Sadly accustomed to cyberbullying, Lena “Situations” Mahfouf once again experienced a wave of shameful body. At the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, the 25-year-old influencer wore a Vivienne Westwood dress as she walked up the steps to the premiere of the as-yet-unreleased and already controversial series The idol. And if today there is so much talk about her outfit, it is not because it is a sublime archive model dating back to 1994, but because haters deemed the content creator too fat to wear this type of clothing.
Lena Situations sweeps away an avalanche of bodyshaming for an outfit at the Cannes Film Festival
Following the avalanche of shameful bodyLena Situations chose to respond in an Instagram story:
“I’ve always been more or less comfortable with my body…until the last few months. I’ve gained weight, I realize it, my morphology has changed, I realize it, but the internet has noticed it before me and wants to share it. Two years ago, I made the choice to no longer use a filter to show an honest, unedited image, something real.
[…] From an early age, we are thus projected into an ideal body, an ideal style which as soon as I’m 36 years old I get ‘we eat well in the canteen’ or ‘best wishes for the baby’.
[…] I hope the future and hindsight bring us only love. I send you love. »
Bodyshaming as an exercise in controlling the female body
Following this violent shameful body suffered by Lena Mahfouf, several messages of support also flourished. Like Daria Marx, an activist against grossophobia in particular, through a row Enlightening Twitter:
“Dear Lena Situations, your body belongs to you, thin or fat, you have nothing to justify, nothing to explain. Rest easy, your body is still on the ideal side of strength, don’t let the haters dim your gaze.
The control over women’s bodies we all exercise by keeping our hands in an unhealthy chain with every observation we make on the bodies of others. It has to end. Collectively, we need to realize this.
I say collectively because while it’s easy to point the finger at Lena haters, I think we all do. On the terrace, when we go shopping, out loud or mentally. We judge, we comment, we classify.
We do it out of habit in a society that comments and also classifies individuals according to standards, which grants life points to the beautiful, the thin, the white, the able-bodied… it is urgent to make an individual effort to refuse to be part of it. »
In two other tweets, Daria Marx also specifies the distinction to be made between shameful body and fat phobia:
“I still think so the word fatphobia must apply to situations of discrimination faced by fat people. I may be old-fashioned on this, but it’s so important to have a say.
Lena Situations is not fat. What he suffers is the control over women’s bodies, which contributes to the construction of grossophobia Certain. But she doesn’t suffer from systemic fatphobia, she’s not a fat person. »
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Source: Madmoizelle
Mary Crossley is an author at “The Fashion Vibes”. She is a seasoned journalist who is dedicated to delivering the latest news to her readers. With a keen sense of what’s important, Mary covers a wide range of topics, from politics to lifestyle and everything in between.
