Gen-X Grew Up Hearing This…
If you ever wondered why so many of us grew up battling body image issues… this clip is a reminder of exactly what Gen-X women were told on repeat.
The comments about our weight, our appearance, our bodies — it wasn’t “just the times.” It shaped how we saw ourselves.
Sharing this so we can finally break the cycle for the next generation. 💛
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This almost made me cry
🎉hhhh
And this is why us women hate ourselves the way we are!!!!
Who started this?!!!! Who brainwashed men into thinking this?!;!! 🥺😥😡
I was just talking to my coach about how it’s so hard to get over the brainwashing I received as an adolescent in the 90s.
Howard Stern should never insult someone else’s appearance 🙄
For real!
Ain’t that the truth!!!
All of them.
She means cause he has a Radio person’s face, Not a Camera face. Howard is the worst offender of radio face!
Fortunately, today women would be shocked by such degrading and horrible comments.
But at that time, we ourselves, as women, almost all agreed with this type of opinion.
Outrageous how other people can call another individual out on their weight. Stay in your own lane, I say. Body shaming is only going to make matters worse for them because now you’ve just played with emotional well-being.
The hurt in Nicole Richie’s eyes 😢
Yes. You can clearly see that. And coming from a woman makes it even worse.
Bloody rude! I’m sooo happy things have changed for the better in this regard ❤❤❤❤
Yea, except the online bullies and trolls do that now. People are far bolder behind a screen.
I think women have always had harsh critique over how we look. I’m thinking women’s confidence is probably at an even all time low in our current times. The AI filters and the wide spread acceptance of plastic surgery and injectables have raised the bar even higher. I’m a traditionally attractive woman. I remember only using an AI filter once and suddenly felt ugly and that my current looks weren’t acceptable. A doctor I follow on YouTube was talking about how women are now going to the plastic surgeons with pictures of their filtered images asking to look like that. I follow a fitness channel on YouTube and someone commented that everyone is being extra harsh to the women who aren’t getting Botox and fillers. They were getting a lot of hate for simply looking their actual age. Lastly, I have heard multiple men say that natural breasts are gross. That the fake ones are the only ones that look good and how the natural ones have a very very short window of looking presentable. The modern day standard for looks have gotten pretty crazy.
Yes and men actually talk so badly about women behind their backs, not realizing one day they might need one of these women to help care for them when they can no longer function in society. Terrible
Still trying to get over this trauma.
Ya… The 90s were interesting. I had so many issues with body image back then and in the early 2000s. You know it’s bad when you actually consider ingesting a tapeworm. SOOO glad I’m over that!
It’s absolutely disgusting behaviour and it’s mostly unattractive people that have the audacity to act like this 😒
Someone asked my weight today and I had zero shame answering 156lbs. I also replied, “I’m planning to end my recomp at 160lbs.” Weight lifting has healed my relationship with the scale. Also dexa has been wonderful. I always weighed more than other girls that look like me and it turns out I truly have a more dense bone structure than the average female. What matters is lean mass and fat percentage.
Why not do this to all of the men who are on their shows????
Rude people. The people bullying are not happy with themselves
I grew up with a mom like this.
Unfortunately we still hear it from the men of our generation 😢
Wow 🤯 unbelievable, right?
Why did people put up with this?
This is totally crazy!! Great job finding these clips. We need to remember how it was so you know..so we don’t go back to those ways. That is important history. Really.