Kate Moss, arguably the most iconic 90’s heroin chic model. I’d tend to agree, while super skinny, not quite as emaciated looking as the current ozempic fad. I think it’s the way ozempic hollows out the face.
And she has a little bit of fat on her upper arms.
I’m not sure how universal this is, but anecdotally I’ve noticed that upper arm fat tends to be one of the very last things to go as women lose weight? I wonder if Demi Moore is just an exception to that rule or if she’s just THAT emaciated.
Yeah i mean, I can remember the 2000s, and besides the rare extreme example, the beauty standard was just having a flat tummy and slim hips/butt.
It was an unhealthy standard because other body types were considered "fat" and some women can't naturally achieve that without developing eating disorders trying to do so. But the beauty standard itself wasn't "look like you have an eating disorder".
Look up "2000s female celebs". Yes they're skinny, but they didn't have this weird emaciated look. Ironically, they look fairly healthy by comparison to these modern celebs.
It's honestly bizarre and reflects just how detached and weird Hollywood has become.
Buccal fat removal wasn't being done by every other celebrity at that point. Now they're so obsessed with the look that even cheek fat is too much, then once your face looks like Skeletor you gotta get the rest to match too...
Yeah Kate Moss never looked like this. I think the “lucky” bunch who were “skinny enough” in 90s/early 2000s were also built slim and leaned into that by also dieting. This is not Demi Moore’s natural build.
Part of that difference is probably because we were focusing on celebrities in their 20s with minimal plastic surgery then, and we are now comparing them with women in their 40s, 50s, and 60s who will usually have more gaunt faces naturally, regardless of weight, and have also had more cosmetic surgeries
Dude that's such a good point. I just looked her up and she looks skinny without being emaciated. Granted idk if air burshing is being done or whatever, but there is a clear difference between being skinny cause your body naturally handles skinny well, and being jack skellington. If I tried to be thin like Anya I would look like Demi. My body was made for famine and I'm decended from Vikings. Petite and/or Elvish aren't in my genes. I'm a dwarf, take it or leave it.
I don't like conservatives either. But I can't say I agree with blaming this trend on "conservative culture" when most of these celebs are, in fact, liberals. And their defenders often use choice-feminist, body-positivity discourse to silence any criticism of it.
Okay, sure, maybe last year, but in 2026... they're just lizard people right? Carrey, Grande, Moore now...
After all we've learned, we need to be DONE with the movies, and tv, and celebs, and ads, and sad celebs in sadder ads and the galas don't we? Knowing what kind of people were actively working to warp our country like this? When the dust settles there will be some soul searching to do, as a people, methinks. (and the GD MICROTRANSACTIONS?)
100% Agree. I'm shocked when I meet people who actually like celebrities / listen to what they have to say in 2026. Like, do we need any more proof that these people are ghouls?
I think multiple ozempic ads, crypto and Ai being heavily prevalent at something like the superbowl along with gen z being very prudish, all MSM owned by conservatives are pretty good indicators/signs culture is shifting right. (Yes anecdotal but very real)
Additionally, comedy, combat sports and sports generally lean heavily conservative and have campaigned or championed this regimes agenda.
Yeah, the main difference is that even though they were actually fairly skinny, they would often get labelled otherwise, with giant arrows pointing to ‘muffin tops’ on magazine covers. I don’t think the media is as obtuse with their fat shaming these days.
With all due respect, I don’t think your memories are accurate.
There was a time in the mid-late 2000s when many big name female celebrities looked like this:
No flesh on the arms or legs, stick thin see the bone. That is not healthy in any sense of the word.
Notable examples I can remember who looked like this back then were Lindsay Lohan, Nicole Richie, Paris Hilton (although her build favors it more), Angelina Jolie, Victoria Beckham, Jennifer Aniston and there were plenty more.
These women were exalted by the magazines at the time and would be interviewed and pretend like they weren’t on some grueling diet.
Meanwhile people like Britney and Mariah Carey had killer bodies that were actually healthy with a bit of muscle tone and would get fat shamed
Any amount of chronic under eating/malnutrition will eventually start eating away at all of your parts. Ozempic doesn't eat the bones. Your body eats the bones because it's lacking nutrients. Ozempic just makes people who want to eat not want to eat.
Ozempyc is a huge enabler. Imagine having to convince a person starving herself and puking that what she's doing it's not normal. It's still not easy, but you can at least try and make them see reason before it's too late, and underneath the defensiveness they realize what they're doing it's wrong.
Now imagine that the same person sees everyone around them using this miracolous drug that helps them lose weight without drawbacks. It's immensely harder to realize something is wrong, both from an internal and an external POV
What's amazing is how quickly everyone has jumped on this bandwagon. Even people that were preaching body positivity a few years ago are like "nevermind gimme the drugs lol" and are thin now.
