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Size 0 Or Nothing: 22 Heartbreaking Examples Of Iconic Women Being Labeled ‘Fat’ By ‘00s Media (New Pics)
Picking up a newspaper or magazine from just twenty years ago can be nearly as shocking as taking one from the 1960s. The 60s were longer ago, but it’s clear and obvious, the language, the photos, the products are so clearly old. The 2000s are a whole different story, so similar to our present day, but when you sit down to read what's there, you’ll quickly be hit with a slew of ideas that are downright unacceptable in the present day.
One Twitter thread went viral recently when a netizen pointed out some examples of ‘00s media promoting and brainwashing people into accepting the most unhealthy and unrealistic beauty standards. Other readers joined in, sharing all the other examples they could think of.
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The ‘00's tabloids and media had horribly unrealistic expectations for women’s bodies
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#1
Jennifer Lawrence During The Release Of The Hunger Games Films. In 2012, Jennifer Said, "In Hollywood, I’m Obese. I'm Considered A Fat Actress"
Charity Angel 2 years ago
It was just appalling. But actresses at the time were either stick insects, or "fat". The Devil Wears Prada is an excellent example of how the industry was at the time. Anne Hathaway was "fat" at the start, and this is highlighted several times through the film. Bridget Jones is similar - and I mean the novel here, not the movies - Bridget was actually a perfectly healthy weight for her height, but the media of the nineties gave women unrealistic body expectations. She believed she was fat. Renee Zellweger put on way too much weight to play the part, but shouldn't have. IMO they should have left Renee at her usual size to emphasise the body dysmorphia that society gave to women at the time.
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Tams21 2 years ago
On the one hand we have a growing obesity problem in society and on the other we have healthy women like Jennifer Lawrence being labelled as fat. This is the kind of s**t that eating disorders and self-esteem problems come from. The idiots responsible really need to be called out more.
Flamingo Croquet 2 years ago (edited)
Yes, when the film came out I remember some articles that read sth. like "nobody in a poor district would ever be this overweight. This is not realistic at all." I mean, there are all kinds of slightly unrealistic things in the movie/book, but the one (ironically realistic) thing people ranted about was a young woman's body. As usual 😐
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#2
Kate Winslet During The Release Of Titanic. James Cameron Famously Used The Nickname "Kate Weighs-A-Lot"
Mariele Scherzinger 2 years ago (edited)
I was in highschool when this film came out. I had a subsciption for the Rolling Stone Magazine, which I paid for with my pocket money. In its review of this film, the journalist went on and on about Kate Winslet's weight, concluding with the statement that the Titanic sank because she was too fat. At that moment, I decided to cancel my subsciption. This was also the only letter to the editor I have ever sent.
Binky Melnik 2 years ago (edited)
Why do people think this was unique to the aughts? It’s been this way my entire life. (And I can’t break 90 pounds, prolly because there’s a little voice in the back of my brain saying “Don’t put a pound on or Dad’ll make fun of me!”) (I dieted at ten because he made fun of my baby fat. I didn’t know it was baby fat at the time; he called it “pudge,” and looking back at photos, I see a scrawny kid with a chubby face … who was DIETING.)
#3
Britney Spears Was Called A "Whale" During Her Performance At The 2007 Vmas
Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
She's exactly as a dancer should be. Good strength, low body fat, excellent musculature. No, she's not a zero. She's a Healthy!
Celina McNulty 1 year ago
Remember ladies, it's men who are making these comments. By the time a guy is in his mid-30s, if they haven't taken care of themselves, they look gross.
Nerd Groupie 2 years ago
Entertainment Weekly ran a cover with "OH THE HORROR" or something along those lines. Bizarre.
While some might look at these examples and only conclude that things were a bit absurd in the past, the unfortunate truth of beauty standards is that they tend to have long-lasting effects on multiple generations of women. Simply put, there is a direct correlation between the combinations of words and images that these tabloids used and how women and girls feel about themselves right now.
A recent study by Dove found that just 4% of all surveyed women would describe themselves as beautiful. In 2004, pretty close to the time period that most of these tweets are referring to, the number was as low as 2%. This is an abysmally low number, but a direct indicator of just how toxic these standards can be.
#4
Renée Zellweger. A Major Plot Point Of Bridget Jones’s Diary Is How Obscenely "Fat" She Was For Weighing A Whole 136 Lbs And Being A UK Size 14 (Us 6)
ynyrhydref56 2 years ago
And it was a huge talking point in interviews about how much weight she had to gain for the role - so brave!
