I read the book again recently and this is now my pet peeve - when I originally read it at like 16 I thought the same but now I think it really is intended to show that Bridget has real body image issues. Like it's made clear that all the sane people around her think she's normal weight.
Agreed, I think that's made very clear when she gets as skinny as she "wants" to be and all her friends are like "you look terrible/we liked you better before" because she gave up all the stuff she enjoyed and now just looks sickly. Her friend's botched nose job is another nod about how most of our insecurities are not based in reality. The movie's greatest flaw is that it took her weight obsession at face value.
It always seemed very clear to me that was the intention - but I can totally get how it doesn't read that way to everyone. It's always a bit of a tripping hazard in first person perspective that you have to walk the line between "signal to your reader that your character misperceives this" and "keep the voice consistent to your character's beliefs." It's very easy to just not flag it hard enough to the reader
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I think they in this case is the author who also made Bridget think she was fat when she was 125 lb so she's just an all-around ridiculous person lbr.
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