It took just one red carpet for Hollywood to look at itself in the mirror again.
At the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, during the Emmys, the cameras found more than just dresses: they found unrecognizable bodies. Selena Gomez, Abby Elliott, Sarah Snook, Julia Garner, and Emilia Clarke appeared with silhouettes different from those of previous seasons, and comments about Ozempic were quick to flood social media and entertainment outlets.
Gomez had already explained that her weight fluctuations are linked to her lupus treatment, but that did not stop the comparisons.
That admission served as a crack: since then, every transformation in the industry has been viewed with suspicion, and the debate over beauty standards in Hollywood has once again taken hold in the public conversation.