Shades of Gray

Renee happened to mention in the comments that she had posted in her own blog about the differences between how white celebrities and black celebrities are percieved when it comes to weight. Her perspective is fasinating.

"When I went to college and dropped 20lbs from stress, I was working @ the Gap. When I came home from break all my white female coworkers told me how great I looked. The black guys were like, you look like a crackhead. Being a girl, naturally I listened to the men and of course gained my weight back w/the quickness, but those two contradictory views have never left me."

Her entry also touches on the fact that celebrities have some mythical ideal weight and are equally likely to be plastered on a tabloid for being too skinny than for being too fat. (See current tabloids featuring Nicole Ritchie and Lindsay Lohan. Also the schizophrenia of the tabs not being able to decide if Jessica Simpson is successful or skeletal.)