Is Your Gastric Bypass Surgery Any of My Business?

Yes, this “weight loss tool” really exists. Heaven help us. Lest you missed the past 10 years, we now officially live in a culture of oversharing. Celebs talk about their rehab stints and fertility treatments in between questions from “serious” reporters about when they lost their virginity. And it isn’t just the rich and famous …

Kate Winslet Sues Paper For Saying She Exercises

See, THIS is why I love her! Welcome to World of the Weird, celebrity edition! Today absurdity came full circle when Brit actress and Academy Award winner Kate Winslet announced that she will be suing The Daily Mail for… insinuating she works out. For those of you unacquainted with the antics of The Daily Mail, …

Death by Diet Pills (Literally)

Those of you who lived through the ephedra/ma huang recalls of the 90’s and all the resultant so-bad-you-can’t-stop-watching Lifetime movies will not be surprised to learn that the bane of Jessie Spano have struck again. A person – a woman, I’m assuming although the reports don’t say – died recently from using the popular diet …

Shape Magazine Lies – Cover Model Points Out Photoshopping

Oh do you remember when Shape magazine claimed none of their cover models are airbrushed? Editor-in-chief Valerie Latona responded to accusations of photo fakery in her monthly letter from the editor in the March edition saying she “emphatically and truthfully” promises that “we do not alter stars’ bodies.” Latona says her magazine “features ladies who …

A Feminist Essay: Birthday Bikinis, Nude Supermodels and Me

Cindy Crawford: A modern Dorian Gray? Photo Credit. The closest I’ve ever come to a celebrity is sitting about 20 rows behind Billy Corgan at a Jazz vs. Bulls playoffs game, unless you count the time I swore I saw Pamela Anderson waiting for a shuttle at the Southwest terminal out of LAX. (My brother …

New Research Makes Women Choose Between Looking Old or Fat

“It’s been so long since I’ve had carbs I can’t remember what you are supposed to do with them? Am I doing this right??” Most of us master our societal two-fold prime directive quite early in life. Before our cells even have the chance to completely turn over once – an event that happens about …

How Young is Too Young to Talk About a Girl’s Weight?

Puppies! Kittehs! Dancing rainbows! You know I still have a soft spot for Lisa Frank. Here is your homework assignment: You are given a Lisa Frank-esque rainbow with six colors (unicorns optional); you are to cut out the rainbow, write your name on the fluffy smiling cloud end and then on each of the colors …