half listening to theatest episode of her podcast - I cannot. explain how much it irritaties me when she latches on to any mention of 90s diet culture to spew her babnory tales of how she used to live off soup and do a 100 sit-up each morning, fully attempting to imply she had an eating disorder, when she has previously mentioned it was a short-lived phase after an ex boyfriend commented on her squishy tummy and had nothing whatsoever to do with the pressures of diet culture.
this time she takes it even further though claiming that 90s diet culture still impacts her TODAY, as if she were to eat a bigger lunch - her example was if she went out and ate a meal of fish and chips - she would then be overwhelmed with thoughts that she should only eat a sandwich for her evening meal. she also says that if she were offered a chocolate bar, she would always opt for a crunchie as she was told that crunchies are lower in calories with a vague reference to honeycomb - and I'm sorry but WHAT?! i have never seen babs eat a crunchier, unless it's a crunchie bite from her advent calendar - so hardly her chocolate bar of choice.
and utter bullshit about her feeling she can only eat a snack for tea if she had a bigger lunch - or her attempt to agree with her guest that if she eats toast for breakfast, she can't eat bread for lunch because CARBS, she eats fucking ICING for breakfast, consumes entire cakes by herself and downed a full-sized Easter egg before 11am! this is the woman who grabs at any possible opportunity to decide that calories don't count, whose main intake is sugar and who eats kids meals of pure carbs at Disney because he toddler bedtime means they have to eat at 5pm before the restaurants open, only to return to her hotel room. and feast on sweets and crisps from the literal SUITCASE of snacks she has lugged all the way to America with her. the toxicity of 90s diet culture and the lasting impact it has on many adults of today aPsolutely does not affact babs, and it really irritates me that she pretends it does, given the devastating consequences of eating disorders, many of which were triggered by diet culture and all the "nothing tastes better than skinny feels" crap, and the Special K diet etc.
as with her claims of "AnXiEtY", it is not something to lie about. Just fuck off babs.