Congresswoman Sara Jacobs

I grew up in the 2000s, the height of the skinny era where Jessica Simpson was a size six, I think, and all of the tabloids called her fat, right?

Like those are not good things for our young girls to be learning.

And now it's back, especially with the GLP-1s and how a lot more people are maybe learning

more skinny than they would naturally be otherwise.

And we're starting to see that like very skinny chic look come back.

One of the things I think a lot about being a leader is that a big part of my job is to show people that leadership can look and sound different than what they're used to.

right?

That a lot of people in their head have this idea of leadership.

That's Spartacus leading the charge.

And that's a very specific image of who can be a leader.

And it's not someone who looks like me, but I think leadership is listening.

I think leadership can be very different.

And part of what I try and do is show that leadership can look and sound different so that we can have more people who look and sound all sorts of ways, see themselves as leaders and step up and take agency in the direction of our country.

I will give you a very concrete example.

Right after Roe v. Wade was overturned, when the Dobbs decision came down, I started getting all these texts from my friends and peers asking what they should do about their period tracking apps.

And TikTok had a whole thing like delete your app.

I use a period tracking app, so I was wondering this for myself.

And I started looking into it with my team, and there's basically no federal protections for this data.

And so I started talking about that with my colleagues.

But first I had to explain, like, yes, we track our periods.