Virgy Tovar is a social media influencer and she often talks about issues related to body image.

We need to realize that body positivity, body acceptance, whatever you want to call it, it's not just an idea.

It's not something like, oh, I learned like a, I learned like a recipe or like, oh, I learned a hat.

Virgy identifies as a fat person.

She has spent more than a decade talking about the importance of fat acceptance

and body positivity. We don't like our bodies. We are

afraid of food. We are afraid of fatness because we've been traumatized because we have been traumatized by fat gobia and by food shame.

Then about a year ago something weird happened she got an email asking her to promote

GLP1 drugs. These are the massively popular injectable drugs like

is Empic or Wagovey that people are using for weight loss.

At first, Virgy ignored it.

Why would anyone think that she would promote these drugs?

I think I even deleted a few without even thinking to keep the documentation because I thought of them as one-off spam

emails.

But Virgy started seeing other fat activists post about getting similar requests from marketing agencies,

asking them to promote these drugs.

And she realized those emails were real. It turns out this was part of a bigger plan to get

plus-size influencers to promote drugs like Ozumpic and Wagoe, and it's become divisive.

Shane O'Neill is a style reporter for the post, and he has been talking with influencers

like Virgy about how they see these drugs.

This is a really complicated issue because it butts up against all these questions about

what constitutes self-acceptance, what constitutes health, what constitutes public health

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