“I thought that I was supposed to feel like I was going to pass out at the end of a show.”
The first time she saw herself on a tabloid cover, she happened to be wearing something that made her stomach look “not flat.” She told“So I just registered that as a punishment,” she said. “And then I’d walk into a photo shoot and be in the dressing room and somebody who worked at a magazine would say, ‘Oh, wow, this is so amazing that you can fit into the sample sizes.
She went on to explain that the ease and frequency with which women comment on each others’ bodies is contributing to the problem.“It’s incessant, and I can say this as a woman: It’s amazing to me how people are constantly like ‘You look skinny’ or ‘You’ve gained weight.’ People you barely know say this to you,” she said. “And it feels awful, and you can’t win either way.” The dialogue has become normalized.
Taylor Swift performs onstage during the 1989 World Tour Live in Toronto at Rogers Center on October 2, 2015.Now that Swift can more easily recognize it, she’s quicker to deflect it, but she still finds inspiration and encouragement through others who are working hard to shift the conversation, like body image activist and
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