Charity Angel 2 years ago
Right. I need to say something here too. I made a comment earlier about how the film diverged from the novels about this. In the books, Bridget is closer to a UK size 8 - she likely has body dysmorphia. She's underweight for her height, if anything. The movies should have maintained this to highlight the issues of society, not made it a comedy element in an already comedic film.
JayCee 2 years ago
THIS! She obsessively writes her weight, and it hovers around 120lbs.
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CanadianDimes 2 years ago
I remember when this came out, I weighed the same as her but had lost 20lbs (exercise and I’d stopped eating junk food). It was fücked up to hear that called fat!
Leslie Potts 3 weeks ago
A UK 14 is a US 10, not a 6. But still a long way from being fat or obese!!
Mia Black 2 years ago
61kg!!! What? I have always been called slim or skinny (I am not but. I am average. But I wear black which let me look slimmer) in Germany and I have a few kg more
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Marie A (Blondebat) 2 years ago
136 lbs US is a twig! Maybe a size 5. I am 150-ish and I wear a 7.
#5
Drew Barrymore Was The "Chunky One" In The Charlie's Angels Crew
ThatOnePortobelloMushroom 2 years ago (edited)
To prove this is b******t i can't figure out which one Drew Barrymore is. None of them deserve that title Edit: i don't know who she is btw
P.C. 2 years ago
I suspected she was the one on the right or left, because the one in the middle is skinnier than the two next to her. It’s the one on the right.
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zak 2 years ago
From left to right: Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore
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They Called Alicia Silverstone “Fatgirl”
Holly Stevens 2 years ago
That was a horrible scandal. She put on some weight and they had to refit the costume so someone in the art department made a "fat girl' poster of her that was leaked. All the tabloids reported she was too fat to fit her costume and most of her role was cut out of the movie
Valek Fermiga 2 years ago
So, unless you are a literal skeleton with make-up on, your classified as " fat " ?? Go f*** yourself " Hollywood "
The same research also discovered that 72% of women, primarily young girls, stated that they feel “tremendous pressure to be beautiful,” no doubt a result of being shown individuals who can afford absurd diets and personal trainers, all the while being told that this is what a woman has to live up to. It’s not hard to imagine the psychological difficulties that come from constantly feeling like you aren’t good enough.
#7
Jennifer Lopez, The Woman With The “Biggest Butt Ever” According To Every Tabloid!
Marie Dahme 2 years ago
Remember when they called her Jello instead of J.Lo ? Who’s laughing now ?
bottomless.abyss.of.bordem 2 years ago
They'd seen them, but as they were naturally. GASP!
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Bouche, Audi, and Shyla, oh my! 2 years ago
Heck, her entire butt isn't even one of my cheeks, and not in a good way. Since this is Shyla speaking, no. I will not shove my butt in anyone's face. I leave that for the cats.
Little Johnny... 2 years ago
Same here. My butt is way bigger, naturally.
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Dylyn Dalton 1 year ago
I'm so glad I was raised in the Caribbean where a big backside was the aim of all beautiful women. I came second in one Beauty Contest and third in another. No hang-ups!
#8
Beyoncé Was Considered Plus Sized 1999-2005 When She Looked Like This
Agnes Jekyll 2 years ago
I remember an interview in the early-ish days of Destiny's child. Beyonce refused to eat a bagel and Kelly said, "she works really, really hard"--and then they were doing the equivalent of a 10K singing while in heels.
LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago
So having abs and muscles made women plus size? My god does society have toxic standards regarding beauty.
Raven Web 2 years ago (edited)
Yeah I don't recall anything being said about her weight.
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Lauren Wilder 2 years ago
She looks so much better now. Thank goodnes. Thick thighs save lives!
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago (edited)
SHE LITERALLY HAS ABS and they're calling her plus size!?
Barbara Cochrane 2 years ago
These must be the opinions of men. Let's see them go into a clothing store, not designer c**p, but a store that carries real female clothes. Look at what is the Plus size clothes. These women are all nicely y built.
Julie S 2 years ago
You will find it's actually women who say these things about other women.
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Demongrrrrl 2 years ago
In "haute couture", anything over a US size 4 is considered "Plus sized".
