celebrities – Page 4 – Charlotte Hilton Andersen

Is a Woman’s Body Always Open For Comment? [The Problem With Street Fashion Blogging]

by Charlottebody image, celebrities, fashion, sex March 31, 20118 Comments

photo from The Sartorialist Does this girl look fat to you? Would you describe her as “a bigger, curvier girl than most of the other bloggers who you see in the press”? This Italian small-time fashion blogger was photographed by big-time (perhaps the inventor the genre) street-fashion blogger The Sartorialist and in a post that …

Have Your Feelings About Your Weight Ever Held You Back from Doing What you Love?

by Charlottecelebrities, children, Great Fitness Experiment Book Tour, pregnancy, pregorexia, weight gain/loss March 14, 2011Comments are Disabled

Gwen Stefani with 4-month-old Zuma Nesta Rock (I cannot hear that name and not immediately think Zima. I’m sure she did not mean it but her baby will forever be linked to a much-mocked adult beverage.) If this is “gross, big and uncool” sign me up! Gwen Stefani is hot. I think everyone, regardless of …

Ashton Kutcher’s Apocalypse Workout [Ab-tastic Anarchy!]

by Charlottecelebrities, magazines February 22, 2011Comments are Disabled

Item the first: Ashton Kutcher has amazing muscles, as evidenced by his latest spread in Men’s Fitness. (I’ll wait while you ogle.) Item the second: Ashton Kutcher has amazing muscles because he is a paranoid crazy… who makes a little too much sense to be entirely written off as a paranoid crazy. Oddly neither of …

Do Boobs Make the Fit Woman? [The Controversy Over Breast Implants in Fitness Models]

by Charlottebody image, celebrities, magazines January 27, 2011April 2, 20208 Comments

“Knockers!” “Jugs!” “Fun bags!” “Sweater puppies!” Sitting in the darkened audience at the talent show my friend put on as a fundraiser for breast cancer research, I listened as all my friends called out their favorite euphemisms for boobs. I wanted to contribute – what’s more fun than sitting in a big room talking girlie …

How Audrey Hepburn Ruined My Day

by Charlottebody image, celebrities, eating disorders, weight gain/loss January 26, 20114 Comments

Note: This is hands-down the most enigmatic post I’ve ever written, not because of what it says but because of the effect it continues to have on other people. I wrote this in February of 2009, when I was not in a very good place mentally and I thought it would be a nice little …

Ginnifer Goodwin’s Epic Diet [How Old Were You on Your First Diet?]

by Charlottebad advertising, celebrities, children, diets, eating disorders, hollywood January 6, 20112 Comments

I’ve always had a soft spot for Ginnifer Goodwin – we’re both pale with dark hair, we’re both 32, and she plays a polygamous Mormon wife on a show that purports to not be about Mormons but really is, (or at least is really about the weirdly naive-yet-oversexed stereotype of Mormons that Hollywood so loves) …

Actresses Get Oscar Buzz For Eating Disorders [While a real ballerina gets called "fat"]

by Charlottecelebrities, eating disorders, hollywood December 15, 2010Comments are Disabled

Two girls make a pact to lose weight together. Each desperately wants to get under 100 pounds and over the course of a year through hours and hours of exercise and severe diet restriction they reach their goal. With visible chest bones and protruding hips and bony knees, they are proud of themselves but how …

Kate Middleton: Does the Title of Princess Come With An Eating Disorder?

by Charlottebody image, celebrities, news December 3, 20102 Comments

Land mines and bulimia: those are my only two real memories of Princess Di. Being young enough that the ’80s were just a (colorful plastic-scented) blur of Rainbow Brite and Strawberry Shortcake, I wasn’t much interested in fairytale weddings unless they came with a cartoon prince and soundtrack featuring Robin Williams. So I missed all …

Healthy Dinners in 5 Minutes or Less (It can be done!)

by Charlottecelebrities, children, food November 19, 2010Comments are Disabled

Funny – I think real calamari, tentacles and all, is delish but this hot dog version just gave me a full body shudder. Red-neck seafood, indeed. Portia di Rossi had to ice her arms between takes on Ally Mcbeal because she was so thin that her arm veins were ridiculously prominent. (Can you imagine being …

Men Have Body Image Issues Too

by Charlottebody image, celebrities, eating disorders, research November 12, 2010Comments are Disabled

Just like you can’t go to a Melissa Etheridge concert without seeing an abundance of pit hair, these days you can’t go to an indie rock concert without seeing… emaciated men? This season, anorexic is the new black for the skinny jeans and eyeliner-for-men set. In a profession where rock stars have typically looked drug-emaciated …