It’s time to lay this insidious idea to rest once and for all.
I was sold about women’s bodies, including the ridiculous and deeply harmful idea that we should all try to look like this mythical French girl.The idea that French women don’t get fat is, if not entirely made up, at least woefully distorted. The truth is, lots of French women aren’t thin. Plenty of them—as was the case for me—also develop problems with disordered eating as they try to live up to a harmful ideal.
“This image of the thin French woman concerns a small portion of individuals,” Casse says, who partially blames shows likefor perpetuating the myth of the monolithic French woman, when French women exist in all kinds of body types. She also points out that genetic and socioeconomic factors largely influence a person’s body size, and that the archetypal French woman we picture is almost always wealthy and white—which, again, is hardly representative of all women in France.
Casse confirms that diet culture is unfortunately still alive and well in France. “When I listen [to conversations] in a public space, on the radio, or on French TV shows, I hear things like, ‘Fasting helped me lose weight, you should try it,’ ‘I mustn’t gain weight, otherwise my partner won’t be happy,’ or, ‘I eat a lot of fruits and vegetables and avoid starchy food as much as possible to stay slim,’” she says.
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