Celebrity Bodies: Whose Business Is It?

Good post, thanks! I am trying to wean myself away from reading "entertainment" news. I wonder if Brad and Angelina really are a couple, but I don't even know who's running for Assemblyman in my district! It's time we stopped allowing the media to sate us with infotainment pieces scripted by PR reps, and forced them to ask real questions about real issues.

I don't think a lot of people realize that celebrities ARE real people and probably are just as insecure as the rest of us. I really relate to Teri Hatcher because I am a runner too and I am pretty slim and lean because of it. I get tired of the comments that people make about my weight and wish people would realize that I am healthy. Just like someone who is overweight can be healthy. It's a shame that the public is always thinking celebrities should lose/gain weight, etc. Aren't they their own person too? Shouldn't THEY be the ones deciding that?

Celebrities desperately want their appearance to be our business, at least when they are looking good. If the public ceases to care, some of them will actually have to get jobs. I do think the average Joe or Josephine takes a little satisfaction when Mr. or Mrs. Hollywood gets caught with their gut hanging out of a tight bathing suit. I know I feel a little better when I see a picture of flabby Arnold. If a celebrity is sensitive about their appearance, then they need to get over it or they need a different career.

I have this really intense fantasy that someday people will want to watch good actors, rather than a bunch of pretty people with blindingly white teeth (Not that they are mutually exclusive).

I have this really intense fantasy that people will just stop caring about Hollywood, and the lives of pretty rich people, and get out and live lives themselves which would be interesting enough to make a movie out of. (As to the latter part of this, I wish the same for me; I am thus far failing.)

I would like to see a world with no Extras, no Entertainment Tonights, no Us or People magazines. No MTV. No awards shows, no red carpet, no inane puff piece interviews whenever a celebrity has another cruddy, forgettable, 100 million dollar movie to plug.

I would love a world where people assessed actors and movies as artists and works of art, rather than as products, trends, and celebrities.

No more red carpets, $20,000 dresses, pieces of jewelry whose worth could feed 7 villages for a year in the Third World. No more paparazzi, candid photos over mansion fences. No publicists, no vicious fashion and pop culture commentators out to convince the world that the absurdity of Hollywood matters one bit in the scheme of things.

Actors will always be heroes and heroines; it would be a great thing if rather than fetishize them, gossip about them, and envying them from afar, instead we took notice of the fact that at their best, the greatest service they do for us is to show what is possible *for us*. In a word, actors should inspire us. This is a rarity these days, at least in any way that matters (There are some notable exceptions).

The problem is not skinny celebrities, but the way the "rest of us" fetishize them. It's the public; the feedback loop. It's every dollar you spend on tabloids at the supermarket checkout line. It's every movie you pay to see or CD you buy just because the person is good looking.

In a word, our own vanity. It's not the fat on a celebrity that people disdain, but their own fat; and they can depersonalize their own shortcomings and self-consciousness, and project them upon a very wealthy person who, by virtue of being rich and successful, one can hate without guilt. It's much more pleasant than self-loathing.

It's got nothing to do with them except to the extent that, as Randy points out, our incessant gawking means that the money is going to be tied up in the idiotic minutae of being skinny as a rail. It wasn't always like this, at least not to this degree. Nor is it this bad in other countries; this is primarily (but not exclusively) an American problem.

We in America put out the most offensively vapid, insipid movies with the skinniest, shiny-teethed, cardboard-cutout body-of-a-Barbie-doll celebrities, and yet *we* more than other countries, have the biggest problem with obesity.

Isn't it ironic.

Don't you think?

If you buy the entertainment magazines, go to see big budget Hollywood tripe just because the young, sexy, flavor of the moment is starring in it - if you give your money and your time over to all of these things, you *are* the problem.

If you think I have some issue with the entertainment world, you're right, it, and its benefactors, drive me nuts.

anyone in good health who looses weight on purpose is wanting to spend the rest oftheir life in a wheelchair.

everybody has the right to be the way they like. it is nobody's buisness what you looke like.

When you `sign up` to be a `celebrity` - whatever that terms means, you open yourself up to public scrutiny. It's all part of the trade-off.

If you think your fat, your probablly aren't. Just because you weigh 125 pounds doesn't make you fat. If you think you are fat, start running to doing crunches, but don't over work it. Don't eat out all the time and instead of those chips for a snack, try an apple or carrots.

it not celebrities fault, I'm sure a lot of them are just as insecure as everyone else. Its society's view of 'perfection' thats the problem because there is no such thing. Nobodys perfect but nobodys imperfect, we are all equal, were all people, nobody is superior or inferior. But unfortunately that isn't how society sees it, which is why more and more people are getting plastic surgery or developing a eating disorder.

They only way to survive in this screwed up world of ours is to stick together and help each other through our insecurites and change peoples selfish views.
Then mankind can truely evolve into something everyone should be.

i think that celebs are owr bizz, cause i mean if you now that almost every eye is going to be on you then why say that it's no ones bizz you have a choise to be a celeb and live with it or don't be a celeb and then if
people are in your bizz then you can say buz of

IT'S TRUE NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO JUDGE SOMEONE ABOUT IF THEY GAINED WEIGHT OR IF THEY LOST ALOT OF WEIGHT THAT GOES FOR CELEBRITIES TOO IF THEY DONT FEEL RIGHT WITH THERE BODIES WELL THEY GOT THE CHOSE OF CHANGING IT JUST LIKE US IF WE FEEL THAT WE ARE FAT THEN WE CAN CHANGE THAT OR IF WE FEEL THAT WE ARE TOO THIN WE CAN CHANGE THAT TOO.

I am going through a tough battle with my weight at the moment. I am always told that i am thin but i never really believe it myself. I am only 5"2 and find it hard to look "just right". I either feel too heavy or too hagard. I think that problems with weight stem from x comments made by x amount of people. To me, celebrities like Heidi Range and Scarlett Johansen who are incredibly beautiful and curvy are inspirational to young women.

i think skinny celebs is a bad thing because it is setting a bad example for children and teenagers

xxxoooxxxooo

p.s put some wait on !!!

We hear a lot about celebrities saying that they are too fat and hate looking in the mirror. This frustrates a lot of us especially when they already have a skinny image, but what about all the accusations from the public and the media about how Teri Hatcher and Mischa Barton?? These are people who naturally have a thin body and are fighting claims that they are taking their body image to far. You can never please anyone when you’re in the lime light. If you live in Hollywood, every miniscule of your image and personality is held up for public criticism, remarks and rumors.

Teri Hatcher used to have a good body. She was thin but she did have curves (think back to the days of Lois and Clark or, even earlier, on MacGyver). Now she's a SKELETON...she's lost a considerable amount of weight since then. Pictures of her jogging show her thighs...they are thinner than her knees! So I don't think she's setting a good example at all. Clinics nationwide have reported an increase in eating disorders among women ages 30-40...probably due to the number of Hollywood women in that age group that are so very thin.