If these actresses were fat, boy, are we in trouble.
Here are a few quotes from healthy-looking actresses who’ve been through the ringer.
“To all girls with butts, boobs, hips and a waist, put on a bikini—put it on and stay strong.”
—Jennifer Love Hewitt on her blog in 2007, after being ridiculed for beach photos. (Less than a year later, she lost “18 LBS IN TEN WEEKS!” per US Weekly, though not because of the insults, she said.)“I’d never felt better emotionally and physically, and yet I was being told I was fat!”
—Rebecca Romijn, 2006, after tabloid criticism“When I think of America, it’s very diverse, but we do have the cookie-cutter way we’re supposed to look, and going to all these countries, it’s so completely different. I was fascinated going on that journey to discover that, even just for myself.”
—Jessica Simpson, 2010, about filming her VH1 reality show, The Price of Beauty“My job is to be creative. And I’m not weighing in for anybody.”
—Jessica Simpson, 2010, after the high-waisted jeans backlash
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Leigh Ann Otte is a professional writer, editor and blogger.
This article was originally published February 27, 2010, on Leigh Ann’s former blog Hollywood Weight Watch: Rebooting Our Perception of Healthy-Weight Women.
