I wouldn't believe everything she posts (I posted the below a couple months ago - filters/editing/super slimming mirror?)
She definitely poses to make herself look slimmer
here are a few comparisons between her most recent photo and photos from around this time last year. they aren't brilliant in terms of seeing the true extent of her recent weight loss, as obviously she poses purposefully to slim her body and uses angles and lighting to her advantage etc, so it's harder to compare, but the loss is very clear - especially in the contrast between the two photos of her wearing the same leopard print bikini top, and even in that last photo where the editing is obvious in terms of smoothed skin etc.
it's not about her being an influencer though. it's the way that she labels her account as promoting "body confidence" and then conceals her body in huge, baggy, oversized clothing during a heatwave because she's feeling self-conscious, but predominantly because she has built her following on the concept of being anti diet culture and body acceptance etc, thus the majority of her followers have/are recovering from an eating disorder or a disordered relationship with food, or struggle with body image issues etc, sharing messages about how it's fine to gain weight, and how you shouldn't compare your body now with how it looked ten years ago - yet recently she's been using those messages as a way to share comparison photos between her body now and photos of herself when she was in the depths of her eating disorder and at a low weight - which is obviously going to be triggering for many of her followers! she is using her platform, which supposedly promotes "body confidence" to share pro ana content - both images of herself at a low weight, and images of emaciated celebrities lik Mary-Kate and Ashley back in the 90s when heroin-chic and emaciation was the body ideal - which she is fully aware places her vulnerable followers at risk, especially because the photos of low weight celebrities she shares are photos she specifies that she found triggering when she was younger!
I posted it because I do find it surprising that she has lost so much weight when she constantly promotes anti diet culture. It’s just at odds with everything she says she is about. You only lose weight one way and that’s by being in a calorie deficit. No idea of the reasons behind her weight loss, but I can’t help but notice every time I see her that she’s shrinking.I said my issue with her was her triggering content - I just personally can't see what comparing numerous photos of the same women is where in some of them she's lost a few pounds. I just don't see the link to that and the blatant triggering content.
She can wear whatever she wants, baggy or not. She's not hiding her body if she's posting bikini pics which you've used above
But diet culture and weight loss are different things. Diet culture is the idea that thinner = better and that your worth is tied to your weight. Weight loss can be influenced by so many things, yes ultimately it’s calorie deficit but that isn’t necessarily deliberate.
Yes I did say I don’t know the reasons behind her weight loss. Like others I have observed strange behaviour from her recently, beyond the weight loss. I used to have an eating disorder, so maybe I am more observant of the signs.
same, and i have definitely made a connection between the dramatic increase in the photos she's sharing of herself at a low weight etc and her constantly wearing huge, baggy clothes despite the heatwave with the sudden weight loss. the fact she is spending hours looking back at photos of herself when she was underweight and constantly sharing messages about how your weight doesn't define your worth and that it's okay to gain weight - yet accompanied with triggering low weight images of herself - screams that she is trying to convince herself more than anyone else that losing weight won't make her happy. perhaps i am more aware of the signs of relapse, but from her behaviour it is very obvious what's happening. it's sad, because eating disorders are an awful illness, but equally, when she has such a large platform, with such a vulnerable audience, she needs to be taking responsibility for her behaviour and the content she's posting. a relapse is absolutely no excuse to place others at risk.
I couldn’t put it better myselfInterested to know if anyone else follows her and what they think…
She was actually one of my favourite body image/anti diet accounts but lately she’s been grating on me a bit - constantly going on about how stressed and busy she is, hyping up ‘secret’ projects that she can’t talk about etc.
Not sure if it’s just me being a grumpy witch
Also it has absolutely not been a year - she posted it in February on grid, and the story where she says she's returning it is also still saved in her highlights '31 weeks ago'... so perhaps she saved it up for it a little, but not for a year, soo...
I noticed on her stories yesterday that she was wearing the Prada denim jacket that she begged for last week. Someone obviously took the bait
she "forgot" and shared photos of herself wearing it, despite not wanting to show it off because it was so "spenny" and she knows people are struggling financially and didn't wanna rub in how provilidged she is?
bull. because if that's the case, she managed to "forget" pretty damn quickly, since she was sharing photos of herself wearing the jacket within weeks of her stories saying she was looking for one! she ahs absolutely no shame. she has been sharing multiple photos - and reels! - of herself wearing that prada jacket for weeks, happily showing it off and rubbing it everyone's faces, just without ever actually mentioning it in words. she's now obviously decided that people have noticed her designer jacket, so decided to draw attention to it by suddenly being overwhelmed with the urge to justify the way she's been intentionally showing off in the hope her audience would notice and comment, but claiming she "forgot" she was going to keep it a secret. sure, Alex. She also definitely did not get it second hand!
I also think the clothes Alex wears don’t do her figure any favours. That dress on Hayley’s post is not flattering to her. I suppose at the same time if that’s what she is comfortable in go for it.
