I grew up with AN and every time I saw some tiny little skinny thing, I was like yooo that girl has an ED too!!! I expressed concerns to a girl who I suspected and turns out she was just living with a chronic disorder. It doesn’t matter how anyone LOOKS, it’s not our place to comment. We can only express to other younger impressionable girls that it’s not a healthy place to be, but we can’t guess as to how Ariana’s body got like that
Anorexia is different than Anorexia nervosa. You can be objectively anorexic I take care of 97 year olds who are anorexic and do not have an eating disorder of their own volition. Orthorexia isn’t eating disorder where you are basically restrictive due to “health” and you only eat what you consider to be “safe” or “healthy foods.” Ariana literally is saying she is the healthiest she’s ever been and it’s objectively not true
Well, for starters anorexia has a lot more harmful to young girls self image. Secondly even the production company has an issue with it since they have literally been airbrushing her body on movie poster so that her bones are not showing. They completely blurred her sternum and armpits from the wicked movie poster.
I would also like to point out as a theater fan that the characters’ looks ARE important to the plot. Elphaba was going to be a minority no matter what, because her character is an allegory to the struggles of minorities. She has been historically played by Jewish actresses and, at least on the east coast, black, Asian, and Latin too. Glinda is the epitome of beauty and grace and white America, which you can clearly see in her personality. Ariana is beautiful but she does look undeniably sick
Your false equivalency means nothing to me because race and weight are two different things. Actually weight has a lot of influence on both acting and singing from energy to strength. Why do you think Christian Bale changed his weight so much for each movie role? Because it applied heavily to his character and even his lethargy in some roles.
But even if Ariana was at a healthy weight, I still think she is a mid actress who gets put in high-end roles, simply due to how popular her name is in Hollywood, I do think that her anorexia also impacts her already lacking acting ability. You claiming it doesn’t mean it’s not true.