The Rise of “SkinnyTok” and the Return of Dangerous Diet Culture - 1197
The Chalene Show | Diet, Fitness & Life Balance
Chalene Johnson
4.8 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
You’ve seen it on your feed. Size 0 is trending again. Ozempic is the new green juice. And TikTok’s “wellness” content? It’s looking a lot like 2003 diet culture with a Gen Z filter.
In this episode, Chalene Johnson is breaking down the rise of “SkinnyTok,” the quiet (but aggressive) comeback of thin worship, and how it’s messing with our heads—especially if you’re a midlife woman trying to love your body and feel strong again.
We’ll talk about:
• Why these trends are not new—and why they’re so dangerous
• What’s really happening with body image on social media
• How to filter out the noise and focus on what actually works (without wrecking your hormones)
• My honest thoughts on Ozempic, rapid weight loss, and what to watch for
If you’ve ever felt like your worth is shrinking with your waistline, this one’s for you. It’s time we stopped letting teenage trends run our health.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up? Hey, thanks for hanging with me. We're going to talk about body image and what's going on. I think is a major trend, a skinny trend. And I don't love it. And I think there's a lot of dangers that we need to be aware of as women. And I want to be honest about my own thoughts and how this stuff can get into my head and how |
| 0:23.2 | there's so many good things coming from the gLP ones the somagletides the ozmpics there's so many |
| 0:30.9 | positives there's so many people whose lives are going to be saved from it but as with anything |
| 0:35.2 | like this there's so much potential for dangers. |
| 0:39.2 | And I mean, like, I just saw this video of Kyle Richards. |
| 0:43.3 | She's, if you're not familiar with the reality TV side of thing. |
| 0:46.3 | She's a Bravo housewife from Beverly Hills. |
| 0:48.9 | Her daughters have risen to their own fame. |
| 0:51.8 | They've got their own shows on Netflix, et cetera. |
| 0:53.9 | One of her youngest |
| 0:54.6 | daughter, Sophia, I think she's 25 years old, very adorable, cute figure, great body, thin |
| 1:01.1 | girl. Well, she starts getting thinner and thinner and thinner. And she has been very |
| 1:07.8 | transparent about her decision to go on Mangaro, which is another form of a |
| 1:13.5 | somaglite, semaglutide, glop1, etc. Injectable weight loss drug. And she's been very open about it |
| 1:20.5 | and talking about the journey and how she's been nauseous. And I think she's lost like 15 pounds |
| 1:25.1 | very rapidly over the course of a month. And then she shows |
| 1:30.2 | images of just gobs of hair in the sink and her hair falling out and saying, you guys, |
| 1:36.0 | don't try to tell me not to do this. Yes, I think I was cute before. I'm just cuter now. I'm |
| 1:41.9 | cuter, thinner. And that's the message. That's what we're going to talk about today. What is this messaging? And yeah, obviously younger women, I think, are most susceptible to it, but we are too. So let's talk about it, shall we? Listen, if you're going to walk, that's great. But don't feel like you have to because you're perfect just as you are. |
| 2:01.9 | We're just going to make sense of this stuff. |
| 2:03.4 | All right, let's do it. |
| 2:05.5 | I asked my stories today, what do you want me to talk about on the podcast? |
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