#9
Jennifer Stone During The Release Of Wizards Of Waverly Place. She Was Typecast As "The Funny, Fat Friend"
P.C. 2 years ago
Basically, women are being called “fat” for actually having flesh on them. Might as well use skeletons for the skinny you’re looking for T-T and women can have muscle, too! My legs are not skinny, because of genes, but also because of how I exercise. It might LOOK like I’m fat there, but it’s almost all muscle
Jennifer Johnson 2 years ago
i might have to watch this show so I can see more freakin' cute outfits!
pamela nichols 2 years ago
There's no fat actors who critics label fat should look in a mirror.
The omnipresence of these standards in media have been around long enough to become basically internalized, as 54% of women surveyed globally answered in the affirmative to the statement that “they are their own worst beauty critic.” Despite the plethora of information and knowledge about how the body works and what a natural body looks like, the barrage of certain words and images from the tabloids has irreversibly caused self-esteem issues in a lot of women.
#10
They Said Christina Aguilera's Body Had Been Ruined Cuz Of Her Pregnancy 😭 And She Looked Like This
Rostit . 2 years ago
what happened? Is that why her neck is twisted that way? Is that what they mean? Because figure-wise she looks hot AF.
Spencer's slave 2 years ago
It's because she no longer had the body of 15 year old Christina from "Genie In A Bottle" days. Growing into a woman from a teenage child apparently "ruined" her. That says far more about those persons' obsessions with a child's body.
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Celina McNulty 1 year ago
She's curvy and that is very sexy. I'd rather look like her than a board.
AnnaRachelle 2 years ago
I wish I had this type of ruined body after a pregnancy!! I still have a belly
Sheila Carty 2 years ago
Okay, there were times when she was mocked for her weight, but not here. This article seems to be pulling the skinniest photos for everyone to make a point.
#11
Gillian Anderson During The Filming Of X-Files. They Even Had Mulder Compliment Her When She’d Lost Some Weight
Lauora 2 years ago
Yes, I re-watched it recently, to re-live my youth. I stopped after a few episodes. The amount of times Mulder kept touching her, his colleague. Made me really think about the industry and the benefits of the me-to movement.
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Azure Adams 2 years ago
season 2 she was preggers and didn't wear it well honestly. season 3, yeesh but is was the hair mostly, not the weight. Season 4 and on they found the right hair and clothing style for her.
pamela nichols 2 years ago
I hate when critics label actors as fat, then you see an anorexic acting as though they can beat up a 300lb man. Eat a bag of chips honey you earned it.
Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
Left hand pic is when she's PREGNANT. You can see her belly ffs. Drop dead fat-shamers.
#12
Martine Mccutcheon During The Release Of Love, Actually. In The Film, Her Character Is Referred To As Having "Thighs The Size Of Tree Trunks"
Pyla 2 years ago
One of the reasons I hate this movie is because of the constant comments on her weight in almost every scene she's in.
Daffydillz~ 2 years ago
It's sickening to people who view themselves near the same size and so incredibly toxic.
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Michael Fernandez 2 years ago
I watched this last year and realized that the only good relationship they portrayed was between Bill Nighy’s character (an aging jaded rock star) and his manager. Everything else was either an 11-year old boy’s fantasies or plain old stalking.
Hilary Mol 2 years ago
I loved her character the most (and wanted to give her a hug, the poor girl) while I hated the constant references to her weight. I would have been thrilled to date someone who looked like her back when I was still young enough for people to consider dating me, and there would have been ZERO complaints on my end.
bottomless.abyss.of.bordem 2 years ago
Never seen this movie, but just so we're clear....the pretty lady above?
The nasty truth is that women never really could catch a break when it comes to what society perceived as beautiful. When we see films set in the 19th century or art depicting people at that time, the women tend to wear massive dresses, all while constricted in unbelievably tight whalebone corsets. Researchers studying the corpses, or at this point skeletons, of women from that time period have discovered the detrimental effects of this fashion trend, including spinal misalignment and deformed ribs.
#13
Remember How They Told Us That Geri Was The “Curvy” Spice Girl?
Hilary Mol 2 years ago
Does anyone else notice that a lot of these women that are getting called out for being "the biggest" or "the curviest" or "the whateverest in a negative weight way" all seem to have prominent chins? Geri Halliwell, Drew Barrymore, Alicia Silverstone, Jessica Simpson, Kate Winslet... they all have strong chins. Does the shape of your face somehow make people see you as even bigger than they already seem to see you??
