US Cosmo’s Latest Hot Tip For Losing Weight Fast Is Literally Getting Cancer

The world of women’s magazines is not always known for its exceptionally good faith advice, and Cosmopolitan has been responsible for some real corkers. Pro tip: if you really want to sexually satisfy your boyfriend, you don’t need to slog him in the nuts with a burlap sack full of ice cubes or whatever the hell it is Cosmo told you to do.

After her surgeries, though, Simone describes her eating as even more erratic. Her binges became more frequent. She’d walk every few days for fresh air, but that was the extent of her workouts. So it came as no surprise when excess weight piled on. “I just wasn’t in the right mindset to do anything,” she says. “I really struggled most days to comprehend what I had been through.”

Simone’s weight loss success is proof that ANYONE can lose weight without breaking a sweat simply by eating more mindfully—no gym required.

And, uh, getting cancer. That is also one of the key parts of the story I feel that paragraph is potentially excluding there. The entire premise – still kinda present in the revised article – is that exacting body standards still have to be at the forefront of someone’s mind after they literally get cancer is, to say the least, not great.