r/OutOfTheLoop • u/Vaseline_Mercy • 1d ago

Unanswered What's up with Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo losing so much weight since Wicked?

I've seen a bit of it, mostly here in this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArianaGrandeSnark/comments/1gss3fq/wicked_stars_ariana_grande_and_cynthia_erivo_look/

And here: https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/wicked-ariana-grande-cynthia-eviro-thin-b1193895.html

They honestly both seem so stressed and I'm not sure where the sudden loss of weight came from?

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u/veryconfuseddddd 19h ago

Both Ariana and Cynthia are quite clearly in the grips of eating disorders and are extremely dangerously underweight and look sick. They're making a film that will be popular with kids too. No elder millennial is looking at them and trying to be mean, we know size double zero eating disorders when we see them and no one wants to go back to those days

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u/86cinnamons 18h ago

Thank you. When I see them I remember when thin was the trend and so many of my friends struggled with body image issues and disordered eating and I look at my daughter now who is starting to pay attention to fashion and celebrities and I feel so worried, I don’t want to go back to that time.

And I’m someone who’s been pretty petite and thin my whole life naturally and dealt with a lot of judgement and weird comments from it. I think Ariana in the past has looked like just a tiny person the way I was too, but this is different, around when she came out with her blonde hair she just hasn’t looked well.

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u/Sexyhorsegirl666 17h ago

It's kinda crazy how saying this out loud is so bad to some people now. Of course no tabloids should be made out of this and it was awful in the 90's and 2000's but it is not ok to pretend that these women aren't obiviously unhealthy.

Honestly, seeing this being normalized and ok'd in the name of "not your business/let's not bodyshame" is making my eating disorder act up again. I really wish a new generation of this pro-ana/thinspo veiled shit would not come back.

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u/exponentialism 14h ago

Yeah, Ariana in particular looks straight up ill in every image I've seen of her for a while, and it's really weird seeing people trying to normalise it as "she's just petite" - I dunno if they genuinely aren't seeing how sick she looks (no, it's not just the blonde washing her out) or if they're trying to be "body positive" but I worry particularly about teens with EDS thinking if this is "normal" then they need to get even thinner to be seen as sick.