[Alley] recently bragged on her Twitter site that she’s lost 50 pounds with exercise and her Organic Liaison weight-loss program. But those close to her say she’s lost barely half that weight and that there’s no way she’s down to 180 pounds!
In September, while in Italy, she tweeted that she had lost 50 pounds, posting a photo of herself surrounded by handsome men. But the picture appeared to be air-brushed to make Kirstie look thin, and she hid her lower body behind one of the hunky men.
As if weight-loss programs aren’t enough of a scam, hers doesn’t even temporarily work! I hunted down that picture so you can see for yourself. She does look pretty airbrushed, no?
2. Ricky Gervais has lost weight recently, and now feels like jokes about fat people are off-limits.
Ricky Gervais shutting up about fat people is probably for the best, then, isn’t it? Oh, Ricky.
I’m 5’1 and I love the way I look, and it’s nice to see more women with hourglass figures in the media lately, being unafraid to [bare] it all, like Christina Hendricks and Ms. Kardashian here. I’m not going to stop loving myself just because I have the figure of a cartoon character.
Stop the hate, people! There’s so much hate in the world, do we really have to tear each other down over how we perceive each others’ bodies?
4. Crystal Renn is a size 10, and Manolo for the Big Girl is over it.
There’s nothing wrong with being a size 10. She’s had a tough row to hoe body-image wise and if that’s where her body is happy then far be it from me to complain.
But she’s a size 10.
That’s not plus-sized, that’s not close to plus-sized and even though I am the biggest fashion industry apologist on the planet, I just can’t pretend that she counts as a plus-sized model in any meaningful sense and therefore she deserves no more and no less press or attention than any other model who doesn’t wear plus-size clothes.
I’m a big proponent for variety and I’d rather see a size 10 model as a staple than a size 20 as a gimmick every few years, but the days of breathlessly reporting on her every move as a victory for fat girl kind –inasmuch as I ever have– are over.
5. Via The F Word, celebrities who have struggled with eating disorders include Felicity Huffman, Elton John, Kate Winslet, Victoria Beckham, and Snooki.
I recently read Kathy Griffin’s Official Book Club Selection, where she talked frankly about her binge eating, her husband’s binge eating, and going to Overeaters Anonymous—as well as the botched liposuction that nearly killed her.
Wow, that woman’s insane! And also abusing her child phycially, mentaly and emotionally!
Oh my god that was horrible. My parents had me on a diet from a very young age, I don’t know when it started, honestly, didn’t work even a little either, I guess that’s my payback. It wasn’t until I was in my 30s that I realized my mom was the one with the problem, not so much me, although I have been obsessed with my weight ever since I can remember. It all came rushing back to me because I was providing emergency foster care for an 11 month old recently and she wasn’t being starved, but she was pretty thin for a baby, and the first thing my mom said was that she was a fat baby.
However, if the child happened to be fat, wouldn’t she be whisked away from her mother on grounds of child abuse?
With the intense paranoia about fat in the British isles (and lots of other places), are people really surprised that this happens?
Why is Kirstie Alley still in the news for her weight? Everyone, including herself, needs to just stop beating a dead horse.
I’ve always thought that Kirstie Alley was a beautiful woman at any size. Doing all this crazy weight loss tv stuff just makes her look stupid.
Then again, sometimes it is really hard to love yourself at the size you are at, and you can’t help but want to lose weight. I empathize with her because this is obviously where she is at.
Personally I am totally over Kirstie Alley and the never ending discussion of her weight. I think she looks good, why is there a constant rehash of her losing/gaining weight?
Size 10 is definitely not plus size, so Crystal Renn needs to give it a break.