Millennial Office Worker Still Grappling With Legacy Of Toxic Diet Culture Just Going To Have Half A Treatie

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | Contact

A local woman who is still trying to deprogram herself from the toxic diet culture passed down from her mum has found herself yet again slicing a sweet treat in half today, after one of the girls in the office brought in some birthday cupcakes.

Like many other millennial women, Billie Palmer, 32, has been a victim of early 2000s toxic beauty standards – notably, the trashy magazines she’d read at Woolies – and has a mum that’s still obsessed with keeping a slim figure well until her sixties – or ‘almond mum’, as the internet has coined it.

Though millennials have worked hard to introduce the body positivity movement, body standards have slowly begun creeping into thin being ‘in’ again, with some social commentators believing there to be a correlation between the rise conservatism and the boom of pilates and running.

Though for Billie, those standards never really went away.

Slicing half a cupcake, Billie’s stubbornness will likely result in one of two events – she will either return to the second half of the cupcake in half an hour, or another victim of diet culture will reclaim the other half.

More to come.