Not that she seems to have minded one bit, but writer, comedienne, and podcaster Bridget Phetasy really stepped in it over the weekend when she took to X to opine about how the rise in popularity of GLP-1 injections means Americans can once again talk about the side effects of being overweight. The blowback from the left was fierce when reminded by Phetasy that they relentlessly pushed the "Healthy At Every Size" – or HAES, for short – agenda for years, and are now quietly disassociating themselves from the harmful movement.
The left does not like being held accountable for its cruel misdeeds against society.
Here's what Bridget tweeted out Sunday, likely after seeing a big pharma Super Bowl commercial touting the benefits of GLP-1 injections:
Thanks to big pharma trying to sell us GLP-1s we are now allowed to admit that when you lose weight it takes stress off your joints and improves your health—a thing we were told was not true for a decade.
And she has a very good point. We've just come off of years of being gaslighted by radicals who insisted there was nothing wrong with being morbidly obese – and shame on you for saying obesity was a drain on the healthcare system! – only to suddenly see these same people gleefully show off their now-thin frames as if they had never promoted anything but being small.
A good example of this is singer Meghan Trainor, who burst on the pop music scene well over a decade ago with her hit, All About That Bass. Trainor was all about "body positivity," and the "bass" was code for having a big booty and bountiful curves. She was embracing her true self, which resonated with a lot of women, and Trainor became a hero to the rising HAES movement.
That was then, and this is now. Trainor has been on the jabs for a while now, and looks totally different.
Meghan Trainor’s weight loss is the final nail in the body positivity coffin...
— Evie Magazine (@Evie_Magazine) November 11, 2025
Remember when Megan Trainor was the poster girl for “real bodies” back in 2014?
Fast forward a decade, and her transformation is striking.
She’s slim and sculpted, her once-cheeky face now sharp,… pic.twitter.com/ljNbERVCxI
Trainor is a mom to young children, so it's a good thing that she's at a healthier weight (although many go too far on the GLP-1s, and Trainor could be one of them). But, what about all the harm done during the years of telling girls and women it was okay, even enviable, to carry around all those extra pounds? After all, it was a welcome message to women who have for decades been told to embrace the "heroin chic" look. Finally, it was okay to eat!
The HAES movement was a very bad thing, indeed. I saw it creeping onto the fashion and beauty sites I once perused for inspiration a good fifteen years ago. I'll admit, not being a naturally rail-thin person, that I was open to seeing different-sized women represented in fashion; growing up in the 80s and 90s, thin was in. I never saw anyone who looked like me – aka, totally normal – on the pages of fashion magazines. Everything was unattainable for the normal or chunkier girl.
One size doesn't fit all, something we normies told the fashion world for years. But, like most agendas pushed by the radical left, it went too far. And the left embraced and pushed the agenda, make no mistake about that. It quickly went from accepting people as they are to requiring you to accept grossly overweight, underdressed, pierced, tattooed, green-haired, and angry women as beautiful and healthy. You were told, yet again, not to trust your lying eyes.
And let me make a clarification here: This isn't about the women (and men!) who struggle with their weight and earnestly seek to get healthier; it's a tough road made tougher when others seek to mislead. It's about those who created the ugliest versions of themselves possible – on the inside and the outside – and then told you that you had to accept them as beautiful and healthy. And, even worse, they encouraged others to follow them down that self-destructive path.
There was one influencer in particular I followed who was possibly the most morbidly obese person I have ever seen. I followed her because she was funny and loved to experiment with colorful fashions and makeup. Then HAES came along and she became militantly body positive, claiming all her bloodwork was normal, her doctors were happy with her size, and she was perfectly healthy. Unsurprisingly, she quickly jettisoned that agenda when the shots became available; it turns out she had a whole host of medical problems that she had lied about to her audience. And, man, was she unapologetic about it.
But, hey, don't tell the left we know they were gaslighting us! They'll deny and deflect. And that's exactly what Bridget Phetasy tapped into by reminding them we know what they did on this front and we won't forget.
The left wing is very mad about this tweet today for some weird reason and I was alive for the last decade while there was non-stop propaganda about fat being healthy and everyone remembers it, guys. https://t.co/M6KyWTP3Cm pic.twitter.com/XOcjA4nmOD
— Bridget Phetasy (@BridgetPhetasy) February 9, 2026
And Bridget really nails it here:
I can already see that the left wing strategy is going to be pretending they didn't push a bunch of propaganda that was insanely unpopular for a decade and acting like they didn’t and trying to gaslight the people who called them out for being crazy and NOPE.
Yeah, that's a really big NOPE. The left is now denying they led America down an unhealthy path with the HAES nonsense, and soon, they'll be doing the same with transitioning kids and pushing to have boys in girls' sports. There never is a proper course correction with radicals – they just memory hole things and move along to their next disaster.
