I’d be okay with a functional guide to swimwear for changing bodies. Like:

Tweens want to feel grown up, and this ipecac is regularly fed to older girls in teen magazines. I’m sure the idea was to ape an “older” angle to appeal to girls who are starting to feel their individuality without reasoning out what they were actually saying/doing with the article.

Can we get this back?

It isn’t so much body-shaming as totally inappropriate cultural fat-phobic reinforcement at far too tender/impressionable an age. Which may be even more messed up.