[ SECRET POST #7078 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7078 ⌋

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Transcript by OP

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When I watched The Devil Wears Prada, I thought the joke was that Andy looked exactly the same when she was "fat" and then "sample sized". Turns out they actually put a padded prosthetic butt on her for the earlier scenes, so it wasn't a joke at all. I knew it was fatphobic but wow.

[(Anonymous)]

As a woman who's never been below a size 12 as an adult, I can't tell the difference between a size 2 and a size 8, sorry. Thin girls be like, "look, I'm so bloated!" but you still look slim to me, girl. There are like four body types: too thin, slim to average, chubby/thick, and fat.

So if you're sweating a ten pound gain, friends, relax...nobody else notices.

[(Anonymous)]

People don't realize how small a pound actually is.

[(Anonymous)]

Absolutely. My British friends only describe minimal weight gain or loss in terms of “half a stone” at the smallest unit, which is 7 pounds or ~3 kilos. I always think that’s a much healthier threshold for discussing body weight.

[(Anonymous)]

Really, really depends on your build/frame size. I'm 5'3" with a very petite build and you will absolutely notice ten extra pounds on me because I'm so small to begin with.

[(Anonymous)]

Let me get this straight. You were actually surprised that a movie about fashion was fat phobic....

[(Anonymous)]

No, I was surprised that what I thought was a joke about the otherwise clear fat phobia was in fact not a joke, in a comedy.

[(Anonymous)]

OP has already corrected you, but to add:

It's not just a "movie about fashion", it's a movie exposing a toxic workplace and particularly the toxic control freak who oversees it. Given that part of the toxicity is that the employees are held to the same ridiculous beauty standards as high fashion models, it's not crazy for op to have thought the movie might have been being clever about it.

Unfortunately, like so much media of the time, it just happily perpetuated fat phobia instead of critiquing it. Emily's diet of starving herself until she's about to pass out then eating a cube of cheese is funny! But Andy going down a dress size because she's working 14+ hour days at an incredibly stressful job with only a 15 minute lunch break that she often has to skip is a victory!

[(Anonymous)]

Wait, they /only/ added butt padding? Not like a full fat suit or padded breasts, or stomach? Even back then having a big butt wasn't bad... and also, that's entirely not how bodies work?? lol, I don't remember the movie, but that is absolutely the least effective way to make someone look heavy. I'm so confused.

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for making this and the color matching, Secret Maker!