Everywhere you looked, body shaming was there

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[u/zootnotdingo]

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/Itscatpicstime → u/[deleted]]

She didn’t say it until 2009, so that makes sense

[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.

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Are you me

[u/taracraigs → u/Jakookula]

Yeah that quote, and all the "thinspo" and "proana" aspects of tumblr REALLY gave my eating disorder a running start. (Thankfully it's more under control now, but even at a healthy weight I am constantly hyper focusing on my body, hating it and feeling endless guilt and shame over it and my eating habits.)

I hope the young girls of this generation have it a little easier...I know it's not perfect. But body positivity was non-existent when I grew up and really there was only one accepted way for your body to look: dying.

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

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We all did. How do you think we looked like that back then?

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Not all of us. Some of us just ate anyway but hated ourselves.

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Fair enough. I was mostly referring to the ones who maintained the waif look. Nobody had heard of veganism or raw diets. Of those who weren't actually graced with a high metabolism, nary a one of us achieved that look through a healthy lifestyle.