When Taylor Swift sang "you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me," she may have been talking about coming of age in the early 2000s. Pop culture at the time was rife with fat-shaming, homophobia, racism and sexism. Jessica Simpson was considered overweight .
Ross demanded to know if his male nanny was gay while the Friends laugh track rolled. Samantha Jones unironically referred to herself as a victim of reverse racism after dating a Black man on Sex and the City . It was an era when much of pop culture was devoted to casually destroying young women with cruel misogyny and pressure to be thin, toned and stylish.
And that was the environment in which many of us eagerly watched the hit TLC show What Not To Wear give style makeovers to unsuspecting people nominated by their family and friends. Yes life is hard now but in the early 2000s your coworkers could secretly nominate you for What Not to Wear. — @1followernodad Now, a decade later, hosts Stacy London and Clinton Kelly have announced that they're reuniting for a new series called Wear Whatever The F You Want that some might interpret as a mea culpa .
"The world has changed a lot since the run of What Not to Wear , and, thankfully, so have we. These days, we have zero interest in telling people what to do, based on society's norms — because there are no more norms!," Kelly and London said in a joint statement . Will the new Bridget Jones movie finally shed the weight obsession? From funny girl to sex.