Lex <3 (they/them) 2 years ago
So if I was a spice girl, I’d probably be the whale or something :(
bottomless.abyss.of.bordem 2 years ago
I remember people talking about Baby Spice, but not her
Biljana Malesevic 2 years ago
She was obviously very skinny. They probably meant for her breasts, they are curvy.
#14
Nicole Richie Being Referred To As The "Fat One" When Photographed With Her On-Screen Best Friend Paris Hilton
Andrea Squires 2 years ago
She had an eating disorder because of this. it was so gross and disgusting to treat her that way
Angi 2 years ago (edited)
I'm starting to think I really wasnt fat when I was younger.
Load More Replies... Nichole Harris 2 years ago
But when you consider the fact that a stand of spaghetti looked chunky next to ms Hilton back then........ Nah nvm still dumb
Lex <3 (they/them) 2 years ago (edited)
Who is who? Sorry, I don’t know which one they’re referring to since neither one appears to be overweight? I’m also not familiar with these two people
P.C. 2 years ago
I mean, It’s easy to tell because the one who was called “fat” has slightly more flesh than the one they compare her to. But neither are overweight, yes.
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#15
The Public Treated Lily Allen Like She Was A Gargantuan Sea Monster. She Literally Looks Like An Average Person’s Body
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago
There’s a very simple response to this: 🎶F**k you/f**k you very very mu-u-u-uch,/’cause we hate what you do and we hate your whole crew/so please don’t stay in tou-u-uuuch🎶
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
or "forget your balls and grow a pair of tits" xD
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Michael MacKinnon 2 years ago
"I'll look at the Sun and I look in the Mirror..." ...at least getting some of her own back, there....
Agnes Jekyll 2 years ago
I remember when she started a clothing line, and she said that there needed to be clothes for "bigger girls". I was like, "what"?
Before the Victorians were making women suffocate just to attend a social event, the Chinese were binding girls' feet to get a specific look and shape. The process, which would take agonizing, long years, would yield feet that did fit some particular beauty standards, although it’s unlikely that any modern viewer would find anything appealing in the process. It’s shocking that girls went through literal years of pain for what amounted to a fashion trend.
#16
Kelly Clarkson Has Been Heavily Fatshamed In 2002
Story of Kelly Clarkson's weight loss.
Agnes Jekyll 2 years ago
I clearly remember Simon Cowell saying she needed to lose weight, on air, on the show, to her face. (I was just thinking of this last night--look who's laughing now, Cowell)
UpQuarkDownQuark 2 years ago
Cowell could lose a few pounds above the neck.
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#17
America Ferrera During The Release Of Ugly Betty
Marie Dahme 2 years ago
I loved her in the 2002 film “Real Women Have Curves”. This little gem is so often overlooked. She was amazing in it.
Marley Nachi 2 years ago
In tv people who have braces are bullied, in real life every 14 year old had them at school and it was a normal thing that kids had
#18
America Ferrera During The Sisterhood Of The Travelling Pants
Fenchurch 2 years ago (edited)
Irony. The point of the film was the magic jeans would look great on the girls with different body types... But nah let's call women with actual functional curves fat
Mila Preradović 2 years ago
One of plot points in the movie was when she was trying on the bridemaids' dress for her dad's wedding and it did wrong to her curvy Latina body type, which made her realize she was being left out.
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Julie S 2 years ago
Never heard of this person which one is she because they all look the same size to me.
PrettyJoyBird 2 years ago
Left. Latina. Shameful anyone would say that. She was a young girl. How dare they criticize.
Load More Replies... These foot wrappings are, unfortunately, the perfect example of how ridiculous beauty standards can be at times. There are no evolutionary reasons for this preference, just a combination of powerful cultural forces and the ability of others to dictate to women what they should look like. For those curious, the perfect bound foot would be 10 centimeters or 4 inches. This is not a typo, yes, that small.
Now, humans aren’t the only creatures that do strange things in the name of desirability, for example, the Parotia bird does a long and elaborate dance routine to impress a mate, although how this dance translates to getting food is unclear. Evolutionary selection has also helped breed crabs with oversized claws that only exist to impress mates. However, using these examples for humans is ridiculous for a number of reasons. Firstly, we are considerably more intelligent than a crab and shouldn't be taking social cues from them.
