do you know what genuinely
is triggering - and returning to your usual "light-hearted" twatting-around bullshit content - babs hinting that she suffered from an eating disorder with her references to how she briefly ate only soup for one of her meals over the course of a whole day, and body image issues - a short-lived phase of doing sit-ups because a ex-boyfriend supposedly commented on her stomach and she felt insecure - despite reassuring her followers that she was definitely slim at the time, as she weighed eight and a half stone - because obvs body confident role models not bothered by weight/clothes size and confident in their body remembers their exact weight at the age of nineteen/twenty.
not gonna do a babs and makes this all about ME, but it just fucking irritates me when anorexia has entirely destroyed my life, yet she's purposefully implying she struggled with an eating disorder to garner herself sympathy - it really fucking grates, i imagine similarly to how
with personal experience of anxietety, PTSD, asthma, PMD etc feel when she exploits those diagnoses for her own benefit.
and as for those awful weight loss countdown products from range. yes, they're fucking awful - but that's not the reason babs is "FUMING". there have been outraged posts about similar products in previous years, and bab has obvs seen those products in real life, felt "inspired" by popular posts she's redd previously and jumped at the possibility that writing an insincere post about the pressure on women to lose weight - copied entirely from posts she's read before, because these products aren't new - may increase the likelihood of her viral dream. note how she isn't incensed by the impact diet culture has on society in general, and the impact that has in exacerbating the increase of eating disorders, but instead focuses on the unfairness of how women are encouraged to lose weight but not men. newsflash babs; men also struggle with body image issues, eating disorders and feel pressured into altering their bodies. as with her previous posts about the use of filters, where she focused entirely on the impact they would have on erin as she grows up, her son being entirely immune to experiencing body image issues, simply because he's male.
babs, just fuck off using your platform to pretend you care about the damaging impact of diet culture on society, when realistically you only care about posting content which will earn you attention, regardless on your actual thoughts or opinions on the topic. i absolutely do not agree with the existence of the products she's showing, but equally, it seems hypocritical for a woman with a "calories don't count" on prominent display in her kitchen to be whinging about products inspired by diet culture.
and as for the "pity me" bullshit about her feeling weepy at the idea that children will grow up potentially seeing their mother setting herself weight loss targets and trying to change her body, giving them the message that they aren't good enough unless they're skinny etc - again, overlooking the fact they may witness this behaviour from their father/siblings - perhaps she should instead focus on the totally preventable risks she is placing her
own kids by exposing them to her
own body image issues, her disordered relationship with food and her refusal to address her poor health.
growing up watching your mother weigh herself and monitor her weight isn't the only behaviour that can have a damaging impact on their kids. she's teaching her own kids that they should define their self-worth by their clothes size, that it's imperative you pose specifically in photos to ensure you look as thin as possible and that being "confident" about how you look is about concealing the parts of your body that you feel insecure about, childishly mocking people who exercise or take care of their health, and modelling an unhealthy relationship with binge eating sugar and shunning fruit and vegetables. the risk of her own poor kids seeing her use filters to alter her appearance and place such imprortance on concealing her gunt with a belt and using them as shields to hide herself behind in photos because she is self-conscious of her size, and her decision to only share photos of herself where she has posed/edited the image to appear far thinner that the woman they see in reality - while simultaneously making constant references to "calories don't count" and only wearing clothes with an 18 printed on the label because only the "lower end" of plus size is acceptable - such mixed messages about weight/appearance/food/exercise/health for her kids to grow up with.
and while it may well just be erin's natural body shape and weight, i would certainly be concerned of my daughter was as painfully thin as she is, and focusing my time on ensuring she is doing okay both in terms of her physical and mental health, rather than tatting about on SM desperate for fucking attention. but hey, her young daughter developing a devastating mental illness would provide babs with endless "woe is me" content, so she's likely rubbing her hands with fucking glee at either of her kids developing an eating disorder.