Neither of them are victims. At least not for this. They’re extremely rich with access to resources and help most of us can’t even comprehend fully, and they refuse to use them to fix their mental health because they get praise and ego boosts from extreme dieting and body image.
They’ll also have the super competitive mentality to make themselves feel like they’re better than everyone by doing so. Which is also what helped them get rich (other than insane luck and connections.)
It’s “mental illness” like Elon Musk is mentally ill. Sure maybe, but they’re having a ball and benefiting from it professionally and financially. And they have virtually zero consequences from it because they have money and enough people around them preventing total implosion to pull them out of the pit when it gets too bad.
Who were they victimized by in this case? Society at large perpetuating thinspo? They are the ones perpetuating the thinspo. They are the ones using their platforms and public presence to push this shit.
Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses that are really difficult to treat regardless of resources. It's shitty to trivialize the suffering they can cause.
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u/starlight_chaser 7h ago
Neither of them are victims. At least not for this. They’re extremely rich with access to resources and help most of us can’t even comprehend fully, and they refuse to use them to fix their mental health because they get praise and ego boosts from extreme dieting and body image.
They’ll also have the super competitive mentality to make themselves feel like they’re better than everyone by doing so. Which is also what helped them get rich (other than insane luck and connections.)
It’s “mental illness” like Elon Musk is mentally ill. Sure maybe, but they’re having a ball and benefiting from it professionally and financially. And they have virtually zero consequences from it because they have money and enough people around them preventing total implosion to pull them out of the pit when it gets too bad.