We truly live in the age of the airhead.
The next season of 'reality' show The Simple Life will have Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie as camp counselors.
"The girls[...] will be guiding the children through a week of weight loss and fitness exercises."
Celebrity Size Obsession
by Claire Sundstrom
Over the last year there has been an increasing number of websites and magazines that focus exclusively on celebrity weight and size. I've always been interested in this kind of thing since many female actresses have the "perfect" bodies any imperfection is worth noting.
However - there are times when the scrutiny can go a little too far. I've noticed that the "skinniest" person - i.e. most skeletal - is often complimented by authors and posters as looking good, or "not too skinny." Sometimes articles are dedicated to celebrities' recent weight gain - even as minor as 5 pounds.
Once, when reading some of the posters' comments, one referring to a celebrity who wore a size six as "huge" - I began to feel that something was just not right.
The obsession with celebrities' weight is everywhere - all you have to do is go to any grocery store or gas station to find headlines plastered on tabloids - "Has (some actress) Put On Weight?"
Even Us magazine's most recent cover featured "Hollywood Revenge Diets" showing pictures of female celebrities who'd lost weight after breaking up with their significant others.
And who could forget this quote from the movie "The Devil Wears Prada" - "(Size) four is the new six; zero is the new two; six is the new sixteen."
I believe America's focus has become skewed as we all get heavier, we continue to be obsessed with unrealistic bodies setting ourselves up for failure.
What do you think?