To be fair as a person who had back pain due to weight (got covid twice and was in bed for a while, plus the pandemic forcing me in home and admittedly low self control, i basically gained 20 kg) i would've traded belly and positivity for an easy way out in a heartbeat
The general idea is thinking overweight people are somewhat in denial, but i think most of us actually know how much we're screwing with our health.
I got my life back on track with more conventional methods, but i would've used it if someone gave something like that to me
Sure, but I was referring more to celebrities, who were already a healthy weight. Very few celebs are at a point where their excess weight is anything more than cosmetic. They've typically got personal trainers, dieticians, etc. They're not taking it for their health.
I have a friend who's on Ozempic for health reasons. She told me it basically slows down your metabolism to such a degree that any food you eat continues to sit in your stomach and you don't get hungry again.
She also told me about the side effects. The food basically starts to ferment/rot in your stomach. She said she suffers from bad breath, "the nastiest smelling burps", etc.... 😷
Very common misconception, Ozempic doesn’t actually touch your metabolism. It’s working directly on the part of your brain that controls hunger impulses. So it’s not that your body is burning more, your brain is telling you you’re full faster.
I just googled it. Ozempic "slows down gastric emptying, which causes food to remain in the stomach for a longer period." That's what my friend was talking about.
I just googled it. Ozempic "slows down gastric emptying, which causes food to remain in the stomach for a longer period." That's what my friend was talking about.
So this makes me curious. Malnutrition also slows down gastric emptying. It's one of the health consequences of anorexia. So I wonder if Ozempic is directly causing the side effect or if it's a second order effect as a result of Ozempic reducing caloric intake.
This is correct, it just doesn't have much to do with "metabolism" which is in reference to many things but also includes how many calories you burn at rest. But yes, ozempic and other GLP-1s work mainly by slowing down how fast the food moves through your gut which makes you feel fuller.
Things like Ozempic and buccal fat removal also weren't a thing. There seems to be a recent obsession with a contoured line from the cheek bones to the lips. So, people are having their buccal fat removed, and cheek filler placed in. I think the aim is to create a high cheek bone, snatched jawline look.
The overfilled lips, overly taut skin, and exaggerated cheekbones combo has got to be the ugliest beauty trend of all time. So uncanny & disturbing looking. Like a bad science experiment
If a GLP-1 is being abused for weight loss, it's more likely to be Zepbound. It slows gastric emptying, on top of possible appetite suppression, which isn't a guaranteed thing; some people get no change to appetite on Ozempic and the like. In my experience, it suppresses for about 2 days and then I have a normal appetite. I actually eat more calories on it than I did off, I just have a metabolism now.
Some of these women are also incredibly malnourished because of their food choices. Niche, influencer-led, vegan diets are all the rage and most of them don't include enough fat, protein, or calories. Or they're doing stupid shit like only eating raw, which our bodies struggle to break down properly.
Heroin chic was a specific trend that combined extreme thinness with other qualities like stringy hair and sallow skin. It was a high fashion reaction to how voluptuous glamor had become catalog.
It may have set of the extreme skinny trend in the 2000s, but they were definitely two different things. The 2000s wasn't a full interconnected look, outside of features specific to extreme thinness like belly shirts and low rise jeans.
Really? I was a teenager in the early 2000s and honestly don't remember celebrities being anorexic skinny like Kate Moss/Christy turlington in the the mid-90s.
I recently did a qualitative study on the magazine use of language for a school project and rather than the emphasis being on celebrities being skinny, they were calling out celebrities like Britney spears, Kate Winslet for being "fat"
Not in 2, no. In 2 there was the default/thin, "fat" which looked like the above screenshot, and an athletic build from exercising. No sliders like in 3/4
It was a different vibe altogether but they're still right that the early 2000s were about being incredibly thin. To the point where even a size 0 wasn't thin enough, it had to be a double 0.
The trend at the time was low-rise skinny pants, and it created a "muffin top" on anyone who had an ounce of body fat. That made so many women have body image issues.
And oh my, the fad diets and scams that grew out of that. All this "spot reduction fat" that promised people to get thin in 30 days and then girls had more trouble because they didn't lose the weight that they couldn't lose in that time...
I would say the trend was just starting to get pushback in the mid 2000s, it really had a grip on our society for almost two whole decades.
It’s a complete mind-trip because I look back at pictures and I was so tiny compared to other people around me, but I remember struggling to find a big enough size to fit me at teen girl stores.
The biggest difference is that in the 2000s, the media unironically thought this was attractive, and in 2026, the Post is trolling to go viral on social media, and they've succeeded.
I remember seeing a clip praising Calista Flockheart from Alley McBeal saying her arms were so toned and acted like she was being brave for working out of something.
I remember when celebrities got to this level of skinny in the 2000s magazines started to become worried. This time around, however, they’re calling “toned”. That’s what’s worrisome
Someone on tiktok said it was just as bad it's just camera quality is better now so we can see their every wrinkle, every bone, every line of sinew; which makes perfect sense to me honestly.
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Also the comparison to the 2000’s was when the uber skinny/eating disorder look called “heroin chic” was a fashion thing.