None of them need to gain, nor lose. No one should be telling any of them to do a damn thing about their weight. Why not just let them be like the rest of us?

I read an article about this in Self magazine the other day. The magazine was praising the females who were staying true to their own bodies... and really, that's how it ought to be. Though I admittedly don't like obesity. I don't think any one's "self" is to be a lard ass...

It was kind of sad though, to read some of the tales about how such and such recording company or such and such director insisted they needed to lose weight or they';d never be a star.

Annastesia22 said:

minneapolisgenius said:

Nicole's face looks better though

God, that picture of Donatella is awful. It doesn't matter how much money she has, she can't buy good looks. She's one of the uglist women I've ever seen.

i agree with Lindsay Lohan....she used to be so pretty...was still quite think but is looking positively anorexic lately


before



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and is looking even worse now...i can't seem to find a pic now that she's blonde...but she is beginning to resemble a stick.

It's getting worse and worse. Everytime you flip through a magazine, you see a new celebrity who looks freakishly thin. I was watching the MTV Movie Awards and half of those actresses really NEED to gain some weight, and looked in danger of toppling over in their stilletos.

And as much as I try to fight it, seeing those girls DOES affect me, and society as a whole - our celebrity-obsessed culture, largely, cannot see past their images and therefore begins to value this look as desirable and beautiful. Although Hollywood, with its fakeness and presumptuousness, seems surreal and untouchable, somehow it is hard to divide ourselves from the images we see on the glossy pages of Cosmo or on TV or the movies, and it becomes increasingly difficult to separate reality from celebrity. Which is paradoxical, in that in our everyday lives, generally, unless we live in very trendy, cosmopolitan cities, we always encounter people of a normal, healthy weight.

Why is it that when I go out to the store or to the movies and I see a stick-thin girl, I feel more pity or concern than envy -- but when I see Nicole Richie's new body, I feel more envy than anything else?
[Edited 6/16/05 15:36pm]

It's getting worse and worse. Everytime you flip through a magazine, you see a new celebrity who looks freakishly thin. I was watching the MTV Movie Awards and half of those actresses really NEED to gain some weight, and looked in danger of toppling over in their stilletos.

And as much as I try to fight it, seeing those girls DOES affect me, and society as a whole - our celebrity-obsessed culture, largely, cannot see past their images and therefore begins to value this look as desirable and beautiful. Although Hollywood, with its fakeness and presumptuousness, seems surreal and untouchable, somehow it is hard to divide ourselves from the images we see on the glossy pages of Cosmo or on TV or the movies, and it becomes increasingly difficult to separate reality from celebrity. Which is paradoxical, in that in our everyday lives, generally, unless we live in very trendy, cosmopolitan cities, we always encounter people of a normal, healthy weight.

Why is it that when I go out to the store or to the movies and I see a stick-thin girl, I feel more pity or concern than envy -- but when I see Nicole Richie's new body, I feel more envy than anything else?
[Edited 6/16/05 15:36pm]