Weight Loss Drugs, Thin Worship, and Crash Diets: The Unwelcome Return of Eating Disorder Culture

glamour.com:

Warning: This article includes discussion of eating disorders, weight loss drugs, body image, and diet culture.The Y2K renaissance is showing no signs of slowing and, while I’m in full support of bedazzled denim and the resurgence of , I can’t cosign what it's resurrecting in terms of the normalization of disordered eating, thin worship, and a societal obsession with shrinking our bodies at any cost.As a verified geriatric millennial (1984, thankyouverymuch), I feel qualified to speak on this topic with some authority.

And as an eating disorder survivor who was first diagnosed with anorexia at what I consider the peak of societally sanctioned body terrorism, I can no longer ignore the looming threat of the twisted 2000s-era ethos creeping back in.

When I , I clung to a naive optimism that this sort of cultural psychosis could never return. After all, there seemed to be unprecedented upswing in body diversity across all forms of media, TikTokers were calling out the outdated mentality, and artists like Tove Lo, Jax, and Taylor Swift were courageously chronicling their own ED recoveries while admonishing the unforgiving standards they’d been held to.But what I initially wrote off as anomalies of bad taste in our progressive new world of body diversity started becoming the norm — again.

to fit into Marilyn Monroe’s dress for the 2022 Met Gala, the New York Post ran the sincerely sick headline, “” and suddenly became the least desired asset of 2023.