
Back in 2014, Vogue wrote that we were "officially in the era of the big booty" and was met with much backlash.

If all this debate and discussion over a woman's backside seems familiar, it's because this sort of thing has happened before - a lot, actually. They also pointed out the inherent racism in declaring that a particular physical attribute that many women of colour have naturally is no longer desirable. Some critics swiftly shot back, saying that women's bodies should not be reduced to trends.

And the New York Post ran a headline that said "Bye-bye booty" and declared that heroin chic was back. Cardi B recently shared that she had her own implants removed and cautioned others against getting butt injections. On TikTok, users speculated that Kim Kardashian had her butt implants removed (a procedure she never confirmed having in the first place).

The Sunday Magazine 20:03 The politics behind butts are anything but peachyĪfter almost a decade of our cultural obsession with twerking, peach emojis and Brazilian butt lifts, 2022 apparently marked the end of the era of the big booty.
