So, I have been debating talking about this, but I think if I don’t I will just tie myself in knots and it is behind a spoiler. I know talking about her weight was mentioned as a trigger, but Jack does the same back at us and at all the people in her follows who have EDs without spoilers.
So, she consistently refers to the fact that she is underweight and is a waif. This is at the same time as implying that she eats a huge amount of food (while her photos show that this is widely untrue). These pieces of information want us and her followers/the public to think that she has an ED of some kind.
Now here is where it gets dangerous. The common misconception is that you need to be underweight to suffer and be diagnosed with an (the most recognised) ED. You don’t. The majority of people who are suffering from an ED today are not underweight. But if they see Jack, who is not, and never has been underweight (even last year when she lost some, she just altered her pose, clothing and facetune to make it look that way) claim she is, see what she eats, but read what she says she eats, their ideals about body size and food will be completely damaged (in a similar way to those who post WIEIAD
Videos).
I am sorry if this is a massive long spoiler post. I don’t even know if I have expressed myself well. All I know is having taught students who have needed to have been hospitalised for AN, I know what underweight looks like. Furthermore, those on F and D, know that I was (actually still am
) struggling with this. Her words harm so many.
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