What Is With... all the talk about Ariana Grande’s body?

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women are scared. The prevalence of ultra-thin celebrities signals a slide back into a world where 1990s heroin chic is aspirational again and, thanks to weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic, easier to attain.....It is a tonal shift from the mid-2010s, when the body positivity movement celebrated all sizes.

The idea that women’s bodies are not up for evaluation was a reaction to the cruel and misogynistic 2000s-era tabloid discussion of celebrity figures. In the body positivity years, it crystallised into a blanket prohibition against talking about women’s weight. In short, a woman’s body is nobody’s business but her own.

Qns:

1. How far do you agree that media coverage of celebrities has a positive influence on young people in your society? (Cam. 2025)

2. 'People should have absolute authority over their own body,' Discuss. (NYJC Prelim 2021)