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Ozempic culture: The obsession with beauty and youth shapes film, TV and books
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Álex Vicente
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This article explores how the modern cultural obsession with extreme thinness and youth, often linked to the popularity of drugs like Ozempic, is influencing media representations. It argues that society places immense pressure on individuals to achieve an idealized body type to maintain their sense of worth.
Every era has imagined its ideal body. Ours, moreover, demands that we achieve it to retain even a minimal sense of worth as individuals. For years now, we have witnessed the return of extreme thinness, the cult of youth and flawless beauty as moral ... [13019 chars]
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