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The Truth About How the Gilmore Girls Can "Eat Whatever They Want"

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20 Comments

@joimariearnold 1 month ago

the answer: they were never eating all that food.

@pines-by-the-lagoon 1 month ago

I hate the 'cool girl' trope the most, I think. It is such a hypocritical depiction of a woman: a sex fantasy for the guys who can kick ass too and chugs beer like a dude but looks like a lady but also rebels against being an actual lady but her appearance is perfection but she never has to work for it and hates all feminine traits but possesses quite a few herself. I got confused writing this.

@katerina-2ne1 1 month ago

I met a lot of "I can not gain weight" girls. They would eat junk food and ppl in our circle would be like "She has such a good metabolism". But when I spend the whole day with them, I realized that was their one and only meal.

@parkmadison9861 1 month ago

Not sure if this ends up getting mentioned as I'm still watching the video but Lauren Graham herself has said she's tried every diet out there and was eating calorie restricted and exercising a lot while filming GG. So basically, the actress herself had to diet and exercise to look that way while her character could eat whatever and "look thin." It honestly feels so scammy - basically telling women they should be able to eat whatever and "be cool" while staying thin even though the actress herself wouldn't eat those foods

@CadaverSolitarium 1 month ago

Funny, I found an old magazine featuring an interview of Lauren Graham (Lorelai) sharing her fitness routine. 🤣 She was a very active woman.

@isa4942 1 month ago

I watched Gilmore Girls the first time around when I was skinny and normal around food and my only thoughts about their Cool Girl eating was just what you said about how annoying and sexist that whole trope was. When I re-watched the show, I'd been struggling with BED for a while and was much bigger... and felt soooo deeply uncomfortable watching all their food scenes because it was like "oh, I actually eat like this because I'm mentally unwell, and since I don't have the conventionally attractive body to go with it, it's just considered disgusting and undisciplined instead of cute and quirky..." Feels bad.

@Laura-lu5rq 1 month ago (edited)

There was also an episode where they said they eat off of what they order for the whole week

@annsojacob 1 month ago

people always assume I'm naturally skinny because when we go over to the restaurant for dinner, I eat a massive portion of food and they assume that's how I eat three times a day. Little do they know that I barely eat during daytime because my job keeps me busy lol.

@MossAndMarginalia 1 month ago

I really appreciate this video. We have the obligation to stay hot and thin, but also, like, not inconvenience anyone with our dietary needs, not be a killjoy by saying no to drinks or dessert, and not bum anyone out with our need to exercise/plan our meals, etc. um, ok.

@hannahburke7328 1 month ago

I grew up overweight my whole life eating similar to The Gilmore Girls and never looked like em, I don't mind their love of coffee, what really bugged me was they claimed to eat what they want and not gained weight.
Same With Sam Puckett from iCarly.

@ck2d 1 month ago

"Leftovers" is key.

@anniefoe9de 1 month ago

I watched another video about this and one comment said: "The 2000's were generally obsessed with an idea of 'effortless beauty' a girl is not aware she has. A girl is just beautiful, with a hot bod, perfect face and hair, and she just kinda woke up like that, she popped out of her mom with a perfect messy blowout and a modest smokey eye. Doing something to achieve beauty is fake and vain, just be naturally hot from birth with no input... that was the beauty standard, basically."

@Annouk05 1 month ago

The cool Girl is more a Fantasy of men, wanting a Girl that actually Looks Like a Supermodel without Putting effort or time in it. As If manicured nails, perfekt make Up, perfect fiting clothes, a slim fit Body and styled Hair exist magically the Moment the cool Girl gets Up From bed

@EmilyDC19 1 month ago

Love this show! As a teen, I didn't know how they could eat that much and stay slim. It didn't seem fair. As an adult, I realized that if they were actually eating all that food they would definitely be obese. Side note, as a single mother for 12 years, I thought this was definitely a TV show because there was no way they would be able to afford to have that nice house, eat out every single day, and afford all that junk food lol. But this is my favorite show!

@rebeccaa.3121 1 month ago

When I was at uni there was this very thin beautiful girl who made mean comments when she observed other girls restricting food to stay normal weight. I hate this type, shaming others who aren't as lucky as her, for trying to control their weight.

@mariamightbeamonster3684 1 month ago

I wish i didn’t have food noise 😅

@nugget2732 1 month ago

i used to eat like shit and still be underweight because I wouldnt eat 3 meals a day and I was on ADHD meds that makes you lose weight like crazy

@Dontcallmebones98 1 month ago (edited)

Part of this is also that it was common in * every* show/ sitcom not to really eat, this one just made it a running joke. I feel like Rory and Lorelai were actually products of the 90's intially but then a lot of it carried over into the 2000s. One thing that bothers me immensely about the cool girl trope, is how much it kills the supposed " orgininality" and quirkiness of the characters, because cool girls are always " cool" according to the same template. One character I feel was * actually* cool and went against the grain that the show totally shorted, was Lane. Lane actually was what Rory and Lorelai were pretending to be, she was pretty, but not in a conventional way, she rarely focused on appearence and didn't make that a personality trait, just how she lived. She had a genuine and deep interest in music that wasn't just there to show she had more depth than the " shallow" girls in town, and her life was truly different because she was the only Korean kid in Stars Hollow that lived in a very religious household She worked so hard to be in a band and be a musician only to end up married to a man that barely showed an interest in her at first and pregnant with twins after her first time. She deserved better, especially from a show that at the time was supposed to be celebrating female independence

@abigaildaze 1 month ago

11:04 exactly!! I have a few “naturally thin” friends and I thought we were “eating the same things” because we would share a pizza out or something. But then I started noticing they never finished their slice, or anything on their plate for that matter. And they always showed up hungry, something about missing lunch and being soooo ready for this pizza and then getting full after a slice and a half….

@od-u6g 1 month ago

I had kind of a scarcity mindset with food for the longest time, so I was overweight as a kid and teenager. I'm not entirely sure why because it could be many things. But I think it's because I had many siblings and we didn't have a lot of money. We also had my grandparents living with us growing up, so it was a busy house. I had this mindset of "eat it now, or it wont be there later" or "it might be the last." ?? If I asked for something specific for takeout or a treat, it would never last in the fridge if I left some for later. It took me a while to internalise that I could have it some other day, and it wouldn't cease existing or something. And nothing was going to happen if I didn't finish right then anyway.