Self Magazine Pitches Obesity As ‘Future Of Fitness’ While COVID Kills Obese PeopleBy: Tristan Justice
January 14, 2022
If the ‘Future of Fitness’ is the fetishization of obesity, the next pandemic will be far worse.
One year after Cosmopolitan Magazine ran glossy covers promoting obesity to young girls at the deadliest point in the coronavirus outbreak, declaring “This is healthy!”, Self Magazine is doing the same. On Tuesday, the women’s beauty publication debuted its first editorial package of 2022 with a campaign advertising the “Future of Fitness,” depicted by the visibly obese anti-health activist Jessamyn Stanley as its mascot.
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“It’s time to break free from fitness’s anti-fatness,” wrote magazine editor-in-chief Leta Shy in a column announcing the project, although individuals with obesity are three times as likely to end up hospitalized with Covid-19 and experience many other serious health risks.
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Source:
https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/14/self-magazine-pitches-obesity-as-future-of-fitness-while-covid-kills-obese-people/
