Hollywood pulls the PLUG on Ryan Reynolds !!
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Summary
Daily Mail has an article about me and Blake Lively. Also, Ryan Reynolds has 3 of his upcoming projects canceled, and Taylor Swift gets cyber-attacked by Taylor Swift's cyber-attackers. I also talk about Hollywood's beauty standards and why they are so bad.
Transcript
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Paramount cancels three of Ryan Reynolds' upcoming projects.
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Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk. I'm Tashti Flo, a journalist, Hollywood truth teller,
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and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.
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Okay, so the article I spoke about yesterday is out. I was interviewed by Daily Mail.
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The title is a little misleading, but I still really love the idea that they did this story on me,
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so I'm very grateful for that. Also, Paramount cancels three of Ryan Reynolds' upcoming projects.
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Are they terrified of his damaged reputation, or is something else behind this?
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Did Paul Feig, the director of Another Simple Favor with Blake Lively,
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hire an army of people to delete comments? This does not make any sense to me.
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Also, I did a poll here on my channel asking people if they heard about this cyber attack on Taylor Swift,
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And I also wanted to give a shout out to Kate Winslet in this episode,
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And with that, talk a little bit about Hollywood and beauty standards.
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Okay, let's get into it. Quickly, this article, which I just spoke about,
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Daily Mail just interviewed me yesterday, and the headline says,
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I was dragged into Blake Lively's messy legal drama after an explosive public clash, dot, dot, dot.
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And now I demand an apology. I didn't actually demand an apology.
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I'm going to read for you exactly what I said, but I do like that they did this article.
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So please don't get me wrong about that. I just feel like that headline was a little misleading,
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because this is what I said. They asked me if I would demand an apology, and I said,
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I'm probably far down on the list of people whom she owes apologies.
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So, yeah, I mean, I do think a lot of people should receive some apologies from Blake Lively, obviously.
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This is a great article, and if you want to read it, it's on the Daily Mail.
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I can put a link below here. I'm just talking about the whole process, what it was like for me during that time,
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especially last year during Christmas, when, you know, people were coming after me,
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believing what they read in the New York Times, all the things that I've spoken about here.
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So now let's see if the New York Times picks up this article, or any other outlets will pick it up,
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because I do think this is really bad for Blake, because this means that she's gone after innocent people.
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And if she's gone after me, who knows how many other people she's actually gone after?
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So here are some of the comments on the article. It says,
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Long story short, most of the public has concluded that Blake is you-know-what
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I wouldn't waste any more time expecting anything from that camp.
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Here we have a Blake Lively supporter comments.
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How convenient that she cannot conceive talking about me not being able to have children.
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And she shouldn't be mentioning women's early pregnancies on camera without their permission.
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Blake Lively was eight months pregnant. It was not an early pregnancy.
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She was very big at the time. I congratulated her. I didn't mention her.
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And then someone else. Wow, there's a lot of Blake Lively supporters on Daily Mail all of a sudden.
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That what this flaw woman is doing, that basically is a harassment.
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Blake needs file restraining order against her. And that's it.
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Also, I think that Blake needs an agent who wouldn't represent her and advise her in all her activities.
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Good luck. Blake needs an agent. I think she has like seven agents.
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Flo is a journalist with great integrity. Blake is a bully.
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Someone saying, Lady, shut up. No one cares about you.
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You have written about Blake not caring about you every single day for over a year.
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I remember her trying to make a name for herself by trashing Lively months back.
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She's got a real problem and is making herself celebrity repellent.
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On this one, she's made a fortune blogging about this case and selling Baldoni versus Lively merch.
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And then someone says, and her interview, she said, congrats on your little bump.
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What a weird way to say congratulations on your impending arrival to a person you don't know.
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So definitely Blake and Ryan has let their trolls out on this article.
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Wow, because it's so interesting because usually on Daily Mail, there's a lot of support for Justin.
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There's a lot of criticism towards Blake Lively usually.
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Do you think these comments are real or do you think that someone hired them to do that?
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Anyways, let's get into Ryan Reynolds and Paramount here.
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So you might remember that I spoke about Ryan Reynolds' relationship and deals with Paramount a while back.
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His company Maximum Effort has a first look deal with Paramount, meaning that all the projects that he develops
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through his production company and marketing company Maximum Effort, he has agreed to show first to Paramount.
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So they have a very friendly deal going on there.
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Now it was just announced that three of Ryan's future projects with Paramount have been cancelled.
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So the deal that he had with them was just renewed in early 2024, basically just after Blake Lively filed her lawsuit.
