12/08/2025
Public conversations about bodies have rarely been rational, but the current Ozempic Moment is unusually disorienting. A surge in weight-loss drugs, the return of visibly extreme thinness on red carpets, and a booming aesthetic-medicine market have collided to create a climate where nearly every physical choice — gaining weight, losing weight, aging, intervening — comes with a side effect of unrelenting scrutiny. The resulting discourse punishes contradictions: too thin, too large, too sculpted, too natural.
Jameela Jamil and Kate Winslet have both been vocal on the subject, advocating for more transparency and less body shaming. At the link in bio, we go down the rabbit hole of the Weight Wars.
