Diet culture is often thought of on a large scale as a set of unhealthy, unattainable beauty standards set by people who are far out of our reach. But what if we told you that it often becomes most magnified within our own home?
The family is supposed to be a safe place where we learn how to carry out the basic necessities for life, but a new term has been coined for the kind of parent who has unfortunately succumbed to diet culture and inadvertently passes it onto their child: the “almond mom.”
Click through to see where the term came from, the typical characteristics of almond moms, and how to recover if you had one yourself.