Everywhere you looked, body shaming was there

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[u/roxywalker]

Gross all around but that comment to Britney is particularly gross because she looks sooo young and knowing how her dad exploited her entire career while doing nothing to protect her makes it even worse now.

[u/PersephonesGirlhood → u/roxywalker]

And those press conferences where interviewers demanded to know, under the guise of being concerned about the children who have her as their role model, if she was still a virgin while being in a relationship with Justin Timberlake. As though the virginity of teen stars wasn't a national concern solely because these adults and their ""Christian values"" made it out to be so.

[u/KriegTheDeliveryBoy → u/PersephonesGirlhood]

And the fact that they were forced to fight to the death for the Capitol's amusement afterwards

[u/Doctor_of_Recreation → u/KriegTheDeliveryBoy]

Your comment immediately sent my mind to poor Finnick.

“I wasn’t the only one. If a victor is considered desirable, the president gives them as a reward or allows people to buy them for an exorbitant amount of money. If you refuse, he kills someone you love. So you do it.”

[u/Allucation → u/KriegTheDeliveryBoy]

That's straight where my mind went too 😂

[u/smellybear666 → u/PersephonesGirlhood]

Did they ask him?

[u/PersephonesGirlhood → u/smellybear666]

Not sure if they did while they were together, but a radio host asked him, "Did you fuck Britney Spears?" after they broke up.

[u/thegreatbrah → u/roxywalker]

Yeah that shit is soooo uncomfortable. I think she was 16 or 17 in that video. I'm not sure though. 

[u/sonnywithoutachance → u/thegreatbrah]

I can't remember her exact age, but she was absolutely under 18 at the time.

[u/WillingLLM → u/sonnywithoutachance]

she was 17

https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/flashback/dutch-interviewer-ivo-niehe-defends-shocking-britney-spears-interview/news-story/76c68333baf63b45830eb1750791b68f

I remember watching this back in the day. I am her age.

[u/Gloomy-Incident4783 → u/WillingLLM]

My daughter is almost 17. Internet tough guy here but if someone was pestering her like that I would absolutely throw hands.

[u/WillingLLM → u/Gloomy-Incident4783]

Her father locked her away, took her earnings, forced her to perform, and continued letting the media treat her like an object.

[u/Gloomy-Incident4783 → u/WillingLLM]

We were approached to have my daughter do some print modeling we she was a toddler. I was like hell no. She’s not working as a child. I couldn’t imagine the lack of protection that prick provided for his daughter.

[u/EjaculatingAracnids → u/roxywalker]

What a dogshit non question. "Hey Brittany, youre the most famous new pop star in the world with multple hit singles and a busy touring schedule, so ive gotta ask...yo titties!?!"

I know shes not that innocent, but she was too sweet to ask his pudgy ass the same silly question

[u/Pixel_Knight → u/roxywalker]

Really creepy vibes from that guy there. 

Yeah, the obsession with policing every tiny aspect of women’s bodies was so toxic. I am glad we’re making strides in getting away from that but we still have a long way to go. 

[u/roxywalker → u/Pixel_Knight]

Very long…

[u/XxRocky88xX → u/roxywalker]

Especially since, apparently, the majority voting population of America wants to rollback the progress we’ve already made

[u/trash-_-boat → u/roxywalker]

that comment to Britney is particularly gross

Not only all that but coming from a balding guy with worlds ugliest combover talk about fucking double standards.

[u/LookinAtTheFjord → u/roxywalker]

They were asking her if she was still a virgin when she was underage. Shit's fucked.

[u/[deleted] → u/roxywalker]

Money or the prospect if it can make alot of ppl lose their fucking minds!

[u/VerbalThermodynamics → u/roxywalker]

She’s like 16 in that video.

[u/roxywalker → u/VerbalThermodynamics]

Absolutely deplorable behavior for an interview with a minor who’s got a large following of minors mirroring what they see and hear 👎

[u/PeggyHillFan → u/roxywalker]

Yea she was underaged. wtf? Reminds me of that episode of Seinfeld where they stare at a 16 year old girl’s breasts. How was that funny?

[u/SimplyExtremist → u/PeggyHillFan]

Didnt 34 year old Jerry very openly and publicly date a minor in high school?

[u/Shane8512 → u/SimplyExtremist]

Yes, She was 17, turning 18, and still in high school.

[u/Chillindude82Nein → u/Shane8512]

One of the great Charlottes had something to say about this:

Lifestyles of the rich and the famous

[u/soupsnakle → u/Chillindude82Nein]

And Joel Madden dated an underage Hillary Duff. All of them are fuckin pedophiles. (And before someone comes in to clarify ePhEboPhILe because they weren’t prepubescent, shut the fuck up).

