After Miley Cyrus won her first Grammy award, many other women signed up for their first Pilates course, according to Glamor.

 

Miley Cyrus performs at Grammy 2024. Photo: Miley Cyrus/Instagram.

After Cyrus performed her hit single Flowers at the 2024 Grammy Awards, social media, especially TikTok, became obsessed with her arm. Specifically, how does this 31-year-old singer have such toned arms?

The search term “Miley Cyrus arms” has exploded on the web. Many fitness instructors choose specialized exercises such as “Miley Cyrus’s toned arms exercise”, “Miley Cyrus’s arm exercise”. Meanwhile, the girls posted a clip of lifting weights with the caption “POV: Miley Cyrus is your muse for today’s workout.”

The obsession doesn’t just happen on social networks. Many news sites quickly interviewed fitness experts about how to get toned muscles like Cyrus. Some nutritionists also weighed in to offer advice.

According to Lucy Morgan, a writer specializing in gender, women’s and culture issues for Glamour, Cyrus’ obsession with her arms is nothing new. “From birth, we are socialized to glorify celebrities at all costs – even (or especially) if it means having to alter our bodies to look like them more,” she wrote.

Celebrities have always played an important role in maintaining diet culture: They set beauty standards, and people try to achieve them at all costs.

Although it has been around for centuries, diet culture grew most strongly in the 1990s and 2000s. That’s when skinny celebrities became popular and the media – especially magazines for women – has blatantly created content about how to lose weight quickly.

“Celebrities are ‘worryingly thin’ and then flyers are put out so everyone can look like them.”

Diet culture is harder to define these days. Even though celebrities are skinny, they are also healthy. Audiences say they not only want the stars’ bodies, but also want their health.

In this era, most celebrities are still skinny, but we’re encouraged to practice neutrality — or even love — when it comes to our own fat bodies.

“Due to the increased accessibility of weight loss pills like Ozempic, this has certainly contributed to an increase in the number of celebrities losing more weight under the guise of a collective, balanced diet,” Morgan writes. education and above all, stay healthy.”

The crazy reaction to Miley Cyrus’s arm isn’t just about celebrity body worship. That’s what happens when you embrace diet culture while also paying tribute to body positivity, according to Morgan.