Model and influencer Lori Harvey has sparked a bitterly divided debate after discussing her diet and workout regimens.
Harvey, who is dating actor Michael B. Jordan, revealed in a TikTok that she gained 15 pounds of "relationship weight" after getting together with the star.
Harvey called the experience "horrible" while detailing the extreme measures she went to in order to shed the weight, leading many to criticize her for promoting toxic diet culture and body standards.
See her TikTok below.
@loriharvey Here’s the tea! 🍵 #pilates #fitness #workoutroutine #bodygoal #fyp ♬ original sound - loriharvey
In her video, Harvey addressed fans who have been begging to know how she dropped the 15 pounds she gained.
“Everybody’s been asking like what it is I specifically did to get my body to this point."
"So when Mike and I got together, I gained like 15 pounds of relationship weight and it was horrible, none of my clothes fit, it was just not OK."
Harvey then detailed the extreme cardio and pilates-based workout regimen she used to drop the weight.
"...I was working out like five, six times a week, and I would even do, for the first month and a half, I would even do two-a-days..."
"...[Cardio] is how you drop. Pilates alone is not going to make you lose weight."
"It’s just going to give you long, lean muscles. So yeah, that’s how I did it.”
Harvey also discussed the exceptionally limited diet she followed, eating just 1,200 calories a day and avoiding carbs.
On social media, Harvey's video sparked a vigorous debate.
Many found her regime extreme, dangerous and fatphobic, and chided the star for promoting it to impressionable people without her access to professional guidance.
Lori Harvey may have just been saying what she did for her body, but it is still dangerous to promote that. 1200 calories is too low for an adult’s bodies to perform its basic life sustaining functions
— tope (@liveauthentic_) May 14, 2022
Lori Harvey bout to have the gworls passing out at functions. Not me tho, ima eat. Y’all be easy 😗
— Priyanka 🇭🇹 (@prxscxllv) May 14, 2022
Fun, but important, facts:
"Relationship weight" isn't a real thing -- but correlating comfort & love to weight gain as if it's a problem is fatphobic AF.
Eating 1200 calories a day after gaining 15 pounds says a lot about Lori Harvey and the society's fear of fat. All sad.
— Ernest Owens (@MrErnestOwens) May 14, 2022
For folks trying to disagree, did y’all watch and listen to the full video. The girl was eating MAX 1200 calories a day while doing two a days with Pilates classes in the mix. Again on a 1200 calorie deficit diet! What working person is able to do that and not collapse?
— KavMon (@kavionmontes) May 14, 2022
a 1200 calorie diet is what jump started my eating disorder. lori harvey publicly saying she follows a 1200 calorie diet when she knows tons of young girls look up to her is incredibly dangerous, irresponsible & disgustingly ignorant.
— Daisy Opal 🌼 shop link in bio! (@daisyopaldesign) May 14, 2022
But others found the uproar rather ridiculous and defended Harvey.
yall defended, copied & made all those excuses for all the girls who got:
backdoor plastic surgery
illegal injections
drastically altered bodies
exaggerated surgeon-made features
but somehow Lori Harvey is making you all take a stand about unhealthy body practices?
— Bijoux♡ (@BijouxFleurette) May 14, 2022
Summary: The girls are spreading this false narrative that Lori Harvey said eat 1200 calories for the rest of your life to look this damn fine. When she actually said she stayed in a calorie deficit and became more consistent with Pilates, and added cardio til she hit her goal. https://t.co/CnswyQ9FtS
— Bougie Banton 👸🏽🇯🇲✨ (@hotlinebling) May 14, 2022
Mfs on here talking about Lori Harvey’s lifestyle being unhealthy while they live sedentary lifestyles, smoke all day, and eat greasy food giving them heart burn
— Pretty Young Tenderoni (@hottie_blaque) May 15, 2022
Mf acting like Lori Harvey said starve yourself. Someone asked what she did, so she told em.
Consult with your own personal trainer rather than writing thinkpieces on health habits you've never taken part in.
— king 🇳🇬 (@KVLEL) May 14, 2022
lori harvey better than me. id come on here and call everyone one of you fat and broke
— ramata (@whereismyglowww) May 15, 2022
The furor over Harvey's diet and exercise practices comes after her appearance at the 2022 Met Gala, where her physique was praised in a red carpet interview in which she attributed her washboard abs to her pilates regimen.
