It’s a classic “why is everyone talking about this?” rant, a charge that is then drawn-out by deciding to talk about it more. (I’d say this is spiritually inverse to the “no one is talking about this” complaint followed by a link to a major news publication’s coverage of said topic.) But Frankel veers into the deeply dubious when she explains that she doesn’t think Paltrow’s behavior promotes disordered eating because her fan base isn’t teenage girls.

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“Her base is middle aged moms,” she says. “My daughter doesn’t know who Gwyneth Paltrow is,” therefore, “when people are talking about eating disorders” what kind of threat is there really?? Though I’m not surprised at the fact, I appreciate the dig that her 12-year-old isn’t a Goop loyalist. But, more seriously, Frankel clearly has a very surface level understanding of how disordered eating works and who is susceptible to it. Anyone with an “almond mom” (or who’s seen them discussed on TikTok) knows that obsessive dieting is not limited to your teens.

“We’re waiting on the ‘my vagina smells like bone broth’ product,” Frankel concluded. Can’t say I am, but appreciate the joke.

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