"When I was a teenager, every magazine or newspaper I read featured endless column inches dedicated to dissecting the bodies of women. You couldn't turn on your TV in the 2000s without receiving an endless cycle of reports on Britney Spears's so-called fat body or Jessica Simpson's mom jeans. Tabloids offered weeklong diets that promised to let you lose a stone in seven days. Reality TV shows like The Swan and Extreme Makeover put vulnerable women in front of cameras and had them undergo extensive plastic surgery, all of which was sold as the ultimate sign of self improvement. I will never forget Beyoncé's cayenne pepper and maple syrup cleanse that she underwent to lose a lot of weight in a short period of time for Dreamgirls, because every single newspaper talked about it with the detail and seriousness of a political election."
Kayleigh Donaldson
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