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- Jun 13, 2016
Id be surprised if Nurie ever looks nourished. A childhood of food deprivation can commonly lead to being an underweight adult, even when food is readily available.
The kids might become a “normal weight” away from Jill, but I’d be surprised if any ever get fat or overweight, especially the girls since Jill has drummed the need to be thin into them. The kids have never had enough food to eat for emotional comfort, boredom or pleasure - only bare sustenance.
Feeling hungry or having little food on the stomach is what feels normal to them, so over eating or eating large amounts will feel uncomfortable. It’s similar to how fat kids easily become fat adults due to what feels “normal” to them - emotional eating, eating out of boredom, constantly feeling full.
Nurie fails to see that most African women wear full length smocks or wraps plus head covers out of real necessity. They do this to protect their skin from the insects and sun more than modesty.
If you live in a country with endemic malaria and all manner of nasty vicious biting insects you too would cover as much skin as possible with thin cotton fabric.
Even the remaining remote tribes in Africa that don’t wear as much clothing slather their bodies in mud and red clay to protect themselves.
