Barbie Ferreira is confident in her own skin and doesn’t need anyone trying to dull her shine.
“To me, talking about weight loss or glowing up is so boring,” Ferreira, 29, said during a Tuesday, April 14, episode of Amanda Hirsch’s “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast. “I think people are just obsessed with that right now. It’ll be even a young person that just grows up and it’s like, ‘The glow up! Or the glow down!’ Everyone’s obsessed with that. She was 16, and now she’s 25.”
The Euphoria alum added, “It’s not just me. Every actress right now is being put under a microscope of being too skinny or too big. It’s all rage bait. If you can find something to rage bait about, it’s more effective in the algorithm.”
Ferreira noted that her best friend agrees that people are way too “comfortable” commenting on others’ bodies. “That’s really what it is,” she explained. “You would never say any of this stuff to people because it’s not even true.”
The actress went on to say that she has been the “butt of this generation’s ups and downs about body politics,” adding, “I was 16 years old!”
“For me, I have the perspective of what’s happening because I’m like the first person, I’m the punching bag of everything,” Ferreira added. “It feels like a different place that we are in of society. A few years ago, it felt a little bit easier. It felt a little but less of a conversation and now it’s all people talk about. People are just obsessed with looks and it’s not good for the psyche for anyone.”
During her latest interview, Ferreira also opened up about falling in love with a women’s-only Pilates studio, which she goes to partially to “make friends.”
“I do work out and I love doing things for my health,” Ferreira said. “I’m turning 30 and I’ve been so unhealthy my whole life. I love nicotine.”
Ferreira previously opened up about body positivity in 2022, telling WhoWhatWear, “I think bigger bodies are not as ‘trendy’ as they used to be, which is really sad to me. But it’s more of a conversation of the fact that we all struggle with self-love, and I don’t think any young person has really figured it out yet.”
