“Yeah, I have a different body type. I’m just bigger and sometimes the clothes, when I’d see the show, were so sort of full of volume … it was only this one moment where I hugged both of them but there was no sleeve. It was just like, I enveloped them. I felt like this mountainous thing that swallowed them alive.”

Discussions around body image in the 2000s have been increasing over the last few years amid the resurgence of Y2K culture and many stars during that time speaking about their experiences in Hollywood.

Actor Melanie Lynskey has been vocal about her journey in Hollywood and recently shared that she was body shamed on the set of Coyote Ugly.

Lynskey starred in the 2000 cult classic film alongside Piper Perabo and Tyra Banks and said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, that production staff scrutinised her physical appearance, alongside some of her co-stars.

“It was ridiculous,” Lynskey told the publication. “I was already starving myself and as thin as I could possibly be for this body, and I was still a (size) four. That was already people putting a lot of Spanx on me in wardrobe fittings and being very disappointed when they saw me, the costume designer being like, ‘Nobody told me there would be girls like you.’”

This time in pop culture was pretty damn dark for women with the pressures society placed on them to fit a particular look no matter what it took to get there. To see the women of that time speak years later about coming into their own and rejecting toxic beauty ideals is admirable to see and reminds us all that the journey towards acceptance may be a long one at times (social media doesn’t make it easier), but it is worth it in the end.

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