{"id":180676,"date":"2021-06-17T16:15:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T08:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thehoneycombers.com\/hong-kong\/?p=180676"},"modified":"2024-10-17T09:47:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T01:47:17","slug":"body-shaming-ads-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehoneycombers.com\/hong-kong\/body-shaming-ads-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve all seen them, but why hasn\u2019t anyone stopped them? These body-shaming ads need to get lost"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s summer, and I\u2019m groaning<\/a>. Half of me is getting so hyped for junk parties<\/a>, yet the other half is grimacing as I look through the swimwear<\/a> catalogue. Because I can\u2019t picture myself looking picture-perfect in anything \u2013 not with a body like mine.<\/p>\n

What if my cellulite shows? What if people find my flabs disgusting? Why am I so flat-chested? And yet my legs are so chunky? Why am I so bloody fat<\/em>?<\/p>\n

I believe I\u2019m not alone in asking these questions, and having all the negative self-talk. While weight loss commercials exist everywhere in the world (problematic ones at that too<\/a>), the frequency and degree of infiltration of those in Hong Kong may be second to none. Nobody in Hong Kong can escape the pressure to diet and be thin, thanks to the advertisements for weight loss and beauty procedures plastered all over the city. Oh, and don\u2019t even get me started on how many of these ads there are in the MTR. With this dieting fad starting locally in the early 2000s<\/a>, imagine how much indoctrination we\u2019ve had over the past two decades?!<\/p>\n