Can We Please Stop Overanalyzing The Bodies Of Female Pop Stars?

Good Bodies

Betches

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Nutrition

4.4 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode of Diet Starts Tomorrow, Emily and Lauren discuss Billie Eilish’s recent interview with Rolling Stone where she talks about how she uses sex to decompress, either with a partner or solo. This leads into a discussion about the public's pervasive and CREEPY obsession with overanalyzing the bodies of pop stars. There’s a reason why Eilish is known for her oversized looks, and it’s not just because they’re trendy af. Nobody is off limits including Lana Del Rey, Selena Gomez, and even Taylor Swift, and let's not forget every millennial woman’s Roman Empire, the iconic tabloid photo of Jessica Simpson in high-waist jeans. Emily and Lauren talk about how this gave us all a collective sense of dysmorphia, and close on how it specifically has affected their own senses of self. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Just a reminder that Diet Starts Tomorrow is a podcast for entertainment purposes only.
0:05.2	It is not a medical podcast and does not constitute medical advice.
0:10.2	Always seek the advice of a physician or a health professional.
0:14.3	Hello and welcome to Diet Starts Tomorrow.
0:21.8	I'm Emily.
0:22.7	And I'm Lauren.
0:23.7	And we're sitting here on one of the first nice days of the year.
0:29.4	Beautiful.
0:30.3	Lauren's got on some kind of gorgeous prairie dress.
0:35.0	Not a prairie dress. It's like a rich girl, hot pink.
0:38.0	Yeah, but it's got that big balloon sleeve that reminds me of like little house on the prairie but in the best way.
0:44.9	But if you were like a betch.
0:47.1	Exactly.
0:48.1	Little betch on the prairie.
0:49.1	Little betch on the prairie, I love it.
0:51.7	We're doing a like a met-galis-spoof video. So by the time this comes out I'm sure you
0:57.2	can literally go on a Betches vertical or excuse me Betches Instagram page I think
1:02.0	the public probably doesn't call them verticals like we do.
1:04.8	Yeah they don't know your content manager vernacular.
1:08.8	Look in feed I guess people know what the feed is but it's for it's a sketch, but it also kind of works for podcasting.
1:15.3	Yeah, well, as usual, you are putting me to shame
1:17.8	with your podcast fits.
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