Celebrity ‘fat-shaming’ can have a ripple effect through the population at large, leading more women to develop a negative attitude towards weight, a study has found. Scientists from McGill University in Canada compared 20 instances of celebrity fat-shaming with women’s implicit attitudes about weight before and after the event. AdvertisingThey found that instances of celebrity fat-shaming were associated with an increase in women’s implicit negative weight-related attitudes. They also found that from 2004-2015, implicit weight bias was on the rise more generally. They analysed women’s implicit anti-fat attitudes 2 weeks before and 2 weeks after each celebrity fat-shaming event.

Source: Indian Express April 20, 2019 08:03 UTC