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Amala Ekpunobi

This Isn't A Beauty Trend. It's Malnourishment.

14 May 2026

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Chapter 1: What recent celebrity trends highlight malnourishment?

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Demi Moore's toned arms take center stage on Cannes Film Festival 2026 red carpet. Guys, let's be for real. It's okay to point out that something is wrong here. Maybe she's born with it. Maybe it's malnourishment. Let's talk about it. Guys, before we get into today's video, please like and subscribe.

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Today we're here to talk about what many are calling the skinny epidemic, I guess, in Hollywood right now. I'm gonna go further than that. There is a malnourishment epidemic in Hollywood right now. And I don't know how these individuals are getting to this conclusion and this result. It could be not eating or disordered eating.

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It could be GLP-1s and the huge surge that we're seeing with that right now in culture. But the reality is there's this new skinny look that's in that is essentially being malnourished and emaciated. Now, Demi Moore is catching a lot of heat and criticism and pushback for this right now as the New York Post

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put up photos of her and essentially said that she's showcasing toned arms at the Cannes Film Festival. Now, when you look at these photographs, it's very clear that she is emaciated. Now, this is not to attack Debbie Moore. I have no idea what she is going through, what has led her to this result.

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But there is some pattern recognition that I feel like we should all see right now in Hollywood where this emaciated, disordered eating look is now for some reason in. Now I'm gonna make a list of celebrities for you guys right now. And I will put up photos, again, not to attack these specific people, but to point out the pattern that is taking place.

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So of course we have Demi Moore, Natalie Dyer, Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Lily Collins, Emma Stone recently, Kelly Osbourne, Nicole Kidman, Angelina Jolie, Alexa Demi, Bella Hadid. The list goes on and on and on and on.

Chapter 2: How does the malnourishment epidemic manifest in Hollywood?

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And I'm seeing that people are recognizing that this is happening. I'll see people post about their disordered eating or wanting to be skinny. And the comment section will be full of comments saying somebody called Bella Hadid. or okay Ariana Grande, or okay Cynthia Erivo. The list goes on and on and on.

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So we can recognize that Hollywood celebrities at an increasing rate are coming out looking emaciated on red carpets, but it's not going sort of fully acknowledged for some reason.

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This of course can't be mentioned without I think also bringing up the body positivity movement, which I think created a culture or an idea where we feel as though we cannot acknowledge what we're seeing with our own eyes because of it being insensitive to talk about, or this push should not talk about other people's bodies because it's just a no-go zone for conversation.

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And I'm here to say, we should be able to acknowledge what we're all seeing and recognize that this is not an influence that we want to set upon young women or anybody when it comes to body standards and beauty. It seems like every single day we get a new photo of a female celebrity standing on a red carpet and they literally look like they are wasting away right in front of us.

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And it's paired with a headline about how stunning and beautiful they look with this new look. As my grandfather would say, if they stood sideways, you'd count them absent, but nobody is going to acknowledge The fact that that's happening right before our eyes.

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And when we're going even further than not acknowledging it and having the New York Post refer to images like this as having toned arms, somebody's got to rip the Band-Aid off and have the discussion. And we've been moving to this unnatural landscape of beauty for quite some time.

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I've done many a video about Botox and fillers, veneers, facelifts, this unnatural push of beauty where we're literally seeing individuals that look inhuman at this point. And now we're taking it even further into the space of malnourishment and malnutrition. A common phrase when people are referring to things like Botox, filler, facelifts is, you're not ugly, you're just poor.

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And I guess we're getting a new iteration of that right now where it's, you're not ugly, you just wouldn't survive. This is not...

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normal it's not healthy if many of these women who are in like peak ages we would think of fertility and health attempted to get pregnant i don't think they would be successful i actually think these women are living in a space of infertility for the sake of achieving these body types These women, it seems, need help and professional help at that with the state that many of their bodies are in.

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