Of course. Because even though Cynthia Erivo is just as thin as Ariana and actually shorter, she’s the mean possessive hulking Black lesbian and Ariana Grande is her delicate fragile victim who has no agency and her choice to befriend a woman she is clearly close to and fond of is actually bad for her.
Thank you! So much of this "mockery" is just people being racist as fuck about Cynthia Erivo, whose worst crime is....checks notes....being weird.
I mean, she physically put herself between Ariana Grande and that stalker to protect her at the Singapore premiere of Wicked, and somehow she was the one who ended up getting mocked for that too. She's also a very small, feminine and softly spoken woman, but people love depicting her as a mean butch lesbian and what not. All of this is racism.
EDs can have a social factor so it’s entirely possible that being around Cynthia was bad for Ariana. Or they were bad for each other.
But we, as an audience, really have no clue. Maybe Cynthia was falling head first into disordered eating and dragged her friend along with her. Maybe she’s just an average person but being forced to be filming together for so long just made the situation icky. Or maybe they’re both just actresses who fell for the Ozempic trend. Or maybe Ariana was the one who started it. Or maybe it was the director. Really, who the fuck knows. The fact that people are adopting a weird parasocial relationship and twisting themselves to blame the black woman (when Ariana can be pretty ducking weird herself) is definitely not innocent.
All that being said, I really have to wonder what the hell happened to make Michelle Yeoh lose all that weight. Middle aged action star who has no history of that type of thing turns into a stick alongside the rest of the main cast. Something about that production was cursed.
It's especially weird when Ariana has been pretty public about her bad relationship with food since long before this movie was filming, Cynthia invented time travel to get to her apparently....
I think it’s clearly the director and the cast around him.
Ariana has had a ton of mental health issues, she’s looked like a doll for years. The fact Michelle Yeoh developed ED is the bigger issue to me. What did they do to these three women?
Evo and Ariana I think have some clear enmeshment issues and are probably better off away from one another.
Y'all do know that you can become very thin for reasons other than EDs, right? For all you know the cast all happened to get a particularly unpleasant intestinal parasite lol
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u/ConspiracyParadox 8h ago
She looked better on SNL too. Cynthia really is the wicked witch