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to be slightly disturbed at how obsessed Closer mag is with weight?

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bumcrumbs · 23/01/2011 22:13

This is going to be lengthy so I apologise, but I think its worth discussing! I'm certainly not naive about celeb magazines at all, used to buy them frequently but hardly do any more. Before I start, I know, shock horror celeb magazine goes on about weight. It's just the quantity of the articles going on and on about weight loss! Most of these articles are 1 page long, some like the stupid Chanelle Hayes one are two pages.

So today I read this week's Closer magazine.

I was really surprised to see how many articles mentioned celebrity diets/weights. Even articles that don't start off about diets/weights mention their weight or how they want to diet because they think they're fat (when they weight nothing anyway!).

Articles

Victoria Beckham's pregancy - points out that she normally only eats fish and salads, that she's put 7lb on already(!)

Natalie Cassidy drops a dress size in 8 weeks - has gone from a size 14 to a 12 post baby, discusses how in 2007 she went from a curvy size 16 (12st) to a size 8 and a slim 8st 1lb.

Rachel Stevens with her baby - an article about her weight loss disguised as an article about her baby/post pregnancy. Is determined to be a size 8, how much weight she's lost, how fit she is now after having the baby. Then discusses her weight loss back from 2008, how she lost 3in off her waist and dropped from a size 10 to 8 and wants to get back to that size.

Size 8 Cat: Horse riding & champers keep me trim - basically an article she has probably written herself about how amazingly slim and fit she is, how her diet is all about portion control and healthy snacks, how she does shedloads of exercises, complete with "sources" adding what she eats and drinks.

Mel C Shows Off Her Sporty Body: How she lost weight after having her baby by exercise and dieting.

Full page celeb adverts for milk saying it's low fat. And one small none diet sensible sentence saying "Milk's a natural source of vitamins and minerals"

Jeff Brazier - saying has lost lots of weight doing DOI, gym sessions and yoga.

A-list mums to be: 3 out of 6 articles mention the celeb's plans for post pregnancy weight loss.

Shape Up! - Nadia Sawalha talking about losing 3.5st and keeping her size 10 figure, a load of other bollocks about skinny dinner, low cal foods and an advert for Closer diets. Next page another massive advert for Closer diets with celeb endorsements.

Chanelle Hayes: "If I get fat again, I 'll go under the knife!" - goes on about how fat she thought she was before having lipo (she was a sie 8/10 ffs), has lipo on thighs and arms "in bid to regain size 6 figure", "a whopping 3.5 litres of fat was drained from Chanelle's body in total, the equivalent of 8 inches". The moron then says "I don't know, maybe I'll get fat again and have to have more surgery. I don't know."

More adverts about low fat chips

AIBU to find their weight obsession disturbing? Are people really that interested in what a celeb weighs?

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mutznutz · 23/01/2011 22:17

I think you're being unreasonable to read magazines that make you angry.

None of these mags have ever interested me...but from a business point of view, it's obviously a great earner because the women buying the mags obviously want to read that load of bollocks.