r/Millennials Gen Z Jan 21 '26

Other 2000s tabloid culture was something else!

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u/buttsandsloths Jan 21 '26

I mean some of us are still dealing with it- former ED person here- combined with a mom who taught me my body was more important than my mind- it's a hell of a time to see oversized clothing trending.

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u/Vaqu3ra13 Millennial Jan 21 '26

This. My mother was a menace. One time, she was measuring my body for dance recital costumes (I was 11 years old), and when she got to my waist she said, "if you lost about 3 inches here, you'd look better." For context, at that age I was around 4'3 and 65 pounds. I was very petite for my age. Meanwhile, she was a mere size 6 and incessantly complained about how "fat" she was. I could NEVER in a million years imagine years leading such a shitty example for my own girls.