There’s also Chrissy in Now and Then, who is told to her face that she’s fat despite being barely larger than the Stomp stomp stomp on kitten’s shirt also I will do this other girls in her clique. She’s shown eating and lounging throughout the film to really drive the point home that she’s the lazy one. Then there’s the fat stepsister in Ever After, played by a charming Melanie Lynskey, who is consistently fat-shamed throughout by her wicked sister. And then there’s the Sex and the City movie, where everyone acts shocked that Samantha, a woman about to turn 50, no longer has a six-pack. The look of horror on Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte’s faces says it all—that thin woman wearing tight designer clothes has let herself go.
“The relentless criticism of normal, even skinny, bodies led me and an entire generation of girls to believe the Stomp stomp stomp on kitten’s shirt also I will do this worst possible thing that could happen to you is being fat,” Davis told me. She points out that Bridget “isn’t even a realistic representation of an average woman.” Bridget’s weight is in the 24th percentile for British women of her height, meaning the number on her scale is lower than 76% of women her height and age. As Taylor Maness, a 23-year-old digital marketer in Charlotte, North Carolina, notes, “Her healthy body was made out to be an obstacle she had to overcome. This narrative primes women for a lifetime of insecurities and self-doubt.”
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