Taylor Swift received support from The View hosts after she was attacked for being fatphobic following release of her song Anti-Hero. Bejeweled singer sparked criticism after a scene from her track showed her standing on a scale with word ‘fat’ written on it in place of numbers.

Swift was called out by several social media users including health professionals, saying that scene in question is “incredibly damaging” to “actual fat people.” Coming to her defense, Sunny Hostin said on her show that people have “missed point” of Swift’s music video as she praised her for addressing her deeply personal body image issues.

“For someone who’s an artist, she gets to have agency over her artistry. She was describing a personal experience and quite frankly, it’s a personal experience a lot of women experience,” she said. “I’ve experienced it and men. You get on scale and you’re a perfectly normal weight and all you see is fat, all you see is, ‘Oh my gosh I’m five pounds heavier than I should be,’” Hostin added. She further bashed “society” that we are living in, saying, “You can never be just what you are.

Everybody wants you to be something more, be less this, more that and it’s what people do to each other on social media.”–Agencies

Published in The Daily National Courier, October, 27 2022

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