Cut for discussion of eating disorders among celebrities
There’s been a lot of talk recently about how thin celebrities are getting— particularly women— and one thing I think people are not clocking is that all these women who are now visibly ill have almost certainly had disordered eating the whole time. Probably a lot of them have straight up been anorexic the whole time.
A decade ago the desired physique in Hollywood had pivoted hard towards being thin in muscular toned way and so it was just more invisible to the general public, because you have to eat enough to maintain muscle mass. But just because you’re eating more to maintain a specific look doesn’t mean the underlaying issues have gone anywhere. The control issues just got funneled into doing a shitload of pilates and eating lean protein.
And of course since anorexia is a competitive disorder as soon as a handful of them get crazy thin all the existing people living with hidden eating disorders lean hard back into prioritizing weight loss over maintaining muscle mass.
We talk a lot about how much body standards changed between the 90s/2000s and 2010s but the underlying systems didn’t change at all so of course we’re seeing a quick backslide.
Idk that there’s a point to this other than that when a whole profession MUST have a certain body type it’s going to lead to dysfunction. Your favorite actor or musician almost certainly engages is disordered eating and possibly has an eating disorder because they’ll loose their job if they don’t look a certain way! That’s actually really weird and fucked up if you think about it.
Anyway I think it’s important to talk about this and name it, and sometimes it’s even ok to mention specific celebrities by name BUT I do think you should avoid sharing pictures of these people because again, anorexia is competitive and these kinds of pictures can trigger a relapse.