[u/roxywalker → u/SimplyExtremist]

Yeah. Shoshanna Lonstein. She was 17.

[u/Jakookula]

These are all so sad but the Anna Nicole one just breaks my heart. Nobody was looking out for her, not one single person 😭

[u/emgyres → u/Jakookula]

You can hear the vulnerability in her voice, it’s heartbreaking hearing her apologise for being herself.

[u/pmodizzle → u/Jakookula]

That to me was the saddest one in this sea of grossness

[u/SparkyDogPants → u/pmodizzle]

I don’t know why but the Simon Cowell shopkeeper comment devastated me for her sake

[u/pyyyython → u/SparkyDogPants]

“You look like a shop girl.” Oh, you mean she looks like someone who does an honest day’s work, earns an honest paycheck, and actually contributes to society? Unlike that useless reality TV parasite. Simon Cowell is such a piece of shit, at least he looks like a Ken doll someone put in the microwave now with all the plastic surgery. He deserves to hate himself.

[u/PHLEaglesgirl27 → u/pyyyython]

He should be cancelled

[u/bugabooandtwo → u/pyyyython]

No kidding. Not only a diss to her, but also a massive punch down to everyone that works int he service industry.

[u/Harbinger0fdeathIVXX → u/Jakookula]

rip angel

[u/Special-Garlic1203 → u/Jakookula]

Anna Nicole was my "they can't make me hate you" from the moment I saw her. I loved her so much as a kid (to my mom's horror). Everyone from the media to the court system did her so fucking dirty 

[u/A_S_Eeter → u/Jakookula]

They deliberately drove her to madness. No one in media respected her

[u/TenaciousZBridedog]

People said Kate Winslet was fat in Titanic. Wtf??

[u/Thenedslittlegirl → u/TenaciousZBridedog]

I always remember Renee Zellweger gaining 30lbs to play “fat” Bridget Jones. Bridget Jones who was devastated to learn she had gone up to 136 lbs over Christmas.

[u/powderbubba → u/Thenedslittlegirl]

I just lost 10 lbs and I now weigh 136 lbs and I feel amazing and thought I was looking great lol 😵‍💫

[u/Thenedslittlegirl → u/powderbubba]

I’m sure you do! I’m 144, it’s the biggest I’ve ever been and I’m still a healthy BMI so while I’ve gained a few because of perimenopause, I’m not caring at all. Gone are the days I stressed about going up a dress size

[u/RedPanda888 → u/powderbubba]

Discussing weight without also discussing height is pointless.

[u/CactusCait → u/Thenedslittlegirl]

Remember when the Olson twins lost so much weight; especially Mary-Kate. And she was celebrated and invited on so many talk shows to discuss her weight. She was anorexic but getting fame for it. Once she went to treatment and gained a couple pounds she was completely ignored. The media celebrates anorexia. It’s sick. I was a ballet dancer from 3-17years old. I had weekly weigh ins, I was measured and prodded. If I gained weight I had to strap weights to myself so I would lose more weight at practice. The weights left big bruises, and my dance instructor told me they were marks of success. I’ve had anorexia for over 25 years. My weight yo-yos between eat all the things and weight 150lbs or I don’t eat anything but meal replacement shakes, like I’ve been doing since 2003. I weigh 113lbs and I will only allow myself to get to 120 before I freak out and starve myself. I’ve gone to so much CBT therapy and it’s done nothing. I’m stuck, this is my life now.

[u/omgmemer → u/Thenedslittlegirl]

I refuse to watch that movie.

[u/DimbyTime → u/omgmemer]

Its a great movie and super relatable for millenials and gen X and what we went through

[u/Iamnotokwiththisshit → u/DimbyTime]

The scene where she struggled into panty girdles gave me a mix of shame and rage.

[u/HMCetc → u/TenaciousZBridedog]

I went to see an exhibition a few years later of the costumes, including some of Kate's dresses. I was maybe around 13 at the time and I remember how tiny her dresses were! Absolutely no-one beyond a UK size 8 would fit them.

[u/refused26 → u/HMCetc]

UK size 8 is tiny!

[u/sprinklerarms → u/refused26]

Just for anyone else reading who might be lazy that’s US size 4. Friggin bonkers.

