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Mandy Moore: Chubby Or Hot?

June 28th, 2007

First, Lena from Mamapop posts pictures of Mandy Moore and asks, chubby or hot?

I can’t decide: is this girl pretty or not? One day she’s chubby, the next she’s hot. It’s so hard to be judgmental when she’s not consistent!

Of course, we can all see the problem with this statement. She’s only “pretty” and “hot” if she’s not “chubby.” (And by “chubby” we mean by ridiculous Hollywood standards. So, what, size six?) The commenters jump right in and call her on it, though.

She’s definitely not chubby and even if she were, she could be chubby AND hot.

Please allow me to clear up all the confusion: Mandy Moore is always, always, always super hot — which is why her boring music and shitty movies make me so sad.

I am sorry… did we just call Mandy Moore chubby? Can I see evidence of this chub? The girl has never been more then a size 6 or 8 in her life. We should all be so chubby. (And I agree… she can’t be hot and chub?)

It’s shit like calling someone HER size “chubby” that makes ME feel crappy about myself. Sometimes I feel like I’d like to be friends with the MamaPop crew, but right now I feel like I wouldn’t meet approval.

I really have no opinions about Mandy Moore. I know she’s in a new movie with John Krasinski, but it’s got fake robot peeing babies in the trailer, and Robin Williams doing schtick, and I don’t think I can bring myself to see it. But I’m glad people are recognizing ridiculous statements like these (such as, chubby is only cute if you’re a baby) and speaking up about it.

(Thanks to Amy for the tip!)

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Filed under: Celebrities, Fatism, Gossip, Mandy Moore, Media

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17 Responses to Mandy Moore: Chubby Or Hot?

  1. spacedcowgirl, on June 28th, 2007 at 12:17 pm Said:

    I don’t think she could possibly look any more gorgeous in those photos. Wow!

    I agree, it is super-heartening to see commenters with some awareness of a) dude, that’s not “chubby,” and b) even if she were, so what? I don’t really know much about celebrity gossip sites so most of the other posts I’ve seen are ones I’ve linked to from here on Oh No They Didn’t. Now THAT will make you despair for humanity. It’s great to see that not all commenters to this kind of post are like that.

  2. Crabby Mcslacker, on June 28th, 2007 at 2:36 pm Said:

    I do think there’s something so cool about seeing a bigoted insulting comment getting challenged by a multitude of other commenters.

    It would be nice if the nasty and unfair remarks weren’t made in the first place, but I don’t know if we’re ever going to live in such a wonderful world as that.

    I noticed on my blog when I had a gay related post (on “gay bombs”), that a few weirdos showed up to make homophobic remarks–but they were totally drowned out by everyone else! I think even ten years ago, that might have turned out very differently.

    I’m new here and I also just want to say you folks have an awesome blog!

  3. Dona, on June 28th, 2007 at 2:39 pm Said:

    Damn, she’s hot in that dress.

    I have an unexplicable love for Mandy Moore. I don’t listen to her music, and the only acting roles I’ve liked her in were where she was essentially playing herself, on Entourage and on Scrubs. But I love her anyway. Almost as much as I love Kate Winslet (but not quite).

  4. HeatherLee, on June 28th, 2007 at 3:33 pm Said:

    There is a possibility that the person who wrote that she was chubby was simply fishing for an argument….get more posts onto his site, etc.

    That is pathetic enough on its own. To think that he actually DOES think Mandy Moore is chubby……it’s incomprehensible to me!

  5. layla, on June 28th, 2007 at 4:03 pm Said:

    Mandy’s soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo HOT!!!!

  6. April, on June 28th, 2007 at 5:07 pm Said:

    Its so weird that you posted this. My husband and I just watched “Because I Said So” yesterday. There is a scene where Mandy and her costars are all in their underwear. I commented to my husband how Mandy looks like shes gained a little bit of weight and actually looks better to me than before. If you see the movie, she actually has THIGHS in it. My husband agreed because, well.. she’s hot and because he doesn’t like anorexic chicks. When are these super skinny dumb asses going to understand that they will look much better with meat on their bones??? Voluptuous is definitely sexier than skeletal.

  7. littlem, on June 28th, 2007 at 11:43 pm Said:

    Chubby AND hot. Geez.

    /discussion

    I think we are starting to get some sort of cultural pendulum swingback though; in greatly ironic part, I think, thanks to MeMeMeME Roth and her ilk’s overkill of hatemongering. I think people are starting to say, “enough, already”.

    Hopefully it’s not just wishful thinking.

  8. Agnes, on June 29th, 2007 at 8:50 am Said:

    The most pathetic part of that whole post/website is the fact that I know for a fact some of the contributers are “chubby”. Way to be a hypocritical asswipe.

  9. Lisa, on June 29th, 2007 at 9:38 am Said:

    She looks completely gorgeous in those photos. Whoever thinks she’s chubby is smoking crack. Also, in that second to the last photo, she looks JUST like Jacklyn Smith.

  10. Ken, on June 29th, 2007 at 10:18 am Said:

    Undoubtedly hot. And I’m as big a pig as the typical straight guy, but I have to ask what that guy’s definition of “chubby” is? What the hell.

