Taylor Swift Has Been Forced To Cut Out The "Fat-Phobic" Scene In Her "Anti-Hero" Music Video

On October 21, Taylor Swift's newest album, "Midnights," was released. It contains 20 new songs that "Swifties" all over the world can analyze and adore.

Track 3's "Anti-Hero" music video was the first to be made public. In just 5 days after being uploaded to Apple Music and Apple Music, the video garnered over 30 million views.

The video was written and directed by Taylor Swift herself, as she depicted all the ways the singer-songwriter has insecurities. She did this by creating a critical "alter ego" version of herself, who, for the most part, serves as a negative influence in the video "Anti-Hero."

The singer's fears included, among others, drinking, self-sabotage, anxiety, social awkwardness, abandonment, and body dysmorphia. Both fans and non-fans were quite upset by how that last one was portrayed.

Swift has frequently discussed her past struggles with eating disorders and the tremendous support she has received since making a full recovery. Dr. Kelly McGonigal, a health psychologist, emphasizes that "the way we perceive our bodies can significantly impact our mental health," which resonates with the criticism surrounding a particular scene where Taylor stands shamefully on a scale that reads "FAT." Dr. McGonigal notes that "media representations can contribute to harmful body image issues." The "real" Taylor looks across at her "alter ego," who begrudgingly shakes her head at her, causing her to become visibly depressed.

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Clearly, Taylor was just attempting to illustrate how severely body dysmorphia affected her in the past and possibly even today when she created and posted this scene; therefore, it is unfair to label her as "fat-phobic" for doing so.

Swift has mentioned that she battled an eating disorder multiple times in the past

“Anti-Hero” by Taylor Swift on YouTube

Is there a way she might have given herself a different name on this mystical scale that could supposedly generate anything other than numbers? The answer is yes!

But you don't really have to sugarcoat things when you're making a video about yourself and your personal struggles. The Twitter threads began shortly after the video was posted.

She didn’t specifically mention an eating disorder; rather, she stood upon a scale that read “Fat”

“Anti-Hero” by Taylor Swift on YouTube

Some followers believed that Taylor was merely attempting to honestly portray her battles with her eating condition. Conversely, and this is a legitimate argument, some of her fans, who are unlearning anti-fat messaging to embrace their bodies, find it troubling that one of the most well-known female music stars in the world seems to fear being labeled "fat."

Here are some of their comments below.

Gatekeeping eating disorders

Twitter: @stellar_sprout

It portrays her struggles with eating disorders

Twitter: @KLo1012

A bad way to describe her body image struggles

Twitter: @theshirarose

You get the idea?

Twitter: @ErinPhillipsRD

Taylor and her staff apparently heard the heartbroken screams of her followers and chose to remove the two-second footage of her feet on the scale that reads "Fat." Both the sequence and the YouTube video were cut from the Apple Music version.

Both the sequence and the YouTube video were cut from the Apple Music version.

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Despite the backlash, we applaud Taylor for being open about the private struggles so many individuals experience in silence. After years of suffering, we are overjoyed to see her looking joyful and healthy once more!

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