https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/aug/10/body-positivity-shrinking-girl-summer-everyone-getting-smaller-except-me
I understand this is about the author’s personal feelings and experience, but I still feel it’s a little irresponsible. I was a somewhat ‘early adopter’ of Mounjaro and it’s been life changing for me, but if I’d read articles like this it may well have put me off.
- Stating there were shockingly few checks and balances to get a prescription - if she used a legitimate supplier, this is unlikely to be the case.
- Not making clear that her reaction - being barely able to eat and losing 16kg ‘rapidly’ - is very unusual at the lowest dose. And that there are options other than Wegovy if you don’t react well.
- The emphasis on taking the injections to become ‘skinny’, rather than healthier.
I fully agree that people should be treated with kindness and respect at any size and I am someone who took a lot of inspiration from watching plus sized influencers taking part in sport, so I get why she’s worried about losing the body positivity movement. But it simply isn’t true that you can be healthy and obese - obesity isn’t healthy, and if the movement is losing influencers because they are now able to succeed in losing weight when they weren’t before, that suggests that they are in agreement with that. I’ve never been totally sold on how inclusive that movement is anyway - the most popular ones almost always have beautiful faces. It’s the same BS as normal beauty standards, just wrapped in a different size.
The suggestion that she has to choose between her mental health or being a healthier weight also seems somewhat reductive. I hope she finds a happier headspace for herself, but I wish this sort of article could remain as a personal blog/social media post rather than being endorsed by the mainstream press.