Say WHAT?

Okay, I bit.  I clicked on the link reporting See Kirstie’s dramatic weight loss.  Wait!  Haven’t we seen it before?  I’ve got to say I grew tired of reading about celebrity’s weight gain and loss.  Poor things, don’t people know that the camera adds 10 pounds to anyone’s physique?  Can’t they just eat that ding dong in private without the whole world wondering “Did she swallow it?”  I am so thankful that although my “what’s your personality type” quiz classified me as a performer, I perform in my own little universe and not on the cover of some tabloid.  I don't think I could take the pressure.  I can’t believe that we, especially Americans, are so hung up on someone’s weight.  We are probably the fattest people in the world.  How could we call someone a hogzilla?  Honestly, “get a life.”  By buying into this, can’t we see we are giving our daughters low esteem and low body image and driving them to all sorts of eating disorders?  Shame on us; and shame on the reporters and magazines that promote it.  I love Tyra Banks quote in the article: "Kiss my fat ass!" she told critics in 2007 after a tabloid ran her photo under the headline "America's Next Top Waddle" (taken from Weekly US article online 9/14/11 http://www.usmagazine.com/healthylifestyle/photos/were-tired-of-the-fat-jokes-20091510/4638).  I wish every celebrity had that moxie.

And when will we ever leave Delta Burke and Carrie Fischer alone?  I can't believe this article even mentioned them.  Good grief!  Are we still caught up in their weight struggles?  Speaking of Burke, did Cheryl Burke really have to respond to some jerk on the message board?  Again I quote from the article:  After seeing comments on a Dancing With the Stars message board (one person called her a "hogzilla"), the size-4 dancer said last year: "Maybe I'm not at my thinnest right now, but it's a little bit like, 'Wow, do you really think I'm fat?'"  Size 4?  Size 0?  These numbers do not even compute in my world!  What happened to striving for a perfect size 8?  I think I will be a perfect size 0 once I've been laid to rest and my body has started to deteriorate.  I'm not even sure my bones would be considered a size 0!

I might be changing myself from the inside out, but I think Joe Blow America needs to change himself from the inside out too.  I wish I could write and tell every one of these stars to quit responding to those remarks about how fat they are.  After all, those posters are just some idiot hiding behind their computer.  You calling ME a hogzilla?  Yeah, right, say that to my face.  I'll have my buffed up bodyguard all over YOUR hogzilla!  I truly believe the old saying my Momma used to tell me: that bully wants “to get your goat.”  Don’t respond and they’ll give up and move on.  Maybe if the stars would have better body image and self-esteem they could forego responding to these posts and love themselves the way they are…no matter what the public says.  

Do you think we will ever get to the point where people no longer look at your size but truly look and see “you?”  Maybe that’s what we call “heaven on earth.”

Today, I wish for all of us to love ourselves completely…unconditionally…every bump and cellulite dimple!