I’m fairly certain we’ve all noticed the celebrity anorexia trend becoming blatantly apparent in the last year or so. But another trend occurring concurrently in Hollywood is the form of modern slavery known as surrogacy. It’s glaring and flagrant how many (oftentimes very skinny) famous women are hiring women of a lower socioeconomic class to birth babies for them. Yet, while celebrities are becoming skinnier, the general population is going further and further in the opposite direction. Women cannot strive for this unreachable standard, so often become discouraged from fitness and its culture in general. A synchronicity of anorexia and obesity emerges with a negative correlation linked to class. All the while, less privileged women are being forced to sell a life-threatening bodily function to those who feel “the right” to have children. The body itself is always a battleground for women and girls.

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Chapters ~

00:00 Intro

10:07 The eating disorder as a patriarchal weapon

23:19 Feminised fitness

38:30 Surrogacy as slavery

53:55 Reinterpreting surrogacy

59:55 Conclusion: the body