almond mom
noun
A mother who pushes her daughter to be skinny, through diet
What does almond mom mean?
An almond mom is a mother who imposes unhealthy eating habits and harmful expectations about weight and body image onto her children, especially daughters.
Examples of almond mom
The thing I hate about Josh’s parents house is that, it’s an almond mom type of house. I’m always questioning when we will get food. I’m always starving. I need F O O D.
—@Thestoryofbrit, X (formerly Twitter), 7 Oct. 2024
I have really healed my relationship with food over the last year. The healing came through unlearning all the diet culture “almond mom” things I absorbed growing up in the early 2000s and learning what truly nourishing my body looks like.
—In the world of an almond mom, diets reign supreme, being skinny is highly valued, and if you’re hungry, a couple of almonds should do it.
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Where does almond mom come from?
The almond in almond mom is a reference to a 2013 clip from the reality TV show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills in which Yolanda Hadid advises her daughter, fashion model Gigi Hadid, to consume a few almonds after Gigi shared feeling weak from a diet. The clip spread online in the early 2020s, and, by fall 2022, the term almond mom went viral as part of a social media trend where young women satirized harmful behaviors associated with it, especially practices like commenting on weight gain or using expressions like “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.” The trend opened up a larger discourse on the damage restricted eating (and a preoccupation with thinness) can have on young people, particularly women.
How is almond mom used?
Almond mom is still commonly used as an informal pejorative term, appearing in the serious and complex contexts of diet culture, fatphobia, and eating disorders (although its tone is often humorous, as a way of making its point). For example: “Am I becoming an almond mom because I measure out exact portions of food for my dog?” However, the term has also broadened to refer positively to a concern for nutrition and fitness, as in “Every time I visit, my parents make sure they have my favorite almond mom foods, always stocking up with fresh veggies, sugar-free yogurt, and organic snack bars.” The evolution of the phrase, ironically, reinforces negative stereotypes the phrase originally criticized.
Almond mom is frequently attributive (meaning that it modifies another noun), used not just in reference to a person but to characterize actions or attitudes (‘almond mom behavior’). A male counterpart to an almond mom is an almond dad. Other relations, such as brother or wife, perceived to impart unhealthy eating or body image habits can be described as almond.
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