They’re both fine, thankfully! They both wanted to lose weight because they felt fat when they are far from it (16 hours of volleyball practice every week + good genetics), but I guess we can all identify with that. Still, social media is making everything worse. One of them showed me her IG feed and it’s FULL of…

I have a 13-year-old niece (not technically related, but I’m the funny single best friend of her mom’s who she knows better than her mom’s sisters) who is obsessed with a number of youtube celebrities. She and her friends gossip like we all did at their age (still do sometimes tbh), but instead of movie stars or their…

Yup, this. And honestly, fuck their hustle. They're taking advantage of vulnerable (and often underage) people, selling bullshit with the promise that it will make them look like their favorite celebrity who has money for trainers, personal chefs, and surgeries to make them look the way they do. I hope the FTC cracks…

A couple of months ago my 13 year-old cousins (twins) bought one of those “detox” teas (they’re laxatives ffs) because it was advertised by a youtuber they liked. They both secretly drank it everyday for about two weeks and one of the girls had to be hospitalised due to severe dehydration. That shit is dangerous. They…

I'm in total agreement with this move. Medical products and the advertisement of said products SHOULD be tightly regulated. There's a reason why many of these companies only advertise on social media - these detox laxative teas can't claim to have the health benefits they boast on SM due to regulations regarding…

Do these people wear normal clothes at home

I’d say because movies & TV aren’t trying to be real people saying they really use product X and trying to hide the fat endorsement check behind the curtain.

Sometimes I Google the shit my Facebook friends are selling because it seems scammy (it turns out it always is) and the current one among the people I know is “Thrive”.

A lot of crappy photo editing. The background is warped. You can see where she has pushed in various parts of her body (waist, arms, shoulders) to make them look ridiculously slimmer. The FTC should make people use a hashtag for that shit too. #warptool #photostretched #notmyactualbody

I personally haven’t because I always assume it’s product placement and don’t trust celebrities for recommendations, but I can completely believe there are lots of people who, even if they realize it’s an ad, still believe that the celebrity uses the product, and want to feel closer to their idol. If the instagram ads…

Khloe’s gotten lollipop head skinny

Probably because it’s not practical to hold a funeral for an embryo or miscarriage when what’s being buried would fit in a shoe box.

Fair enough. I certainly would too if I were in funerary services. I guess I’m just cynical and assume everyone else is just out to make money. :(

You think they want to deal with miscarried tissue that was fished out of a toilet or a pad? WTF are they supposed to do with that?

It’s kind of how (nearly all) doctors are supportive of vaccines, even though they’d make bank if everyone was sick all the time. Professional integrity and evidence-based decision making.

I’m honestly kind of surprised that funeral services companies are against this measure; you’d think they would stand to make a lot more money from providing services for fetuses. I think it kind of speaks as to just how stupid this kind of measure is— if the people who stand to make money from it are against it, you…

Yes, this is designed to make a women carry the emotional burden for her miscarriage. Plain and simple. There must be something wrong with you if you miscarried so you should be punished.

This makes my skin crawl. Another revolting attempt to exercise control over a woman’s body. To require this for an abortion is bad enough. But to require this for a miscarriage is horrifying. There is zero regard for the emotional impact, much less the basic rights a woman has to be in charge of her own body. To use…

Again with this whole lawmakers need to “understand basic biology” thing. Most miscarriages and abortions happen before there’s anything to bury. Typically its just tissue, much like a period or tissue from any other gynecological surgery.

These fetal burial laws are a one-two punch against progress. Not only does it punish women who receive abortions (or miscarry) in a heartless, state-sanctioned, forced-religion kind of way, but it denies anyone from donating fetal tissue for scientific research. Because you know, people with neurological disorders…