GLP-1s Will Get You a Job and a Boyfriend, Says Science (We Already Knew That)

In the most recent GLP-1 news, a new study out of Harvard found that women are more likely to land a job and find a partner while on the drugs — because of course they are.

I don't say that to be snarky, more that weight has never really been just a health thing for women. It's always doubled as currency, whether we wanted it to or not, and now there's a paper with Harvard's name on it more or less proving it.

Economist Rebecca Diamond tracked thousands of women through the Understanding America Study and found that single women starting a GLP-1 for weight loss were 29 percentage points more likely to be married or living with a partner within a year and a half, and women who weren't working when they started were 27 points more likely to be employed by then. Call it confidence, or call it exactly what Diamond's paper is called: "the female obesity penalty."

But what didn't change is the part that's hard to shake: already-partnered women got no upgrade, already-employed women got no raises, and none of them got healthier. Self-reported health, depression, and loneliness barely moved. The shift wasn't internal; it was other people, deciding differently, the moment there was less of her to see.

Which makes me wonder, do you have to be Ariana Grande for people to notice there's a problem here? Her body has become its own headline, and we're told not to comment on women's bodies until you're actually worried about one.

This study didn't tell us anything new — it just proved we were never being paranoid.