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Weight Loss Drugs and the Return of Heroin Chic!

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Milan Fashion Week, 2023 (via Getty Images) When the conversation started getting louder and louder about Ozempic and who did or didn't, I wasn't very invested or interested; it felt like another tedious, fantastical answer as a pill or pure mindless hype to take advantage of people's deepest vulnerabilities. Besides, this isn't my fight, and I didn't want to be one of those people who chime into conversations about weight loss with unearned authority and a million "helpful" tips to police someone else's body. Mostly, I regard the nitty-gritty painful details of weight struggles to be best told by those authentic voices that are silenced and drowned out enough by concern trolls; they don't need someone to talk  for  them; they need to be heard and seen and not be made to feel invisible or unworthy of opinions surrounding the politics of body size and beauty.  Weight loss miracles and people claiming to have cracked the code aren't new; it is ol