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What the GLP-1 era means for body positivity

A cultural shift toward downsizing fueled by a GLP-1 drug boom and slimming celebrities is destabilizing for people trying to achieve acceptance, mental health experts and body positivity advocates tell Axios. Why it matters: Still, the body positivity movement, advocates say, is an ongoing fight that won't shrink with the trends.


  • "Our brains must see evidence of body diversity," says Zoë Bisbing, a psychotherapist and the founder of Body-Positive Therapy NYC. If we don't, "our brains clock our bodies as wrong."
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