2024-02-29 09:43:22
The astonishing weight loss of curvy model Dronme Davis has provoked the anger of her followers who feel cheated.
Until recently, Dronme Davis’s Instagram account was the ‘mirror’ in which hundreds of thousands of women with overweight problems looked at themselves and found themselves in the popular ‘curvy’ model’s posts on emotional push they needed to ‘fit in’ in a society that worships thinness (and youth).
If Dravis, as he spread to the four winds with his images and his inspiring texts – strategically filled with ‘hastags’ type ‘fat’ ‘belly’ ‘saggy tits’ ‘stretch marks’– could feel good in his skin, why shouldn’t the rest?
The problem, as the ‘New York Times’ recently reported in a shameful portrait of the hypocrisy in which we have settled so naturally, came when the model began to lose weight. And, little by little, his generous curves softened until they blurred into a lean and concise anatomy. And then came her disappointment, the suspicions and reproaches of those who had once adored her.
Dravis came out against the rumors, denying that he was taking Ozempic injections and attributed his striking weight loss to those damned eating disorders who have been pursuing her for years.
But to his followers, his explanations have not been of much use. Some attacked her for having defrauded them, for having used them to thrive on social networks with her lucrative ‘body positive’ and self-acceptance thing. Others, directly, were more cruel and stoned her with niceties like “you have become sickly skinny“.
His case, obviously, is not the only one in the era of Ozempic, Mounjaro and the like. A time in which Even the most admired Hollywood stars resort to the puncture when they have one of those dates on the red carpet to get into those ‘outfits’ that barely let them breathe (they are much looser and more comfortable, but we’ll talk about that another day).
What’s more, stories like that of Dronme Davis have led to a proliferation of posts like “Does your ‘fat creator’ no longer want to be fat? Here are six mental tips to face the journey of starting to love yourself on your own.“, recently published by Sarah Sapora, who defines herself as “‘self-love’ influencer’ for plus-size women.”
In this crazy scenario in which an ‘influencer’, who becomes famous and begins to earn money for proudly showing a body that does not ‘adjust’ to current beauty standards, is attacked by those who elevated her by ceasing to be the woman with whom they had identifiedsome ask such strange questions as whether ‘curvy’ models should give an explanation to their parishioners when they lose weight.
The matter is difficult, because, once again, it reveals the little chicha (pun intended) and the ‘slavery’ of the image (depending on the ‘role’ that is represented) that is behind that movement of the ‘body positive’ which, as an idea, is wonderful but, in practice, it gives the feeling that has remained little more than a label that some squeeze and make profitable as if it were the golden goose.
Also, although we insist on saying how much we love each other and how satisfied we feel in our skin on social networks, we live in a time in which the focus remains exaggeratedly placed on the physical. And in a very specific physique. Which makes us especially fragile and vulnerable.
Stories like that of Dronme Davis highlight that ichildlike naivety with which we identify with people we don’t know at all and who tell us about a movie on Instagram that is nothing more than a ‘performance’ (Are we talking about fitness ‘influencers’ who only go to the gym for a photo, couples in love who can’t stand each other, or apostles of healthy living who smoke secretly?).
And, it must be said, it would be appropriate to point out that feeling proud of our bodies is a wonderful thing, but that this feeling of self-acceptance should not go against the main reason why we should worry about our weight: our health.
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