Thin privilege is sharing stories of extreme weight loss and posing as if they’re sharing “great weight loss secrets” when in fact most of the people on the list died from their extreme and dangerous weight loss efforts.

Thin privilege is bolding terms like “600 calories a day” and “physiotherapist” to emphasize those points to the reader as if they’re harmless weight loss tips then glossing over and paying as little attention to facts like “died from starvation” or “died from pneumonia due to weakness from starvation” or “regained the weight.” (Or, my favorite, “despite clean slate of health…persuaded to lose weight to save his life.”)

Thin privilege is pretending like the fact that these people literally died to be thin is a good thing, and encouraging readers to use the methods they did to attempt to lose weight no matter how dangerous it is.