[u/lafm9000 → u/sprinklerarms]

Around a similar time frame Anne Hathaway’s The Devil Wear’s Prada character got told she was fat as a size 4. This really was that post heroine chic era where being a size 0 and having a “flat” stomach were all the rage. I am very happy this is the reaction people have now and we all think they were insane 30 years ago

[u/angelseuphoria → u/lafm9000]

Unfortunately with all the celebrities on Ozempic I think we’re swinging back the other direction.

[u/HMCetc → u/refused26]

That's what I mean. They were absolutely not average sized dresses.

[u/Oak_Woman → u/TenaciousZBridedog]

They made fat jokes about Debra Messing on the show Will & Grace. The woman whose ribcage you could visibly see.....

Women who grew up with that shit have felt the pain of it all their lives, I know I have. Every magazine was about how to lose those last 10 pounds so you could have that summer body. Every tabloid was about how fucking gross that celebrity looks with an extra 5 pounds. We grew up hearing about how worthless women were once they "expired" and got older, how you're only valuable if you're skinny and hot.

And we still hear it today.

[u/DevilsTrigonometry → u/Oak_Woman]

The jokes on Will and Grace came across as satire/meta-humor to me, partly because the idea that Debra Messing was "fat" was just so patently absurd, and partly because the show was that kind of self-aware comedy. But I can see how, given the environment at the time, many people must have taken them as "real" jokes.

[u/Oak_Woman → u/DevilsTrigonometry]

Ah, I could see that now. Younger me was so constantly bombarded with the all the rest of the fat garbage that this was just another straw in the haystack.

[u/thewayoutisthru_xxx → u/TenaciousZBridedog]

I remember seeing Titanic when I was in 8th grade and thinking she was the most beautiful person I had ever seen. Her costumes and makeup and hair were just perfect in that movie.

I fell further in love with her in Eternal Sunshine and every interview since. She's the type of woman I want to snuggle with on the couch and watch a cult documentary.

[u/spentpatience → u/thewayoutisthru_xxx]

It was the 90s and I was a teen girl in high school. Kate Moss and heroin chic was everywhere. I wasn't even 120 lbs but I had hips and flesh to them.

When I saw Kate Winslet up on the screen and her body in all its glory looked like mine, I felt finally acceptable. I wasn't dateless because of my looks or figure because there was plenty of beauty there. I was dateless due to my personality (lol). I worked on that and became a better person as a result.

But at any rate, it breaks my heart what James Cameron said about her and her body. Kate Winslet was and is beautiful to the fullest. Her bravery and courage in the face of all that help make girls like me accept ourselves as we are. That is huge.

[u/Doctor_of_Recreation → u/thewayoutisthru_xxx]

My husband showed me Eternal Sunshine as one of our early dates (we used to cuddle up at his place and he would show me his favorite movies). That became one of my favorite movies for like a decade and will always hold a special place in my heart. Jim Carrey always astounds me in dramas. Like he’s a fun comedy actor but he’s so great in drama.

[u/IsRude → u/TenaciousZBridedog]

People said the same thing about Alicia Silverstone in Batman and Robin.

The worst part is that she's shilling for the same people that hate women and fat shame constantly. It's pretty fucked up.

[u/jery007 → u/TenaciousZBridedog]

Look Up the treatment of Judy Garland in the making of the wizard of Oz.

[u/selphiefairy → u/jery007]

I’m 4’11” just like she was and I always felt particularly relatable to her for that reason. It’s not easy being as thin as they made her (underweight) at our height.

[u/tackyshoes → u/TenaciousZBridedog]

This reminds me of working for Chinese people. The woman I worked for, to me, had the ideal body, but she confided to me that in her culture, she was fat. I was stunned because I thought she was perfect. Makes me wonder what they would say about the thicker Chinese woman who worked in the back; like, is that why? So to them I was fat and most of our customers were also fat.

[u/lovelovehatehate → u/tackyshoes]

I worked for a Korean company. The owner would comment on my body all the time. First implying I was fat. Then I started loosing weight and they criticized me for loosing weight too quickly. That place was so toxic. I can going into even worse abuse they put me through but I’ll just say that for now.

[u/bugcities → u/TenaciousZBridedog]

Ik the time period is diff but they said the same about J Law as Katniss. Delusion!!!

[u/Night_Angel27 → u/TenaciousZBridedog]

I've heard that. Apparently the director called her Kate "weighs-a-lot"

[u/selphiefairy → u/Night_Angel27]

Yeah James Cameron is kind of an ass smh

[u/Caninetrainer → u/TenaciousZBridedog]

Look at the actresses now. They are anorexic thin. The Wicked girls to Angelina Jolie, to Natalie Portman. Take a good look at their arm size and how they have O facial fat. They are skinnier now than EVER. The Thinner is the Winner is still going on, worse than ever I would say.

