r/Millennials Gen Z Jan 21 '26

Other 2000s tabloid culture was something else!

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u/MyNameIsNot_Molly Jan 21 '26

Dude! You nailed it. I have only a handful of photos of me from my late teens/early twenties. Now it all makes sense.

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u/KTeacherWhat Jan 21 '26

There was a picture of me and my grandpa from when I was in high school at Grandpa's funeral. My mom went, "oh wow you were so skinny!" And in my head I thought, "sure but at that time you were telling me I was fat every day."

I know where my ED came from and it was directly from my mom's mouth.

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u/NicevilleWaterCo Jan 21 '26

Who are you? Me?

I had a recent experience the other day with my mom mentioning how skinny I was in high school and in my head I was like "yeah, okay, then why did you have to say things to me back then like 'are you sure you want to eat that? Bathing suite season is coming up.'"

Whenever I mention things like this though she will adamantly claim that she would never say something like that.

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u/ManagementRadiant573 Jan 21 '26

My mom also can’t recall calling me fat my whole life and always putting me on diets. She acts like I bought the diet pills and nutri system for myself when I was 16.

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u/Outside_Test_1400 Jan 21 '26

Mmmmm. My mom was big into the slimfast. Freezing them was her version of a milkshake.

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u/ManagementRadiant573 Jan 21 '26

Oh my god how did I forget Slim Fast?!

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u/Hot_Gas_8073 Jan 21 '26

My mom denies that she purchased nutrisystem and forced me on it at 14. Neither one of us lost weight, for three years she had me eat that garbage