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As part of the deal, Reynolds is attached to, as both actor and producer, to the movies that he has in development.
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And I'm sure he has a marketing deal on top of that as well because he loves to promote his own movies.
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Right now, we have to say that Paramount is going through a shift because they're merging with Skydance Media.
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And they have to re-evaluate some of their choices because of that.
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We don't really know the reason behind this, but we know there are three movies that Ryan was supposed to do with Paramount.
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One of them being Area 51, a sci-fi project with director Colin Trevorrow that Ryan was producing.
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And another one was a Ferris Bueller's Day Off spin-off that Ryan was tied to as well.
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And the third one is Eloise, a children's book adaption that had Ryan attached.
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I don't think we really need to speculate that much to figure out why they dropped three of Ryan's projects.
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Because obviously, we know that his name has been dragged through the mud through this lawsuit.
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And we've seen a side of him that most people had really negative reactions to.
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We know that he cannot have his comment section open on Instagram because he's receiving so much hate.
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So why would Hollywood spend millions of millions of dollars investing in one of his projects right now?
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And we don't know all the other stuff that's going to come out.
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And this trial could be so explosive and so damaging to his and Blake's reputation
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that studios will definitely have second thoughts about having his name attached to anything.
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We know if this goes to trial and Blake is on that stand,
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she's going to get asked so many private and personal questions about her relationship and about Ryan Reynolds.
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There's definitely going to be a lot of new information out there that's not beneficial for either of them.
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We also know there is another movie with Ryan attached that was postponed for almost a year.
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So to me, this seems like the industry is getting cold feet.
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I'm not going to say that Ryan is never going to be, you know, have a successful movie again.
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But I think this is a real sign that people are being really reluctant to work with him right now.
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And that's not because they're taking sides with Baldoni or Blake or whatever.
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It's just because there is a risk attached to it.
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And keep in mind what just happened to Sidney Sweeney.
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Then she had that controversial ad out, the American Eagle jeans ad,
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However, she refused to apologize for it until recently.
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She said that, oh, okay, I'm not for hate or whatever.
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A little too late because at that time, her movie, Christy, was already out.
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It is a much better movie about DV than it ends with us.
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And I think that's quite obvious at this point that a lot of people refuse to watch it
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And keeping that in mind that that was, I think, one of the biggest box office bumps in history.
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Why would you attach a controversial figure to one of your movies?
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I was looking at someone sent me the trailer to The Housemaids,
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Paul Feig is the one who also directed Blake Lively in another simple favor.
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And I spoke about the other day that because she kept pushing for and promoting Brendan Sclinar,
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who she co-starred with in It Ends With Us, to Paul Feig, he put Brendan Sclinar in his movie.
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Brendan Sclinar has not spoken about Blake one time during the promotion of this movie.
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He keeps saying that Sidney Sweeney was the one who got him the part.
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So the three main characters in this movie is Sidney Sweeney, who I just said had all these controversies surrounding her.
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Brendan Sclinar, who we all know from It Ends With Us and who people have criticized so much for taking side with Blake Lively.
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But she came out and said something really controversial about Charlie Kirk right after his death,
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She said that she does not want to take that back.
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And all of that came up again now during the promotion of this movie.
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So Paul Feig now has three main characters in his film that he is trying to get people to go and see in the movie theater.
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So when you look at the trailer, I looked at two different trailers on YouTube from this movie,
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and I could not find one single comment criticizing any of the three actors in this film.
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And this makes me believe that they must have hired an army of people who are sitting full time on YouTube deleting comments.
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Okay, so on Monday, the judge has called all parties in for a video conference
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where they're supposed to talk about a potential settlement deal.
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This is a meeting about how they're going to do that meeting about a potential settlement.
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Because you have to have a meeting about when you're having the other meeting and what's how that meeting is going to what form that meeting is going to be in if it's going to be an in person by telephone or by video conference.
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Anyways, no one else is allowed into that hearing or into that meeting and then they're probably going to find another date for when they're going to sit down and try if they can come up with any agreement here.
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People magazine did a story on this and they spoke to an attorney who said that when you litigate a case in federal court, you are required to participate in some form of alternative dispute resolution.
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So it doesn't mean that they are closer to a settlement now, but a settlement could happen anytime.
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And it says here that more than 90% of civil cases in the U.S. do settle.
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Dole notes, this attorney notes, that the chances of settlement in this case are getting smaller.
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People cannot agree if they're going to settle or not.
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I hear so many different opinions about that from lawyers, from regular people.
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No one really knows, though, because it would just be a guess.
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And the thing is, we know for sure, though, that Justin is not going to settle unless he is completely vindicated and the rest of his team is completely vindicated.
