10 Celebrities Who Prove That Diet Culture Is Still Alive

Diet culture in the 2020s is a different beast from what it was before. Even if you’re more likely to see rhetoric around “health,” “clean eating,” and “wellness” than an explicit discussion of weight loss, the underlying tenants of diet culture — namely, a belief system that “worships thinness and equates it to health and moral virtue” — are still very much here.

As Christine Byrne wrote for Self last year, diet culture “promotes weight loss and maintaining a low weight as a way to elevate social status, and demonizes certain foods and eating styles while elevating others.”