How the beauty ideal is changing due to slimming products: ‘It’s thin again, thinner, thinnest’

Once upon a time… there was a group of well-known plus-size women. For years they served as the counterbalance to the dominant slim ideal. But suddenly they lost tens of kilos. The secret: slimming pills, which suddenly make the whole of Hollywood seem to fit into a size S. What does it do to our ideal of beauty that thinness is for sale?

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