“Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.”

That quote — made famous by supermodel Kate Moss — shaped an entire generation of women. And if we’re honest? Parts of it still live in our heads.

In this episode of After the Drop Off, we ask the uncomfortable question:

Did diet culture ever actually go away — or did it just rebrand itself as “wellness”?

We’re talking body image, weight loss pressure, gym culture, “clean eating”, and the quiet ways mums still shrink themselves — physically and metaphorically.

We unpack:

• Growing up in peak 90s and 2000s diet culture
• Why “heroin chic” never really left
• The moral language we use around food (“being good”, “being bad”)
• Post-baby body image and the pressure to “bounce back”
• The contradiction of wanting to feel confident without becoming obsessed
• Raising sons and daughters in a world still obsessed with appearance
• Whether body positivity has helped — or just added another standard to live up to

We also admit the messy bits:

The calorie counting.

The comparison spiral.

The gym guilt.

The jeans that don’t fit.

The thoughts we’re trying not to pass on.

This isn’t a body positivity lecture.

It’s not anti-weight loss.

And it’s definitely not us pretending we’ve figured it out.

It’s a real conversation about body image in Australia — and what it takes to unlearn decades of messaging while raising kids who are watching everything.

Because maybe the problem was never the quote.

Maybe it’s how deeply we believed it.

After the Drop Off is a podcast for parents navigating the primary school years — real, raw and funny conversations about modern motherhood, identity, friendships and the cultural stuff we’re still unpacking.