Cosmopolitan magazine is being criticized on social media for suggesting that there is nothing harmful about being obese, leading to accusations that the UK edition is putting lives at risk in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis.
The publication published an article in which it photographed and interviewed 11 women representing the different “Sizes” of healthy.
“’Healthy’ can be a loaded word. We ask these women to open up about their personal journeys to claim ‘health’ as their own “, Cosmo explained. One of the women, social media influencer, Callie Thorpe, told the magazine that she focuses on what her body can “do”, not how “looks.” Echoing similar feelings, yoga teacher Jessamyn Stanley said she embraced her body size and learned to ignore “phobic comments” on social media.
The Twitter users who responded to the appeal did not seem particularly sympathetic, however.
“This is how the left has distorted so many minds: they say that if we don’t * celebrate * obesity, it means that we * hate * obese people”, noticed 1 answer.
Another disapproving commentator pointed out how Cosmopolitan’s idea of “healthy” changed radically over the years and shared an old edition of the magazine that was dedicated to “health and happiness” featuring actress Audrey Hepburn.
The claim that there is nothing harmful to health in being overweight is not only wrong, but also irresponsible, others have argued.
“Why is Cosmopolitan trying to kill obese people, who are particularly vulnerable to Covid?” asked conservative analyst Ian Miles Cheong.
Obesity has been found to increase the risk of severe Covid-19 symptoms and impair the body’s ability to create antibodies, making overweight people more susceptible to virus mutations. Notably, an article published in July concluded that obesity was the most common comorbidity among Covid-related deaths.
This is not the first time that Cosmo has been criticized for celebrating giant bodies. In 2018, its cover featured an obese model, Tess Holliday. It was widely criticized for promoting an unhealthy lifestyle. The American model did not apologize for her appearance in the edition and attacked the “Horrible people” who they were “Regretting how being on the cover of a glossy magazine impacts your petty life.”
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