I'm pretty offended. While in the checkout lane of my local supermarket, I made an earnest effort to read one of my favorite guilty pleasure mags from cover to cover, in the excruciatingly inordinate amount of time it took the cashier to ring up the one single solitary individual in front of me.
Granted, the magazine was a total tabloid rag, but I suddenly found myself outraged as I stumbled upon a small article, also featured on the cover of the magazine, blasting one of the Olsen twins--- for getting fat!!
The article was complete with a potentially doctored close-up photo of the younger twin, Mary-Kate, in an oversized black sweater (potentially to conceal said weight gain) and a caption that commented on her "bloated" figure.
As a young woman who has long since bid farewell to my Size- 3 days, it’s a bit insulting to look at the, yes, slightly fuller waif and read that this barely noticeable fluctuation in weight is being referred to as drastic and "extreme", as though she had been spotted being wheeled out onto the streets of Manhattan in an over-sized hospital bed and muu-muu, topping out at 800lbs.
Here is the photo-spread in question, along with an un-captioned version of the picture displaying her still very thin legs.
I mean is there someone out there who preferred the 2004 version of Mary-Kate when her weight bordered on Ethiopian chic?
You be the judge.
2 comments:
I totally agree. Why is it that tabloids and magazines have to blow things way out of proportion? She's much healthier and that is the message that should be sent out to the public.
Wow. Saw the pics of the Olsen. Totally huge. I'm physically ill from simply gazing at those photos. Any girl who weighs that much should be taken out back and shot.
:)
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