Someone just shared a post about the noughties diet culture on Instagram. God it was so bad, the body-shaming magazines, the special k diet, “drop a size”, the atkins craze, Kate moss was everywhere, most of the celebs were tiny and obsessed with being a size 0! I don't blame the friends girls. Thankfully we know better now.
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Sadly, I'm not sure we do. Mags like Closer are just one long 'drop a bikini size in 6 weeks' type articles. And if not being thin, then having tons of surgery to look like everyone else.
That is very true, but I do think that there is a wider interest in being fit and healthy now as opposed to being purely thin.
Yes that can bring about different problems, but way more people are exercising now and eating a balanced diet than in the 90s IMO.
Also, to counteract the size 0 culture a heck of a lot of skinny-bashing started happening. I was a proper string bean as a teen/20's and used to get derogatory comments like how I must starve myself, etc, when I did no such thing. Thankfully, that has subsided now, too.
Completely relate to that, I’m very conscious of talking about my body now as a result, you still get the eyeroll’s and comments about being able to afford to put a bit of weight on.
I do think we are more aware of body shaming now. However I’m disappointed to hear about closer mag and similar through, I thought we were past that.
Absolutely. I even started buying weight-gaining milkshakes because of the whole "not a real woman" and "skinny is so unnatural" type of comments. Point was, I had quite an apple/plump face that was pretty evident I was not starving myself. So, it's good that body shaming is being called to task.Completely relate to that, I’m very conscious of talking about my body now as a result, you still get the eyeroll’s and comments about being able to afford to put a bit of weight on.
I do think we are more aware of body shaming now. However I’m disappointed to hear about closer mag and similar through, I thought we were past that.
Totally. Any of those real man/woman style comments are really irritating and I feel people don’t understand how hurtful they are.
Loving this thread. Really interesting. Came for the Matt Perry goss, stayed for the discussions on female body image and the overt pressures applied by the media to look a certain way in the naughties!
Completely agree!! Skinny bashing is awful! I’ve experienced it throughout my teens and twenties and early thirties, it’s just my build, I can’t help it! I get very defensive when people criticise people like the Duchess of Cambridge for being too thin....they probably wouldn’t say the opposite if she was deemed too large.
Yes! I walked into a meeting room (shortly before covid zoom meetings were a thing), and someone gasped and said “omg you’re so skinny!” I was lost for words in the moment, but my lovely older manager quickly stepped in and sternly said “Now, would you say omg you’re so large? No? we don't need to comment on anyone's weight, thank you very much”. Haha love her!
Omg the Special K diet!
I’ve done so many of these fad diets and it’s almost certainly part of the reason I still have a terrible relationship with food/my body/dieting to this day.
I’ve had such a warped perception of these things that I even remember thinking that Jen and Courteney were slightly big in earlier series before they got really tiny. I watch back now and realize they were always really small, just that they became even smaller.
I never thought Lisa was slim either. Again I watch back now and realize she was actually quite slim, just bigger than tiny JA and CC! And she has a naturally bigger build anyway. She always looked perfectly healthy and really good.
Oh my goodness I grew up 90s early 00s and this comment has thrown me!!! Is it any wonder I have such body issues! I have so many memories of every advert being about the special k diet drop a dress size. Pretty sure I was a 14 year old only eating special k to lose weight
I grew up thinking I was huge and it’s very sad to look back at photos of me now. Sorry to go off topic a bit but the special K comment threw me!
I don’t even want to lookNews this morning that Matthew is writing a biography, which will cover his time in Friends and his addictions. Also some photos of him in the DM. So worried about him.
, it’s so sad to see. I hope someone is looking after his best interests
I can remember a tiny bit from the magazine Looks (not Look) in 1998/1999. It had a photo of the 3 of them from season 2, a few years earlier, saying their hair and makeup was terrible and that Jen "still had her puppy large" - like that was clearly a bad thing. The comments you remember even when it's not about yourself...
Its such a shame. He seems to just not be doing well. All the other cast distanced themselves from him. And he was the funniest one. I wish he could see his value.I don’t even want to look
It's sad to think this all started with a painkiller prescription after an accident. It's not as if he got carried away with excess and illegal drugs. It's something that can happen to anyone.
I saw an episode of Friends being filmed and both Jen and Courtney were unbelievably slim in real life. Hard to know where they might be keeping their internal organs.
I don’t think we’ve moved far away from the obsession with thinness at all. We might have reframed it as health but it’s the same old stuff.
I don’t think we’ve moved far away from the obsession with thinness at all. We might have reframed it as health but it’s the same old stuff.
I remember that too!!! It wasn't the only one, another magazine talked about her dropping weight and mentioned a quote about her liking mayonnaise sandwitches and the magazine quipped she must have given them up. She wasn't even big in the first place.
Book promo has started, what’s his issue with Keanu Reeves?