Sucked In: How '90s and 2000s Diet Culture Altered a Generation's Body Image
Michelle Konstantinovsky
Mar 2027 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Beth Hicks
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A deeply researched, humorous, and heartbreaking examination of the culture that uniquely warped millennial women’s body image, plus tangible tactics for overcoming the generational trauma
While every generation of women has indisputably battled its own body image demons and cultural pressure to be thin, millennial women have been burdened with a unique set of circumstances as the first generation to grow up with the internet (and the last to remember life without it).
Sucked In explores the countless ways millennial women have been distinctly and uniquely conditioned to hate their bodies — from the overwhelming influx of fat-free food products to the reign of the heroin chic era, the proliferation of pro-Ana blogs, the tyranny of tabloid culture, and the Perez Hilton-era body shaming. Journalist and author Michelle Konstantinovsky draws on her own experience as an elder millennial with a long history of pop culture worship and disordered eating, while also incorporating thorough research and interviews with psychologists, Hollywood stars, and even a few Kardashian scholars (seriously).
With 28.8 million Americans suffering from an eating disorder at some point in their lifetime, Konstantinovsky looks at how a generation was conditioned to adopt a spectrum of seriously disordered thoughts and behaviors as a direct response to the problematic and dangerous messaging hurled their way since childhood. Within this deep exploration, Sucked In contemplates what a return to the popularization of disordered eating means for future generations and provides concrete, tangible steps to finally, completely let go and break the cycle.
While every generation of women has indisputably battled its own body image demons and cultural pressure to be thin, millennial women have been burdened with a unique set of circumstances as the first generation to grow up with the internet (and the last to remember life without it).
Sucked In explores the countless ways millennial women have been distinctly and uniquely conditioned to hate their bodies — from the overwhelming influx of fat-free food products to the reign of the heroin chic era, the proliferation of pro-Ana blogs, the tyranny of tabloid culture, and the Perez Hilton-era body shaming. Journalist and author Michelle Konstantinovsky draws on her own experience as an elder millennial with a long history of pop culture worship and disordered eating, while also incorporating thorough research and interviews with psychologists, Hollywood stars, and even a few Kardashian scholars (seriously).
With 28.8 million Americans suffering from an eating disorder at some point in their lifetime, Konstantinovsky looks at how a generation was conditioned to adopt a spectrum of seriously disordered thoughts and behaviors as a direct response to the problematic and dangerous messaging hurled their way since childhood. Within this deep exploration, Sucked In contemplates what a return to the popularization of disordered eating means for future generations and provides concrete, tangible steps to finally, completely let go and break the cycle.
A deeply researched, humorous, and heartbreaking examination of the culture that uniquely warped millennial women’s body image, plus tangible tactics for overcoming the generational trauma
While every generation of women has indisputably battled its own body image demons and cultural pressure to...
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About the author
Michelle Konstantinovsky is a Bay Area-based freelance journalist, marketing writer, and UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism alum. She’s written extensively on health, body image, entertainment, lifestyle, design, and tech for outlets like Vogue, Vanity Fair, Scientific American, Glamour, Shape, Self, AFAR, Cosmopolitan, and more. Michelle has also served as the health and wellness editor at Fitbit, senior health writer at One Medical, contributing editor at California Home + Design, and marketing consultant at Carrot Fertility. In addition to being a mom, Michelle identifies as a Bravo TV fan with a somewhat encyclopedic knowledge of useless pop culture trivia.
Michelle Konstantinovsky is a Bay Area-based freelance journalist, marketing writer, and UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism alum. She’s written extensively on health, body image, entertainment, lifestyle, design, and tech for outlets like Vogue, Vanity Fair, Scientific American, Glamour, S...
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