I agree they should content warning their podcasts as a lot of what they talk about can be veryyyy triggering. However I have to say, I find the honest food chat quite refreshing. Its taken me a long long time to have a good relationship with food but for me, that still involves calorie counting! I don’t care if some days I’m in a surplus, but I do always have an eye on it. I find everyone pretending they don’t care about what they eat and ‘oh yeah I just eat cake whenever I feel like it and it’s a total coincidence I’m incredibly thin’ just as damaging as people talking about restrictive eating. It’s kind of a taboo topic so it’s nice to have them addressing it now but, yes, it can be very unhealthy so I don’t know what would happen if their audience gets much bigger. I have to say I don’t get the impression they think their attitudes are healthy though, I think they very much acknowledge how fucked up they are because of diet culture and the entertainment industry.
That being said -it’s not even hard to stick a CW at the top of an episode or in the show notes? They have discussed ‘oh we should probably trigger warning this’ before so I’m not sure why they haven’t when it’s so easy and would help a lot of people.
Funnily I was listening to an old episode of Brett goldstein’s podcast the other day with Jessie on and she mentioned she is not naturally slim and has to work very very hard to maintain her size and only does so because of the nature of the industry she’s in. I don’t think we can overestimate how much that must have an effect! It does make me sad when she talks about being ‘fat’ when she did her second Harry Potter film as she was still tiny but I guess that’s show biz.