By TW: This article includes discussion of eating disorders, diet culture, and weight stigma. If you or someone you know is struggling, please contact .Did you grow up with an Almond Mom?
It's a question many women and girls asked themselves earlier this week, after clips of —also known as 's mother—went viral on social media. , Yolanda calls Gigi's body “big and bulky" and complains she “eats like men." During an episode on Gigi's birthday, she tells her then-teenage daughter she can only “have one night of being bad" then has to “get back on her diet," before allowing her a single bite of cake.
The most troubling of all, however, is a scene where Gigi calls her mother complaining that she feels “really weak" after only eating “like half an almond” that day.
Yolanda's response? "Have a couple of almonds, and chew them really well."Despite Hadid’s viral comments, the almond mom is not a novel concept—and definitely not limited to stage moms.
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