Anti-Diet Diet Club Podcast

From Tae Bo and P90X to Insanity and our first terrifying trips to the gym, we're revisiting the fitness trends that raised us (and the insecurities that came along for the ride). Join us as we unpack our Millennial fitness origin stories and how our relationships with exercise have evolved since the days of workout DVDs and doing sit ups on our bedroom floors.

This week, we're taking a trip back to the days of shirtless Abercrombie models, aggressively scented stores, impossibly tiny clothing, and the social hierarchy of carrying the right shopping bag. From Abercrombie & Fitch to Lululemon, we're unpacking the brands that shaped our adolescence, the beauty standards they sold us, and the deeply questionable lengths we went to just to fit in. Including, apparently, making your own thongs. Nothing says Millennial girlhood quite like spending your allowance on a new insecurity.

How small was too small, and why did we desperately want to be that small anyway?

Gab and Paige revisit the ultra-thin celebrity culture of the 2000s, from The Girls Next Door to Lindsay Lohan, and unpack the confusing message we grew up with: women were relentlessly judged for being “too skinny” while their bodies were simultaneously held up as the ideal.

We’re talking celebrity bodies, tabloid culture, and what growing up in the era of “heroin chic” did to our own self-perception.

Gab & Paige discuss Tyra Banks, Britney Spears & all the celebrities we were made to believe were fat in the early 2000s.