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Celebrity Lessons: Where’s Fat Brit?
Yeah, her dancing and lip-synching was as obviously fake as the creepy colored contacts she wore, and no one is putting Brit forward for a mom-of-the-year award, what with the lax carseat policies and the coke-filled baby bottles. And the whole “mistake” thing. But when I follow the Music Award performance debacle, there’s one thing that stands out for me. This is fat? I mean, she has gotten crap for being “unfit.” Unfit, for those at home, for once doesn’t refer to her parenting, it just means fat. It means she needs to lose weight. It means she’s pathetic for tarting around after not losing all that baby weight.
Now, I’ll admit, perhaps my perspective has been distorted by spending too much time with real women with real bodies. Women who had the nerve to want to actually deliver the placenta before they hopped back on the stairmaster. Women who do not have the benefit of airbrushing and plastic surgery and full-time nannies so they can work out for hours with a trainer, then go home and “eat” a specially-prepared raw veggie smoothie. Britney has access to all that stuff. So how come she didn’t whip herself into top form before going on TV?
I don’t know, and I don’t care. But I know lots of moms who think they are lazy for waiting three months post-partum before starting the weight-loss regime, and it makes me sad. “Fat” Britney looks relatively normal to me. She looks like she had two kids. And yes, she is scantily-clad and selling sex, so maybe she is opening the door for a critique. I guess celebrities aren’t supposed to look like that.
But honestly, I’m kind of glad to see a celebrity body that doesn’t look like it was starved for nine months. That belly is (do I go to hell for this?) kinda sexy. I suppose my big post-partum advice is this (listen up, Britster): Work on your health. Enjoy your baby or kids. And while I can’t believe I’m saying it, if you wanna emulate Brit’s body, go right ahead. Copy her on this one thing. She looks fine to me. Just don’t, um, phone your performance in.
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11 Comments
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amLook at her right shoe! The heel IS out of place!!!
And I agree, I blogged about her “fatness” the other day too. She is NOT fat. And I am not a Britney fan btw (I can’t stand her).
http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/09/09/britney-spears-out-of-shape/
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amShe should have chosen a different outfit.
How would you like it if a chubby dude was wearing a speedo?
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amBritney is certainly not famous for her voice. She’s made a career for herself based almost solely on her looks, which is why I’m kind of torn on this one.
No, she’s not fat. But she’s bigger than she used to be and should have chosen her outfit much more carefully. And I agree with some of the previous posters in that the “fat” comments probably are somewhat related to the lazy, listless performance she turned in.
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amthis is a load of crap. Britney doesn’t have an ounce of cellulite on her. She’s short-waisted and has muscular abs. That’s it.
mcglory13 commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amBritney leaves her kids with nannies all the time. To party. Since her career rests almost solely on looking impossibly skinny and hot, I’d rather her use the time she’s not parenting her children to that end, rather than pounding down cocktails. Why does she need cocktails? She’s not dealing with the screaming not-sleeping kids the rest of us are.
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amI’d rather look at Britney’s belly than an emaciated Angelina Jolie any day. Normally I think Angelina is hot but lately she looks like a skeleton. Seriously, we have an f-ed up society when 120 lb Britney is fat. I don’t even think she looked fat. She looked like a drunk-junkie-train-wreck but fat, please.
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amShe looked like hell.
She chose to wear a costume that accentuated the post-baby belly – she could have worn a corset and the same hot pants and looked mildly good.She made this choice… nobody MADE her wear a bra and hot pants on national TV… rumor has it that MTV wanted her in a corset.
I have a belly. You would never catch me on TV wearing what she wore in this performance, even if I was trying to look sexy.
Is she, in fact, “fat”??? No.
Did she “look fat” because of her insane wardrobe choice??? Yes.
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amI have to agree with chyna823 — I think most of the criticism comes from the fact that she was moving around with the grace of a geriatric walrus. I got the impression she couldn’t make it up a flight of stairs without stopping for a breather. In my mind that makes her “unfit”, it’s not about body image.
mnijtnc commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amNo, she’s definitely not fat. But I think the “fat” criticisms are related to the lazy, sloppy performance she gave. If she’d knocked it out of the park, I doubt people would be as obsessed with her abs.
Alisyn commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amI’m with you, Kelly – she looks great (relatively speaking)! To call her a terrible performer is totally valid, but to call her fat? This is NOT fat. And labeling her as such is sickening.
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amWarning: Waaaaaay not safe for work, close your door or get your earphones. And be prepared for vivid, emotional venting with smudged makeup. The whole "Britney's So Fat Show" thing has been bothering me. She was a lot of things at the VMAs
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