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Shape thought it would be a good idea to put a bikini-clad and, yes, skinny Kim Kardashian on its cover…alongside the coverline, “I’ll never be one of those skinny girls.” The obvious problem here is that she is one of those girls, writes Hortense on Jezebel, so “the magazine is essentially telling its audience that Kardashian”—who, by the way, is also a diet pill spokesperson—“doesn't represent thinness, which is ridiculous.”
Shape “claims to be all about ‘women's health’ but is, in actuality, all about weight loss,” as evidenced by the fact that it also reviews Kardashian’s workout so readers can “embrace their bodies”—aka “lose weight and fit the Shape ideal,” Hortense continues. “You can't be the spokesmodel for embracing one's curves on the cover of a ‘health’ magazine and a representative of losing those very curves in a national diet pill campaign.”
