![]() Others highlight the triggering toxic mantras by which their almond moms live, including “A moment on the lips forever on the hips” and “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels,” reciting them with cheerful fervor. In the videos, teens and 20-somethings parody their “half-an-almond-a-day moms” who refuse to eat during scenarios like trick-or-treating or at the Hershey store. At the time of writing, the phrase has amassed 600 million views. TikTok has proved the experience is alarmingly universal: If you search “almond moms” on the app, you’ll find content created around the topic long before the Yolanda clips resurfaced. To ensure that stays the case, they tend to sustain themselves on single-digit quantities of almonds-though they occasionally dabble in green juice, 100-calorie snack packs, and nonfat yogurt-and struggle to comprehend why their daughters don’t do the same. What matters most to an almond mom is getting and staying thin, so much so it inevitably overshadows accomplishments, accolades, and milestones-unless, of course, you look skinny while celebrating. Almond moms are obsessed with dieting, but don’t openly acknowledge it, justifying their restricted calories for the sake of being “healthy.” ![]() ![]() I know, because I hail from a generation of women whose daily lives revolve around how little they’ve eaten and how much weight they’ve subsequently lost. Yolanda’s response? “Have a couple of almonds, and chew them really well.”ĭespite Hadid’s viral comments, the almond mom is not a novel concept-and definitely not limited to stage moms. The most troubling of all, however, is a scene in which Gigi calls her mother complaining that she feels “really weak” after only eating “like half an almond” that day. In the videos compiled from Hadid’s stint on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Yolanda calls Gigi’s body “big and bulky” and complains she “eats like men.” During an episode on Gigi’s birthday, she tells her then teenage daughter she can only “have one night of being bad” then has to “get back on her diet,” before allowing her a single bite of cake. If you or someone you know is struggling, please contact NEDA.ĭid you grow up with an almond mom? It’s a question many women and girls asked themselves earlier this week, after clips of Yolanda Hadid-also known as Gigi and Bella Hadid’s mother-went viral on social media. Warning: This article includes discussion of eating disorders, diet culture, and weight stigma. In this Glamour article, Mindpath Health’s Kiana Shelton, LCSW, explains how a mother’s fixation on being thin can affect her children. Almond mom’s obsessed with dieting, rations almonds, and makes comments about her kids’ eating habits.
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