“When I was 18, that was the first time I was on the cover of a magazine,” Swift tells Variety. “The headline was ‘Pregnant at 18?’ It was because I had worn something that made my lower stomach look not flat. So I just registered that as a punishment.'
there’s a montage of derogatory commentary about the singer that has appeared on cable shows over the years. One of the less nasty remarks: “She’s too skinny. It bothers me.”In one of the most revealing and surprising segments of thefilm, Swift talks for several minutes about having struggled in the past with an eating disorder.
She hesitates. “I think I’ve never really wanted to talk about that before, and I’m pretty uncomfortable talking about it now,” she says quietly. “But in the context of every other thing that I was doing or not doing in my life, I think it makes sense” to have it in the film, she says. “I love people like Jameela Jamil, because she says things in a really articulate way,” the singer tells us. “The way she speaks about body image, it’s almost like she speaks in a hook. If you read her quotes about women and body image and aging and the way that women are treated in our industry and portrayed in the media, I swear the way she speaks is like lyrics, and it gets stuck in my head and it calms me down. Because women are held to such a ridiculous standard of beauty.
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