Beauty Standards: Body Types Are Not Trends
15.11.2022 - 22:11
/ glamour.com
By If you grew up in the early-2000s, you’re probably intimately familiar with the era’s unrealistic beauty standards. In fact, as Glamour previously reported, that millennials are still coping with its effects.
How could one forget the slew of fad diets, , and the uproar over Jessica Simpson’s high-waisted jeans? I certainly haven't—and neither have today’s who are passing dangerous calorie-counting on to their daughters. Body standards are still very much part of today's zeitgeist. In recent weeks, multiple outlets have reported on the return of extreme thinness after Kim Kardashian—who is often credited for pioneering contemporary beauty standards—set the catalyst by in two weeks for the Met Gala.
This, paired with the return of early-aughts aesthetics overall, has prompted the spread of a troubling narrative: 2000s body standards are now “trending,” so much so that an article headlined "Bye Bye Booty: Heroin Chic is Back in Style" went viral last week.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Clearly, there is a lot wrong with this gratuitous claim. Most apparent is that body types aren't trends.
This seems obvious, but when language like “bye bye booty” and “heroin chic" is printed for publication and subsequently splattered on all corners of the web, some media consumers might not realize that—particularly young impressionable girls. “While no one is immune, adolescent girls' brains are more malleable," , LCSW, a psychotherapist at , tells Glamour. “They cannot yet think as critically as adults in terms of assessing what information is harmful or helpful, let alone who is controlling that information and if it's even true.” The end result? History repeating itself in the worst of ways: Despite at least a
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