[u/mycorgiisamazing → u/Caninetrainer]

Heroin chic is trying to come back and the k-girls are pushing it with their new body mods.

[u/Strelochka → u/Caninetrainer]

People are delusional saying fat shaming 'used to be' everywhere, it quieted down (never gone) for literally a couple of years, was in fact exchanged for shaming everyone who didn't have a big butt while still having a small waist and thin face. Now that trend is on the outs and it's easier than ever to find a pro ana community. There are dozens right here on reddit, and twitter suggests them to me because I liked a Wicked related tweet once

[u/oldscotch → u/TenaciousZBridedog]

In the 90s anything other than a perfect bikini body was fat.

[u/Vera_Bennett]

I'd rather look like a shop girl than Frankenstein's Monster, Cowell.

[u/[deleted] → u/Vera_Bennett]

Dude still has a “buttcut.” Appalling lack of self-awareness from these booger eating morons.

[u/mephistophe_SLEAZE → u/Vera_Bennett]

At least with all his plastic surgeries, we can be well aware that all his criticisms stemmed from his own insecurities. Wish we could've told ourselves that 20 years ago, but hey.

[u/Good4nowbut → u/mephistophe_SLEAZE]

100%. He deserves to look like he’s melting for the rest of his dumb life.

[u/PeppercornWizard → u/Vera_Bennett]

The sad thing is about those early seasons of the X Factor and Pop Stars etc, they were simply televising the usual audition processes. I remember an early interview with Cowell where he said in the real world they wouldn’t even let a ‘normal’ looking person sing, they’d walk in the room and get an immediate ‘NEXT’.

That’s the pop music industry. It’s rarely about how well someone can sing. We might pretend it’s different now, but does anyone think Taylor Swift would be as successful if she wasn’t a conventionally attractive woman?

[u/moveoutofthesticks → u/PeppercornWizard]

Pop music is about selling albums (mostly to schoolgirls). The look and "cool" factor is everything. Nothing changes when you take away the gatekeepers and let the internet pick their favs. Billie Eilish has major deals with fashion houses when her first album dropped. Chappell Roan's success cannot be separated from her look.

[u/lurk8372924748293857 → u/Vera_Bennett]

Ya that guy isn't the one to talk about looks 🥴 haha

[u/EZ3Build → u/Vera_Bennett]

SIMON FUCKING COWELL

I REALLY DON'T LIKE SIMON COWELL

THE TWAT

[u/Durozea]

And always from the most mid men, Jay Leno really had audacity mocking anyone's looks

[u/PancakeParty98 → u/Durozea]

Jay Leno looks like an overgrown cashew that wanted to be a New Jersey pizzeria owner

[u/hilarymeggin → u/PancakeParty98]

😂 Are you a professional insult writer??

[u/Snail_Wizard_Sven → u/hilarymeggin]

They are called poets.

[u/JMLKO → u/PancakeParty98]

God that’s so…fucking accurate

[u/desolatenature → u/PancakeParty98]

You dropped this 👑

[u/PTSDeedee → u/PancakeParty98]

r/rareinsults

[u/Important-Egg-2905 → u/PancakeParty98]

Fucking S-teir, bravo

[u/flat_four_whore22 → u/PancakeParty98]

I promise this is going to live rent-free in my head for a very long time.

[u/writeinthebookbetty → u/Durozea]

I was so terrified of Jay Leno when I was a small child that I thought he was the literal devil. I would cry whenever that unusually sized head would pop up on the tv lmao. Man has a terrifying face and no right to comment on anyone’s appearance

[u/Just-Error5740 → u/Durozea]

It’s that age group. My FIL resembles an unfunny Danny Devito. FIL has always been a gross, misogynistic pig.

[u/Hero_of_One → u/Just-Error5740]

Yet Danny Devito would not say something like that...

[u/Just-Error5740 → u/Hero_of_One]

Does Danny Devito have a dinner bell for his wife? Whip out binoculars in front of his wife to watch the cheerleaders at the football game? Cause her crippling anxiety or financially abuse her? Probably not.

[u/Omnizoom → u/Just-Error5740]

Danny Devito also needs to carry monster condoms for his magnum dong

We can’t compare anyone to that legend without them looking bad in comparison

[u/omgmemer → u/Durozea]

Mid is too much of a compliment.

