Lili Reinhart gets honest about her body dysmorphia

[just444]

I truly wonder how anyone survives or gets through this life without having severe BD. Maybe it’s a cruel amplified version in combination with my OCD, but damn. The amount of time I’ve wasted thinking about my arms in the last few months is insane.
I wanted to throw my own…
- Lili Reinhart (@lilireinhart) September 14, 2023

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[spoil]

I feel for her immensely on this. I always feel like my arms are huge and flabby and unslightly and I body check them constantly/along with my collarbone and shoulder blades because I have an obsessive fixation on them poking out a lot. Body dysmorphia is a monster and sadly I don’t think there any many people who don’t have it, men and women to some extent.

[agnmag]

I hate my arms so much I don’t remember the last time I’ve shown them in public. It was probably ten years ago when I put on a sleeveless blouse or dress.

[spoil]

:( I’m really sorry, I try to just brave it because I know it’s just my ED brain ranting at me trying to make me feel bad and that most people wouldn’t even notice my arms. Those thoughts are just telling you untrue things, have to keep remembering that 💛

[agnmag]

What I’m going to talk about next is only my personal experience. There’s nothing in my life that I hate as much as my ED, nothing that has been ruining my life as much as that. I can deal with depression. Sometimes it’s worse, sometimes it’s better, but at least there are periods in which I don’t think about it. With an ED, it’s impossible. I obviously have to eat every day, a few times a day, so not thinking about food is never an option. I think about my body (how much I hate it and wouldn’t want anyone to see it) and food (what I’m going to eat, if it won’t be too caloric, how much I’ve already eaten, if I can perhaps skip the next meal, and so on) all the time. If I could go back in time and change one thing in my life, I would’ve never started dieting when I was 13. I was so slim then I have no idea why I wanted to lose weight in the first place. It just shows how twisted my perception of my body was. And still is

[curdlesnoots]

About an hour ago, a family member who’d been drinking told me that we were both ‘so much fatter than we should be.’ A lot of my work colleagues are the same age and jfc, no wonder younger generations are just as fucked up about their bodies.

[wonky]

mine is full body tbh and i would say i'm not really a fully functioning adult because of it in the sense that there are many things i won't do or won't wear because of my issues with my body.

and some of my body issues came from random ONTD comments lmao like they were just talking about whatever but they'd highlight an "issue" with someone's body and i'd be like "oh....i have/don't have that..." and then i'm aware of that bodily failing for the rest of my life lmfao

[peasantings]

ONTD is ROUGH on people’s looks. Even still.

[arellaj]

Oh god, me too. I have that body type some women have where your arms and thighs have more fat than most women and my arms looking fat bothers me so much. No matter how much weight I lose, these spots are always the hardest to slim down. Once, I lost 30 pounds and stayed the same jean size. The older I get, the more I don't care about it but I still won't wear really short sleeved shirts because of how they make my arms look.

[lone_concertina]

I lost 75 lbs and went from a 16/18 to a 12/14. These pear shape thighs just won't quit

[sugarspice101]

I think about what my arms and thighs look like every day.