oh my gosh this makes me sooooo angry. Why do girls have weight issues…hmmm I have no idea. Grrr. I love J simpson…even if she isn’t the smartest cookie and I think she is beautiful!

Ughh.. She’s not fat! I mean granted it isn’t the bet picture and a really unflattering outfit but shes not fat! I hate how the media scrutinizes people like that. Thank God I’m not famous I don’t think I could handle it.

Completely ridiculous! Makes me happy that I’m not in the media.

Also makes me think that I need, need, need to move out of L.A.!

I really think that this has gone too far. Maybe she has gained weight, I really don’t care; but what I really care is that people are saying that she is fat.
I admit that her clothes are not her best decision and probably with other wardrobe we wouldn’t be talking about this issue, but going from bad choice of wardrobe to fat is going too far.
I’m not a fan of Jessica Simpson, maybe the opposite; but things are getting to a point where you either are a size 0 or you’re “fat”. That’s not the world where I want my kids grow up.

Another issue is the NY post cartoon. I can’t believe that a “serious” newspaper decides to print that cartoon. Really, really sad.

disgusting. gaining weight does not automatically make you fat! and she even admitted that when she was a bit “thinner” she was exercising like a mad woman. NOT HEALTHY! grrrrrrrrrr… i saw this on E! last night and had to shut it off for my sanity. check out my latest post and look at the ridiculous advertisement i found on facebook today. WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING TOO!?

hope you’re having a great day caitlin 🙂

That cartoon makes me SO mad!!! I saw those pictures the other day and wanted to scream. Yes, they are unflaterring pants…but she is not fat!! I can’t believe someone would stoop that low in a cartoon, even if it was supposed to be satirical. Honestly, do you think that if Jessica Simpson and/or Tony Romo see that, they are going to just laugh it off? BUTT OUT, people!! Thank you for bringing this up.

she is definitely not fat! as soon as an unflattering picture comes out they race to say how fat she is. but when she was very thin, they can’t stop talking about how she has a problem. its really a no win situation for these celebrities, and that makes me feel bad for them. It must be hard to deal with that much pressure and knowing that no matter what you do, it’ll never be right.

I totally agree with you Caitlin..she’s not fat at all! Actually, she looks quite healthy to me! Not the most flattering outfit, agreed, but not even close to “fat”.

This is a great post to get people talking!! She by no means is fat! It’s so sad for young girls to have to think stick thin girls are the norm and thats how every girl should look!! The media plays such a sick game with all of us!! Jessica has always had body image struggles and imagine how she feels when she reads stuff like that?! She is so beautiful!!

I also find it very interesting that there is such high rate of obesity here in the USA and yet every where we look there are skinny skinny models shoved in our face or people telling us that J.Simpson is sooo *fat!

Regardless, I think calling this young beautiful person is so horrible! It’s definetly sending the wrong message to all men and women!

I love what her former trainer said:

“We all go a little bit up and a little bit down,” Hollywood trainer Harley Pasternak said. “But she’s healthy. She’s still sexy. She’s still a beautiful woman. And I have no problem with the way she looks. I think if more people looked the way she looks now, the country would be a lot healthier.”

That actually almost made me cry.

Those have to be the ugliest pants I have ever laid eyes on.

She is not fat, she is perfectly healthy looking if you ask me. In the media you are either too fat or too thin…there is no happy medium. They just need something to talk about and celebs to pick on. It’s sick.

I am really not trying to be devil’s advocate here… and the cartoon is awful, disgusting, and no one deserves it.

I was at the Chili Cookoff. She looks like she has let herself go in relation to her former shape/size. She is short so it must go on pretty quickly (weight). I was more shocked by her face. She just looked nothing like her former self really.

Now, that said, the media is too super harsh on it. Is she “fat?” No. When you are famous and a celebrity do you have to deal with this sort of thing and develop thick skin? Yes.

Please don’t flame me. Haha. 🙂

I feel so bad for Jessica. I’m not even a huge fan of hers, but I’m sure that it must be terrible to have the media scrutinize your weight. Perhaps she did gain a few pounds, but so what? Nobody should care that much. Plus, that cartoon is terrible and really irresponsible. Guaranteed that if a male celebrity gained a bit of weight, he wouldn’t be called fat.

i am very much enjoying reading everyone’s thoughts on this subject! it’s nice to read different views about this because i think everyone makes a good point in their own way.

do i think she put weight on? obviously. do i think she’s fat? no. so what’s my issue? my issue is that i think this kind of talk is essentially FAT TALK, which you all know i hate. and i wonder what this kind of talk does to our younger generation of women. it’s sad, and it truly disgusts me that “serious” newspapers are engaging in this type of talk.

