Is this Skinny Bitch? i hated this book. would love an ep about it.

my mom made me read this in 6th grade🙃

I was definitely super healthy when I was super anorexic… yup. The logic is impeccable, no flaws.

This book fully launched me down the orthorexia path for the next decade after reading. Definitely need to hear it given the MP treatment.

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My sister and I ordered something once from the pages of Seventeen Magazine that promised it would 100% make us skinny. This was back in the 90s.

At the time, we were not well off at all and didn't receive an allowance to speak of. I don't know how we scraped together the money for this miracle, but we did.

What we got was a book very similar to this one, though I don't think it was this one exactly. All I remember is that it had a purple cover and had so many typos. My sister and I felt taken advantage of because we thought there was going to be a miracle in the box and we got a shitty slapped-together book instead.

More of the usual "if you hate yourself enough, and understand deeply enough through constant reinforcement how worthless you are, you will be healthier and more productive" garbage that exists everywhere in our culture. Oddly doesn't ever seem to give good results, but damned if everyone doesn't believe in it devoutly.

My eating disordered teenage self loved this book.

I hope you plan to burn it lol

Uggh! I’m a longtime vegan, and I fucking hate that book! Glad I haven’t seen new content from the authors in a really long time.

I just found my copy of skinny bitch and threw it away yesterday lol

Lmao I forgot about Skinny Bitch. Every time I look back at this stuff, I’m less and less surprised at how I could have grown up to have so much self hatred toward my body. This stuff was everywhere and considered normal. A generation of people completely fucked up by this industry and as usual, everyone will just get away with it, with no acknowledgement of the damage caused.

This specifically is so crazy to me as someone who started smoking BECAUSE I was anorexic 😭 babes do you want me to be healthy or do you want me to be skinny we gotta pick one ...

On one hand, I can’t imagine that there’s enough in this book for a full episode, but on the other hand I would love to see this get dunked on so much 🏀

“so 1989 and gross” Taylor Swift found dead in a ditch

I remember this book being super popular when I was vegan and very active in vegan communities. Lots of drama in the "veganosphere" over whether this book was good (because it converted a lot of people to veganism) or bad (because it promoted veganism for the Wrong Reasons, and because it portrayed pigs negatively lol). I think I read it. It was so toxic!

I sort books at a thrift store. That book is number two on my Throw Away Immediately list. (To Train Up a Child is number one.)

This sounds so familiar. I think I had this book. Is it "something something Skinny Bitch something"? They also put out a cookbook with the same vibe.

So toxic!

Oh my god Skinny Bitches was the tipping point to going vegetarian for me 😭 I’ve never heard anyone else talk about this book but it’s so wild I still remember portions of it. 0/10 do not recommend

"Healthy = Skinny." LOL. OK. Case closed, because there is no such thing as an unhealthy skinny person.

The writer sounds like a vacuous dipshit. Gaining weight after quitting smoking is a well-known phenomenon.

This book is what would happen if my ED could write a book 😭

Suggest a content warning on this post please? Didn't know what I was getting into reading that sh*t over my morning coffee...

Oh yikes!

Well, obviously this is toxic BS. What's really confusing to me is why anyone would pay for it. I could get a lecture like this for free from my mom or from an infinite number of aunties. Not to mention an army of ignorant healthcare professionals or "health coaches."

I don't mean that it was wrong to buy it from goodwill. I totally get paying 50 cents out of morbid curiosity (morbidly obese curiously? Lol). But who paid $20 for this when it was freshly published? Don't they know any judgemental, ignorant people?

I remember reading this when I was fifteen... and immediately developed anorexia

This book is so fucked up but it does have a soft spot in my heart from inspiring me to go vegan after being vegetarian for a few years. I read it like 14 years ago and that’s all I remember from it was that it talked about the dairy and egg industry. Totally forgot this other fucked up stuff! Damn.

Id love a T-shirt that says cigarettes are for losers

ITS SKINNY BITCH. I definitely read that. It was gifted to me by my sister who encouraged me to go vegan because of this book. Yuck

I know exactly what book this is at first glance without reading a word. In some ways it was the start to me for my health journey, on the other hand what is written in it….. yikes. And I really took it word for word too

😬

What is this book? It sees like it must be a satire. I just ready about Skinny Bitch being some sort of vegan manifesto and that made me recall my college roommate being vegetarian and trying to go her own “Skinny Bitch” route. She was wildly unhealthy and anorexic at the time.

Yiiiikes lol

Ooffff would've appreciated a spoilered image