Almost every commercial I get is a celebrity advertising the latest weight loss drug, and the terrifyingly skinny stars of “Wicked: For Good” aren’t helping the increasing pressure from Hollywood to fit into their beauty standards. Hollywood has gone too far—nearly erasing the work of the body positivity movement in the blink of an eye.

In the 2010s and early 2020s, artists and celebrities decried the monopolization of body insecurity. 2022 Billboard Hot 100 song “Victoria’s Secret” by Jax took the internet by storm as she shared her body image journey; movies have begun to feature characters of different body types, or at least being talking about food safely. In 2025 hit “KPop Demon Hunters,” the main trio may be on the thinner side, but their bodies are all different, and they treat eating as important—a start, especially when portraying an industry with beauty standards.

This was refreshing to see: a positive message, reaffirming instead of scrutinizing. However, skinny stars and trendy diets remain. Influencers talk of trendy low calorie, no carb, no fiber and no fat diets and other weight loss strategies, without knowing the consequences of what they say, no research to back them up—everyone’s body is different, therefore requiring different things.

What’s healthy for one person may not be for another. I know that first hand.

As I got older, and naturally grew, I viewed every pound I gained as a bad thing. Even though it was natural and necessary, I feared gaining weight. I wanted to look like the characters I admired, and part of me knew that weight was a major factor in looking that way, even in my early developmental years.

Even now, as my doctor calls my weight healthy and I’m relatively skinny, I hear influencers and celebrities talk about weight loss and can’t help but wonder—should that be me?

Is that normal? To think that? It seems it is, but it shouldn’t be.

Both in “Wicked: For Good” and the events surrounding it, stars Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo and Michelle Yeoh’s sudden and arguably unhealthy weight loss succeeded in drawing the world’s attention: bones visible through skin, no muscle, literally skin and bones. The internet has split in support and opposition of this apparent change and parents wonder if the movie is safe for their kids.

It’s body positivity’s turn to be in the spotlight, but we keep turning off the lights.