The NY Times Magazine has an entertaining little piece on upscale Hollywood’s “food issues.” Poking fun at Hollywood’s weird, pseudo-scientific food trends and obsessive-compulsive eating behavior is fair game and worth some — OK, a lot of — ridicule. The town’s capacity for self-indulgence and neuroses is historic and inarguable.
But things get interesting when a […]

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Boo to Cover Girl for running Jaslene’s spots during America’s Top Model. (I wrote this two days ago and forgot to post it! Also, I tried to find video but couldn’t.) I know she insists she’s not anorexic. OK. But I still think Cover Girl should think twice before using ads where the model looks […]

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Shapely Prose has an interesting conversation going on on her page about the Italian No.li.ta ads featuring a naked anorexic woman. I put my two cents in the comments over there.

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Sunday evening I had my friend over for a yummy lasagna, and she told me something that had my stomach turning: On the reality TV show Wife Swap, there’s a family who, among some other pretty gross habits, eat their meat raw. As in, they have a glass jar in the fridge full of nice […]

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Valerie Bertinelli has hit goal on Jenny Craig. Steph at Back in Skinny Jeans wonders how long she’ll keep it off.
Jenny Craig will probably give her a lot of help in that, if she’ll take it, since the program doesn’t look so hot if she puts all the weight right back on. (Which statistically is […]

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Glamour tries to turn the world into one big backstabbing sorority: Back in Skinny Jeans covers the story with its usual dose of ‘tude and thoughtfulness.

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Wow. I finally watched the clip. It’s a shame Britney wasn’t in that fab body when she performed at the VMAs.

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I may be one of few people who likes the new Britney Spears better than the old Britney Spears. She’s a lot more interesting, and if her drug and alcohol use prevents her from recording more Pavarotti-style classics a la “Oops, I did it again!” the world will not be the lesser for it. Also, […]

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