Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hello and welcome to the show. I'm Haley Karania. I'm so excited for today's show because I'm actually doing my first ever deep dive episode. We are doing one topic and that topic is that Hollywood celebrities are wasting away. I actually think that because I know how everyone feels in the chat about celebrities and Hollywood. We're not We're not too fond of them, right?
But I think that Ozempic might be killing them. And even the ones, the celebrities that you didn't think could afford to get thinner are. And the ones that used to promote body positivity With the introduction of GLP-1s, that movement has become a thing of the past.
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Chapter 2: How are GLP-1s influencing Hollywood's beauty standards?
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But when people who don't need to lose weight or never struggled with any health issues get on these drugs, the results can border on terrifying. And some conspiracy theorists on the internet think that this is all part of a plan to soft launch starvation to the American public. Doomsday liberals think that the end of the world is near and it is all Trump's fault.
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Chapter 3: What historical trends in body image are referenced?
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Chapter 4: How did the body positivity movement evolve over time?
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People in the chat are talking about buccal fat removal surgery, and we are getting into all of that today on this deep dive on the rise of Ozempic and the death of body positivity. Different body types become popular over time. They trend, sort of like how fashion trends, and obesity was on the rise. Not that it was a popular trend, it was just...
quite literally trending in America in the 60s and 70s and 80s, seemingly getting worse. And almost as a response to that in the 90s, it was very popular to have very, very, very thin models. They even called it heroin chic. Now, I don't know if all the models were on heroin, but maybe cocaine, some other substances. But the beauty standard was Kate Moss.
Chapter 5: What are the potential dangers of the current beauty trends?
I feel like when you think of 90s iconic models, supermodels, you think of Kate Moss. And she was beautiful. She was the beauty standard, but she was also very, very thin. And you could see she has hollow cheekbones. She's very thin, her arms are very thin, waist is very thin. And this is what, I don't know, this is what the beauty standard was, right?
Except she broke onto the modeling scene when she was 14. How can a 14 year old's body become the beauty standard for adult women? It can't, it's an unrealistic standard to set. And she got a lot of flack for promoting ultra thinness, even eating disorders after coining the phrase, nothing tastes as good as skinny feels, which if you,
If you're like me, if you've been on Tumblr back in the day, this is an iconic quote. Anytime people diet, they say something like this along the same lines. Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels. This is something that has been inspiring thinspiration for years. And models were being held to extremely vigorous standards.
Chapter 6: How does celebrity culture impact public perception of body image?
It certainly wasn't healthy for young people to think that you needed to do cocaine to be thin. or you needed to look like Kate Moss to be beautiful, when the beauty standard was quite literally putting the models through hell, and in some cases, killing them.
After some models were dying from their struggles with anorexia, there was a push in the early 2000s to ban models who were under 16 from walking the catwalk. They thought, these younger women, it's not healthy for them, it's setting them up for these unrealistic standards way too early in life. They're doing damage to their bodies.
And also in the 2000s, it became popular in the modeling industry to need to have a doctor's note or some kind of medical exam proving that you were healthy enough to work. And these are the kinds of models that were in all of the magazines, all of the commercials, wearing the hottest clothes. And then Hollywood celebrities hold themselves to these same standards.
And this kickstarted 90s diet culture. You all remember, everything was low fat, low carb, zero sugar, lean cuisine meals for 200 calories. In what world is that possible? I can't believe it's not butter. All of these diet trends. I remember zero calorie drinks and powders to put in waters.
Chapter 7: What role does social media play in shaping beauty ideals?
And I feel like things are not so different now. I feel like there's still a lot of this stuff happening in diet culture, but carbs are not bad. Butter is not bad. Fat is not bad. But in 1992, that's when that botched food pyramid was unveiled. And remember, I've done deep dives on this botched food pyramid about how this isn't even real.
This was influenced by lobbyists and money that wanted to influence certain industries. And this food industry was owned essentially by the tobacco industries. When the tobacco industry was kind of collapsing, They took over some of these food companies like Nabisco and others, and they were literally making foods addictive for Americans. They were making food with poison in it.
And of course, they were demonizing fats and oils, barely recommended meat and eggs. I mean, this whole thing is totally upside down, which is why HHS Secretary RFK Jr., put together an inverted triangle, essentially flipping this on its head where you don't need to eat, you know, 11 servings of bread per day. That's crazy.
Chapter 8: Is the body positivity movement officially dead?
Of course we were getting obese. No one needs to eat that much. And it was like, eat all these good things, but only this amount of the good things, then eat this amount of the bad things. So we were set up for failure. And then there was all of this, at the same time, they were telling us to eat all this crap. They were telling us, you know, low calorie, low fat, no carbs.
So eat 11 grams or 11 servings of bread a day, but carbs are bad. Like see how this doesn't make sense. It just, it didn't make sense. And then here's the inverted one, which we know now, This was promoted by HHS Secretary RFK Jr. And this is more so in line with what we should have been eating for the last few decades. And we weren't.
I don't know how many people really follow the food pyramids anyway. Like I never thought to myself, oh, I need to eat, you know, four servings of vegetables a day. I just try to get my macros in check. I like to have a healthy fat, a carb, some protein in every meal. And I think as long as you stick to that, you're probably in good shape.
School lunches were a big follower of the food pyramid though. Right. And Michelle Obama, I remember this was, I think Gen Z probably. Do you remember when Michelle Obama overhauled the school lunches and that hit you, you were how old, like middle school, high school, something like that. Yeah. Like I was at a school by that point, so it didn't really impact me too much.
Um, but I remember seeing on social media, lots of younger kids were really upset with Michelle Obama because she made the school lunches just horrible. supposedly more healthy, but pizza and Bosco sticks and chicken sandwich, chicken sandwiches, Bosco sticks. She wanted to get rid of those though, right? They were there. I don't know.
I know, but I remember Bosco sticks and those were the best of days. That was the best day. Everyone looked forward to the Bosco sticks and pizza, pizza days, pizza lunches. But now we know that low calorie doesn't necessarily mean healthy. Lots of these health foods, like these lean cuisine meals, they are full of poison, full of chemicals, preservatives.
But this diet culture had lasting impacts. Once you have it in your head that the beauty standard is this one thing, it's hard to retrain your brain. And people are now calling it almond moms. I see this trend on social media all the time. Oh, the Bosco sticks. What is that sauce? I've never seen that. That's definitely a cheese sauce for sure. With no cheese. Not an ounce of dairy in there.
Ew, yeah, that's so gross. It looks like honey mustard. Almond moms would not approve, needless to say. This is not, not, not, not almond mom approved. So if you don't know what an almond mom is, it's essentially a mom that grew up with 90s diet culture and then imposed it on their children. So a lot of millennials, it's young women. You know, they grew up with this diet culture.
They became obsessed with it, being thin, being thin, being thin. And then any mom that grew up in the 90s or any – child that grew up in the 90s with this mom and this diet culture now has some kind of toxic relationship with food. And a lot of these moms have now grown up. They're in their 50s, 60s, 70s. They still have weird toxic relationships with food.
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