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Who wants to see another example of fat-shaming/normalization of ED behavior from the garbage pile that is the Daily Mail? Because HERE👇🏼 
TW: talking abt how Kim's" working out for an hour and a half every morning ... also tightened up her diet ... eating absolutely no carbs."
TW: "in just a few weeks ... I've literally just shrunk." DOES THAT SOUND FAMILIAR to anyone else?
Reporting on Kim's 'new slimline booty' and praising what are clearly disordered, unhealthy behaviors is irresponsible and damaging ...
...to all the young girls who idolize and look up to her, but also to any woman on this planet who has cellulite (which is over 90% of us).
Cellulite is not a disease. It is not a plague. It is not a mark of shame, or something to be disgusted by. IT IS A NATURAL BODILY OCCURENCE
Kim had a real opportunity to say to the world, "Hell yeah I have cellulite, I'm a mother and a curvy woman and a HUMAN and so fucking what"
But instead, by engaging in these behaviors (AND by the media portraying it as 'fitness' and 'health'), the message becomes something else:
it becomes, "I'm going to fix myself." "By shrinking myself, I'm going to be better."
THAT 👏🏼IS 👏🏼DIET 👏🏼CULTURE 👏🏼TALKING👏🏼
THIS is why ED behavior isn't noticed right away. THIS is why ED behavior is only "serious" when someone becomes a walking skeleton.
THIS is why when a fat person exhibits ED behavior, it's not called that: it's called a DIET. FITNESS. GETTING IN SHAPE.
Because they should WANT to be smaller, right? They should WANT to get rid of their cellulite, they should WANT to be thin.
We can only combat this toxic cultural norm by refusing to call it 'health'. Call it what it really is: fat shaming.
HOW REFRESHING would it be to have opened that article and read, "Kim puts her mental and physical health at risk over fat shaming comments"
"Kim exists in a world where no body will ever be good/thin/smooth enough, and yet still feels pressure to adhere to unrealistic standards"
I'm waiting for THOSE articles to come out.
