When Casey’s son, Ethan, 14, stopped eating junk food and supplied counting calories, knew something was wrong. Then the child’s waistline began to shrink.
“He is really not eating much at food time,” said Casey, who asked to use pseudonyms for them and their son, to the post of ethhan, which has 5’8 “and 122 pounds.
The red flags were soft at the beginning. Ethan, an eighth grade student in a private school in Manhattan, began to reject ice cream, his favorite dessert despite always having a sweet tooth.
One night at dinner, Casey noticed that his son was taking photos of the food on his plate and uploading a song to Myfitnesspal, an application to lose weight to see how many food calories consumed.
“He is determined to lose weight, but he has nothing to lose,” Casey said.
Parents and specialists in eating disorders told the publication how more children and young adolescents have become hyper-allegos about their physique lately, with the muscular and the buff becomes less desirable as Wifish stars as Timothée Chalamet and trends such as “Mewing” and “Maxing looks” continue to dominate social networks.
“Today’s youth are challenging the gender norm rather than in the past,” said Jason Nagata, associate professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco
In other words, the diet is no longer just the domain of girls.
“I used to be children, they wanted to fly,” Casey told the post. “Now, actors like Timothée Chalamet are giving them a completely new look to achieve.”
Simply ask Dempsey Bobbit, 19, a first -year student from Cranford University, New Jersey, who recently won third place in a contest similar to Calamet.
“My friends at school who are girls say they want thin men. It is the opposite of what you would expect,” he said. As a result, “every guy I know is really critical of what they eat. He is a strange child. They pay attention. They always try to get thinner. Broccoli, rice, chicken: chicken is the only protein.”
Bobbit himself has 5 ′ 9 ″ and weighs between 120 and 125 pounds, and said he is “naturally thin” without trying: “Not like a period. I like sweet, refreshment. That and coffee is my diet.”
But, wherever he goes, he sees his desperate age to other types for getting thin.
“Every time I go to the gym is like,” Do I look fat? “” These are normal types that are aware of how they look. ”
A third of adolescents in the US are trying to lose weight, according to a 2023 study conducted by the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco found.
Casey believes that Ethan and his friends are chasing a romantic ideal.
“The girls, my son’s age, do not feel threatened by a Timothée chame body, so the children to communicate this to boys in their degree,” he said. “So [the boys] Try to emulate the particular brand of the brand or the male of Chalamet. ”
Spencer Delorenzo-A Long Islander, 22, who measures 5 ′ 4 ″ and weighs 98 pounds from prayer, the post “Women move away from the great and muscular types, so men are now interested in losing weight. Like,” they were like “, they were like”, Werfs.
In Tiktok and Reddit, there are many communities and influential dedicated to obtaining the cighada waist of Chalamet, depending on the reports, can fit into the size 29 of women for women, or the chiseled jaw of the comedian Matt Rife.
An alarming number of adolescents in compression shirts, flat biceps flexions and tiny waist, appear in videos on the “Skinnerberboys” Tiktok Discover, which is dedicated to “tips and tricks for skinny children to look.”
Hyper obsession with weight is also driven by “looksmaxxing,” in which adolescents and twenty men aim to remodel their shirts and cheekbones to increase their “sexual market value.”
That has generated the “Trend of Maullo”: plan the tongue to the roof of the mouth to achieve a definite jawline character to the Christian Bale in the movie “American Psycho”.
Tiktok is also full of young people who publish their calories and food plans in the #MYFITNESSPAL application, which is technically restricted to minors.
It is estimated that 1 in 3 people with an eating disorder are men, and 10 million American children and men will fight with the disorder at some point in their lives, according to the data of the American Association of Psychology.
“I used to be upset if I ate junk food, now I am buying junk food. Ice cream, cakes, anything from the bakery,” Casey told the post. “My concern is the physical damage I could do for [him] Continue not eating well. “
In his son’s annual physicist, Casey said, the doctor told Ethan that he needed to gain weight. And Ethan is not the only one in his group of friends doing this.
“I begin to notice that his friends Inge get really thin, they are serious,” Casey told The Post, added that other parents have told her that her young children are suddenly to diet.
Ironically, Chalamet, 29, has said that, when he was younger, he lost roles in the films series “Maze Runner” and “Divergent” because “the feedback was always” Oh, you do not have the right body. “
“I had an agent who called me and said:” Basically, you have to gain weight, “” the actor tolerated Zane Like from Apple Music, and added that he won 20 pounds for his role awarded in “a complete stranger.”
But its super intelligent appearance is simply to change things for young people in Hollywood.
Zander Dueve, 22, who works as an actor and model per day and security guard at night, played the casting’s posting directors, look for Larirucho body types.
“It is definitely a malnourished look,” he said, and pointed out that he is 5 ′ 11 ‘and wears pants 29 men size. “It has become a phenomenon: everyone wants that aspect.
“He is a child of people who like people, but it is what it is.”
If you or some know what fights with an eating disorder, visit the Website of the National Association of Food Disorders (NEDA) Or call your direct line at (800) -931-2237 to get help.