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[quote=Anonymous]

If, as OP said, the pregnant sister is one who has started these body-image, eating plan, size and weight conversations herself, then sister is apparently having a revelation about herself as well as other people.

Pregnant sister is probably reading up on having a girl and on how young girls are absorbing negative body image talk from a very early age, and how damaging that can be over a lifetime.

Good for sister/mother-to-be, that she's becoming aware of all this and wants to be as self-aware as possible and make her family more aware of it too.

But sister also is swinging toward an extreme with pronouncements about "bans" and finger-pointing while she shouts about "toxicity" especially if she's engaged in this talk herself in the past. It's good if she's realizing her family talks way too much about all this, but she will need to learn how to get people to understand these issues without threatening bans etc. before her child's even born. So: Good motivation is there, but the handling is poor and overly dramatic. Sister needs to be resilient, not brittle, if she wants to change the family's culture around this kind of talk. [/quote]

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