Gossip columnists call it a celebrity scandal when a Hollywood star packs on a few pounds. Unless famous women are an anorexic looking size zero, apparently it's a celebrity scandal. The media is full of unkind stories about how Britney Spears and Jennifer Love Hewitt are fat now. To me, fat is a woman who is five feet four inches tall and weighs 220 pounds. Fat is a person who risks their health and actually has trouble walking from A to B because they are carrying so much excess weight. Fat certainly isn't a celebrity who has gone from being underweight to having a normal BMI. These ridiculous celebrity scandal stories hurt women all over the world. They read the articles that claim Britney Spears is a slob. Then they look at photos of her and see that her body is now comparable to their own. If a woman has fragile self-esteem, such careless celebrity scandal stories may cause her to develop an eating disorder. The media can confuse even the most confident of women. We are told that we should love ourselves regardless of shape or size only to find a moronic celebrity scandal article that claims Tyra Banks is fat because she's finally reached a gorgeous, healthy weight.
There is such pressure on celebrities to stay thin that many suffer from anorexia or bulimia. Some of them have publicly admitted it. Among celebrities who have confessed to struggling with an eating disorder at some point are Kate Winslet, Christina Ricci, Mary-Kate Olsen, Janet Jackson, Victoria Beckham, Kate Beckinsdale and Paula Abdul, to name but a few. Of course, other celebrities clearly have an eating disorder, they just haven't yet admitted to it. The fact is that both Anorexia and Bulimia can and do kill. The press don't seem to care that Karol Carpenter and, more recently, Brazilian model Ana Carolina Reston both starved themselves to death. People who write tactless celebrity scandal stories about the weight gain of a famous person should seriously consider the potential implications of what they are doing before they even write the first word.
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Gossip columnists call it a celebrity scandal when a Hollywood star packs on a few pounds. Unless famous women are an anorexic looking size zero, apparently it's a celebrity scandal. The media is full of unkind stories about how Britney Spears and Jennifer Love Hewitt are fat now. To me, fat is a woman who is five feet four inches tall and weighs 220 pounds. Fat is a person who risks their health and actually has trouble walking from A to B because they are carrying so much excess weight. Fat certainly isn't a celebrity who has gone from being underweight to having a normal BMI. These ridiculous celebrity scandal stories hurt women all over the world. They read the articles that claim Britney Spears is a slob. Then they look at photos of her and see that her body is now comparable to their own. If a woman has fragile self-esteem, such careless celebrity scandal stories may cause her to develop an eating disorder. The media can confuse even the most confident of women. We are told that we should love ourselves regardless of shape or size only to find a moronic celebrity scandal article that claims Tyra Banks is fat because she's finally reached a gorgeous, healthy weight. 
