The music industry can be very cut throat. No one cares how you feel, they just want you shut up and make the money. The entertainment business is all about portraying a perfect image. Well, early 2000s pop-singer Jojo is no stranger to this standard. In a recent interview, Jojo recalls how she was on a 500-calorie diet because she wanted her record label to release her album.
She reflects back on the meeting she had with her label and she remembers the president of her label saying “I want you to look as healthy as possible”(theshaderoom). Jojo’s response was “I’m actually the picture of health. I look like a healthy girl who eats, who is active. I don’t think this is about my health. I think that you want me to be really skinny”(theshaderoom). Jojo states “I ended up getting put with a nutritionist that had me on a 500-calorie a day diet. I was on these injections that made you have no appetite. I was like, “Let me see how skinny I could get cuz maybe then they’ll put out an album. Maybe I’m just so disgusting that no one wants to see me in the video and they can’t even look at me”(theshaderoom). The entertainment industry likes to sell women as being someone that girls want to be like and guys want to sleep with. The industry’s obsession with wanting women to have the perfect body is an illusion that effects them mentally down the line. Jojo is a classic case of how toxic the music industry can be and it relates to the constant pressures people are under to be perfect on social media platforms as well.
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