Day 19 – I am disgusted with celebrities who think they are FAT.

Sitting at home today I decided to pullout a WHO magazine that I had laying around. I got comfortable on my sofa, dressed in my tracksuit and a cup of green tea in one hand.

The edition in question is dated May 28, 2007 and as my photos indicate it has Kate Hudson and that Owen Wilson on the cover. Issue 796.

So, I flick to page 7, the editorial and I see an article titled “Lily Allen’s Gorgeous Bod” so I kept reading thinking nothing of this article. I have transcribed the whole editorial for you to read.

It reads:

I know what it is to be curvy, and then some, so I love stars who spruik for Team Real Woman. Lily Allen, all size 10 top and 12 bottom of her (I mean seriously!), designed a figure-friendly frock based line for Britain’s New Look chain, in tune with the no-nonsense style that has made her famous at age 22.
Kate Moss (all size sub-zero of her) launched her Topshop line at the same time, and in the comparison wash-up poor Lily went into a “fat, ugly” spin and blogged “in a sea of tears on my space. No, not another lost to the skinnies! But she’s got it together again. Stay as you are Lily!.” JANE NICHOLLS, EDITOR.

I was disgusted in what I read, not what the editor had written but what this stupid celebrity had said. I then noticed that there was another article on Ms Lily Allen in the exact same magazine on page 33 and titled “Lily Allen’s Body Image Crisis”
I have transcribed the whole article and would love to hear your thoughts.

The article reads:

“The singer admits to being in a “sea of tears” about how she looks… Call it bad timing; singer Lily Allen brought out her line of “real women” Lily loves Dress (featuring, she told the UK’s Grazia Magazine, “wider straps to hide the arm bits we all hate”) just as model Kate Moss was promoting her own line.
When several papers in Britain ran photos of the two side by side, it was too much for Lily, 22, who has been a vocal critic of the pressure to be waifish. “I used to pride myself on being strong- minded,” she wrote on her blog on May 12. “I felt like it didn’t matter if I was a bit chubby because I ‘m not a model, I’m a singer, I’m afraid I have fallen victim to the evil machine. I write to you in a sea of tears. I have spent the past hour researching gastric-bypass surgery and laser liposuction.”
The remarks moved fans to post almost 2,000 chin-up comments such as, “You are what makes us normal girls actually feel normal.” By the next day Lily was “feeling a lot better” her rep tells WHO. “I shan’t be getting any surgery,” she wrote on May 14. “I will be eating bread and pasta and thinking about what to write about for the next album.”


I was and still am absolutely positively disgusted in this stupid girl. I would KILL to be a size 10 top and size 12 bottom and here she is telling her fans whom I’m sure are a young bunch of impressionable girls that she considered something like gastric surgery. I am offended that she made these comments and worse than that that magazines are PUBLISHING this crap.

We are living in a society of severely obese people. We are living in a society where on very corner there is some fast food establishment. We live in a society that has petrol stations selling junk food and in fact even some petrol station attendants also are “prompted” to remind us, the consumer, that today we can purchase 2 Mars bars for the price of 1.

I’ve had all sorts of surgery because I struggled with a serious weight issue and here comes this stupid celebrity saying that she feels fat (and mind you she wears a size 10 top and size 12 bottom) and makes it sound like having gastric surgery will solve it all for her. And solve what? She is not even overweight!!! I mean look at her, look at her picture she looks perfect to me.

We also live in a society that emphasizes being skinny. And I aint talking normal healthy skinny but we are talking about the “heroin chic” look, the emancipated look, the anorexic look. They think this is glamorous when in fact it’s schizophrenic.

Am I over-reacting? Yeah maybe I am. But celebrities like this make me really angry.

Don’t get me wrong I am all for the lap band surgery, for me personally it was and is the BEST decision I have ever made in my entire life and each and every day when I am out and about and I see really overweight—obese people, I want to race up to them grab their hand and tell them about this surgery. I can see the pain in their eyes and I can sense how uncomfortable and shithouse they feel. I know all this because I have felt all this and I still feel like this.

There hasn’t been a day in my life when I didn’t wish that I was thin and healthy. I guess now I am on the road to this and I am in control now of each and every thing I put in my mouth.

I know I am sounding very “Oprah Winfrey” but at the end of the day this is MY blog and this is how I am feeling.

I read the most amazing paragraph in a book called “The Pocket Gastric Band Guide by Trudy Williams” I have transcribed it for you.

It reads:

“If anyone tells you that the band is an easy way out to lose weight, tell them they have absolutely no idea! The band is not a magic cure or foolproof device. It is a great aid and friend. Everyday, there will be a new challenge. The band will constantly remind you not only how to eat, but how much to eat.”

I was extremely tempted to write to Ms. Lily Allen and give her a piece of my mind so I went to her my space page (http://www.myspace.com/lilymusic) and started reading, well after reading all her fans comments I thought that I would not bother giving her my 10cents worth as I'm sure I would receive a mountain of abuse and that’s not what I want to happen.

I wish I could make this crazy woman walk in my shoes, just for a month and I will tell her what’s fat. I would kill to be the same clothes size as her. That’s what I want to tell Ms. Lily Allen. I guess at the end of the day silence is golden. Or is it?

Anyways I’ve said a lot and I best get off my soapbox!!!



Reney