The Latest Version Of Celebrity Thinness Isn’t Just Annoying, It’s Dangerous. I Should Know.
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**From writer Rebecca Morrison:**
Every time I see Ariana Grande on the red carpet or in interviews lately, I feel a mix of fear and anger. Not at her, her beautiful spirit, breathtaking voice or right to move through the world in the body she chooses. But at what she’s come to symbolize.
Extreme thinness is back, and it’s being packaged as aspiration. Grande and Cynthia Erivo are everywhere promoting “Wicked” in interviews, photo shoots, red carpet events. Their bodies and the ultra-thin bodies of other celebrities ― small, smaller, smallest ― are glamorized and showcased with the media positioning Grande as one the main figures to be celebrated.
Even though there has been some criticism, it’s been drowned out by the mega promotion machine that celebrates these figures, and plasters them everywhere with great fanfare.
Here’s a link to my full essay: [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ariana-grande-very-thin-celebrities-wicked_n_692dfad5e4b0520d940a43e6?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=us_main](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ariana-grande-very-thin-celebrities-wicked_n_692dfad5e4b0520d940a43e6?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=us_main)
I’m glad she wrote this, but it won’t make a dent on the skinny press.
It seems an endless cycle of people in the media obtaining unrealistic and often unhealthy bodies then eventually the press points out what a bad example it is for young people. Then it all starts again.
Idk bros. I’m in the “perhaps she IS too thin, but it’s none of my business” boat. I don’t HAVE to be as thin as her. I see more people expressing worry than setting her weight as a standard.
i’m not saying that we wouldn’t see the trend otherwise, but i have to wonder about the impact of these think pieces that keep insisting “Thin Is Back In!” like they’re reporting on the weather
Who exactly is glamorizing the sickly thin version of these women?
I’ve seen nothing but concern about it .
I’m old enough to have lived through the skeleton, heroin chic trend of the 90s, and the no carb ultra thinness of the 2000s. It just goes on and on.
The 2010s BBL era was far from perfect but at least the trend everyone was chasing on the hamster wheel involved a healthy and complete body.
I feel bad that she’s become the poster child for the 2020s thin crisis and its critique. And I hope she’s able to recover from whatever it is she’s going through and I hope the constant discussion isn’t making it worse. But I can’t agree that she looks healthy and I can’t agree that everyone should avoid talking about bodies this severely thin because this shouldn’t go normalized.
Ariana’s come a long way from the days when she used to spit on donuts at the counter.
The crazy thing is… like 99.9% of the comments I’ve seen all over social media about it seem to be that she’s too thin and it isn’t a positive thing with how thin she is. Unless I am missing something?
Ozempic basically killed the body positivity movement. And since ozempic exists now, it’s never coming back. But at least we can start to make a dent in our obesity problem, which is one of the greatest issues we have. Celebrities need to maintain their unnatural beauty standards in order to stay relevant, especially with social media. So they’re always going to be super thin and have a lot of work done. Just how it is.
It is one of the most difficult mental heath illnesses to cure (anorexia.)
Trends do repeat.
Too much of anything is bad. The same exact issue happened when bbls and being thick was in. Don’t ignore the harm both messages have.
Is it a trend though? It seems to just be these two.
Unless i am unaware of some other celebs or something. I just hope its not a trend though since its super unhealthy.
What happened on this set, I don’t understand. No one, not a single person said anything the whole shoot? It was so noticeable and borderline distracting the whole movie.
I have heard various medical professionals say that that the weight loss caused by these drugs are damaging the muscle of those losing too much weight. Once you get to a certain point, where you have reached the healthiest balance of body fat for you, whatever that is, if you are not diligent on consuming enough protein and calcium etc you start losing muscle mass, and if your older it doesn’t come back. Some people have lost up to 54 percent of their weight in muscle. If your an older woman that is catastrophic. I worked in a nursing home with a dentist ward and when women began losing weight quickly broken bones followed if they were still mobile. One woman lost 20 lbs over the course of 3 months, she was like 75, nonverbal dementia but mobile. She broke her hip and no one knew for a week. We saw the bruising but her Dr didn’t X-ray because she kept motoring around. My point is these starlets are losing muscle mass needed to keep themselves alive. It isn’t just the ozempic, they are not eating enough protein either.
