Facial tweakments, body-sculpting procedures, and injectable weight loss drugs are seemingly everywhere.
“What we see across beauty and diet culture is that often the solutions come with such high price tags that they’re only digging us deeper into the bias, because it’s like, ‘Okay, now this elite few can have this and everyone else can’t,’” says Sole-Smith. “And then that makes it all the more out of reach, because the standard is continuously moving.”
Despite the barriers to entry that come along with quick-fix culture—namely money—there’s still an immense amount of pressure to get on board. “There’s this feeling of, ‘If I,’” says Kneeland. “The pressure is the same that it’s always been: If there’s anything you can do [to fix a perceived flaw], then you should do it.” What feels crucially different now are the mental health implications.
“We have to be mindful of when we're having a judgmental thought about our body and give ourselves lots of compassion. Sort of like, ‘Of course, I'm having a bad thought about my body, because I am bombarded with messages that my body is not okay, so it makes sense [that] I'm feeling this way,’” says Dr. DeCaro.
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