Halsey Apologizes For Sharing Photograph Depicting Her Struggle With Eating Disorder

[hewontgo]

#Halsey says sorry to fans triggered by photograph depicting eating disorder - "I would never want to harm someone who shares my struggle" https://t.co/AOlg8sdfa9
- ET Canada (@ETCanada) December 29, 2020
The viral trend sees fans request photographs from certain moments in a celebrity’s life

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[nametags]

The shittiest part were the fans trying to “call her out” for being insensitive were going out of their way to keep sharing the photo while shaming her for posting it. Make it make sense.

[onadarknight]

Her fans sound...

[spellmanian]

I wish people would stop posting pics of themselves at their LW period. People are always doing that in their ~recovery stories etc. and it triggers so many people, it's basically thinspo. Like that was a clear body check pic from Halsey.

[obliquium]

I had someone ask me to see a LW pic when I confessed I had previously struggled with an ED and was legitimately shocked. I have very few of them because I still felt fat and ugly even at my LW. In the few I do have I look fairly healthy, which fuelled my ED for years because I didn't look like I was eating less than 800 calories a day. I was constantly telling myself it was fine because it was the '00s and I didn't look like Nicole Richie running on the beach level skinny

[anderbobo]

I am *so* glad camera phones weren't a thing when I was at my lowest, in fact i think i only have two pictures of myself from when I was really unwell and I haven't looked at them in years.

[soupdupcosmogrl]

I have so few full-body shots from that time, but a lot of selfies taken with my digital camera (this was 2010-11). Weirdly, I wish I had more. I had such a distorted body image, it would be interesting to see more of what I really looked like. I know how I felt and what I thought.

[bullybreed]

The viral trend sees fans request photographs from certain moments in a celebrity’s life.
Stop it
Halsey was asked to share an image of herself at her lowest point.
STOP IT like what is celebrity culture, how is this an appropriate thing to ask another human, why would you want to see a picture of someone at their lowest. This is ridiculous to ask for and ridiculous to indulge as an ask

[bullybreed]

(Thumbs downing those asks 🤢, not you!)

[ginainabottle]

I think depending on how you frame it, it could be sort of a wake up call? If a celeb posts a picture of them looking amazing but captions explaining why/how they actually felt miserable that day, it might help shed a light on why people shouldn't compare themselves to celebs or anyone they see being "perfect" on social media. A happy, glamorous image doesn't always reflect a happy, glamorous life.

I know it sounds painfully obvious and sure that's a conclusion anyone with minimal critical thinking skills could come to, but sadly most people lack those.

[damaliaraya]

So “share a moment at your lowest but oh, wait, not like that?”

What did people expect, exactly? No picture of someone at rock bottom (be it an ED or depression or, idk, abuse) would be non-triggering to some.

I suppose avoiding the situation completely would have been her best bet.

[jellycar]

the ones she got asked were so fucked up like i didn’t see the one in the post but i remember one like “post a picture of when you felt depressed but nobody knew” wtf

[biqtch]

i get that putting a trigger warning on the photo itself instead of a prior slide does absolutely nothing because by the time they've read it they've already seen it and that's upsetting but the most vocally angry people were reposting the photo everywhere to show everyone what they were talking about - it tells you exactly what most of the outrage was really about.

[nametags]

Most of her fans are fucking idiots and love to hurt her as much as possible