Alex Aspasia weighs 380lbs, built a brand on loving her body, and now spends her days fielding messages from strangers who want her to shrink it.
The 31-year-old model, size 26, has spent years posting her curves without apology.
Self-love, body positivity, the whole message. Lately the message has been getting a different response.
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“I’ve noticed a shift in energy,” she told CreatorZine.
“I believe it’s tied to culturally what’s relevant right now, what’s considered the trendy beauty standard and the look.”
She has a theory about where the energy is coming from.
The Ozempic effect
Alex thinks the arrival of weight loss injections has changed how people treat anyone who hasn’t taken them.
Her word for it is “animosity”, and she says there is more of it than there used to be.
“We know people are just really condemning bigger people, their lifestyles,” she said.
“I’ve always felt judgement, shame around my size and a lot of emotions. I’m tired of what being a bigger person in society has made me feel like.”
Then the line that framed the whole post: “It’s 100 times worse right now.”
The post itself pulled 186,000 views and more than 7,000 likes, captioned simply:
“It’s time to have a talk. How I’m treated as a plus-size woman in today’s society really hurts.”
The daily sales pitch
The pressure isn’t only coming from strangers online.
Alex says the people she knows have joined in.
“I feel like everyday I’m bombarded with online message from people trying to get me to use [skinny jabs],” she said.
“Also people in my real life who I know have used them to lose weight have told me to get on them. But I refuse.”
She’d rather talk about why bigger bodies exist in the first place, which she feels nobody wants to hear.
“Either we’re emotionally eating or hold onto stress that messes up our hormones and makes losing weight harder.
Or even just simply being a person sometimes, things get messed up.
Bodies are diverse and it’s just horrible that we don’t treat each other with respect.”
The comments told a bigger story
The replies filled up with women saying the same thing had happened to them.
One fellow plus-size influencer described a grimmer version of it.
“It’s really bad out here right now. I’ve recently received death threats over my latest post and it’s absolutely pointless,” she wrote.
“You are absolutely stunning, your aura is literally giving iconic.”
Another commenter, Leslie, named the culprit directly.
“We’re living in the age of Ozempic which got people losing their minds. We just gotta support each other.”
Others kept it simple. “Screw what everyone says, they don’t know no good. You’re beautiful, incredible and amazing,” one wrote.
What she sees now
Alex, who is from Miami, has said before that the rush toward injections and surgery has warped what people even recognise as a normal body.
“I feel like we have fallen so far from what natural beauty is that when you see a natural woman’s body, people are sometimes almost disgusted by it,” she said.
“[Mostly] because they are so far removed from what natural is versus being manufactured beauty these days. The world has gone mad.”
Why It Matters
Body positivity was one of the more durable creator niches of the last decade, built on an audience that wanted to see itself reflected.
The GLP-1 boom is quietly pulling the ground out from under it.
When the aspirational body becomes a body you can buy in a pen, the creators who built followings on the opposite message find their comments turning hostile and their whole premise up for debate.
Alex’s experience is a reading of where audience sentiment is drifting, and it’s drifting fast.
The wider shift is hard to miss. Ozempic and its relatives have moved from medical prescription to cultural default in barely two years, dragging beauty standards along behind them.
Whether the body-positive creators adapt, dig in, or get quietly deranked by an audience that has moved on is the thing worth watching.
Alex, for now, is still refusing the pen.
