Celebrities Weight Issues: Boo-who
Posted by Gigi on January 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Today, as I waited in a hallway for the 4,643rd time this week for a child in an activity, I amused myself by reading a celebrity gossip magazine. And I got a huge laugh, and then felt totally annoyed after I read all about about some “actress” who was whining about the pressures to be thin, and how hard she has it because there is so much pressure to be thin. Now, I am totally with her on the standard for women in Hollywood is ridiculous – I mean a size 4 should not be considered “curvy” but there is a deeper issue here, that really annoyed me.
The actress acted as if she was feeling some unique struggle, or pressure unique to Hollywooed but the truth is I think we ALL feel that pressure. While we may feel pressure not to be a size 0 or size 2, most real women feel the same pressures – and we feel it without a trainer, a chef and all the help in the world.
The women in Hollywood probably DO feel a lot of pressure to be thin – but guess what!? So do women in real life. And you know what?! We don’t have a personal trainer, chefs, and two nannies per child. We are expected to look thin and we are not paid for it, praised for it, made designer outfits for it, or assisted in any way. It is not our offical “JOB” to look good, in fact it is just one of the countless responsibilities we have, but it is a celebrities job. We don’t get ANY money, let alone millions of dollars when we go back to our pre-pregnancy weight. As an actress it IS your job to look good. If you don’t want to deal with that pressure or anyone else commeting on your appearance – don’t make a career out of what you look like. It is like a fireman complaining that he loves his job but hates the heat of fire. If your job IS TO LOOK GOOD and you don’t like that pressure – get a different job.
I look at my friends, other women – you know that have real lives and responsibilities, and they all feel a great amount of pressure to be thin too. Looking at these women, the working moms, the stay at home moms with no help, you know the ones that get up at 5 am to hit the gym or do everything they can to manage to stay fit IN SPITE of all they have to do, made me realize what a disgrace these actresses are.
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