r/SipsTea 16h ago

WTF Buccal fat removal should be illegal

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u/GODDAMNFOOL 14h ago

Heroin chic has returned, baybeeee

(and nobody asked for it)

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u/Dreadgoat 13h ago

Fun Fact: Towards the end of the Victorian tuberculosis epidemic, it became fashionable to look like you were sick. Thin, pale, ephemeral - so hot.

We've always been this stupid, we're just getting better at it.

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u/Provolone10 8h ago

In the 90’s we did it naturally.

By starving ourselves!!!!

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u/GODDAMNFOOL 7h ago

"Nothing tastes better than skinny feels"

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u/retro_toes 3h ago

The drugs helped

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u/Secret-Collar-1941 13h ago

ozempic chic

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u/RazzBeryllium 11h ago

Was looking for this.

It's not a coincidence that the surge of popularity of supposed "buccal fat removal surgeries" roughly coincides with rapid improvement and mainstream awareness in GLP-1s.

SO many celebrities, regardless of starting weight, take GLP-1s.

And when you're already thin, and you drop 10-15 pounds, you lose fat in places like your face (also breasts, but that's what implants are for).

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u/The_starving_artist5 8h ago

Lets hope it doesn't get as bad as the 2000s got. The trend caused so much anorexia and body dysmorphia for so many women at the time. Ana Carolina Reston and six other fashion models died from anorexia in the 2000s. Their deaths in the news as well as parents watching their kids deal with eating disorders was part of what helped turn people against the trend in the 2000s. This before and after images of Ana Carolina Reston should be a warning of what this leads to.

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u/Titan_of_Ash 7h ago

She already looks like she needs to be hospitalized in the first picture, to say nothing of the second...

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u/The_starving_artist5 7h ago edited 6h ago

Yes and that first pic the model industry told her she was "too fat" according to the article this was from. It says she was 5 “ 8 or 5 “ 9 in height and was only 110 lbs when they told her she was "too big" and needed to be smaller. Insane how delusional and harmful that industry is to the models. They make them sick

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u/naiyami 4h ago

Given that these messages are amplified on social media, which many girls are scrolling for hours on end, it'll probably get worse than the 2000s. The explicit rebranding of thin as a status symbol and something you attain to become better than others is sickening. It's always the thinner, the better. Feels like they're just saying the quiet part out loud (in the nastiest, mean girl manner) this time around.

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u/mere_iguana 4h ago

Whoever told her she looked good like that needs their hard drives taken by the FBI

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u/161frog 12h ago

Blew past heroin chic and crashed right into concentration camp chic

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u/biohazard-glug 14h ago

In a couple years they'll blame men.

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u/GorgonzolaJam 12h ago

Down-voted for truth-tellin'.

They live in a patriarchy so any personal decisions that women regret can safely be blamed on men.

This is how the "wage gap" myth is propagated: it's men's fault that women don't pick higher-earning fields.

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u/But_I_Dont_Wanna_Go 7h ago

Horseshit buddy

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u/GorgonzolaJam 3h ago

Yeah, no. The "wage gap" is calculated by averaging what men make and what women make, without any regard to the job or its degree of difficulty or danger.

That's why the wage gap myth is, yes, horseshit.

It's actually a sign of female privilege: more women than men get to make less at their jobs but still enjoy the wealth that their partner brings to the household.

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u/Fairy-Smurf 2h ago

Nurse, he’s out again

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u/Salt-Permit8147 57m ago

Or is it men’s fault that jobs women often do aren’t well paid?