As skinny/unhealthy diet culture comes back and "lookmaxxing" is trending, I remember a play about body-positivity for girls back in middle school
I don't remember the person who made the play or what it was called but back in middle school an actor came to our school doing a one-woman show on bodies and diet culture. She was reenacting in one section an actual conversation she overheard at a restaurant. Context: This was the late 1990s as "heroin-chic" was the norm. Extremely toxic dieting, pills, surgery, etc. was a thing. It was so bad I was put into weight watchers when I was 13 years old because I gained a few pounds. For some of you this seems crazy but yeah, this is how bad it got and I would argue now in 2026 it's even worse. Here is what I remember from that section of the play (I'm sure parts of it are wrong but these are just my memories): Two women sitting at a table who seemed to be lifelong friends. The actor is speaking from only one of them who she was able to overhear. Basically, we are her friend on the other side of the table as the audience, and she is speaking to us with pauses. "So good to see you, you look…
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