Taylor Swift's music video for the 'Midnights' lead single 'Anti-Hero' has been edited, reports 'Variety', to remove 💃a scene that shows her stepping on a bathroom scale that reads "fat".
'Variety' can confirm the music꧅ video on Apple Music no longer shows the scale; instead, Swift's anti-hero clone just looks at her with a face of disappointment. The music video on YouTube still features the scale displaying "fat". Contacted by 'Variꦿety', reps for Swift and Apple Music did not immediately have a comment.
Speculation surrounding the reasoning behind the removal of those frames comes from the online debat✤e oveꦍr the scene, which has since been labelled by some as "anti-fat" because of its negative connotations.
In an Instagram post promoting the release of the music video (which she wrote and directed), Swift says that the visual treatment was refle♑ctive of her own "nightmare scenarios and intrusive thoughts [playing] out in real time." Within that context, the video matches the song's introspective and analytical lyrics, which include lines such as "Sometimes I feel like everybody is a sexy baby / And I'm a monster on the hill."
'Variety' adds that Swift has talked about str🦂uggling with an eating disorde💦r in the past, most extensively in her 2020 Netflix documentary 'Miss Americana'.
In the film, Swift admits there have been times in the past ("It's only happened a few times, and I'm not in any way proud of it") when she's seen "a picture of me where I feel like I looked like my tummy was too big, or ... someone said that I looked pregnant ... and that'll just trigger me to just starve a little bit -- just stop eating𝓡."
