Body Image After 40: How 2000s Diet Culture Still Affects Women

Podcast: Body Freedom with Michele Scarlet · Michele Scarlet

Opublikowano: 2026-10-02

What did growing up in early-2000s diet culture teach us about weight, food, exercise, and our bodies? And how much of it are we still carrying with us after 40? In this deeply personal episode of Body Freedom, Michele Scarlet looks back at more than 25 years of body image, weight loss, food rules, exercise, and the pressure to be thin. It starts in 1999, with one of the first comments Michele remembers someone making about her body. From there, she looks back at what it was like becoming a teenage girl in the early 2000s, when...