A nice little collection of information on Velvet D’Amour, the infamous 300-pound Jean Paul Gaultier model. Includes clips of her Entertainment Tonight interview, for your convenience. And also, the dress she has on in the first picture is faaaabulous. (Oh, fat girl couture. I wish you, like, existed.) Velvet also did a cool interview with […]

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Erin sends over this link to a (possibly NSFW although it’s a small pic) photo of a magazine cover featuring a proudly nude, proudly fat Beth Ditto. NME’s cover intrigues me because, frankly, it’s so rare to see a magazine cover feature a woman who isn’t thin. I’m curious about what readers think: Do you […]

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I find these sites fascinating. You can see with a simple mouseover the before and after of celebrity retouched photos. This company (click on Portfolio) removed a fat roll from Beyonce, changed the shape of Penelope Cruz, and basically hacked away completely at Kelly Clarkson (boo). I love Cate Blanchett’s before shot, with her mussed […]

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Well this is very handy: a compliation of all the diet stories in this week’s National Enquirer. I’d heard some of these tidbits before (for instance, that Star Jones needs a body lift to remove extra skin, which is totally normal if you’ve had weight-loss surgery). And yet here they are, all in one place. […]

Filed under: Celebrities, Courtney Love, Fatism, Kelly Clarkson, Kirstie Alley, Magazines, Star Jones, WLS | 9 Comments »

My god, how can anyone, anywhere, think America Ferrera needs to lose weight? Maybe it’s a myth. Maybe everyone knows she’s gorgeous. Because come on. I wouldn’t even call her

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