Celebrity Diets

[HotLips]

I don't think Mark's the problem. Kelly's talked about how All My Children had trouble covering up her first pregnancy because she gained so much weight. It sounded like she got pressured/criticized a lot for it. She said they'd say things like, "The pregnant women on GH and OLTL don't get this big." She started getting that super thin, muscular look after she came back from maternity leave.

I read an interview with Charisma Carpenter on a parenting website recently and she said she overheard one of her bosses on Angel calling her fat when she was 6 months pregnant.

[Martini Girl]

Yeah, I was kind of horrified (as was Conan I believe) by Julie's labeling of her sons.

One of my best friends in college was anorexic in college, and ended up having to leave 2nd semester of freshman year to seek treatment. All she remembered growing up was that her slightly over-weight mom was ALWAYS on a diet. She knew of no other life than food was the enemy.

Unfortunately, I think girls get it from all sides growing up.

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This thing with body-image and dieting and being a mom really hits home with me. My daughter is 3, and I am trying to be very aware of how I talk about my body and weight (trying to actually talk about it very little). I've lost some weight over the last year because I started running regularly, but I'm trying to not talk about that, instead focusing on "running is fun!" (lie!) and "it keeps me healthy!" (true). I think it is one area where how a mother talks about herself, as well as how she talks about her daughter, can really make things very hard for the daughter. It's unfortunate, but I think it's true.

Kelly probably thinks she's focusing on the "healthy" and "working out" part of it all, rather than the dieting. I have a close friend who was anorexic and basically, she thought she was just working out a lot and keeping fit. Everyone who knew her could see she was way underweight, but all she saw was fitness. I can't even imagine what kind of pressures are put on women who are in the public eye like actors and TV personalities. If it's hard for us regular people, then it has to be oppressive indeed for them. Every actress who becomes famous loses weight. That just seems to be a fact of life.

[WestEndGirl]

Dec 11, 2010 20:32:12 GMT -4 HotLips said:

She started getting that super thin, muscular look after she came back from maternity leave.

I remember this, too. I loved Hayley Vaughan (her character) back in the day and Kelly Ripa was always small and petite but never so sinewy and muscular.

I definitely sympathize with her current injury. I have a stress fracture right now too - mine's in my shin and my 5th one now - and I am certainly not an overexerciser or under-eater. I know two other runners who've gotten them in the hip area so it's not uncommon, necessarily...

[margojata]

Yeah, the mother/daughter dynamic can be rough. I also grew up with a tiny, gorgeous mom. She was 5'3, I was 5'11 and not so tiny. It was hard, and I struggled with it. Running kinda really saved me. It enabled me to get a healthy handle on food, while still burning it off. That's why Kelly's food consumption is so sad... with that amount of exercise, she could eat SO much more and enjoy it.

I don't know if anyone watches the show, but she literally almost never takes her eyes off of herself in the monitor. I don't know what will ever get through to her to stop .. maybe getting off of television all together, who knows.

And yeah, Julie Bowen looked awful on this week's show. She's usually in jeans and long sleeved shirts, but damn, the clavicle, the veiny arms...

[Babycakes]

Horrifying.

"I have been a member of Weight Watchers for 23 years and I'm back on it right now.," Ginnifer Goodwin, 32, says in the new issue of Health magazine.

Even if she's exaggerating, she's claiming to have been on a diet since the age of 9.

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"It's the only thing on the planet that doesn't dehydrate you or just make you miserable," she continues. "I've never had a dramatic weight problem, it's just that I tend to indulge, and then I need to get back on track so I can button my pants."

Isn't that more or less the definition of yo yo dieting? And what's this about WW being the only diet that doesn't dehydrate you? It's called water and you don't need to be on a special diet to drink it.

[magazinewhore]

For those of you who are mothers of daughters, I wouldn't worry about it too much. As a woman who did have an eating disorder, my mother's relationship to her body and food contributed a little bit, but I'm not sure it wasn't something that I wouldn't have simply sought out and absorbed elsewhere (like fashion mags or friends or an interest in ballet, etc.).

Experts seem to think that eating disorders come from a this weird combination of personality (a certain kind of perfectionist personality with people-pleasing tendencies) genes, and environment that triggers it some people, while many others in the same situation would be fine. If your daughter has a tendency toward perfectionism, then I might be worried, but there isn't a "way" a mother can act that will bring in out in a person who otherwise wouldn't get an eating disorder.

[spider]

True that. My mother has spent my entire life making bitchy comments about my body and? I could give a fuck. I think I look fine, hell, I think I'm hot shit. I am a perfectionist but "people-pleaser" doesn't exactly describe my personality, lol. What you see is what you get, take it or leave it. No skin off my nose.

[magazinewhore]

My point exactly, spider. Whereas I will never be happy with my damn body, but I've kind of accepted my lack of acceptance about it (if that makes sense). My proverbial nose never has skin on it to start with.