M. Lopez
23rd February 2006, 10:04
Here's something that I came across today which seems to offer a glimmer of hope. An article in a British newspaper has slammed the stars of the Desperate Housewives TV show for being way, WAY too skeletal-looking:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/text/print.html?in_article_id=378048&in_page_id=1773
What makes this article different from similar criticisms of this type is that it doesn't express some vague resentment about beauty standards. Rather, it quite explicity states that losing weight is making the stars look frankly...ugly.
The writer points out that on the show:
"skin is stretched tightly across gaunt faces, cheekbones are razorsharp, rendering their smiles neither pretty nor convincing."
The writer points out that "no, it isn't attractive" and asks,
"Do all these...women realise how hard, angular and strained they are beginning to appear? Why do they do this to themselves?"
The article also reports that fans are complaining too:
"Ardent Desperate Housewives fans...are now fretting about the weight of the stars.
" "They're way too skinny. It makes them look awful," wrote one. "Women of that age need meat on their bones," added another."
The point about age is so true. Just as weight gain preserves beauty, or can even make a woman look younger, weight loss ravages looks and accelerates aging.
The writer also compares this situation to what happened on Friends:
"Courtney Cox...lost her looks by turning into a stick insect"
"Jennifer Aniston...began to look too angular"
I think this development is so important because the whole point of starving, for many Hollywood celebs - and indeed for women in general - has been the misguided notion (promoted by diet profiteers) that this will make them look better. But the opposite is true. And once the public - and the press - finally realizes that weight loss only makes women look WORSE (and this article suggests that such a realization is beginning), maybe the insanity will finally stop, and timeless full-figured beauty will return.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/text/print.html?in_article_id=378048&in_page_id=1773
What makes this article different from similar criticisms of this type is that it doesn't express some vague resentment about beauty standards. Rather, it quite explicity states that losing weight is making the stars look frankly...ugly.
The writer points out that on the show:
"skin is stretched tightly across gaunt faces, cheekbones are razorsharp, rendering their smiles neither pretty nor convincing."
The writer points out that "no, it isn't attractive" and asks,
"Do all these...women realise how hard, angular and strained they are beginning to appear? Why do they do this to themselves?"
The article also reports that fans are complaining too:
"Ardent Desperate Housewives fans...are now fretting about the weight of the stars.
" "They're way too skinny. It makes them look awful," wrote one. "Women of that age need meat on their bones," added another."
The point about age is so true. Just as weight gain preserves beauty, or can even make a woman look younger, weight loss ravages looks and accelerates aging.
The writer also compares this situation to what happened on Friends:
"Courtney Cox...lost her looks by turning into a stick insect"
"Jennifer Aniston...began to look too angular"
I think this development is so important because the whole point of starving, for many Hollywood celebs - and indeed for women in general - has been the misguided notion (promoted by diet profiteers) that this will make them look better. But the opposite is true. And once the public - and the press - finally realizes that weight loss only makes women look WORSE (and this article suggests that such a realization is beginning), maybe the insanity will finally stop, and timeless full-figured beauty will return.