I’VE long been judged on my appearance. Too fat in pregnancy, too thin after it. Earlier this year I would routinely get skinny shamed in the form of veiled comments on social media.
Yes, I was far too skinny, but that was not deliberate. Not only was I going through an unbearably stressful time - unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before - but at the time had an undiagnosed health condition. I ate as normal but my body couldn’t retain the weight and I recognised it was never going to look attractive for a 57-year-old woman to have more skin than flesh, but I was unwell and pretty helpless.
Negative comments sent me into a spiral of negativity, which was not only unhelpful, but incredibly damaging to my self-esteem. READ MORE ON OZEMPIC It made me bloody angry. Which is why I despair over women choosing to shrink themselves intentionally using Ozempic; dying to be thin when I want the exact opposite.
It may be seen as a “silver bullet” for weight loss, but each day brings yet another ’sleb shooting up this anti-diabetic injection and claiming it has changed their life. The editor of British Vogue , Chioma Nnadi, said last week that there has been “a return of very thin models on the catwalk”. Most read in Celebrity She fears there has been a backwards step when it comes to body positivity and she puts some of the blame on the “trend” for Ozempic and similar drugs Wegovy, Mounjaro and Saxenda.
Fashion houses, she says, are still sending out “sample siz.
