Jessica Simpson Isn't The Media's Only Target
 Monday, February 2nd, 2009  by Connie T.

It took less than a week for photos of Jessica Simpson performing at a chili cook-off in Pembroke Pines, Florida to make its way to tabloid magazine covers, headlines on Faux FOX News, a cruel sketch in the NY Post, and even into a conversation between Matt Lauer and President Barack Obama on live TV. The subject wasn't the great chili, though, nor the power of her pipes, but of the weight the media so excitedly announced she has gained.

We've had our issues with Miss Jess in the past, but no one deserves to be physically picked apart like that unless their job title includes, say, body builder. And Jessica is certainly not the mass media's only victim. It was just a little over a year ago that TMZ and Perez Hilton ran with the flood of insults against Jennifer Love-Hewitt; and you need only browse the latest issue of In Touch to find an entire four-page section entitled, "What happened to their boobs?"

Kate Bosworth, Anne Hathaway, Lindsay Lohan and singer Jewel all appear in their Feb. 2nd "Body News" section that guesses at the stars' weights and points out whose busts have gone "saggy" after dropping a few pounds.

You gain some, you become a target; you lose some, your bust is photographed and analyzed. Reason number 5.467 why being rich and famous probably isn't all its cracked up to be.

Sixty years ago, Marilyn Monroe had both the media and men all over the world swooning over her size 14 figure; today, a size 6 (more than double removed) is considered chunky by Tinseltown and mainstream talking heads.

Women (and men), love your bodies the way they are! And as tempting as it might be to drop $3 or $4 for a mag that tears celebs' hips and cleavage apart, perhaps our money would be better invested in a postage stamp on a letter to the Editor that says: "The only one who needs to be ashamed is the one who considered this to be news."

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