Literally have one of my coworkers who had to hospitalize his daughter for anorexia. Thanks people who make impressionable young girls think they need to be this
I don’t want the bodies of individual people like Cynthia and Ariana (among others) to be treated as something to “blame” or judge them for, but I do find this conversation to be important.
Even people who are no longer teenagers and have a history of eating disorders deserve concern. To be honest, I’m about 20 kilos heavier now than I was during my ED days – back then I was basically just a skeleton with some skin. For years I hoped I would eventually reach the weight I have today, and I genuinely worked toward it.
But over the last year or so, those old thoughts of “you’re too fat, why do you have a belly” have started creeping back in. I don’t hold celebrities responsible for that, not at all, but I can sense a shift in beauty standards that makes it harder for me to feel comfortable maintaining a healthy weight.
My 12 year old ordered a scale from Amazon and hid it under her bed. I had a long talk w her about it and brought up the wicked stars. I’m pissed and so completely over these bony “oh this is my naturally healthy body” celebrities.
I was a teen when Nicole Richie was at her skinniest and I thought she looked great!! You don’t think sensibly at that age and these people are very influential to developing brains.
You literally could not escape Ariana and Cynthia’s skeletal frames these last two years – the damage on many 9-14 year olds is done (many older than that too!)
We went through something similar in the 90’s with the Waifs (Kate Moss etc). It was soon followed by awareness and increased concern for eating disorders.
This time around it has big pharma money attached. Do we know the long term impacts of these weight loss drugs?
They had weight loss drugs for sale in the 70’s, turned out they were amphetamines. That didn’t end well.
Like, we literally already lived this timeline. This is a literal repeat of the 90s and early aughts. All the actresses saying they just chased kids or were naturally skinny and then years later admitted to raging EDs. Example? Ally McBeal. It was as damaging then as now.
The only way to combat it is to make their movies 18+. They clearly have eating disorders and are promoting a film that is directed at Children who look up to them.
Then the money makers of these films will have to address it, as they won’t be profiting from it.
This also applies to obese people who are tagged as “body positivity”.
They are both equally unhealthy and damaging to society. Especially to young people.
Yeah, as a recovering bulimic, watching Cynthia and Ariana’s competitive non-eating contest in action is intensely triggering and I’ve had to consciously avoid looking at anything even remotely Wicked-related for that reason. The press tour for the last movie fucked me up way more than I could have anticipated and I doubt I’m alone there. At least this time, we knew what to expect.
There’s skinny and then there’s emaciated.
Ariana isn’t skinny.
Has everyone forgotten heroin chic, Kate Moss , and the late 90s?
How can anyone be attracted to that?
I don’t see anyone trying to glamorize Ariana’s current form… everything I see about her currently is critical of how thin and unhealthy she looks.
With how much information came out about The Wizard of Oz and how horribly Judy Garland was treated, you’d think the team behind Wicked would be wary of anyone with an eating disorder.
It reminds me of back in the day, when Ally McBeal was on and all the female cast members kept getting skinnier and skinnier until it was like watching the Nightmare Before Christmas in miniskirt suits.
I personally think if the cast of Wicked stopped getting so much press, they wouldn’t be so inspired to act like coked out Girl Interrupted refugees, and might actually consume nutrition at some point, once the cameras are pointed elsewhere.
Has anyone seen Ryan Seacrest lately. There’s barely anything left of him! I noticed a LOT of bronzer, make-up trying to form face structure. He talks about his Mediterranean diet, but he’s going to end up hospitalized having a stroke, etc… I’m genuinely concerned for him.
I can’t see any of her media pics, she just looks grotesque
They’re all walking around looking like emaciated vampires that haven’t fed in years. Looking gaunt and boney like a skeleton.
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