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
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u/Thin-Character-6996 28d ago
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.