Followers Feel ‘abandoned’ As Plus-size Influencers Embrace Weight Loss, Blame Trump For Cultural Shift

Fans of overweight influencers are reportedly emotion "abandoned" arsenic those they look up to are choosing to suffer weight. 

"I deliberation nan audiences that are emotion abandoned, successful my opinion, mostly nan feedback is not, ‘I’m huffy that you’re skinny,’" Lydia Okello, a writer and exemplary who was quoted successful a caller Teen Vogue article entitled, "The Community Ozempic Stole: As Influencers Lose Weight, Their Followers Feel ‘Abandoned.’" 

"The feedback is, ‘why are you acting for illustration nan assemblage that I person is not worthy immoderate more,’" Okello added, who calls herself "fat enby manner bud" connected her X profile. 

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Some celebrities that person precocious made news pinch their weight-loss achievements see Lizzo, who recently celebrated reaching her weight-loss goal, saying she hadn’t seen that number connected nan scales since 2014.   (Dave J Hogan/Getty Images)

Some moreover spell truthful acold arsenic to blasted President Donald Trump and his management for nan changing landscape. 

"We’re successful a clip erstwhile we person an management which is trying to power america successful each sense," said Wray Serna, laminitis of nan clothing brand, WRAY, that calls itself an "inclusive, good creation inspired clothing line."

"I deliberation it’s a wide taste connection group are receiving that is astir control, astir conforming, astir making yourself arsenic ‘perfect’ arsenic possible," Serna added. "I deliberation it’s profoundly rooted successful patriarchy. I deliberation it’s profoundly rooted successful racism."

She said nan manufacture has fixed her community. 

"[Fashion] was specified a disappointing manufacture … until I opened up my sizing and discovered this full different broadside of manner that I didn’t moreover cognize about," Serna said. 

"That was 1 of nan astir astonishing things that could person happened," she added. "It made maine judge successful manner again, successful humanity again. I recovered that organization to beryllium truthful welcoming and kind."

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Some moreover spell truthful acold arsenic to blasted President Donald Trump and his management for nan inclination toward weight loss. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Some celebrities who person precocious made news pinch their weight-loss achievements see Lizzo, who recently celebrated reaching her weight-loss goal, saying she hadn’t seen that number connected nan standard since 2014.  

The vocalist had successful nan past criticized speculation that her weight nonaccomplishment was owed to taking Ozempic. 

Others connected weight-loss journeys see Kelly Clarkson, Kathy Bates, Eric Stonestreet, John Goodman and Adele. 

Okello said she thinks nan fascination of immoderate pinch losing weight is contradictory to nan body-positivity connection they person embraced. 

"I don’t judge it’s my correct to show personification [my sentiment on] whether aliases not they want to suffer weight," Okello told Teen Vogue. "But I person seen influencers who talked a batch astir accepting their assemblage wherever it was, aliases appreciating really they look sloppy [of weight] really flipping nan book and utilizing nan measurement they looked antecedently arsenic a antagonistic opposition to wherever they are now. That portion is what I really disagree with."

(Lydia Okello, a writer and model, said she thinks nan fascination of immoderate pinch losing weight is contradictory to nan body-positivity connection that plus-size influencers person embraced. )

Emma Zack, laminitis & CEO of Berriez, a vintage and plus-sized clothing shop, besides sees inconsistency successful nan inclination toward weight loss. 

"It’s this weird dichotomy, erstwhile a positive size influencer who has made their full business connected being positive size gets thin, we’re not entitled to talk astir their assemblage changes," Zack told Teen Vogue. "They don't beryllium america this explanation. However they’ve built their full level connected assemblage positivity. So erstwhile they’re getting bladed and ignoring it, what’s going on?"

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