Celebrity Pro-Fat Influencer Says Body Positivity Led Her To Pansexuality
Celebrity Instagram influencer Megan Jayne Crabbe says body positivity led her to pansexuality.
A prominent body positivity influencer from the United Kingdom says her activism pushed her into “pansexuality.”
Megan Jayne Crabbe, an author and activist with more than 1.2 million followers on Instagram, told the hosts of MTV’s “Queerpiphany” last week that body positivity led her to adopt a queer identity. Speaking in terms embraced by advocates for far-left notions of social justice, Crabbe said she abandoned the “patriarchy” after an eight-year relationship with a man and fell in love with the first woman she dated.
“I wasn’t able to actually introspect about my sexuality until I took that step away from patriarchy and away from the male gaze,” Crabbe said. “Being watched by a man is not everything.”
One of the hosts asked Crabbe if “imposter syndrome” was at all to blame for her newfound sexuality.
“What was it like coming into the queer community later than some of your peers?” they asked. “Do you get like this kind of like imposter syndrome kind of vibe?”
Imposter syndrome is a behavioral phenomenon wherein individuals feel inferior to their peers and are handicapped with self-doubt, often concerned with being exposed as a fraud. Narcissistic relationships, which run rampant in LGBT spaces, almost always lead to the development of imposter syndrome.
“The imposter syndrome was real because I spent so many years being an ally,” Crabbe conceded. “You come into these spaces and you’re like, ‘what am I doing here? Am I queer enough? What is my label?’”
“I guess when you have a public facing presence, you kind of have to figure it out before you stick it out,” Crabbe added. “Like, people want to know exactly like how you identify, and say the perfect thing for us and represent us and you’re still figuring it out yourself!”
Pansexuality, according to USA Today, “refers to someone attracted to all people no matter their gender identity.”
“It’s not to be confused with bisexuality, which means being attracted to more than one gender,” the paper reported.
Crabbe published a book on body positivity in 2018 titled, “Body Positive Power: Because Life Is Already Happening and You Don’t Need Flat Abs to Live It.” In what’s become a manifesto for the movement, Crabbe wrote candidly about her personal struggles with negative self-image feeding a years-long eating disorder.
“I remember spending hours in fantasies of what I would look like when I grew up,” she wrote, “grasping for reassurance that one day I would be beautiful.”
Beautiful meaning thin. Thin was the only option. Of course that’s what I would become; that’s what all the representations of beautiful women around me were: Barbie-doll thin, Disney-princess thin, Rachel, Monica, and Phoebe thin. To my five-year-old mind, that’s what women were supposed to look like. The fact that I was still a child didn’t stop me from comparing myself to them.
Crabbe was ultimately hospitalized for anorexia and credits body positivity with saving her life. “If I hadn’t stumbled upon it when I did,” she wrote, “I would have kept popping multiple diet pills each morning, working out for countless hours a day, and living on so little food until either my physical health or mental health gave way.”
None of the solutions she wrote about in the book, however, are remedies for weight loss. Diet pills and starvation only wreak havoc on metabolism while exercise without proper nutrition will fail to achieve the desired results. It’s no wonder, then, that Crabbe and so many others conned into a broken calories-in, calories-out model are eager to throw in the towel and embrace body positivity rather than healthy living.
Crabbe has since built a massive online following as a premier ambassador for body positivity with corporate endorsements and regular posts on Instagram calling herself “chubby.” Earlier this year, Crabbe became a mascot for Dove soap’s “Campaign for Size Freedom.”
Later in the interview with MTV last week, Crabbe was asked whether there was a “link between embracing your queerness and your body positivity advocacy.”
“I couldn’t have got to one without the other,” she said, “because there were so many layers of accepting myself, embracing my body, embracing myself as I am to get through that so that I could start looking into my queerness.”
The embrace of a new identity under the umbrella of intersectionality can also be seen as the logical next step for who has become a primary cheerleader for body positivity, a movement which seeks to place obesity on the victimized hierarchy of social justice. In her book, Crabbe describes fat people as a marginalized group and in 2019, even called on Parliament to recognize “fatphobia” as an official form of prejudice.
Crabbe and other activists for body positivity often speak in the same language associated with “woke” ideologues who proclaim victimization on race, gender, and sexuality. Given the importance of models and their influence on our everyday life, there’s no small likelihood that Crabbe’s pursuit of pansexuality was at least in part inspired by a mimetic desire to affiliate more closely with activist peers. After all, it was an inferior comparison to others that led her down the dark, tragic experience of anorexia in the first place.
Luke Burgis, an entrepreneur and business professor at the Catholic University of America, wrote about the human instinct to conform in his 2021 book, “Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life.” Burgis broke down ideas espoused by the literature and history professor René Girard that human behavior is motivated by models whether we realize them or not.
“Girard believed that all true desire - the post-instinctual kind — is metaphysical,” Burgis explained. “The metaphysical nature of desire leads to strange distortions in the way that we see other people. Girard sees this happening in the tragic case of anorexia nervosa and bulimia. The desire to be like a model who represents an ideal body image is stronger than the need for basic sustenance.”
When models are recalibrated to idolize identities on the victimized pedestal, it’s no surprise that more people adopt those identities.
“According to Girard’s mimetic theory, culture is formed primarily through the imitation of desires, not things,” Burgis wrote. “And desires are not discrete, static, and fixed; they are open-ended, dynamic, and volatile.”
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