Old thread but here it goes. Three years later with the Ozempic craze I think now big pharma is cashing in on selling a "skinny drug" to obese people so now it's the opposite.
However, they did make a killing on sick people with obesity related illnesses for the last three decades so who really knows if they were trying to keep people from losing weight.
Body positivity was a disaster. And it was NOT supposed to be what it became. Body positivity was about accepting body flaws originally. Let's say a pear shaped woman with no breasts and big hips learning not to hate her body as it was. Instead the movement morphed into a celebration of obesity by 2015. Oddly enough Ozempic culture is making thin in again.