Celebrities Do It Too! (01-30-09)
- We never thought we’d get to say this, but we completely, 100% agree with Kim Kardashian! She rushed to Jessica Simpson’s defense this week after people across the globe got all judgmental about her recently acquired curves. Because who would you rather see naked: curvy Jess or this coat-hanger?
- Comedian Russell Brand claims he slept with 80 women in one month. Er, got something to prove, Russ? One guess: You didn’t get laid much in high school or college. (Also, what kind of bodily fluids is that bird’s nest harboring?!)
- Katy Perry makes standard post-breakup celibacy joke (yep, been there) and the press takes her seriously. So now she’s insisting that she rilly, rilly loves sex.
- Dirty bird Lily Allen — when is she not talking about sex? — blames generations of women faking orgasms for men being overly impressed with their own sexual prowess.
- Kanye West said he’d totally star in a bi porn scene. Should we be shocked?
- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi tries to prove that, come on, rape can too be funny.
- Our man Keith Olbermann — along with his sidekick Rachel Maddow, plus Tyra Banks, Ellen and Suze Orman — were all nominated for GLAAD Awards this week. Obermann got his nod for his “impassioned support for gay marriage.” We heart him, too.
- Chelsea Handler plays “Marry, Fuck or Kill” with Fabio, Tom Cruise, and Ryan Seacrest.
- Sawyer from Lost says it isn’t easy being a sex symbol. Of course, if he’d said it while wearing a shirt, we might have taken him more seriously.
I do not buy that crap, but I do love Keith Oberman.
Another thing – it’s not just the fashion designers. Who pushes pictures of expanding female celebrity bodies, who sells shots of Uma’s and Jennifer Love Hewitt’s ass celulite, who makes a big deal out of a few extra pounds on Jessica Simpson? Insipid Hollywood gossip rags! Who conusmes that crapola? Mainly women!
It’s basic supply and demand. What do you expect? Stop rotting your brains on that bullshit, and they’ll stop selling it. Demand better.
A note on female body image, inspired by the coat hanger model: body-bashing is female-on-female agression, typically! Like you said – MEN aren’t turned on by a woman that skinny. Models who look like that aren’t there to appeal to the masculine sexual sensibility. They’re chosen to appeal to the female aesthetic sensibility – they’re there to sell womens’ clothes. If you look at mens’ magazines, we like curves!
Ladies, you’re doing this to yourselves. Reject the anorexic look in fashion – you, after all, are the target consumers. Demand healthy models, even if that means boycotting designers who push the unhealthy look.
As long as Kim Kardashian attends those fashion shows, and accepts the hand-outs from designers who employ anorexic models, I don’t wanna hear it from her.
oh my gosh I LOVE the way Jess looks. I think her curves are fantastic. I want every celebrity to look like this. I think she should own it. it doesn’t look unhealthy. As long as she stays physically healthy I think this would be the best thing in the world for her to just be this weight and keep looking great!
On Kanye’s blog, he states that he never said anything about doing porn, and that the websites that post those statements are wrong.