When “Yellowjackets” (a series about a excessive-faculty-girls soccer team compelled to survive in the barren place after a plane atomize) premiered, it residing the obtain atwitter with comparisons to Lord of the Flies and freaked out ruminations about what you could well perhaps attain in the same dire straits. It also unleashed a wave of physique shaming for actor Melanie Lynskey.
Lynskey, who plays Shauna, responded to a tweet by writer and physique image activist Ashley C. Ford about the physique shaming she’d experienced from followers of the show since Yellowjackets aired. “Most egregious are the ‘I care about her health!!’ folk,” she wrote. “Bitch you don’t glance me on my Peloton! You don’t glance me working thru the park with my child. Skinny does now not always equal wholesome.”
This isn’t the predominant time Lynskey has experienced physique shaming in connection with the show. Earlier this month, she shared in an interview with Rolling Stone that she also experienced physique shaming on residing when a member of the manufacturing team reportedly implied she wanted to lose weight for the feature. “They had been asking me, ‘What attain you intend to realize? I’m certain the producers will catch you a coach. They’d bewitch to will let you with this,’” she talked about, per Folks.
Lynskey deliberately wanted to guard her persona from that mindset, she talked about. “I did receive it foremost that this persona is genuine glad and sexual and no longer pondering or speaking about it, because I prefer girls so as to to glance it and be esteem, ‘Wow, she appears esteem me and no-one’s asserting she’s the pudgy one,’” she educated Rolling Stone. “That illustration is principal.”
On residing, Lynskey’s costars Christina Ricci, Tawny Cypress, and Juliette Lewis came to her defense, and Lewis reportedly wrote a letter to the producers, per Folks.
Lynskey has spoken in the previous about her fight with physique image. “I was very in wretched health for a extraordinarily long time,” she educated Folks in 2016. “I had interesting concerns and at a undeniable level I was esteem, ‘I’m no longer going to outlive’—no longer esteem I was on death’s door or something else, nevertheless I was so sorrowful and my hair used to be falling out.” In the kill, she worked on addressing the strain to conform to unrealistic ideals and factor in that folks would hire her genuine the way in which she used to be: “I did wish to genuinely changed into glad with myself, because you could well perhaps’t fraudulent it.”
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