    To the previous point about “Because I Said So” (a movie so horrible it couldn’t be redeemed by Mandy’s hotness), it reminds me of that movie “Sirens” back in the 90s, which featured a nekkid Elle McPhereson. And not just a nekkid McPhereson, but one who’d gained 25 pounds for the role and went from being an attractive but slightly freakish model sort to being a super-smoking hot woman with curves and such.

    Just saying.

    On another note, one of the few criticisms of the Dove campaign from last year went something like, “Sure, those women are chubby, but Dove didn’t pick ‘normal’ women, they went out and found the hottest ‘chubby’ women they could find.” (Thus proving that the terms hot and chubby are not mutually exclusive)

  11. Beth, on June 29th, 2007 at 10:38 am Said:

    Didn’t Mamapop make similar comments about how Kirstie Alley looked in a bikini? Was that a different website?

    Ah, here you go: same blog, same dumb crap. Mo is always on the job.

  12. spacedcowgirl, on June 29th, 2007 at 12:30 pm Said:

    Agnes, ain’t it always the way? Any message board discussion about women always seems to devolve into really critical comments about their appearance. But if you ever see the contributors, you’re shocked at how they look just like everyone else. I can’t understand how people can compartmentalize their self-images such that they really think it’s reasonable to pick apart some beautiful young celebrity and call her horrible names, yet not apply the same standards to oneself. Or maybe they’re just transferring their own feelings of inadequacy. Whatever, it’s delusional and it sucks. It’s almost sickly fascinating how this happens EVERY TIME a young woman’s weight or skin or style of dress is brought up for discussion.

    Ken, I don’t think you meant it this way (what with the ‘chubby’ wording) but I wanted to mention again that the Dove women weren’t actually chubby, they just looked it next to the very thin women we usually see in advertising. Weren’t they all of “normal,” “healthy” weight by BMI (quotes because of course who am I to say what’s actually normal or healthy for anyone)? Which made two of the paths that the discussion took (“Yay for fat ladies in advertising!” and “Boo, I shouldn’t have to look at fat chicks on a billboard!”) sort of beside-the-point and depressing.

  13. Melanie, on June 29th, 2007 at 8:04 pm Said:

    Lena, who posted that, is someone whose blog I read, and she’s great – very funny and sweet. I don’t think she meant it how it came out, it was definitely a joke and people jumped all over it. I commented at MamaPop, too, because why is it that mentioning “chubby” or “fat” brings out everyone’s anger, but if someone posts about Posh needing to eat a cheeseburger, everybody jumps in with “yeah, totally!”. There is no fighting about that. I think that people get this agenda about what’s PC and what’s not and there are such huge double standards…

  14. ho_cho, on July 1st, 2007 at 4:29 pm Said:

    i find it funny that women are made to feel bad about themselves when people make comments that thin hollywood celebrities are somehow “fat”. When people say something like this, as it was referred to in the previous post, it is both a sign of existing misogyny and also reflective of the anger people feel about what it means to be beautiful, and a women, and what society places a value on….i mean what could be more hurtful to the career of an actress or entertainer than being deemed fat?

  15. spacedcowgirl, on July 2nd, 2007 at 10:29 am Said:

    I dunno, Melanie, I think there are various reasons for the phenomenon you mentioned:

    1) People not examining their own beliefs and prejudices like you mentioned… it definitely is kind of hypocritical to cheerlead criticism of Posh’s body and not Kelly Clarkson’s, or whatever–we’re still judging women’s bodies in some kind of “hot or not” referendum, which seems counterproductive.

    However, there is also:

    2) The fact that calling somebody skinny is not as insulting as calling them fat. Honestly and unfortunately, I bet Posh counts every “needs to eat a sandwich” comment as a victory.

    3) Posh really appears to be very underweight whereas obviously, the celebrity women who get slammed for being “fat” are generally nowhere near overweight. This is still no reason to judge women’s bodies, but it probably factors in.

    I don’t really see how “is Mandy Moore chubby or hot” could have been 100% a joke though. If it was, I guess I don’t really “get” it because it doesn’t seem funny.

  16. Chubby, on July 15th, 2007 at 10:38 pm Said:

    WoW…I was a little stunned when I viewed my trackbacks and discovered site was not being reviewed in a good light.

    My tagline is actually “because infancy is the only time in life when chubby is cute!” This is actually meant to be taken with a bit of sarcasm.

    We are a group of folks who need to get healthy. We need to shed some weight, learn healthier eating habits and exercise regularly. Nothing extreme or outrageous. No starvation. Just moderation and doing things the old fashioned way.

    We are NOT about becoming society’s definition of ‘skinny’…although we joke about it. We only care about being at a weight that we can be healthy and comfortably maintain and set good examples for our families.

    Feel free to stop by anytime.

    Oh…by the way…I’d kill to be as “chubby” as Mandy Moore. She is so dang cute. The full cheeks is the only reason people EVER try to label her as chubby. She has a lovely figure and it’s a shame that it’s not more of the “norm” in Hollywood. Stupid Follywood!

    All the best,

    Chubby

  17. JoJo, on October 22nd, 2007 at 12:32 pm Said:

    I think she looks chubby in those photos. Sorry, I do. What, would you rather me lie and say that’s not what I think?

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