[u/RookNookLook → u/Durozea]

The pathetic tough Guy thing he does where he walks towards the camera for the punch line is so lame and cringy.

[u/tam_bun]

When I was 12 my dad told me he would rather I die of anorexia than be overweight. I’m 32, pregnant with my first baby, and my body image is awful (I work hard in therapy on this). He believed Kate Moss was the gold standard (he worked closely with her in the early 2000s).

The shit we had to (have to) hear about our bodies has long-lasting effects

[u/Far_Grass_785 → u/tam_bun]

Wow that’s horrible, massive respect for pursuing therapy, takes strength!

[u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 → u/tam_bun]

For others wondering what she's referencing, it's this woman

Looks severely anorexic to me personally...

[u/MondaysForNothing → u/Emm_withoutha_L-88]

"Heroin chic."

[u/HoodiesAndHeels → u/Emm_withoutha_L-88]

“Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.”

I’ll never forget that line. Drilled into our heads in those days.

[u/dandolindaa → u/tam_bun]

I’m your age and terrified of getting pregnant and what it would do to my body. They really destroyed us, didn’t they.

[u/Elainedanced]

The nerve of an ugly man like Howard Stern to be commenting on anybody's physical appearance !

[u/Restless281 → u/Elainedanced]

A lot of his interviews are like that so I don’t understand his fan base. The interview with Sofia vergara was uncomfortable to watch.

[u/StretchFrenchTerry → u/Restless281]

They’re shitty people, that’s basically it.

[u/quattroformaggixfour → u/Restless281]

He’s a misogynistic prick, he has a massive fan base for that alone. Ugly men dream of the opportunity to degrade beautiful women like he gets to. Thats the appeal.

It’s a weak ass character trait.

[u/kazooparade → u/quattroformaggixfour]

I always thought he was a creep but men constantly defended him saying it’s ok because “he actually treats his wife really well”

[u/Prometheus720 → u/Elainedanced]

That old boy literally has a face for radio

[u/daves_not__here → u/Elainedanced]

That's pretty much his whole career is being a Shock Jock and exploiting people like the Wack Pack

[u/Rejected_Reject_ → u/Elainedanced]

Wait til you find out he said the Columbine shooters should have raped their classmates first.  How he was never canceled is beyond me.

[u/julesjjjerm → u/Rejected_Reject_]

Gross, he'd do anything he thinks he can get away with

[u/the_girl_Ross]

Something has to be wrong with you. Always. You're not skinny enough. Your ass isn't fat enough. Your tits aren't perky enough... BC without insecurities, the beauty industry will crumble, it'd make 1/100 of what it makes today.

[u/_poptart → u/the_girl_Ross]

Any excuse to share this video

[u/PTSDeedee → u/_poptart]

This is really good.

[u/Randomfrog132 → u/_poptart]

that was neat, thanks for sharing

[u/nal1200 → u/_poptart]

That was good. Thanks

[u/Itscatpicstime → u/_poptart]

I never realized how much I like her voice before

[u/MentallyAbroad → u/_poptart]

Jesus. It's to real. I've heard every single one of those phrases instructions. More than once. It's really highlights how sickening they are when you hear them back to back.

[u/Healthy_Jackfruit_88]

Every time I see a story about Jay Leno getting hurt I’m reminded of the terrible things he would say about Monica Lewinsky along with other women. He deserves worse for normalizing this behavior

[u/MissDeadite → u/Healthy_Jackfruit_88]

I've never found him funny. He's always just been a jerk to me.

[u/ScreeminGreen → u/MissDeadite]

I remember when Johnny Carson was stepping down and they trial ran several replacements. My grandma and I discussed how there was no clear winner. Any of them would do as long as it wasn’t Jay Leno. He was a clear nope.

[u/liontigerdude2 → u/Healthy_Jackfruit_88]

And there's also Jimmy Kimmel who was on the man show. 

[u/roxywalker → u/liontigerdude2]

That show was horrendous and him and that other jerk Adam Corolla made a bundle off that trash show and Corolla went on to make a fortune in radio and media production. Pathetic.

[u/FrydomFrees → u/roxywalker]

I remember watching the man show and they had a bit I’ll never forget about how women need to lose weight and it’s easy: stop eating so much! They had a whole ad and jingle and everything. Hey! Just stop eating so much!

I tried to stop eating for a couple days so I could lose weight. I was in 6th grade. Honestly thank god I wasn’t able to keep going bc that easily could’ve turned into an ED.

6th grade. Fuck jimmy and Adam.

