“One body type has to go out of fashion for another to come in, as if women’s bodies are able to contort and change of their own accord based on societal whims.”
The end of that reign has been met with a sigh of relief for some women who aren’t naturally built like Nicki Minaj or unwilling to undergo the notoriously dangerous surgical procedures in order to be. The dangers of the BBL are well documented. A medical report in 2017 stated that it has a mortality rate of 1 in 3,000 patients, making it one of the most deadly cosmetic surgery procedures in the world.
“Some women are happy to see the BBL trend ‘end’ because they enjoyed the privilege of slim bodies being the most desired,” journalist Chloe Sihrecently. “Curvy bodies becoming more celebrated takes away from that power. It reaffirms their internalised fatphobic belief that slim bodies are respectable and timeless.”
Whilst there is some truth in the tweet, the inverse is of course true, too: BBL bodies as a trend similarly reinforced the idea that women who are flat chested, who are slim without being “slim thick” were not desirable. The issue is these body types being posited against each other; the whole point of reducing women’s bodies to trends is so that women have to duke it out. And whilst BBLs celebrate “curves”, it’s only ever been curves in the “right” places.
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