpack the often unspoken but deeply felt shame so many South Asian women carry, the shame of eating, of taking up space, of not fitting the mold. </p><p>Sarosh shares her raw, personal journey through disordered eating, being hypersexualized and shamed for her body from a young age, and her fight to reclaim autonomy in a culture that polices women’s bodies at every turn. We confront the oppressive “lambi-gori-patli” (tall, fair, thin) beauty ideal and its insidious grip on generations of Desi households. </p><p>Together, we talk about healing, resisting, and redefining what it means to live in a body that’s been constantly judged, and finally finding comfort in your own skin. </p><p>If you’ve ever been told you’re too much, too big, or not enough, this conversation is for you.</p>
