Millennials are traumatised by diet culture 💔

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[neversaw]

And her face is fucking stunning!! She has no make up on and is still stunning regardless. These troglodytes judging her just frothing at the bit to publicly hate women is so scary.

[Yobydobie]

That girl was the definition of conventional beauty I’m so disappointed in us😭

[janree]

I developed my ED at 11. I remember sitting in the tanning salon waiting room for my mom, sifting through their magazines. At the time, I thought it was ‘fun’ learning about how to grow up. In reality it was step by step instructions and orders to follow to develop an ED. If I never make a woman feel ashamed of her appearance, I’ll have lived a fulfilling life 😊

[Wonderer]

Oh my God, that made my insides sink. I wonder how many days she cried herself to sleep after that experience not knowing she’s actually stunning but she was just a victim of humbling by humiliation for entertainment purposes?

[kristinellis]

Ivr explained shows like this to my now 15 year old daughter; she was horrified.

[acousticmonkey]

So true. It was, and still is with the rise of social media, so ruthless towards women.

[blanker_white]

The fact that she’s so beautiful too… :(

[leavoda]

The definition of perfect ment androgenously skinny or having a body of a teen boy but with boobs.
Kate Winslet in the movie Titanic was described as fat.
That was our world.

[piyusha]

The superficiality I see in media is horrendous. Like every one infront of cam is a mannequin and now lets roast and mock it till we cant no more. Like we actually forget the fact that, its a human being, a living breathing being. Its literally brutal.

[TheNinnyfee]

Gen X grew up with heroin chic, i.e. girls dying of anorexia left, right, and center. Fatshaming was crazy, and the late Gen Xers also experienced the milennial diet culture as well.

[khloflowers]

There was literally an episode of NEXT (that bus show on mtv where people speed dated) where a guy immediately sent a girl away for "having kankles". She wasn't even fat at all. I still think about that to this day.

[MissIntrovert]

Late 90s & Early 2000s with the diet culture really skinny females were called "heroin chic". Being very thin was what was popular in the magazines, and in Hollywood. This is such a terrible show, that I honestly didn't even know ran on tv back then. I only found out recently when I looked up the meaning of "Butter Face"

[taratravis]

It was bad in the 90s but the 2000s took to a whole new level! Thank you for the reminder of why I hate my body so much & still fight to accept it.

[l.valley]

What are they laughing at??? She so fking pretty tf?

[ShakirahIbaad]

I can hear by the sound the that guy’s voice that he isn’t exactly the nicest face to look at and that the poor woman with the bag on her head is way out of his league. This show clip is horrendous!

[beepboop]

GenZ too I was 8yo when those kind of shows were airing. Tons of us got influenced but those too

[eclipserblair]

exactly. young girls are taught to idolize beauty so deeply that my mother, a millenial, wanted nothing more than to be a Barker Beauty when she was younger. she was less than seven.

[edenlee]

I was brought up in the 90s body building circles. As a woman with pcos, who is overweight through hormone imbalances and eating disorders with facial hair, an injury that caused facial asymmetry it has been a ride. Even at nearly 40 I struggle

[klararosengren]

Holy fuck, yes, now I see how deeply affected you can become. I'm so sorry for anyone who grew up with that program, it is trash

[reddeadandangryatcapitalism]

I don't get it, she's beautiful.