Was the skinny look ever actually out

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I keep reading people saying they're upset about the rise of ozempic and other weight loss drugs because it feels all the body positivity progress has been lost.

I'm 75kg and have had 2 kids in the last 5 years but my weight is pretty consistent ever since I hit my mid 20s.

I'm not big but I'm a size 12 and feel huge when I look at models in magazines (I may be one of the few people still reading them), celebs on social and actresses on TV (Nicole Kidman most recently in the perfect couple).

I feel like there are very few women with my shape in the media and those that are always get called fat. It's bothering me and I don't know if it's the rise of weight loss drugs or actually we never made progress at all.

Interested to hear what others think.

Just looked up how much 75kg is in stone and lbs and think you must be pretty tall, OP, if you're a 12 at that weight -- could it be that you just feel huge partly because of your height? I'd love to be tall but I know tall friends of mine just feel awkward and big.

The slim look never went out, it's just that a massive part of the population became much fatter.

And truth be told, it was fairly obvious that the loudest 'body positivity' enthusiasts were mostly only loudly enthusiastic because they couldn't lose weight.

It's been said for decades that if most overweight people could pop a magic pill and be slim, they'd do it in a heartbeat.

Well the new weightloss injections are that 'magic pill' they've been waiting for.

Yes I think it's changed an enormous amount but it was pretty much a dangerous obsession in the early 2000s. I remember the only questions to women being about their figures with every celebrity doing an extreme workout video release in time for January and every magazine aimed at women and girls circling cellulite or a slight belly.

There is still a bit of it there but no where near as bad as it was and although catwalk models and ballerinas are still slim there seems to have been a shift due to being exposed by journalists.

I do remember the early 2000s and it's when I hit puberty hence why I'm probably so obsessed with how I look. I had quite a few of the DVDs you mentioned. But I also remember the girls on Geordie shore who looked normal and now they're all super skinny. It's weird because there seems to be the Kardashian effect of women wanting big boobs and bums but also tiny waists. I feel like you can't win.

What is it that you're trying to 'win' though?

It doesn't matter what look is 'in' or 'out.

Your body is your own and will always be, no matter what's 'fashionable'.

I do think its changed though. '90s thin' was hugely different to thin now. Now thin is anything up to BMI 25, and doesnt require you to wear what I used to call vagina jeans - low rise wear you literally had your hip bones and top of your vjay vjay out. I wore those. I was at uni at the time and luckily naturally a skinny minnie. I feel for the poor girls who weren't. They would be considered thin today but then it was not cool at all to have any fat on you whatsoever. I often think about a very close friend at the time who had a kim kardashian body. I remember feeling so sorry for her, and people being so cruel about her big bum and thick thighs. She was defo born in the wrong time because she would be seen as a goddess now.