#19
Anne Hathaway During The Release Of The Devil Wears Prada. Andy Has Lines About How She’s Not As Thin As The Other Girls, And Is Considered Fat By Multiple Characters
Edgar Rops 2 years ago
That isn't the best example, since it's deliberate. Everyone notices that she is anything but fat, except by fashion industry standards, which the film was supposed to expose for what it is
Cherry Zonkowski 2 years ago
In the book the author mentions that she was hired for the job largely because she was very tall and had just lost a lot of weight due to an illness, causing her to accidentally fit into their absurd fashion requirements...
Blondie23 2 years ago (edited)
they even mention that because she is a size 6 she won't fit in the sample clothing... disgusting! (the fashion industry is disgusting, not Anne, she is stunning)
Roxanne D'souza 2 years ago
Sample sizes get made in the smallest size possible because they make so many versions till they "perfect it" that they prefer to use the least amount of fabric. So yeah it's true that most employees in a fashion environment won't fit into those sizing. I worked in a fashion magazine in my city once and only one girl on the entire floor could fit into sample sizes. We used to get sample sizes for our editorial shoots and of course they were worn by models usually. But the industry is disgusting overall. I used to go on shoots often and there was this one photographer we worked with who almost said I had great bone structure and he would do a portfolio shoot for me, if I lost 5-8 kilos. I used to weigh a little under 60kg back then.
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#20
When The Papers Said That Cheryl Cole Had Let Herself Go And Was Fat In 2011. She's Tiny
Lex <3 (they/them) 2 years ago (edited)
Excuse me but that’s literally exactly how I want to look
#21
Tyra Banks Being Referred To As Fat When She Was Photographed By Paparazzi At The Beach
LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago
Then she became a hypocrite and fat-shamed so many models are her show.
PrettyJoyBird 2 years ago
Abusers abuse. Bullies bully. I think she has apologized and understands it was wrong.
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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
She and I are same height, age, and (at that time) weight. She since went back to super-skinny. Thanks for nothing, Tyra.
Secondly, our “standards” of desirability are genuinely harmful and unhealthy. Remember, most Parotia birds can actually do the dance, as it doesn’t pose a risk to their health. Trying to not be “fat” by tabloid standards has made millions of women miserable and caused countless eating disorders from nonsensical diets.
This is why Twitter threads like this are important, as it’s vital to show the younger generation that just because a flashy magazine publishes something, doesn’t mean it’s real, true or worthwhile. Happiness is not really found in the validation of strangers. And it’s not worth destroying your health and mental state over an arbitrary standard that will shift in a few years anyway. If you want to keep exploring this conversation, Bored Panda has similar articles here, here and here.
#22
Raven-Symoné During The Release Of That's So Raven
Cathy CB 2 years ago
Fat shaming and comparing female bodies, making a contest on appearance, sells clothing, diet pills, tabloids, clickbait. Time to stop ogling bodies and self shaming and judging.
Agnes Jekyll 2 years ago
and it also serves to set women against each other--media love to highlight women who don't get along, even when it's not the case.
Load More Replies... bottomless.abyss.of.bordem 2 years ago
I surely hope not, cuz she was a child. A fricking CHILD. It's bad enough to treat anyone this way, but children? That's sick.
Colleen Glim 2 years ago
Has anybody even seen the general US population? Don’t even talk to me about fat
MakeupMama68 2 years ago
I worked on her show and she is absolutely stunning with no makeup on.
Firstname Lastname 2 years ago
“Because in case you hadn't noticed, people come in all shapes and sizes, and they're all beautiful.” ―Raven Baxter (episode: That's So NOT Raven)
SuperDarkStudios 2 years ago
She is absolutely beautiful and she was absolutely beautiful then too!
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ToGo 2 years ago
I remember that exact photo of Jessica Simpson down to the blonde curls and leopard print waist belt but in my mind she's much, much bigger. I was a scrawny 16/17 yo and thought "I have to make sure I never get that big". I look at the photo now and she looks beautiful. It just goes to show the negative affects the media can have on you - especially as a youngster.
XenoMurph 2 years ago (edited)
I think it also goes to show how society as a whole, in the West, has gotten bigger. If we look at graphs of average weight of people, in the UK people have gained about 7 kgs in 25 years. That's average, so half have gained more than that. larger people are a familiar sight, so we are looking through eyes that see people differently. The celebrities pictured here are "normal", within the average weight range. But the norm for celebrities was, and is, to be slightly thinner than average. The preference for unhealthy skinny models was terrible, but now our acceptance of unhealthy weight is also harmful. (My 130kgs best friend died this week at 51, so I'm in health mode.)
