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Nicky Reardon

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Nicky at Night
The Death of Body Positivity & the Twisted Marketing of "Skinny"

And like when she was like a cast and all this, and I'm like, I think that the reason this is even a topic of conversation for you people is it's actually been such a long time since you've seen an actor without veneers. You forgot that not everybody has perfectly straight teeth.

Nicky at Night
The Death of Body Positivity & the Twisted Marketing of "Skinny"

And like when she was like a cast and all this, and I'm like, I think that the reason this is even a topic of conversation for you people is it's actually been such a long time since you've seen an actor without veneers. You forgot that not everybody has perfectly straight teeth.

Nicky at Night
The Death of Body Positivity & the Twisted Marketing of "Skinny"

And these sorts of things I see appearing more and more and more and more often, which makes it so the bodies that we are all born into versus the bodies that we see on billboards and TV screens and phone screens are getting further and further apart.

Nicky at Night
The Death of Body Positivity & the Twisted Marketing of "Skinny"

And these sorts of things I see appearing more and more and more and more often, which makes it so the bodies that we are all born into versus the bodies that we see on billboards and TV screens and phone screens are getting further and further apart.

Nicky at Night
The Death of Body Positivity & the Twisted Marketing of "Skinny"

And that is a really terrifying thing for young people, for young boys and girls who like are again already hate their body, already anxious, all these things. Like I fear for them, which kind of brings me to my overarching problem with wellness and glow up culture is that wellness is focused on telling you what to think, not how to think.

Nicky at Night
The Death of Body Positivity & the Twisted Marketing of "Skinny"

And that is a really terrifying thing for young people, for young boys and girls who like are again already hate their body, already anxious, all these things. Like I fear for them, which kind of brings me to my overarching problem with wellness and glow up culture is that wellness is focused on telling you what to think, not how to think.

Nicky at Night
The Death of Body Positivity & the Twisted Marketing of "Skinny"

You see this all the time with like billion dollar morning routine and then 75 hard and that random Saratoga water guy. Like they are telling you, you have to wake up at 4 a.m. Then you have to go to the gym at this time. Then you have to read this amount of pages of the book. But like the real value of these things is just discipline and consistency, right?

Nicky at Night
The Death of Body Positivity & the Twisted Marketing of "Skinny"

You see this all the time with like billion dollar morning routine and then 75 hard and that random Saratoga water guy. Like they are telling you, you have to wake up at 4 a.m. Then you have to go to the gym at this time. Then you have to read this amount of pages of the book. But like the real value of these things is just discipline and consistency, right?

Nicky at Night
The Death of Body Positivity & the Twisted Marketing of "Skinny"

It does not matter if you go to the gym at 4 a.m. or 9 p.m. as long as you finish the workout. It does not matter what you eat as long as you are having a calorie deficit and getting some good nutrients, right? Like you can have a salad. You can have chicken. You can have this thing. You can have that thing. You can have an acai bowl. You can have a smoothie. It does not matter. It does not.

Nicky at Night
The Death of Body Positivity & the Twisted Marketing of "Skinny"

It does not matter if you go to the gym at 4 a.m. or 9 p.m. as long as you finish the workout. It does not matter what you eat as long as you are having a calorie deficit and getting some good nutrients, right? Like you can have a salad. You can have chicken. You can have this thing. You can have that thing. You can have an acai bowl. You can have a smoothie. It does not matter. It does not.

Nicky at Night
The Death of Body Positivity & the Twisted Marketing of "Skinny"

You do not. It's not. You can have this cleanse to lose eight pounds in two weeks. You can do it in a thousand different ways. Do you have discipline? Do you have consistency? Are you creating a lifestyle that supports this result, right? But it is not monetizable to say that. It is monetizable to tell you about how,

Nicky at Night
The Death of Body Positivity & the Twisted Marketing of "Skinny"

You do not. It's not. You can have this cleanse to lose eight pounds in two weeks. You can do it in a thousand different ways. Do you have discipline? Do you have consistency? Are you creating a lifestyle that supports this result, right? But it is not monetizable to say that. It is monetizable to tell you about how,

Nicky at Night
The Death of Body Positivity & the Twisted Marketing of "Skinny"

you got to have this one specific smoothie and then they partner with a protein product brand or you got to have this one specific workout class or a workout routine and they're selling you the routine or there's, you know, it's an overarching again, let's subculture and lifestyle where they're working out at the aloe gym and then wearing that two piece set that happens to be $150 like it's,

Nicky at Night
The Death of Body Positivity & the Twisted Marketing of "Skinny"

you got to have this one specific smoothie and then they partner with a protein product brand or you got to have this one specific workout class or a workout routine and they're selling you the routine or there's, you know, it's an overarching again, let's subculture and lifestyle where they're working out at the aloe gym and then wearing that two piece set that happens to be $150 like it's,

Nicky at Night
The Death of Body Positivity & the Twisted Marketing of "Skinny"

is not monetizable to give you the truth. It is monetizable to sell you this elevated fiction. And that's terrifying. It's terrifying. And honestly, I feel this way very often about like spirituality sometimes. Like you cannot manifest your way out of a lack of discipline. You can make the vision board. You can say the affirmations.

Nicky at Night
The Death of Body Positivity & the Twisted Marketing of "Skinny"

is not monetizable to give you the truth. It is monetizable to sell you this elevated fiction. And that's terrifying. It's terrifying. And honestly, I feel this way very often about like spirituality sometimes. Like you cannot manifest your way out of a lack of discipline. You can make the vision board. You can say the affirmations.

Nicky at Night
The Death of Body Positivity & the Twisted Marketing of "Skinny"

But none of that is going to replace you actually having to do the fucking work. Like write that first paragraph. Go to the gym. Post the video. Whatever it is, everything you want in life is a result of discipline and consistency. You need the discipline to start and the consistency to finish. And if you get 1% better every day, in 100 days, you will have what you want.

Nicky at Night
The Death of Body Positivity & the Twisted Marketing of "Skinny"

But none of that is going to replace you actually having to do the fucking work. Like write that first paragraph. Go to the gym. Post the video. Whatever it is, everything you want in life is a result of discipline and consistency. You need the discipline to start and the consistency to finish. And if you get 1% better every day, in 100 days, you will have what you want.

Nicky at Night
The Death of Body Positivity & the Twisted Marketing of "Skinny"

And that is not because of some fucking vision board or some affirmation you said in the mirror, but because you worked for it. As you should. And be proud of yourself. Like, this is why people talk about imposter syndrome all the time. It's because you're going and talking about how it was from your vision for work. Like, no, you went to the gym fucking 25 times this month. That's incredible.

Nicky at Night
The Death of Body Positivity & the Twisted Marketing of "Skinny"

And that is not because of some fucking vision board or some affirmation you said in the mirror, but because you worked for it. As you should. And be proud of yourself. Like, this is why people talk about imposter syndrome all the time. It's because you're going and talking about how it was from your vision for work. Like, no, you went to the gym fucking 25 times this month. That's incredible.