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The big news in celebrity fat-watch this week is that Janet Jackson gained about sixty pounds for a movie role, and has sensibly lost it once more through diet and exercise.
"'I’ve never had someone love me for me, so unconditionally, the way [my boyfriend] does, regardless of my size,' she says. 'He was never any different toward me.' When asked about reaction to her plus-size body, Jackson says, 'People didn’t treat me differently to my face, but I’m sure they had their whispers behind my back. But I didn’t feel bad about myself at all. It was part of my job.'"
So far so good, right? Well check out the Us Weekly cover featuring this story. At 180 pounds, she is depicted on the beach in what looks like sweats, with a hat pulled down over her eyes. Obviously if you are fat, you must dress like Fat Albert at all times, even if you're going to the beach. And now that she's skinny again, she's tarted up like a sex worker in this horrible, objectifying cover photo. Jesus, Janet, have some self respect. Demand some pants next time.
"'I’ve never had someone love me for me, so unconditionally, the way [my boyfriend] does, regardless of my size,' she says. 'He was never any different toward me.' When asked about reaction to her plus-size body, Jackson says, 'People didn’t treat me differently to my face, but I’m sure they had their whispers behind my back. But I didn’t feel bad about myself at all. It was part of my job.'"
So far so good, right? Well check out the Us Weekly cover featuring this story. At 180 pounds, she is depicted on the beach in what looks like sweats, with a hat pulled down over her eyes. Obviously if you are fat, you must dress like Fat Albert at all times, even if you're going to the beach. And now that she's skinny again, she's tarted up like a sex worker in this horrible, objectifying cover photo. Jesus, Janet, have some self respect. Demand some pants next time.
posted by mo pie at 10:49 AM
7 Comments:
In all fairness, one photo is from a photo shoot and the other looks like a paparazzi pic. Of course she's going to look better in the photo created by a team of hair and make-up stylists and touched up by a PhotoShop expert. In the paparazzi pic it's quite possible she was wearing a hat so she wouldn't be noticed and the sweats because she was running.
But yeah, what is with all the pantless pics these days? Teri Hatcher was pantless on the Vanity Fair cover where she talked about being sexually abused. Sheesh!
Well of course one is a photo shoot and the other is a candid, that's exactly my point. They chose to use the most shlumpy photo they could find to denote "she is fat" and then whored her up for an official photo shoot. I don't really see how that makes it better; to me, it makes it worse.
To misquote Rosie O'Donnell: If I looked like Janet Jackson, I'd walk naked through the frozen food section of my local grocery store every day.
Great title. And, she's happy she can wear jeans again? Who says a 180lb woman can't wear jeans? Check out Beyonce's diet in the same issue (fasting/juices/etc.)
Well, the beach photo is probably from CA, and the beaches here are cold. I wear that many clothes to the beach, esp in the later afternoon/evening b/c it's cold. It has to be like Sept. w/ the Santa Ana's blowing in from the desert before I'll be warm enough to go to the beach in a swimsuit.
I am originally from Miami, where anyone on the beach wearing clothes looks weird. But, it's hot there. In CA, I see fully clothed people in sweats, hats and long pants all the time due to the weather.
Michele
What? You mean it isn't warm in California? Are all those Beach Boys songs big lies?
I don't think 180 is "plus-size", somehow. If she's 5'4 she can't have been much bigger than I am at that weight, and I'm a size 10 (UK 14) in most things.
I suppose we have to filter all this through celeb-vision, but even so, they do make jeans in a 10, Janet, or even a 12...
Actually, since she wasn't planning to lose it again so quickly, maybe she eBayed all her skinny clothes? That might explain why she had to be on the cover in her scanties... ;)
My first thought after catching a glimpse of the magazine cover while waiting in the check-out line at the grocery store was, "So they're selling Playboys right next to the kids' candy rack now?" If she's so happy that she can wear jeans again, she should have donned some for this photo.
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