As traditional "diet culture" became socially taboo, it rebranded itself as wellness. We stopped talking about "skinny" and started talking about "vibrancy," "toxins," and "gut health." But the pressure remained the same. When wellness becomes a performance—a set of aesthetic choices rather than a feeling—it can become just as exclusionary as the beauty standards body positivity tries to dismantle.
In a world that often measures worth by a number on a scale or the shape of a silhouette, the intersection of body positivity As traditional "diet culture" became socially taboo, it