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

Taylor Swift’s Midnights rollout came with plenty for fans to dissect, but one scene in the Anti-Hero video quickly became the center of the conversation. The clip, which Swift wrote and directed herself, shows her wrestling with insecurities through a darker version of herself and a series of personal fears.

That included body image, and the brief scale scene sparked backlash almost immediately. Some viewers saw it as a blunt look at her past struggles, while others felt the “fat” label crossed a line and sent the wrong message.

Then the video changed, and the reaction only got louder. Read on.

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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”

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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.

That “can’t face the mirror” struggle is similar to how Christina Applegate said an MS side effect kept her from seeing her reflection for a year.

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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