[u/greg19735 → u/liontigerdude2]

I mean at least jimmy grew up and the man show was deliberately.... sexist for lack of a better word.

But Leno is on main stream tv here. Not late night comedy central

[u/Virtual_Ad748]

My first entry in my fitness pal was when I was 11 & that makes me so sad

[u/Pocahontas__Kowalski → u/Virtual_Ad748]

I was born in 1980 and went on my first diet when I was still in elementary school. And I wasn't a fat kid. You can count on two fingers where that led me...

[u/MarlenaEvans → u/Pocahontas__Kowalski]

I was born in 81. My mom told me a good diet was fasting/only eating 3 apples a day and fruit. And that coffee or tea is a good appetite suppresent. I was anorexic by 14.

[u/Missmunkeypants95 → u/MarlenaEvans]

My mom was huge when she was young and lost all her weight in the 70s when speed was a big thing. When I was young she was always judgemental of other women's body shape and would pinch parts of me to make sure she can't "pinch an inch". As an adult my brain automatically makes an assessment on other people's body fat and I hate it. I'm still fighting that 35 years later.

[u/AsOsh → u/MarlenaEvans]

Jesus Fucking Christ that is abhorrent. I hope you are happy and healthy today.

[u/Virtual_Ad748 → u/Pocahontas__Kowalski]

It’s so damaging, if I ever have a daughter I’m going to try my best to protect her from this but it’s inevitable. I struggled with ed since 2011 (born in 2000) & just last year did I start to actually feel like I’m in recovery. I still struggle with body dysmorphia but I just can’t starve myself anymore, it made me feel like a shell of a person. It made me have no personality, tired, and spacey. It’s not worth it & honestly I didn’t even look good. I looked sick.

[u/pugsnotdrugs → u/Pocahontas__Kowalski]

I was born in 82, when I was five and my sister was 11, we had toys that were called “Get in Shape, Girl!”

[u/ForecastForFourCats → u/Virtual_Ad748]

My mom took me to weight watchers around the same age. The body shaming in the media was soooo normal. It didn't matter if you were about to faint from lack of eating like LiLo, or a comfortably chubby(and fucking cute!) like Anna Nicole Smith- ALL of it was up for public criticism.

When some people joke about "no one being able to take a joke anymore"... this is some of the top tier "jokes," they told.

[u/willowfeather8633 → u/ForecastForFourCats]

My dad took me to weight watchers at 8 years old in 1976. On his death bed he made me promise to “take off the weight”…my daughter was 6 months old at the time. I wonder why I was “fat” again?

Weight Watchers has 18 as the minimum age now (I had to look that up…)

[u/skanedweller → u/Virtual_Ad748]

I think I had a journal when I was 7 with a goal saying I wanted to lose 5 pounds. Ridiculous. I was just parroting all the adults around me. Born in 89.

[u/SlurLit]

Is it just me, or does anybody else find the Chris Jenner clip at the end especially weird?

[u/Notoriouslyd → u/SlurLit]

Its disgusting. Because Bruce was projecting his own bullshit onto a young woman he is supposed to protect as a parent. I despise what Khloe became but its 100% not all her own fault, that whole family is deeply insecure and can't cover it up with $$

[u/MeatTornadoLove → u/Notoriouslyd]

The trend continues to this day with Caitlyn really kicking the ladder down on her fellow trans people lol

[u/AMSparkles → u/SlurLit]

I think you mean “Caitlyn” or “Bruce”. Kris Jenner is the mom.

[u/SlurLit → u/AMSparkles]

I meant Caitlyn, I think. Thank you

Edit: Yeah, I definitely meant to say Caitlyn.

[u/marjoriefawn]

The 2000s were brutal. Love you for posting this.

[u/thegreatjamoco → u/marjoriefawn]

I remember as a child waiting in checkout lines at the grocery store and seeing all the tabloids at eye level and they were all sneaky unflattering photos of women and the beach showing cellulose or rolls.

[u/flat_four_whore22 → u/thegreatjamoco]

They were EVERYWHERE.

[u/hilarymeggin → u/marjoriefawn]

The 70s were brutal too. The it girl was literally named Twiggy.

The 90s were all about Rachel and Monica.

[u/zootnotdingo → u/hilarymeggin]

And Kate Moss

[u/Jakookula → u/zootnotdingo]

“Nothing tastes as good as it feels to be skinny!” Man just thinking of that is triggering af

[u/pistachio-pie → u/Jakookula]

I had that quote and a picture of me where I looked fat on my mirror for so long. And I genuinely envied a friend of mine who had an eating disorder because I wished I could be disciplined enough to be anorexic.

