I'm a petite person to begin with, so the idea of my losing this amount of weight is utter lunacy. If I were to lose 14 pounds, I'd have to part with both arms. And a foot. I'm frustrated with the irresponsibility of tabloid media who sell the public ideas about what we should look like and how we should get there.
~Scarlett Johansson
(And yes, I just realized the irony of choosing this particular quote after the topic of last night's post, if there is any correlation it was entirely subconscious).
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Hmmm...someone who understands that it's all relative. Thx for sharing this!
EDs are full of irony and paradoxes! I´ve commented on your last post, but I probably did something wrong, so briefly: I know this feeling! The unvisibility of eating disorders combined with the inner pain and feeling of not being as ill as people with disease which is based on "real" molecule, agent, trauma.. is excruciating. I´m ashamed, but I often asked God to make me ill with something more objective and physically painful instead of "just" anorexia.
I read her article and, I know I'm in the minority here, but it really bothered me. Don't get me wrong-- I'm glad that she isn't on some crazy Hollywood diet. I agree the tabloids are TERRIBLE. But, the very fact that she feels the need to explain her lifestyle choices is sad. No woman (or person) should have to defend or justify their eating/exercising habits. I don't want to hear about her 30 minutes of physical activity (what a boring prescription, in my mind), or her veggies and fruits and lean proteins. Yawn. I liked her better when she said, “I’m a homebody, not a hard body.” Responding to the tabloids sends the message that she thinks they have some kind of point. She's adding fuel to an already well-stoked fire. The fact is that she's a great actress. The attention should not be on her body or her eating or her exercising. Yes, I know she didn't ask for the tabloids to create the attention, but she's kind of egging them on now. My feelings are similar to when the media was calling Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jessica Simpson fat. Their response was, "Beauty is on the inside…and, besides, I’m still a size 2.” Ok, yeah, that sends a GREAT message. I just think it would do more good to just ignore the tabloids. SHe doesn't need to explain herself to me. She's a woman and I don't want to care what she does with her body.
I agree that it is disheartening that she even feels the need to issue these statements. I really, really hated it when the other celebrities you mentioned got their sizes criticized, and the response was mock-outrage by the media, coming to the defense of their "curves" because they were still a size 2/4/whatever. As if it is now a novelty for a female to be shaped like a woman, and it's ok as long as it's contained within those sizes. It just seems to skew the message. And why is it anyone's damn business?
So yes, Kim, I agree with you on that. I do not envy celebrities in the least, that's for sure, I could never live under such microscope. I think that Scarlett and others have been honest in their attempts to show that image issues in the media are out of control, but their responses are typically filtered through that same media...which just makes a muddle of mixed messages.
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