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ynyrhydref56 2 years ago
Yep. If you weren't practically skeletal, you were fat. The goal was size 0
Eva Kašu 2 years ago
I was a teenage in this years...gosh I was stupid (and hungry) for 10 long years.
Wheely 2 years ago
Lonesoul - Just remember, the only opinion that matters is your own. I'm missing half my right leg and I'm happy AF.
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Mariele Scherzinger 2 years ago
Every other TV show that I watch has actresses in it that look like they live on a lettuce leaf per day. And most of these actresses, A-listers or not, starve themselves in order to get hired at all. If that is the standard you judge people by, then anyone who is not underweight is automatically a whale.
Goose of the Ahonkalypse 2 years ago
There's a reason why half the girls in my high school had an eating disorder in the 90's. Thats not hyperbole that's actually how it was. So many girls went to treatment and most girls were calorie concious or eating low fat. The beauty standard was very skinny with no butt. I'm so grateful to those who blazed a trail to make fuller bodies more acceptable and then those who pushed even farther for body acceptance in general. I still had leftover 90's-early 2000's body ideals for myself into my 30's.
Maya 2 years ago
Amen. I'm from the same generation and I remember the ultra skinny craze of the 2000s, with Paris Hilton, Keira Knightley, Mischa Barton, the Olsen twins. I was rather average and felt like an obese because I could not wear the size zero and 2 at Abercrombie when in the U.S on holidays. Good thing for me was that smallest available sizes in France are actually bigger than in the US so I got to understand I was not that 'fat', and I mostly listened to rnb where women weren't ultra skinny at all.
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CHRISTY SMITH 2 years ago
I like how there isn’t one man in the article, that only women are being made fun of for being a size 6+
ToGo 2 years ago
I remember that exact photo of Jessica Simpson down to the blonde curls and leopard print waist belt but in my mind she's much, much bigger. I was a scrawny 16/17 yo and thought "I have to make sure I never get that big". I look at the photo now and she looks beautiful. It just goes to show the negative affects the media can have on you - especially as a youngster.
XenoMurph 2 years ago (edited)
I think it also goes to show how society as a whole, in the West, has gotten bigger. If we look at graphs of average weight of people, in the UK people have gained about 7 kgs in 25 years. That's average, so half have gained more than that. larger people are a familiar sight, so we are looking through eyes that see people differently. The celebrities pictured here are "normal", within the average weight range. But the norm for celebrities was, and is, to be slightly thinner than average. The preference for unhealthy skinny models was terrible, but now our acceptance of unhealthy weight is also harmful. (My 130kgs best friend died this week at 51, so I'm in health mode.)
Load More Replies... ynyrhydref56 2 years ago
Yep. If you weren't practically skeletal, you were fat. The goal was size 0
Eva Kašu 2 years ago
I was a teenage in this years...gosh I was stupid (and hungry) for 10 long years.
Wheely 2 years ago
Lonesoul - Just remember, the only opinion that matters is your own. I'm missing half my right leg and I'm happy AF.
Load More Replies... Mariele Scherzinger 2 years ago
Every other TV show that I watch has actresses in it that look like they live on a lettuce leaf per day. And most of these actresses, A-listers or not, starve themselves in order to get hired at all. If that is the standard you judge people by, then anyone who is not underweight is automatically a whale.
Goose of the Ahonkalypse 2 years ago
There's a reason why half the girls in my high school had an eating disorder in the 90's. Thats not hyperbole that's actually how it was. So many girls went to treatment and most girls were calorie concious or eating low fat. The beauty standard was very skinny with no butt. I'm so grateful to those who blazed a trail to make fuller bodies more acceptable and then those who pushed even farther for body acceptance in general. I still had leftover 90's-early 2000's body ideals for myself into my 30's.
Maya 2 years ago
Amen. I'm from the same generation and I remember the ultra skinny craze of the 2000s, with Paris Hilton, Keira Knightley, Mischa Barton, the Olsen twins. I was rather average and felt like an obese because I could not wear the size zero and 2 at Abercrombie when in the U.S on holidays. Good thing for me was that smallest available sizes in France are actually bigger than in the US so I got to understand I was not that 'fat', and I mostly listened to rnb where women weren't ultra skinny at all.
Load More Replies... CHRISTY SMITH 2 years ago
I like how there isn’t one man in the article, that only women are being made fun of for being a size 6+
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