December 5, 2007
Why Do We Care SO MUCH about Celebrity Butts?
In my next life, I am coming back as a man. Men don’t tear their ACL’s nearly as often as women do. Men don’t face the kind of scrutiny that Jennifer Love Hewitt is facing over her derriere.
Seriously, what is wrong with PEOPLE?
There is nothing that infuriates me more than when people take a female celebrity and start insulting her up and down because of a body part that is less than perfect. This certainly isn’t the first time. I know it won’t be the last time. News flash!!!!
NO ONE IS PERFECT! No one!
Unlike a lot of attacked celebrities, Jennifer Love-Hewitt has decided to speak up and I’m so glad she did. How I would LOVE to see the cellulite on those so critical of Love-Hewitt’s heiney; because I can pretty much guarantee you that those who are being critical have plenty of imperfections themselves.
In a society where eating disorders run rampant in the teenage population and beyond, news stories like this drive me insane. We have young girls getting nose jobs, botox injections, and subjecting themselves to all kinds of risky procedures to be more "beautiful" in the eyes of society. As the mother of two daughters, I am sick about how we dissect womens bodies every single day in the media. People need to realize that the gross majority of pictures in magazines are airbrushed, photo shopped and manipulated to make women look flawless. No one is flawless.
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I suppose I ought to know, but just who is Jennifer Love-Hewitt, and why would anyone besides Mr. Love-Hewitt care a fig for the state of her butt?
I know you won’t believe this, but I agree completely. Well… Except that I’ve never made it below jennifer’s ample… Ah nevermind. 🙂
Dan: Party of Five, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Ghost Whisperer. . .
Steve: You should have stopped at “completely.” 😉
i don’t even like JLoHew and I feel bad for her. it’s absolute rubbish! i wish the american public had better things to talk about – they do and yet they talk about this!?
All I can say is it’s a darn good thing there are no paparazzi stalking me to take pictures of my butt or that would be all you’d hear about in the news. (And I don’t mean that in a good way!LOL)
Ugh, society in the USA really, really has their priorities %$^#&’d up, don’t you think. There’s way too much pressure to look a certain way, even if it’s physically impossible for you to be that way. I’m a prime example – short, stocky and strong. I’ll never be tall and lithe, but that’s what society puts out there. It’s not okay and I say it’s time for a revolution! We need to feel happy with the way we look, even if it’s not skinny and pouty. I feel it starts with the young. If they grow up with positive attitudes towards their bodies, instilled of course by their parents and relatives, then they may not fall prey to what society is bombarding them with. There, two cents added…
Karrie
I find it hilarious when famous women like Hewitt, Eva Mendes, Beyoncé, etc say things like “Well I’m not a size 0 but I’m proud of the way I look damnit” when most women would KILL to have bodies like they have! But I guess in trashy tabloids, your considered a freak unless you look like Malibu Barbie. Dumb.
I saw some nasty comments on a photo of Cindy Crawford with stretch marks on her tummy…she is a 41 year old mother. People were outraged that she DIDN’T get plastic surgery…hey, some people choose NOT to cut up their bodies and risk infection, scarring and death – how crazy!
Not to mention all the people that actually go into debt, risk their family’s future, to pay the expense of cosmetic surgery – it is just crazy.
There is something so charming about grandmas that look like grandmas, round and soft. These tightly-stretched, skinny bronze old women scare me a bit.
I agree, society has gone insane with it’s stupid impossible “ideals”.
I even blogged about it last year, where I modified a photo of my eldest daughter to show her what photo experts could do to ruin a person’s natural beauty. Its a pretty sobering article, and has links to the best online resources, interactive presentations, and articles about the “fixing” of even the most “perfect” people according to society today.
http://whimspiration.blogspot.com/2006/11/perfect-girls.html
I take great pride in the fact that my daughter protested so much as I “made her ugly” for the article. If only every parent could raise their kids to revolt against the media hype and simply love themselves the way they are.
Kudos to those who do just that, it’s a hard job sometimes. *hug*
i agree, and i found it interesting that your second sentence was that “men don’t tear their ACLs nearly as often as women do.” i tore mine in grade 9, then had to wait to finish growing before i had reconstructive surgery. it majorly, majorly sucked!
Here’s my problem with all that work done to make images of women flawless–“flawless” is a subjective term.