Just watched it. Here's my 2 cents:
If Taylor says she has/had an eating disorder, then I believe her and I wish her well in her recovery.
With that said, I really wish we could change the way we talk about eating disorders in this country, because it ALWAYS seems to reinforce this narrative that there are only two options for a woman to be: fat or sick. If you're maintaining a thin physique, you must be sick, and if you don't want to be sick then the only alternative is to be chubby. I fully understand that after years of disordered eating and heavy restricting someone might need to allow themselves to swing in the opposite direction for a while or they might simply find that they don't know how to have a healthy relationship with exercise and calorie control, so the only option they have that isn't an eating disorder is to let it go entirely. I'm not judging anyone who finds themselves in that position, but PLEASE don't act like it's the only way anyone can be. Plenty of people maintain that same low weight in a healthy way just like plenty of people suffer from eating disorders without being stick thin. If she needs to tell herself "no more calorie counting" because she knows any level of restriction will make her spiral into eating disorder mode, fine. But don't act as though the very act of counting calories is equivalent to a disorder.
If Taylor says she has/had an eating disorder, then I believe her and I wish her well in her recovery.
With that said, I really wish we could change the way we talk about eating disorders in this country, because it ALWAYS seems to reinforce this narrative that there are only two options for a woman to be: fat or sick. If you're maintaining a thin physique, you must be sick, and if you don't want to be sick then the only alternative is to be chubby. I fully understand that after years of disordered eating and heavy restricting someone might need to allow themselves to swing in the opposite direction for a while or they might simply find that they don't know how to have a healthy relationship with exercise and calorie control, so the only option they have that isn't an eating disorder is to let it go entirely. I'm not judging anyone who finds themselves in that position, but PLEASE don't act like it's the only way anyone can be. Plenty of people maintain that same low weight in a healthy way just like plenty of people suffer from eating disorders without being stick thin. If she needs to tell herself "no more calorie counting" because she knows any level of restriction will make her spiral into eating disorder mode, fine. But don't act as though the very act of counting calories is equivalent to a disorder.
