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Courtney Love, Food Journals and My “Efficient” Metabolism [Watching other people eat]

May 8, 2012
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I… have no caption for this picture. Courtney Love defies description. “Hershey leaves me my usual tray of foods.” An entire story in one sentence, written by Ms. Courtney Love as her ode (or eulogy, I’m still not sure) to food when the Grubstreet page of New York magazine asked her what she normally ate. They should have known that putting “normal” and “Courtney Love” together doesn’t end well. Of course I found the whole thing utterly fascinating: That they would ask her. That she would answer them. And that she would answer them truthfully because I swear you couldn’t make [...]

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Red-Circle Cellulite Pic Scared Lauren Conrad Out Of A Swimsuit For Years. [The "flaw" I refuse to apologize for]

April 3, 2012

I love it – the artist even gave her a little orange-peel bum hole! “On [a recent] vacation to Cabo, I wore a bathing suit on the beach for the first time in years. Usually I’m just petrified. A couple of years ago someone zoomed in on my cellulite and it was so mean. I took it really personally. I haven’t worn a bathing suit in L.A. in years because of that.” So says Lauren Conrad – most famous in my house for having her own clothing line at Kohl’s (which is actually pretty cute, I have one of her [...]

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Refreshingly (or Annoyingly) Honest Celebrity Body Confessions (Plus Alicia Silverstone like you’ve never seen her…)

March 29, 2012

See, this is a confession I can believe. Me too, buddy, me too. In the confessional age we live in, it’s not rare to hear a celeb start a sentence with “I have a confession” and then follow it with something really bland. I have a confession: I picked out all the green jelly beans and ate them first! (Actually I really did. Hoo boy am I enjoying jelly bean season!) But a true confession, at least in my mind, should involve some semblance of shame – else why go to the bother of unburdening one’s soul? So here goes. [...]

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Should We Ban the Phrase “Skinny Fat”?

March 14, 2012

Equinox gym is known for having provocative advertising. Remember these ads – a photo spread, really, shot 70′s porn style by noted perv Terry Richardson – that drew so much fire for using catwalk models in sexually submissive poses to sell fitness memberships? (Of course the outcry wasn’t about how the women were being dehumanized and belittled in every picture but rather that they were so skinny they couldn’t possibly know what the inside of a gym looks like outside of the spa.) Well, they’re at it again with a new ad campaign taglined “Are you skinny fat?” Ah skinny [...]

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Did Plus-Size Paean Crystal Renn Really Betray Us By Losing Weight?

March 4, 2012

Disclaimer: This post may possibly be triggering for those struggling with eating disorders. They are not discussed in any detail but you know what you need – please take gentle care of yourself. Crystal Renn in her plus-size heyday Model Crystal Renn made huge waves (no pun intended) several years ago when she went from a mildly successful straight-size model to a voluptuous, internationally acclaimed plus-size model. Proud of her curves, she even wrote a best-selling book, Hungry: A Young Model’s Story of Appetite, Ambition, and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves, detailing her anorexic past and how she broke free from the [...]

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Eating is Now A Spectator Sport: How do you play?

January 31, 2012

Now THIS is a good reason to bust out your camera phone in a restaurant. You know, for when the boy toys come back. A waitress friend of mine recently snapped a pic of an overweight patron’s meal. Why? So she could text it to several of her friends. Sure her customer’s meal was appalling – One of every appetizer? Yes, please – but even more so was the realization that now, more than ever, eating is a spectator sport. People feel they not only have a right to see what other people are eating but also to pass judgment [...]

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From Oscar-Seeking Stars to Empathetic Personal Trainers: What happens when people try to gain weight?

November 21, 2011

When super-fit personal trainer Drew Manning decided to “get fat” for six months and then lose the weight, chronicling his journey on his website Fit2Fat2Fit, his story shot into the media limelight faster than a starlet’s nip slip. Everyone, it seems, wants to know why Manning would voluntarily shed his rock-hard body – one he’d used to model in the past – and trade in his thin privilege for something most Americans are doing their darndest to get rid of? He explains, “My goal is to inspire people to get fit, teach them how to do it and give them [...]

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Is Model Adriana Lima an “Athlete”?

November 8, 2011

Groaning in a puddle of sweat while holding a pose that would be considered obscene in any environment outside of the gym (quite a few exercises fall in this category, to my constant amusement), I considered taking a rest but just then Turbo Jennie yelled, “Come on athletes! Don’t quit now!” That was exactly the first time in my life anyone has ever called me an “athlete.” And I liked it! After we finished the 5 minutes of ab hell – during which I did not take a rest – it occurred to me that she might have been being [...]

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20 Celebs Criticized For Their Curves & Their Responses [Do you believe them?]

September 29, 2011

 Now see, THIS is bad curvy. And also, who knows what asparagus is but not bananas?! Celebrities may have million dollar mansions and designer clothes and an assistant specifically for carrying their miniature labradoodles but they pay for it in public scrutiny. Gone are the days when a star could quietly retreat to an island and emerge 6 weeks later looking so “refreshed” that their nose looked smaller. Today anyone and everyone is a target – whether it’s contempt for their cellulite, outrage over their weight gain or faux concern over their weight loss, so much is being said about [...]

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Irishman Kicks Rihanna Out of His Field & Reignites the Sexy-Jealousy Debate [When your body is your body of work]

September 27, 2011

 image courtesy of the BBC On Monday a farmer in Northern Ireland, upon meeting the international pop star Rihanna, did what I imagine very few red-blooded men would: he publicly admitted to not knowing who Rihanna is. Okay, that’s true, but my great uncles would probably all say the same. No, his real shocker was kicking Rihanna out of his grain field where she was filming a music video. Her crime? Looking too sexy. Alderman* Alan Graham explained that when he saw the singer strip down to a red bikini top and jeans he “felt things were getting inappropriate.” He [...]

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