Ozempic is not skinny privilege

by Ana | December 28, 2025 | Healthy Eating | Comments are off for this post.

It’s problematic when a woman on Ozempic talks about “thin privilege” while repeatedly saying “I’m skinny” because it sends mixed, harmful messages—even if she doesn’t intend to.

Here’s why it’s bad ?

1. It recenters the conversation on herself

Talking about privilege should shift focus away from the privileged person and toward people harmed by the system.
Repeatedly emphasizing “I’m skinny”:

  • Pulls attention back to her body
  • Turns a structural issue into personal validation
  • Undermines the point she claims to be making

It becomes performative awareness, not real accountability.

2. It erases the role of medical and financial access

Ozempic isn’t just about willpower — it involves:

  • Medical access
  • Insurance or money
  • Doctors willing to prescribe it

Calling herself “skinny” without consistently naming that medication + access played a role:

  • Reinforces the myth that thinness = effort or virtue
  • Makes others feel like failures for not achieving the same result
  • Masks real privilege behind a “body positivity” shield

3. It reinforces thinness as the ultimate social currency

Even while talking about privilege, repeatedly asserting thinness subtly says:

“Being skinny still matters. It still defines me.”

That:

  • Reaffirms thinness as a status symbol
  • Contradicts the supposed critique of beauty standards
  • Keeps fatphobia intact instead of challenging it

4. It harms people struggling with food, weight, or meds

For people who:

  • Can’t access Ozempic
  • Didn’t lose weight on it
  • Regained weight
  • Have eating disorders

This kind of messaging can:

  • Trigger shame or comparison
  • Make bodies feel like moral achievements
  • Turn medication into a new hierarchy (“skinny and enlightened”)

5. It confuses honesty with humility

There’s a big difference between:

  • Honest disclosure: “I lost weight with medical help, and that gives me social privilege.”
  • Self-centering: “I’m skinny now” (repeatedly), while claiming to critique the system

The first builds trust.
The second builds resentment.