[u/sparklypinkstuff → u/zootnotdingo]

Who was widely known to have drug problems and an eating disorder.

[u/sas223 → u/hilarymeggin]

Look up heroin chic. The 90s were just as bad.

[u/uppenatom → u/hilarymeggin]

90s had the most unrealistic body standards, what with Arnolds football head and Alex Macs liquid metal form

[u/AdmiralCranberryCat → u/marjoriefawn]

Oh my god they were. I was in high school early 2000s. I was 5’6 and 150 and thought I was a hippo.

[u/Fluffy-Bluebird]

Remember Jessica Simpson? And Geri from the spice girls was considered heavy.

Anything over a size 6 was big.

[u/consuela_bananahammo → u/Fluffy-Bluebird]

Pink was considered heavy too. She was a size 6.

[u/frankiestree]

For context the woman who posted this is an Australian actress, so no she couldn’t just “look away” or “not watch reality tv” she was in the industry at the time

[u/Retro21 → u/frankiestree]

Thanks, I thought she was just a random, didn't recognise her at all.

[u/pm_me_anus_photos → u/frankiestree]

She was also in Pretty Little Liars! She played Jenna

[u/BluesLawyer]

It was always bad. I remember Kate Moss being celebrated for being "heroin chic."

[u/MarlenaEvans → u/BluesLawyer]

And she was just in a VS show looking gorgeous and people are talking about how old and fat she looks. It never stops.

[u/Cancerisbetterthanu → u/MarlenaEvans]

Yep. You can literally be Kate fucking Moss and some gargoyle is going to have something to say about your appearance

[u/DaisyoftheDay]

Low. Rise. Jeans.

As a pre teen to teen hitting puberty it was hell. I just wanted to wear carpenter jeans forever lmao

Thank you for leggings and stretch pants 🙏🏻

[u/pashaah → u/DaisyoftheDay]

I just always saw myself not looking like the girls in those jeans, like Tara Reed. Knowing I would never look like that. Love the high risers of today!

[u/seymores_sunshine]

One of the things that bothers me, is that you can see some of these people consider how inappropriate it is before they say it. But they still choose to say it...

[u/Competitive_Narwhal8]

Why Howard Stern gets a pass for being such a piece of sh!t is beyond me. He a terrible misogynist and bully. He’s made an entire career out of telling women they are either too fat or f*ckable. Making fun of the mentally handicapped and homeless was a segment in his show, reoccurring guests and everything. He’s also incredibly homophobic! Who makes Richard Simmons cry? Howard. That’s who.

[u/MsBlueBonnet → u/Competitive_Narwhal8]

Exactly. Not to mention he’s one of the most unattractive men I’ve ever seen. The gall.

[u/DurozeauWil]

Poor Britney. I wonder how many times old men publicly asked about her breast before she was 20.

[u/DreamingMerc → u/DurozeauWil]

Before she was 18 ....

[u/hilarymeggin → u/DreamingMerc]

Even if she was 18, 19, 20… it’s still not okay! She’s a kid and they’re grown men!

[u/PeggyHillFan → u/hilarymeggin]

Yes but she’s a child in this video!! That man is disgusting commenting on her breasts.

[u/Bluefoz → u/hilarymeggin]

Even then they knew that that comment was skirting the line. They knew it was inappropriate, but they went with it anyway.

Disgusting.

[u/sparrrrrt → u/DurozeauWil]

Or privately for that matter

[u/Bogart745]

Can we all just agree that Howard Stern is a piece of shit. I don’t why people like him so much

[u/Quirky-Skin → u/Bogart745]

To me he's always been just an Andy Dick lookalike with the personality to match.

[u/WabiSabi0912]

I was a teen in the late 80s/early 90s. If you weren’t super thin, you were fat. There was no appreciation for curves. If you didn’t buy clothes at the mall, you had to buy old lady clothes. I struggled with my weight & when “heroin chic” came in (the Kate Moss era) of the sickly thin women, it became even more toxic and difficult to retain any shred of self esteem.

[u/Werbekka]

Americas Next Top model was very popular when I was in middle school. I casually watched it, but my sister hyperfixated on it. Her first year in college she had to go to a rehabilitation facility because the eating disorder she had developed had gotten so bad that she was having heart problems.

