Because she preaches body positivity and a lot of that community actively
tit on others for wanting to lose weight because it’s “fatphobic”. The whole movement preaches about accepting your body- as long as you’re putting weight on! Which I just don’t understand. You get one body and one life, why on earth you’d spend it getting fatter and fatter I don’t know. It’s like crabs in a bucket. The second anyone decides the best thing for themselves is to not be fat they’re treated like they’re “brainwashed by diet culture” instead of just. Wanting to feel better about themselves
i think the whole body confidence bandwagon has been jumped on by so many people that it's purpose has become distorted. like, promoting the idea of loving yourself/feeling confident in your body regardless of shape/size etc is one thing, but influenzas using it to justify their unhealthy decisions to mainline sugar, pointedly refuse to exercise and mocking those who do take care of their bodies and their health does not reflect the body confidence movement. like you say, people like babs have exploited the concept to promote the idea of neglecting your health and giving zero fucks about the consequences of your poor decisions - even when doing os place syour health at risk.
using data like the bmi scale to justify a person's health is bullshit and based on hugely outdated and unbalanced information, and a person's healthy eweight differs based in the individual - as a result, body size isn't something that people should compare with others, and body positivity is important in terms of accepting your body at ITS healthy weight, not in terms of discarding your health entirely, existing on sugar, never eating vegetables or drinking water, never exercising and then claiming it's totally fine to do so because #bodyconfidence and using your platform to encourage tigers to do the same. it's actually very damaging to promote such an idea. diet culture absolutely IS toxic, but so is the total opposite of labelling others as fat phobic because they acknowledge that they want to lose weight to improve their health and quality of life. weight loss in itself isn't inherently bad, especially when it doesn't actually involve restriction - babs would lose weight simply by reducing her sugar intake, increasing her intake of fruit, vegetables and water, and going for the occasional walk - it's not like she'd have to commit to a diet!that wod literally be her body regulating itself and settling at the weight it is most comfortable at - which may well be classed as "overweight" in terms of bmi, which is fine if your health is not at risk. the fact babs can barely drag herself up the stairs without extreme breathless is a clear indication that for babs, that is not the case and interpreting the body confident movement as "i can eat whatever I want whenever I want, regardless of the impact it has on my physical and mental health" is damaging. itwnot a healthy approach to decide you wanna lose weight because you want to fit in size 8 jeans, but it's also not a healthy approach to label anyone who decides to lose weight as fatphobic and refuse to lose weight yourself because you're making a point of "i found a man, even with my gunt". as always, it's about balance, and babs and a whole bunch of influenzas have managed to take it to an unhealthy extreme.