Being Called Fat Led To Drug Problem For Kelly Osbourne
Kelly Osbourne has recently written an autobiography (who knew?) and has also lost weight. According to the Sydney Morning Herald:
Kelly Osbourne, a one-time champion for curves, is also proud of her recent weight-loss of seven kilograms. This was achieved by a revolutionary diet where Osbourne swapped her usual fare of chips and soft drink for ”fresh foods’.
See, it’s just that easy! Thank you, The Media. Anyway, she’s done an interview with the UK Mirror where she talks about how being called fat drove her to drugs and drink–but she still doesn’t like herself.
Do you ever wish you weren’t famous?
KO: [W]hen I was 15 I had people writing about how fat and ugly they thought I was. They still do it now and it still hurts, but not as much as it did back then… I gained a bunch of weight because mum had been diagnosed with cancer and I had been miserable, and he had an airbrushed picture of me on TV and said, ‘That’s not you, you’re fat.’ I remember feeling like I just wanted to crawl into a hole, and when I got home I cried for about two weeks. Comments like that led me to drugs and alcohol. When you’re 15 and you’re suddenly faced with, ‘you’re fat, you’re ugly, you’re just a celebrity’s daughter’, you’re like, ‘I never wanted to be famous’.Are you happy with yourself now?
KO: I think I’m OK. I wouldn’t say I’m happy with myself. I would love to be a bit skinnier, every girl would.
Oh, honey. Put the blame on the media, not on yourself! (And please don’t throw out that stereotype of “every girl,” either, while you’re at it.)
By the way, in other celebrity news, the National Enquirer has Star Jones on the cover with the headline “Star Jones Packs on 45 Pounds!” I flipped through it at the supermarket (when I was loading up my cart with “chips and soft drink,” of course) and it was all “She looked so great after she had WLS! When she was thin! But now she’s ‘ballooning’! OMG!” So we have more of those stories to look forward to, I guess, if it’s true…!
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I wonder how many people read this and think that if Kelly had done different drugs at least she might have been able to lose weight in the process. Cause then she’d at least be healthier, right?
WLS didn’t lead to instant, painless, and permanent thinness? Shocking, just shocking. I’m sure it’s Star’s fault though. She must have ditched the fresh foods and gone back to chips and soft drink.
*sigh*
wls=more surgery so your parts don’t stay looking like an old mans balls imo.
I thought Kelly was cute chubby. This story makes me sad on many levels, I always thought she was stronger than to change herself to fit into other peoples ideals of beauty.
Doing it for yourself is one thing, doing it to be accepted by shallow asses, another entirely.
Wait, if fatties just ate fresh foods instead of chips, we wouldn’t be fat anymore? Why has no one ever told us that?
Bianca: Maybe when They tried to tell me, I missed the phone call because I was out working in my garden :D
Is that where you grow your baby donuts?
Fresh food, you say? Huh.
Well, fresh french fries *are* much tastier than those that have been sitting around awhile…
Mmm, baby donuts.
I think the Sydney Morning Herald was being sarcastic. The section that quote is from was poking fun at Australian gossip magazines (the Kelly Osborne story was in the magazine NW)for trotting out predictable diet stories just in time for our summer.
I can’t get mad at Kelly (or any celebrity child) for what she does. Like she said, she didn’t ask to be born to her parents- none of us did. To have what must seem like the entire world, calling you names when you’re 15 must have been devastating. I know how fragile my ego was at that age. I don’t blame her for being messed up.
I liked Kelly’s appearance when she was bigger as well. But also, I’m not the boss of her. I think she’s cute!
Man, being fat and 15 was bad enough with just high school. Imagine having people all over the world mocking you for your weight, most of them adults who should know better. That’s BRUTAL.
This is what happens when we put REALLY YOUNG people out into the public eye. And it’s only getting worse, thanks to our obsession with all things youthful.
I wouldn’t be 15 again for all the money in the world. And that was back in the 80’s, before the press became the way it is now, before the internet and twitter and youtube and blah, blah, blah. Before every move you made could instantly be seen around the world.
The REALLY fun part of all this is that it allows all of us to behave as if we never left high school! Yay! (Note the heavy sarcasm.)