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And if they agree to a settlement, they're not allowed to talk about anything about this case in the future.
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And of course, if he doesn't get completely vindicated, that's going to harm his career in the future.
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So why would he agree to anything less than that?
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And will Blake then admit that this was all a sham?
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The attorney here reminds people that there is so much risk in going to trial and the magistrate judge is going to be hammering that message home at the settlement conference.
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Lots of deals get made right before or even during trial.
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Yes, and I'm sure that Blake knows that there is a huge risk that she is going to come out of this even worse than what things looks like for her right now.
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OK, as I said, I did this poll yesterday because I spoke about this Rolling Stone magazine article where they were comparing the cyber attack that happened to Taylor Swift
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to the AstroTurfing and the alleged smear campaign that happened to Blake Lively.
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And I wanted to know how many people actually heard about that Taylor Swift smear campaign to see if it was actually successful.
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I mean, I mean, obviously, she's a much bigger star than Blake Lively.
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And I know a lot of you guys are active on social media.
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So I was going to so I wanted to ask if any of you guys had actually even heard about these conspiracies surrounding Taylor Swift.
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And over 3000 people did actually vote on this poll.
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And 96 percent of you guys had never, ever heard about the things that Taylor Swift was accused of.
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So that to me says that that campaign was really unsuccessful if that's what it tried to do.
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So how come this smear campaign against Blake Lively was so successful?
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Yeah, another thing here that doesn't make much sense.
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If you missed my video yesterday, you should watch it.
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I go through that article a lot and why it doesn't support Blake Lively's narrative whatsoever.
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OK, I wanted to end this episode with Kate Winslet because I adore her.
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And she just put and she was just interviewed, I think, by Hello magazine.
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She's quoted here talking about the beauty standards in Hollywood, how everyone starts looking really weird and how everyone is losing so much weight.
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She's saying if a person's self-esteem is so bound up in how they look, it's frightening.
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And I don't know if you've noticed lately all these super skinny bodies that are out there.
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It is so terrifying what OSEMPIC especially has done to a lot of the bodies in Hollywood.
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And what I find so hypocritical, because I like to point out what's hypocritical here,
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and that is this whole movement of body positivity that was going on for the last five years.
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Suddenly, all of those people have become super skinny.
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And people like Amy Schumer, who lost so much weight, has now deleted her entire history on Instagram before she lost the weight.
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She said it has nothing to do with her losing the weight that she decided to delete all the old photos.
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And it's just that she really enjoys who she is now.
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So now the new narrative in Hollywood is like body neutral and wellness.
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I lost all the weight because it wasn't healthy for me to carry on all this weight.
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We've known that for a long time, that it's not healthy to be overweight.
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And now all of a sudden, they're like, yeah, we noticed that.
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She looks like she's about to just like pulverize in front of us.
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Also, Kelly Osborne lately has been so frail that it's scary.
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She came out and said that her weight loss had nothing to do with being on these drugs.
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She said that her weight loss is because she lost her dad and she lost her appetite.
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But her face aged like 10 years because she lost so much weight.
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And then you have Latoya Jackson and all these other people who were so pushing for body
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positivity like Meghan Trainor, Rebel Wilson, Rosie O'Donnell, Oprah Winfrey, Kathy Bates,
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Tori Spelling, Serena Williams, all these women that were supposed to be good role models
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so everyone would feel comfortable in their own bodies are now saying, hey, skinny is the
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new trend and I don't care what I told you last year because now I just want to promote
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my new body and I don't care if it makes other people feel bad about themselves.
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To be honest, I felt the body positivity was pushed a bit too far.
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I feel like we should never promote a body that is unhealthy.
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People should think about their health first, but now it's gone the complete other way.
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And if you watch my interview with the plastic surgeon, he really pointed out the health risks
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And some people aren't even being honest about being on these types of drugs.
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They're like, yeah, I just drink water and do Pilates.
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So now I feel like, did they actually ever believe in the body positivity that they promoted?
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If this is like the new authenticity, then I think we should just bring back the filters instead.
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Now this love yourself era is gone and now it's just like fix yourself.
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There's not many left who's out there and actually promoting a healthy lifestyle and being comfortable in your own skin.
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She says here, my favorite thing is when your hands get old.
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Some of the most beautiful women I know are over 70.
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And what upsets me is that young women have no concept of what being beautiful actually is.
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I'll end this video with Blake Lively hugging so many people because someone on Reddit did this video.
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And I thought it's amazing because they were accusing Justin, as you know, of a culture of hugging.