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You Weren’t Fat… 2000s Movies Were INSANE

Marina McBain

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After watching The Devil Wears Prada 2, I couldn’t stop thinking about how insane the original movie’s body standards actually were. Andy Sachs was treated like she was huge at a size six and somehow, that wasn’t even unusual for the 2000s.

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From Bridget Jones’s Diary, Mean Girls, and Love Actually, movies repeatedly convinced us that normal bodies were too big. We’ll look at fatphobia in movies, toxic 2000s beauty standards, diet culture, and how Hollywood convinced millions of women that normal bodies were somehow too big.

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Contents of this video:

00:00 - Intro
04:20 - Normal became fat
11:45 - "Fat" became failure
20:18 - You become the joke

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20 Comments

@marinamcbain Creator 2 months ago Pinned

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@AnumitaRoyChowdhary 2 months ago (edited)

They hate women with bodies of a woman not girl's

@spokenme08 2 months ago

As someone who was actually fat at the time, these movies always confused me. I wondered if these actresses were considered fat, then what was I? Classmates called me a blimp.

@tv-user1009 2 months ago

HUMAN! This needs to be shown to younger girls because it’d help their self esteems from being crushed. It’s such an important message! Keep up the good work marina 🙌🙌

@SuomalainenShakki 2 months ago

What is wrong with these beauty standards? I like my women looking human not like a vacuum-sealed bag of bones, thank you very much

@ruthallynndesigns 2 months ago

Once upon a time I was pursuing an acting career. I was usually sent to castings for parts as the "fat friend" or "chubby comic relief" I WAS A SIZE 4....
you can imagine the whale i see myself as now as a 12 after years of being told 4 was fat.

@Mimiso4life 2 months ago

I never understood this fat talk until I met my aunt. Her daughter literally ate like a bird. Then she moved out for a few months and put on a little weight which I honestly thought was beautiful, but my aunt couldn't stop call her fat/telling her to slim down. For comparison since I don't know much about dress sizes, she's currently around your weight, maybe a little rounder, but before she was a little less than you. It honestly blew my mind that she was being told to lose weight

@joshuadaniels4034 2 months ago

“Thick thighs save lives” science 😂

@katietree4949 2 months ago

I remember as a child I asked my mother why grown adults think these ladies are fat. She said 'because they are'. From that moment on I lost all trust in anything adults say, because they were very obviously not fat. Ive been a solid 200 lbs @ 6ft 1 since 2008, and I've been made fun of for being 'skinny' my whole life. Six pack abs with lean muscle is apparently too skinny and 140 lbs is fat....grown a$$ adults with zero critical thinking is all I see.

@AlanDragon-z3m 2 months ago

A lot of women still look too thin. It's not about attractiveness. I can see bones through people's skin.

@seansarto 2 months ago

It’s a low and sleazy world that runs the movies….

@FinleyLonský 2 months ago

In Shalow Hal, it's so upsetting that "showing the inner beauty" means just making her skinny. I get why (considering Hal's character), but it pushes the idea that fat women just can't be beautiful. And that poor woman deserves a man who meets her as she is and falls in love with her personality AND her looks, not a guy who loves her DESPITE what she looks like and fell for her while he saw her as skinny. Him "settling" for her looks like a romantic gesture, but doesn't that teach girls that fat women can only be settled for or loved only for their personality?

@inesatt1313 2 months ago (edited)

Human! Being fat a little is okay, but being mocked for it is wrong, but we have not to overdo it so as not to endanger our health

@toumeiNi 2 months ago

HUMAN
Not a movie, but I was shocked when I found out Kate Winslet was considered fat during the Titanic era? Like what??? Where??? Same with Drew Barrymore in Charlie's Angels being considered the "chubby" one. I found that insane. They were both absolutely gorgeous, and nowhere being fat. When I hear these things, my first thought is "Wow, if they are fat, I must be morbidly obese", even though I'm not. Really crazy.

@beabadoopods 2 months ago

human! i was genuinely shocked when i was watching the first part of the video, 136 pounds is a pretty healthy weight and trying to gaslight people into thinking that it’s FAT is absolutely insane!

@MelchVagquest 2 months ago

Anne Hathaway in the Devil Wears Prada always comes to mind. While it could have just been the characters in the fashion industry perpetuating a stereotype, it always bothered me that no one else in the movie ever contradicts the sentiment. Hathaway's character even goes down a size and talks about it triumphantly! (I still love the movie, though)

@BeniCat-r9r 2 months ago

It makes me feel really sad to see how Hollywood body shamed so many young female celebrities and artists for having normal looking bodies. The damage that inflicted on audiences and actresses never really went away over the years 😢

@dhampson545 2 months ago

I think this issue goes back many more decades before you were born.

@nondescriptcat5620 2 months ago

"nobody wants a girl with thighs the size of big tree trunks." this is factually untrue and The Internet proves it.
"thick thighs save lives," as Men of Culture say.