Authored by Super Special Guest Poster and Honorary MamaPop Betch, Angella from Dutch Blitz
I hover on the edge of being clued into pop culture — trying to stay in the game, but often failing miserably. Case in point: I recently bought a pair of black leggings after fighting the trend for a year. I thought that maybe I was finally catching up.
Nope. Leggings now are SO 2007.
Sigh.
In my defense, I *am* Canadian. WE DON’T EVEN HAVE THE IPHONE IN CANADA YET. (It is (finally) coming in July, BUT STILL.)
So I recently decided to scour the internet to see what was going on in
the entertainment/pop culture world that I — in my Canadian lameness — could possibly relate to, and happened to stumble on a MSN column entitled Celebrity Thin: Hollywood’s Hungriest Stars.
BINGO!
Because if there is anything that I (and many women of all shapes and sizes) can relate to, it’s issues that relate to weight (I’m a poet and didn’t know it). BRING IT, MSN.
One part of the feature that struck me particularly involved the eternally waifish Sarah Jessica Parker. Parker is quoted saying that over the course of one average, unremarkable evening, she ate all of the following:
steak, lamb, roasted chicken, profiteroles, ice cream, and cheesecake ( I SO CALL BULL) (Well, unless the portions were microscopic). Oh and also? She claimed she hadn’t worked
out in (gasp!) two weeks (LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE!).
Julianne Moore, on the other hand, actually spun a bit of TRUTH on the subject.
Moore is quoted saying: "I still battle with my deeply
boring diet of, essentially, yogurt and breakfast cereal and granola
bars. I hate dieting. I hate having to do it to be the ‘right’ size.
I’m hungry all the time," she said. "I think I’m a slender person,
but the industry apparently doesn’t. All actresses are hungry all the
time, I think."
Julianne Moore saying this is the kind of news that needs to be shouted from the rooftops, people.
I spent the first twenty-five years of my life as a chubby,
non-athletic person. I felt like such a failure when I saw photos of
celebrities in all of their stick-thin glory, purportedly living on a
diet of champagne and caviar.
I am currently, according to most standard medical weight charts, a thin person. But I also, honestly, have
hunger pains that I ignore. I do not starve myself by any means, but I
do have to be vigilant and deny myself that bag of chips I’d love to scarf if I want to fit into my ‘skinny
jeans’.
I still struggle with the photos of models and actresses that show
their pencil shaped legs and wonder how it is that they are so thin. I
know how strict that I have to be. How is it that
they can be half of my size while still eating? DOES NOT COMPUTE.
Well now we know how: apparently they are simply NOT eating (at least according to Julianne Moore).
No wonder our society (myself included, I admit) has such a skewed view of body image.
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