After sparking backlash, a scene from Taylor Swift’s music video has been removed.
Swift tweeted on October 21, “The Anti-Hero video is HERE, which I wrote and directed. Watch my nightmare scenarios and intrusive thoughts play out in real time.”
The Anti-Hero video is HERE, which I wrote and directed. Watch my nightmare scenarios and intrusive thoughts play out in real timehttps://t.co/3ieastDifu pic.twitter.com/h5mpzVLKDY
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) October 21, 2022
One of the scenes in the video shows the singer stepping on the scale and seeing the word “fat” appear.
a comparison of the Anti-Hero music video before Taylor Swift removed the "fat" scale (top) and after (bottom)
— yung rexhar (@yungrexhar) October 27, 2022pic.twitter.com/PzQzjOlSyi
CNN reported the version of the video on Apple Music has edited out the moment including the word.
Some critics reportedly considered the moment to be fatphobic, as the outlet noted.
The scene also now appears to have been cut from the YouTube version.
Swift previously opened up about her experience with an eating disorder.
During her documentary, “Miss Americana,” Swift could be heard saying in a voice over, “It’s not good for me to see pictures of myself every day.”
She continues, “It’s only happened a few times, and I’m not in any way proud of it.”
Swift explained there have been times previously when she has a seen “a picture of me where I feel like I looked like my tummy was too big, or… someone said that I looked pregnant … and that’ll just trigger me to just starve a little bit — just stop eating.”
During an interview with Variety, Swift shared that it was difficult to talk about her struggles.
“I didn’t know if I was going to feel comfortable with talking about body image and talking about the stuff I’ve gone through in terms of how unhealthy that’s been for me — my relationship with food and all that over the years,” she said.
According to Swift, the way that “Lana (Wilson, the film’s director) tells the story, it really makes sense. I’m not as articulate as I should be about this topic because there are so many people who could talk about it in a better way.”
She continued, “But all I know is my own experience. And my relationship with food was exactly the same psychology that I applied to everything else in my life: If I was given a pat on the head, I registered that as good. If I was given a punishment, I registered that as bad.”
