Comments on: J.Hew Wore a Bikini This One Time http://www.bfdblog.com/2009/01/27/jhew-wore-a-bikini-this-one-time/ We're bringing chubby back. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:13:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: LilahCello http://www.bfdblog.com/2009/01/27/jhew-wore-a-bikini-this-one-time/comment-page-1/#comment-15179 LilahCello Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:27:34 +0000 http://www.bfdblog.com/?p=705#comment-15179 Also, I never felt terrible for JLH after seeing her in a Halloween costume one year which was a fat suit. She may have been eating ice cream, too. That really bothered me. It seemed like she was saying that we ought to lay off the normal-sized "fat" girls, but the REALLY fat ones are fine to make fun of because they're ewww gross. Also, I never felt terrible for JLH after seeing her in a Halloween costume one year which was a fat suit. She may have been eating ice cream, too. That really bothered me. It seemed like she was saying that we ought to lay off the normal-sized “fat” girls, but the REALLY fat ones are fine to make fun of because they’re ewww gross.

]]> By: Helen http://www.bfdblog.com/2009/01/27/jhew-wore-a-bikini-this-one-time/comment-page-1/#comment-15169 Helen Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:11:28 +0000 http://www.bfdblog.com/?p=705#comment-15169 The funny thing about the photos on the first link is JLH seems to look so much happier in the "before". In the UK, there's a TV presenter called Fern Britten who was well known for quite some time for being "fat and sexy". Then (with painful predictability) she reappeared in Ryvita adverts having lost lots of weight ostensibly through diet and exercise... and it turns out she'd had a gastric band. Then just lately I saw a magazine with the headline "Fern: 'losing weight hasn't made me happier'". ...And what can you say? I felt quite sorry for Fern Britten, I always thought she seemed rather lovely and she also, apparently, wore a bikini at the beach. A similar thing happened with the Pop Idol winner Michelle McManus. She ended up going on pretend-doctor Gillian McKeith's show and apparently becoming "an inspiration to women everywhere" for losing weight. She inspired me way before that, and though it appears she's still pretty large and mainly took up diet and exercise, I still feel all sad that for many women in the media, it's really all about the weight. The funny thing about the photos on the first link is JLH seems to look so much happier in the “before”.

In the UK, there’s a TV presenter called Fern Britten who was well known for quite some time for being “fat and sexy”. Then (with painful predictability) she reappeared in Ryvita adverts having lost lots of weight ostensibly through diet and exercise… and it turns out she’d had a gastric band. Then just lately I saw a magazine with the headline “Fern: ‘losing weight hasn’t made me happier’”.

…And what can you say? I felt quite sorry for Fern Britten, I always thought she seemed rather lovely and she also, apparently, wore a bikini at the beach. A similar thing happened with the Pop Idol winner Michelle McManus. She ended up going on pretend-doctor Gillian McKeith’s show and apparently becoming “an inspiration to women everywhere” for losing weight. She inspired me way before that, and though it appears she’s still pretty large and mainly took up diet and exercise, I still feel all sad that for many women in the media, it’s really all about the weight.

]]> By: Rachel http://www.bfdblog.com/2009/01/27/jhew-wore-a-bikini-this-one-time/comment-page-1/#comment-15183 Rachel Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:56:45 +0000 http://www.bfdblog.com/?p=705#comment-15183 Yeah, I find the Jessica Simpson thing quite ironic, considering her whole career is based on nothing more than her looks (because she obviously can't sing or act!). There's rumors that the whole weight gain is now just a strategy so that her "weight loss success story" will appear on magazines just as she goes on tour with her new album. If you can't get publicity for your album, at least she can get publicity for her figure is the mentality at work here, it seems. Yeah, I find the Jessica Simpson thing quite ironic, considering her whole career is based on nothing more than her looks (because she obviously can’t sing or act!). There’s rumors that the whole weight gain is now just a strategy so that her “weight loss success story” will appear on magazines just as she goes on tour with her new album. If you can’t get publicity for your album, at least she can get publicity for her figure is the mentality at work here, it seems.

]]> By: le w http://www.bfdblog.com/2009/01/27/jhew-wore-a-bikini-this-one-time/comment-page-1/#comment-15170 le w Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:43:40 +0000 http://www.bfdblog.com/?p=705#comment-15170 Ashlee Simpson is also defending her sister Jessica's weight gain: http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=29917611&blogID=466896416 Albeit, she naively asks when did a woman's weight become newsworthy (when hasn't it) it looks like there is another body image-challenged Jenny on the block... Ashlee Simpson is also defending her sister Jessica’s weight gain:

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=29917611&blogID=466896416

Albeit, she naively asks when did a woman’s weight become newsworthy (when hasn’t it) it looks like there is another body image-challenged Jenny on the block…

