"'Beauty equals thinness' is the message a whole generation received, and the hope is that the current generation of young women are less tethered to this idea. But what is the reality?"
"My wish for Harper is that she has a healthier relationship with food than I did. I've talked about food with [her] before. The one thing that doesn't seem to change is that little girls think a lot about food as they're growing up, when their bodies are changing and they're going through puberty,""
"In her fly-on-the-carefully-curated-wall Netflix mini-series, Beckham reveals little about herself, other than that she hasn't eaten chocolate since the 90s, and that all the media hate she endured post-Spice Girls caused her to develop an eating disorder because at the time controlling what she ate seemed her only genuine area of autonomy."
Societal messaging equated beauty with thinness, imprinting harmful expectations on an entire generation of girls. Many young women internalized those standards and developed disordered eating as a means of control. Some women hope their daughters will form healthier relationships with food amid puberty and bodily changes. One high-profile woman reports avoiding chocolate since the 1990s and links sustained media hostility after fame to the emergence of eating-disorder behavior. Controlling food provided a perceived area of autonomy during periods of public scrutiny. Little girls commonly fixate on food while growing up and navigating physical development.
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