Diary of a Gen Z Student: Fat-shaming in The Devil Wears Prada makes for an uncomfortable rewatch

The film’s treatment of thinness, its idealisation of it, is uncomfortable to me now, as a 20-year-old woman. Because it’s painfully clear where the seeds of negative body image were planted, for so many children.

Trinity College student and Irish Examiner columnist Jane Cowan photographed at her home. Photo: Barry Cronin

The Devil Wears Prada was one of my favourite movies when I was a child. My sisters and I were obsessed. 

We had it on DVD and used to watch it on repeat. The glamour, the fashion, the beauty. We couldn’t get enough. I watched it recently, hoping to be submerged in a wave of nostalgia.