40 Millennial Women Call Out How Toxic The Media Is And Break Down What They Found Harmful When Growing Up

not proud to say, but this is actually relatable

They. Called. Lucy Lawless Fat??? Okay - so... uhm... maybe it's the dudes who have body dysmorphia when looking at women because... Ms. Lawless is a stone cold fox. I'd LOVE to have her proportions.

No, she's a healthy weight. Unlike the sickly, anorexic look that media tells us is, "normal."

How sad is this. And so true. For everyone who thinks they're being 'helpful' by pointing out weight, save the world a whole lot of therapy bills and just keep your 'help' to yourself.

That is in fact what they have done to clothing sizes over the decades. I've taken my measurements from the 80's and put them in clothing size charts now and the size is waaaay off what I wore back then. Like why do they do this? I often wonder if it's to make us feel bad for how "big" we were or to make us feel as though we are "smaller" now.

The comparison at the time was with Kate Moss. Of course everyone seems fat if compared to Kate Moss.

WHO DID THIS!?

Which I never understood bc I think she's gorgeous!

Pure horror!

When Charlotte thought she was fat because her thighs touched.

that's how i looked in my teens, was called plank though :D

What is this movie?

As a gen x, friends was much later. For us it was Linda Carter.

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But, she didn't have a MAN!!!??? 😱

She only gained 20 lbs for Bridget Jones. So probably only went from a size zero to a size six—-maximum.

Yes ED were "normal diets" back then. I'm still suffering the long lasting effects from being anorexic in my teens. Think brittle bones, scoliosis and kidney damage. I used to get so many compliments when I was actually dying too.

I don't think they wanted us to think she was fat. This was to show that she gained a bit of fat and she didn't fit in the same clothes (like she gained 5-7cm on her waist). That's what was going on here. She was still slim, but not as slim as before. Who on earth would have thought she was fat in this scene???

Neither were which ever decade with Monroe and all the others. This has been a plague on women for forever.

Fuller figured doesn't necessarily mean fat though. Just means she had really nice hips.

Your mum is awesome 👏

I hope this person told them to politely eff off.

If it's difficult for girls and women to get free of this culture, I just can imagine how it is for girls and women INSIDE this industry.

I look back at photos of me at my lowest adult weight, probably 20 years old, and I look kind of sick. I'm trying to lose COVID weight now but more trying to get healthier by eating nutritious foods and going to the gym. I'm more muscular than I ever have been, and I think that's way more attractive than looking malnourished.

Male friend ... has been happily drinking the advertising kool-aid...

I don't recall Beyonce even being called fat...maybe I just missed that trend?

And ginger too, not just baby.

Not that I think it's a good movie but with this logic we would never watch any movies, TV, drive anywhere or do anything or even eat because you can find connections or support tonegative things everywhere. In fact you're gross if you touch the filthy money with slave owners on it and oil is associated with oppressing women in the middle east the list of connections to atrocities is very long and touches everything.

Who?

Is this really just a white girl thing? Asking seriously not mocking

Here's a male Gen X voice. Bridget Jones was plenty thin. I did not know they made two others. I thought the joke was that she believed she was fat, but then there's these two men attempting to pursue her because they think she's hot. I found her character annoying, but she is a beautiful woman.

The only thing I can remember from that movie is George Clooneys bat-suit having bat-nipples…I have forgotten everything else about it

All of Ally McBeal, the women in Friends, even Daphne from Frasier

I'll tell you why. Look at their neck and chest areas. The "skinny" chick has bones sticking out and the "fat" one doesn't. That about sums this all up perfectly. Seems you need to look literally like a skeleton to be consider normal and healthy, which makes NO sense at all, kids!

You'd have thought, since it's Meryl Streep, they'd have made the clothes fit HER, not the other way around... Although, of course, this goes great with the movies story line...

Reminds me when I had to find a tank top ... and the woman at the store looked at me (with barely hidden disdain) "Well, you're at least a L or XL..." and I was like... say what now. Same here... was a solid medium *everywhere else*.

The fat one? Am I missing something? She's skinny!

Who is supposed to be fat here??

Wasn’t she in Arrested Development as George Michaels girlfriend Ann who Michael kept calling “her?” for a similar reason? When she’s definitely not ugly nor fat!

I just found one of my high school photos. I was indeed overweight, but not nearly as overweight as I remember being. I wish I'd known at the time.

I still love the nanny today, but my oh my they are skinny. Not just Fran but CC too. Crazy.

Episode of Golden Girls Rose guesses Blanche's weight as 135. This was an insult to Blanche.

You were actually the normal weight for your height, going by the 5’ 100 lbs + 5 lbs for every inch above that for women. 5 x 9 = 45, so 145 is absolutely spot on for a 5’9” tall woman.

That song slaps! 🔥 It's really made me consider why the hell I should buy underwear from a business that's not owned by women.

The thing i hate about this song is it body shames skinny women. We can lift ourselves and others without dragging people down - skinny women also get a lot of body shaming.

So much of this has to do with not understanding that "You can have a round face shape and not be fat" - which is kinda of a REALLY SIMPLE CONCEPT that seems to be super difficult for many???

pretty sure she was able to fit the same pair of jeans the other girls were wearing.... but maybe those were just magic pants lol

Yup - someone who understands what the joke was supposed to be

You look absolutely fine!

low rise jeans worked for people like me with short waists (ugh. I could lose 50 lbs and be darn near see-through and I'd still look 'oddly squat' because I have a short waist)... but they had to start remember that women still have a$$es.

Yes, I had the same issue and developed a nice ED at age 15. The body dismorphia got better with therapy but the ED has never left my mind, even as I'm "clean" now.

Bullies go for the worst insult they can think of, and unfortunately for the last 50-60 years, calling someone fat, especially if they’re young and definitely not overweight, is an especially low blow that can cause decades of ED and/or body image issues, not to mention attempts to lose weight with every fad diet that comes along. All of that can truly f**k up a normal metabolism.

That's classic bulimia right there.

Maybe just stop calling normal healthy size people plus size for a start. I don’t know why we have to be so obsessed about size, when I shop for clothes (uk) depending on which shop I’m in I can be anywhere from a 12to an 18,. Time we just embraced that people are different and size is just a number that means s**t 💕

That.... sounds like the dumbest marketing strategy I can think of. I'm gonna go out on a limb here, were the clothes sold there also ridiculously overpriced, and made with obvious logos/in an easily identified style?

it's back :(

Delia*s is still around on dolls kill. I ordered a couple things things all in the same size but the Delia's stuff was so much smaller. They suck

My mother was 95 lb, I was 130 lb in high school. I never had a chance.

Oh, believe me, that still is all that a lot of people think is beautiful. I remember being about 5-7 yrs old and seeing Disney princesses and Barbie being so much skinnier than I was at the time, and so I thought I was fat. Now, you can see my rib cage because of what I did. It’s been at least 4 years since then, too. Please never do the same thing I did. (Btw I ate less. That’s what I did. And no one told me I was fat except for myself.)

Oh sh!t my mind was twisted back then. I haven't seen any pictures of her in so long, I forgot what she looked like. She was never fat, but in fact she was skinny.

I think it was something temporary, as her eyes already look like before again.