]]> By: Alyssa http://www.bfdblog.com/2009/01/27/jhew-wore-a-bikini-this-one-time/comment-page-1/#comment-15182 Alyssa Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:19:52 +0000 http://www.bfdblog.com/?p=705#comment-15182 Celebrities, especially women, are under HUGE pressure to be thin. It takes A LOT of guts to not give in to it. Especially when you've been in the industry since you were very young (I believe JLH was a child when she started working). It severely screws up your head. There are a lot of people whose livliehoods depend on celebrities. Agents, managers, assistants will often use the guilt card. They may have even told JLH that her show could be canceled because of the "negative press," and all the actors, crew members, designers, etc. (basically the hundred or so people who work on any given show) would be out of work, and did she really want to be responsible for that? This is the kind of shit they pull on a regular basis. It doesn't surprise me at all that she gave in to the pressure to lose weight, or that her handlers exploited it for all it was worth. Celebrities, especially women, are under HUGE pressure to be thin. It takes A LOT of guts to not give in to it. Especially when you’ve been in the industry since you were very young (I believe JLH was a child when she started working). It severely screws up your head.
There are a lot of people whose livliehoods depend on celebrities. Agents, managers, assistants will often use the guilt card. They may have even told JLH that her show could be canceled because of the “negative press,” and all the actors, crew members, designers, etc. (basically the hundred or so people who work on any given show) would be out of work, and did she really want to be responsible for that? This is the kind of shit they pull on a regular basis. It doesn’t surprise me at all that she gave in to the pressure to lose weight, or that her handlers exploited it for all it was worth.

]]> By: Rachel http://www.bfdblog.com/2009/01/27/jhew-wore-a-bikini-this-one-time/comment-page-1/#comment-15178 Rachel Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:15:46 +0000 http://www.bfdblog.com/?p=705#comment-15178 <i>Call her a hypocrite, sure, for saying she was happy with her body and then spinning around and dropping some pounds, but I am not sure I could have withstood that kind of pressure and hate and derision spewing my way, either.</i> I'm one of the people who <a href="http://the-f-word.org/blog/index.php/2008/08/15/jennifer-love-hewitt-another-hollywood-hypocrite/" rel="nofollow">called hypocrite</a> on JLH, but I didn't call her a hypocrite because she lost the weight. I called her a hypocrite because she complained quite vocally about the media's scrutiny of women's bodies and then had the nerve to appear on the cover of a magazine, newly thin, asking for positive scrutiny of that same body. Once you open the door and invite in media scrutiny of your body, you can’t simply ask them to please leave when you get fat again. Call her a hypocrite, sure, for saying she was happy with her body and then spinning around and dropping some pounds, but I am not sure I could have withstood that kind of pressure and hate and derision spewing my way, either.

I’m one of the people who called hypocrite on JLH, but I didn’t call her a hypocrite because she lost the weight. I called her a hypocrite because she complained quite vocally about the media’s scrutiny of women’s bodies and then had the nerve to appear on the cover of a magazine, newly thin, asking for positive scrutiny of that same body. Once you open the door and invite in media scrutiny of your body, you can’t simply ask them to please leave when you get fat again.

]]> By: mo pie http://www.bfdblog.com/2009/01/27/jhew-wore-a-bikini-this-one-time/comment-page-1/#comment-15177 mo pie Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:07:10 +0000 http://www.bfdblog.com/?p=705#comment-15177 Hey Kyle, this is the first I've heard that the RSS thing is a problem for anyone! We're doing a partial RSS feed because of our portal site and I think we're still working out the kinks. I'll do a post soon and see what the consensus is on this! Hey Kyle, this is the first I’ve heard that the RSS thing is a problem for anyone! We’re doing a partial RSS feed because of our portal site and I think we’re still working out the kinks. I’ll do a post soon and see what the consensus is on this!

]]> By: kyle http://www.bfdblog.com/2009/01/27/jhew-wore-a-bikini-this-one-time/comment-page-1/#comment-15181 kyle Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:08:04 +0000 http://www.bfdblog.com/?p=705#comment-15181 Ok, really, pleeeeeeeeease put the full post back in RSS. I am THISCLOSE to unsubscribing now because I'm annoyed that I have to click to read the full deal. Ok, really, pleeeeeeeeease put the full post back in RSS. I am THISCLOSE to unsubscribing now because I’m annoyed that I have to click to read the full deal.

]]> By: shilohmm http://www.bfdblog.com/2009/01/27/jhew-wore-a-bikini-this-one-time/comment-page-1/#comment-15176 shilohmm Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:04:34 +0000 http://www.bfdblog.com/?p=705#comment-15176 <i>Call her a hypocrite, sure, for saying she was happy with her body and then spinning around and dropping some pounds</i> I've always thought it perfectly possible she was being honest both times - heck, maybe she wore a bikini that day BECAUSE she was feeling good about her body, but after all the flack over it she lost her confidence and no longer trusted her own self-perception and felt she "had" to lose the weight. :( Call her a hypocrite, sure, for saying she was happy with her body and then spinning around and dropping some pounds

I’ve always thought it perfectly possible she was being honest both times – heck, maybe she wore a bikini that day BECAUSE she was feeling good about her body, but after all the flack over it she lost her confidence and no longer trusted her own self-perception and felt she “had” to lose the weight. :(

]]> By: LilahCello http://www.bfdblog.com/2009/01/27/jhew-wore-a-bikini-this-one-time/comment-page-1/#comment-15175 LilahCello Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:06:05 +0000 http://www.bfdblog.com/?p=705#comment-15175 Cindy - that is the most perfect grouping of words I've read. It should be on tshirts, billboards, magazines, and so on. Cindy – that is the most perfect grouping of words I’ve read. It should be on tshirts, billboards, magazines, and so on.

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