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The Body-Positivity Movement Is Over

Liv Schmidt and the rise of SkinnyTok.

First published in The Atlantic on June 21, 2025

by Annie Joy Williams, The Atlantic
June 26, 2025 | reading time: 10 Min.

The bride had to do just one last thing before she walked down the aisle. “I currently am in the bathroom in my wedding dress I asked everyone for just a few mins alone so that I could message you this.” Was she writing to an estranged friend? An old lover—the one that got away?

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