THANK YOU! It’s so ironic because I was LITERALLY just in a meeting with three guys and a girl and at the end on of the guys showed the picture of Jessica and asked what we thought. The girl next to me was like OMG she is SO fat she has bulges blah blah blah. Honestly there is a difference between being healthy and having some meat on your bones and being stick thin. Jessica is healthy, beautiful and it’s so sad that people are so judgemental

I’m not the biggest fan of Jessica, but when I saw this it made me sad..
She’s gained a few pound’s, and her stylist obviously didn’t assist her picking an outfit for that occasion.
FAT..she’s not at all..maybe that’s her True body type..maybe she starved herself to look the way she has for year’s!!
Frankly I was Morbidly Obese for 10 yrs..fat yes, but still one of the most painful experiences of my life..people were so cruel in public, that I wanted to crawl in a hole and die..but I didn’t~I had children to take care of, and that meant going to work everyday..I had already survived an ex-husband who told me I was a FAT PIG on a daily basis..I will struggle with my weight till the day I die..Food will always be my DRUG OF CHOICE, when I’m sad,happy etc..I’ve spent year’s in therapy trying to figure this out!!

SO..my take on the media is..it’s more acceptable to be a drinker,gambler,drug addict,etc..but don’t show us your FAT..even if you’re not..
If the wealthiest woman in the world “OPRAH” battles with her weight.and she’s not stupid…You think society would figure out, it’s not an easy problem to solve..
Why does the Media and the public have to be so cruel..
I hope when Jessica saw this, it didn’t crush her Spirit..it doesn’t take much to hurt someone deeply and cause damage!

Sorry for going on and on~it’s a painful subject to me..

anon – i want to reach out and hug you!!! stay strong and positive.

I have to agree with Anonymous here..I do think we’ve come to have a really skewed vision of fat, thin, normal, whatever. Now that said, I certainly don’t think Jessica Simpson is fat—.

But in response to the media haters: come on, the Post is hardly a classy newspaper. When some reputable outlet starts calling her a hog, maybe I’ll take offense.

ks – the “reputable” media outlets are calling her a fat hog. i saw pieces on Foxnews (well…) as well as CNN.

katherine – good point! i DO mention several places on my blog that i am maintaining a weight loss, but i try really hard not to advertise numbers or get too caught up in that talk on the blog, because i dont get caught up with it in real life. i do think there is some validity to talking about maintenance (because it isnt easy), especially for a fitness and food blog like mine, but i do think you’re right — as bloggers, we emphasize it a wee too much.

I think commenting on anyone’s weight is horrible! And…she is defnitely not fat!

Thanks for posting this. It really is ridiculous how obsessed with weight Americans are. She looks normal, not fat. But no one is happy with normal. I think she looks healthy and at an average weight. It’s a shame that collectively our country isn’t a fan of that.

I am totally onboard with your thinking on this- i looked at the pbotos and noted that she had a little extra paddin and the pants weren’t flattering- but I would still consider her thin- it is ridiculous!

Ok, those pants are bad but she is in no way fat, even if she’s gained a few. I dont’ really like her (she bugs me), but this is totally ridiculous. That cartoon is mean and degrading! I like what Ashlee had to say: http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.eonline.com/81130-

Although, we all know in a few months Jessica will be on the cover of Us Weekly with the headline “How I dropped 15 lbs in 10 weeks!”

So sad. Jessica is beautiful – so she’s doesn’t look like the skeleton she was while filming the Dukes of Hazzard? So what, girl’s got amazing curves. I guarantee any guy passing her on the street would do a double take. The media is just plain mean!

I agree that the media is being extremely harsh with its criticism, and surely if I were a celebrity, reports on my weight fluctuations would be the worst part about it.

That said, while I wouldn’t call her fat, if you look at all of the pictures from the event, it is clear that this is more than just an unflattering outfit and a few extra pounds. I would have to disagree with most and say that she is likely outside of the “healthy” weight range for her height now. As harsh as it is, maybe seeing these pictures and being faced with the (admittedly despicable) media will be a wake-up call for her.

