She was unapologetically rude, relentlessly funny and, or so it seemed, comfortable with herself. One of the most appealing things about Wilson was how she remained blithely immune to all attempts at Hollywoodification. Alongside all the patronising “you go girl” commentary on Wilson’s social media is another stream of commentary telling her sadly that she looked better before, which seems to entirely miss the point. The body positivity movement – which started out with the very worthwhile intention of redressing that balance – has become yet another tool to beat women with. The truth is, of course, we don’t know what’s going on in anyone’s life in those images. The toxic, retrograde subtext is that the person in the “before” is a portrayal of tragic, unrealised potential and misery, while the “after” represents success, fulfilment and happiness. We’re invited to read all about Adele’s “incredible weightloss journey” or enjoy the endless “before” and “after” slideshows of Rebel Wilson wearing different size frocks. When one of the rare, non-conforming famous women in the public eye – women who take up more space on the planet and aren’t obviously engaged in extreme shrinkage tactics – does eventually turn up in a smaller dress size, the relief is almost palpable.
Since then, with the arrival of social media, the tyranny of selfies and face tuning apps, the pressure to conform to one, rigid body type has only intensified. It’s an accusation, dismissal and rejection.” “Fat” as Caitlin Moran wrote in her 2011 memoir is “not just a simple, descriptive word, like “brunette” or 34. It’s hardly news by now to point out that the bodies of women – especially famous women – are seen as public property, political statements, morality tales and weapons. Rebel Wilson (third from left) as Fat Amy in Pitch Perfect Photograph: Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File Rebel Wilson at the Australians in Film Awards in 2016. What kind of toxic society tells women that looking good means looking nothing like themselves? Would the ultimate “weight loss success story” need to involve vanishing altogether? Since when did “shrinking” become a desirable beauty standard? It’s depressing how much of the coverage of Rebel Wilson’s weight loss invoked the terms “shrinking” and “unrecognisable” as compliments. Wilson has clearly worked hard to improve her fitness and is happy with how it’s going. “Thanks for all the love so far on my ‘Year of Health’ journey – when I was reaching for the candies last night after dinner I thought to myself ‘hmmmm.better not’ and had a bottle of water instead x 8kg’s to go until I hit my goal – hopefully I can do it by the end of the year x,” she wrote on Instagram. To my eyes though, she has always been gorgeous. She does look lovely, and surprisingly cheery for a person who has spent the past nine months chewing everything 30 times. I’ll spare you the effort of clicking: she has lost 18kg, reportedly by following the Mayr Method diet plan of eating high alkaline whole foods very slowly, aiming to count out 30 chews per mouthful. She is three quarters of the way through a “year of health” that she embarked on in January, and doing what the tabloid headlines refer to as “flaunting” her “stunning” weight loss in a “skintight” blue dress.
In a photo posted on Instagram at the weekend, the Pitch Perfect actor is seen standing by her front door in a blue dress that is reportedly several sizes smaller than a different blue dress she wore previously.
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Rebel Wilson is known for lots of things: her superb comic timing her roles in Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids delivering what is arguably the funniest speech in Bafta history successfully suing a media conglomerate, Bauer Media, for articles calling her a serial liar, although the size of the award was later overruled.īut all of that pales into nothing beside her latest achievement, at least if the number of headlines and social media shares devoted to something is a measure of its global significance.