Content warning: This piece includes descriptions of eating disorders that may be triggering to some readers. She said that sharing comparison pictures is common among people with eating disorders. When celebrities receive an outpouring of attention based on their weight loss, it may encourage some individuals with eating disorders to try to imitate that appearance and seek out that same concern, Logue adds. The broad obsession with celebrities’ weight also reinforces the idea that everyone is paying attention to and judging how you look, which can exacerbate the fears of people with eating disorders. She notes that the media’s overwhelming focus on individuals with lower weights obscures the reality that people of any and all sizes can have eating disorders.