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The 2000s was the era of horrendous and toxic body/beauty standards.

You’ll remember the likes of Heat magazine or People shaming perfectly good bodies into oblivion for being too “fat”.

The time period is characterised by body shaming, fatphobia, diet culture and toxic beauty ideals that were projected onto female celebrities and then, in turn, passed down to young, impressionable minds. Not to mention the so-called heroin-chic fashion era that gave way to low-rise jeans and baby tees and the advent of sites like Tumblr that allowed “thinspo” content to spread like wildfire. If you survived the early 2000s without screwed-up body issues, congrats. Truly, you are remarkable.

It’s almost unbelievable that headlines like “15 Shocking Beach Bodies” or “Best & Worst Beach Bodies” made it to print, but they did. Endlessly brainwashing us all into thinking that celebrities who looked perfectly fine were actually “flabby”, “jumbo-sized” and “obese”.

With today’s body-positivity movement, we can look back in shock and awe, wondering how we ever thought anything bigger than a size 10 was scandalous.

Per HuffPost, one Twitter user, Caroline Moss, is shining a light on the vitriol to the ’00s fatphobia, and women all over are chiming in, rounding up all the slim celebs that were shamed for being too big. It’s a wild, wild ride:

if gen-z wants to understand millennials they first need to understand that for the entirety of 2008 we were told that this was the most disgusting a person could EVER look pic.twitter.com/DnYWRsJfdA

— Caroline Moss (@CarolineMoss) July 7, 2023

I accept your Jessica Simpson and raise you a Bridget Jones. This was a thin woman who was victim to 2001. pic.twitter.com/9SzGly8pdt

— Tiffany Katz (@TRKCarpenter) July 7, 2023

the woman with the “biggest butt ever” according to every tabloid! pic.twitter.com/vEjcerb4YY

— SIERRA (@sierra1ynette) July 8, 2023

Rampant throughout my childhood. Remember how they called Kate Winslet “Blubber” in Titanic?? pic.twitter.com/LqCPDIgILF

— Rachel Fox 🇬🇧 London + FMTY (@RachelFoxLondon) July 8, 2023

Flashback….And I remember thinking they must be right and that made me so horrified bc I was sooo much bigger than her. Also looking back at Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie when Nicole was the “fat” one and I want to scream at the media, all America, and myself it’s a bloody lie pic.twitter.com/pJZfKv5kY1

— C Ed, NBCT AYA Mathematics (@ceedison31415) July 7, 2023

Don’t forget this one pic.twitter.com/23w4Ggr9ml

— Anna Brandt (@AnnaDBrandt) July 7, 2023

I watched The Devil Wears Prada for the first time ever as a zoomer recently and when they implied Anne Hathaway was fat for being a size 4, my jaw dropped

— myuzu (@myuuzuuu) July 7, 2023

Another the media body shamed even though this incredible woman had the athleticism to perform the entire Super Bowl halftime show SOLO. pic.twitter.com/LFtKMi8BFf

— BRⱯDƎN (@BradenScheck) July 7, 2023

Oof or the episode of That’s So Raven about how she couldn’t be a model because she was too big? (Tbf I think it worked out for her in the end) pic.twitter.com/V7VyF6efRP

— dianna says trans rights (@animalfurnace) July 8, 2023

We’re all so glad to see the back of the early naughties.

[source:huffpost]