Irish participants join European campaign to fight stigma of obesity

(Left to right) Vicki, the Executive Director of the European Coalition for People Living with Obesity, and her son Josh who is 18 and lives with obesity. He speaks about how he hates people staring at him because of his weight.

A number of Irish people have been selected as role models for a European campaign that aims to help fight the stigma and change people’s attitudes about obesity.

The European Coalition for People living with Obesity (ECPO), has created a new European image bank containing professional photographs that can be used by media outlets in place of stigmatizing images that can often be featured instead.