Being fat is hard, so I amputated my stomach

Six months ago, I had my stomach amputated.

In the BBC’s Who Are You Calling Fat?, in which nine people living with the morbid end of obesity get together in a country house to discuss the issues this brings up, like fatphobia and body acceptance and diabetes and all that other fun stuff, one of the participants is adamant that “health is a social construct” and when it comes to obesity “the science is bogus.”

She refers to another contestant, who has had bariatric surgery, as having had his “stomach amputated.”