🧩 BND Motif Index · M822
Body watch
Celebrities' bodies, faces and weight are scrutinized, surgeries spotted, eating disorders guessed, as gossip anyone can join.
🌻 Perennials🗂️ Everyday talk🗂️ Judged by looks
- 8claims filed under it
- 2left shows it came up on
- 1center show it came up on
- 1right show it came up on
- 4claims retold online
- 1fact-checker
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (2 left-leaning, 1 center, 1 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- left-leaning
- center
- right-leaning
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “Has anyone seen what she looked like before plastic surgery?” “He also said that Ashley Hinson, the MAGA Republican candidate, lost a lot of weight.” “he starts commenting on Ashley Hinson's body, y'all.” “He was very skinny not that long ago and now all of a sudden he's pretty jacked.” “her arms are just skin and bones” “I swear, I thought she was a robot.” “it’s misguided to body shame her. It looks like she may have an eating disorder” “Jeff Bezos after getting a hair transplant” “Obama was spotted with baby bump” “Ossoff has probably put on 40 pounds of muscle. It's TRT, maybe a little HGH.” “she kind of looks like she used to be a guy in the after pic” “She looks like a character that stepped off a horror set.”
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 1
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
- 2026-11-03 “Donald Trump is making inappropriate comments about a female candidate's body.” 3
Told on the right 0
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the right so far.
Told on both sides 1
claims heard on left- and right-leaning shows alike
- 2026-11-11 “Jon Ossoff has significantly increased his muscle mass, possibly through TRT or HGH.” 2
Retold online 4
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-10-10 “This woman has undergone excessive plastic surgery and suffers from an eating disorder.”
- 2026-10-09 “Susan Dell's plastic surgery has left her looking like a horror-movie villain, a robot or an alien in a skin suit, frightening to look at.”
- 2026-10-09 “Susan Dell isn't a joke but a sick woman, likely anorexic or with body dysmorphia, who needs help; mocking her looks is body shaming, and her illness has nothing to do with being trans.”
- 2026-10-09 “After her surgery Susan Dell looks like a man trying to look like a woman.”
Fact-checked 2
claims a fact-checker examined: the verdict is theirs, behind the link
- 2026-11-03 “A photo shows Jeff Bezos after getting a hair transplant.” 🔎 Lead Stories
- 2026-10-28 “Barack Obama's daughter Shasha Obama was spotted with a baby bump, and it seems she's having an affair and chose to keep it off social media.” 🔎 Lead Stories
M822 · first seen 2026-10-10 · last 2026-11-11 · what this is · how the index works