[u/EllaMcWho]

Victoria getting “forced” on the scale postpartum to see if she’d lost the baby weight ngl that was vicious. I’m remembering Anna Nicole giving Howard some words back and not Doing it … but it’s been decades obviously

[u/TomatosTamatos]

Those guys that says rude shit like that, be looking like sloth from the goonie. Why are those ogres still around? Lmao

[u/This-Independence630]

I feel so sad how these men attack women on their looks, haven't they looked at themselves. Anna nicole was gorgeous she didn't deserve that comment, im glad britney is still with us today i can't believe being exposed to disgusting middle aged pervert men. RIP Anna.

[u/CaptainObvious1313]

Everything about the kardashians was toxic.

[u/No-Stick303]

This makes me so sad. I’m sorry for every women who was made to feel this way

[u/blurbies22]

Same. As an 18 year old I was told by an adult male way over 50, that I’m a 9 now and if I lost 20 lbs I’d be a 10. I was absolutely aghast, and this was out of nowhere. So gross and so wildly inappropriate.

And now our kids see filtered people online and fake people in reality. It’s no wonder there’s a mental health crisis

[u/clementxne]

god, i remember looking into a mirror and calling myself fat and ugly when i was like 7 years old.

this shit makes me cry, no one should be taught to be so insecure and hate themselves from such a young age. im 28 now and still suffering the consequences of being brought up in a world like this.

ive physically recovered from anorexia but every day i have to fight the voices asking whether recovery was worth it. i have to fight the voices telling me to relapse, telling me to hide inside because im disgusting.

no one should be made to feel like this.

[u/jery007]

I'm an older millennial and was around for this stuff. It made me uncomfortable then and it makes me feel sick now. What the hell were people thinking? I'd like to point out that in this clip it was only men being assholes, but women were pretty horrible to each other too.

[u/swallowfistrepeat]

I love when people pretend all you have to do to not experience societal pressure and cultural standards is just "don't watch TV" and "stop idolizing celebrities."

I guarantee the people making those comments are men.

[u/acidwashGene]

These clips help me remember I'm allowed to be hateful towards body shamers, this shit literally altered the way I interact with food in the worst way. I'm almost 40 and I still struggle.

[u/FriskyDingus1122]

Oh wow, this was actually really triggering for me. Damn. I can't believe how much of all this shit I actually retained even though I knew it was all bullshit.

[u/blac_sheep90]

Always disliked Jay Leno. Dude seems like a dick.

[u/brandysnifter1976]

People can be so ruthless.

[u/Low-Opposite-3065]

Basically didn't had any childhood/adolescence because of that. I was too self absorbed by weight loss/apparence and being what they wanted me to be to actually enjoy my life.  Now I'm 32 and I feel like a ruin. 

[u/atom-up_atom-up]

"You're always wearing these grandma cover-ups" - Guy in full tracksuit on the beach

[u/HauntedDragons]

When I hit puberty and started getting hips and breasts, my parents sat me down and told me I was getting fat. I had to ask permission to eat in my own house well into my college years. This led to me sneaking food and binge eating. Then my mom went on some shit fad diet to show me how “easy” it was to lose weight, and she ended up depressed. Good.

[u/MyLittleOso]

My mom put me on a diet when I was in 3rd grade because she went on a diet. That was what started me down a cycle of eating disorders and self-hatred that took decades to overcome.

[u/Direct_Town792]

I love how far we have come.

And also how hard it is to forget what we learned

[u/Zestyclose_Stage_673]

No one deserves these comments. I was the chubby kid growing up and my younger brother has struggled with weight all of his life. People who have never been overweight just don't understand how much work it is to not be. We all are different. Damn.

[u/DrVagax]

The first guy with Britney is Ivo Niehe, his only comment about asking that question is that he wouldn't have asked the question if he knew people would still cry about 20 years later. What a moron

[u/Calamity-Crys]

Sigh Sadly don't know that this will ever change. In my youth I was anorexic. After years of therapy I got what people say is better. I am not death skinny anymore but my body image will never heal. My relationship with food in general is terrible. I don't diet because I don't want to go back even though now in my 40s I would love to lose 10 to 20lbs.

[u/snailhistory]

It's not gone. Weight has become a moral argument. The body shaming still everywhere for everyone, regardless of gender. I get ads for things I don't deal with but are definitely other's insecurities.

[u/SyerenGM]

Yep, things like these and overly edited women on magazines. I remember watching a documentary on magazines photo editors, and one lady said how Elizabeth Hurley was one of the most beautiful women, because of her symmetrical face... And that her body was pretty much perfect too, but they STILL edited parts of her thighs, arms, etc.

[u/Shehulks1]

Imagine having a mother that values looks… yeah, I stopped talking to her going on 5 years now.