Ok, the jeans are pretty horrible, but she is beatiful and looks great!!

I am so thankful I’m not famous and no one scrutinizes me weight gains and losses. This poor woman, the media has been on her for her weight gain and loss many times over the years and I hope she’s just happy in her body and that’s that.

well…to be fair, i see their point..she is fat for jessica simpson, who has always been super skinny, but if i saw a random girl on the street this size, i would say she was normal, if not skinny…I think its just a combination of a bad outfit choice, and the media looking for stories.

hey lady! i totally agree with you! the media is jsut terrible! as for your sneaker situation– i “ran” into the same problem– hehe my sneaks were 1/2 size too small! i get my feet fitted by an ex olympic runner — i usually wear an 8-8 1/2 shoe and when he told me i needed a 9 i didn’t believe it! i bought the 8 1/2 and my toes hurt so bad– i actually ended up injurin my knees! i went back and switched for the 9s and they worked out great! (those were asics)– since then i’ve upgraded to the asics kayano which run a bit smaller so i wear a 9 1/2 in them! i’ve been running 5 miles at least 6 days a week for almost 3 years and the right sneaks r sooo important because one minor injury just leads to a lot of other problems! i hope this helps and im sure you will be feelin better in no time! beautiful wedding pics by the way

Its so sad what the media will say …. it is a no wonder the pressure to be "perfect and thin" is put on so many young girls and women these days… Jessica is far from fat, she has beautiful curves and shows them well with great confidence <—that is so important! Thin does NOT make one happy and THIN does not equal beautiful.
Now, her outfit is not very nice and yes it appears she has put on some weight but WHO IS ANYONE TO JUDGE HER?

I totally agree she is not fat and the media is ridic. However, I also get REALLY SICK of celebs who make a huge deal of themselves when they ARE in shape. Of course it’s then painfully obvious when they gain weight like normal people. They have to be willing to take the good with the bad….right or wrong. Oprah is a prime example of this.

Okay, let me start with I agree with everyone, the outfit is super unflattering but she also probably has put on a little weight. My favorite part about this all though (and favorite is sarcastic, yes) is that magazines also jump on girls who are too skinny! Don’t get me wrong, I agree that most celebs are too skinny and need to eat, but, honestly, what does the media want then?! It’s just so interesting to me because one week there’s a special: “Hollywood Celebs Scary Skinny!” and the next “Jessica Simpson is Fat!” It’s crazy! Why is weight such a key issue in magazines, and how can anyone be “just right” with all these mixed messages? I remember when Nicole Richie got pregnant and everyone was speculating, all I could think was “this poor girl has been accused of being anorexic, and now that she’s putting on a little weight she’s being accused of being pregnant!” Clearly, I was out of the loop because she was pregnant, but I just can’t figure out what would make reporters happy these days. Crazy world we live in.

This is just like last year when someone took a picture of Tyra Banks and called her fat. Agree that it is completely the wrong thing to be showing young girls and probably adding to their problems with self esteem. Why didn’t the picture mention that J Simpson was a great singer? That was, after all, what she was doing!

Ugh. Yeah, I was pretty disgusting when I saw that. As if each and every one of us don’t have some kind of body issue whether is be too thin, too heavy, too tall, too short, etc. She’s by no means fat even in horribly unflattering pants.

And besides, Perez posting that crap? He should check the number on his waistband before he starts talking about someone else’s weight.

Its a load of crap but so normal in our twisted society. I’m an actress and the pressue is INTENSE..the scrutiny sometimes hard to take.

Then all these beautiful little girls hear/read this smack and they go on a diet at age 7.

Wish we could all rise above this crap…

Glad you posted this!
Barbara

I can’t be mad at the new york post. I really think it’s meant to be satire so, really, they’re making fun of people for calling jessica fat.

i think they’re just doing it with some with wit

I would just like to weigh in and say that the media do not post things that (most) people don’t want to read. It would not be in their financial interest. While it is certainly sad that her “fat-ness” is such a huge headline, it is not entirely the fault of the media.

It’s easy to blame the media, but we should really be looking at the source–where in society do we get these ideas about what is fat and what is thin?

First off, Jessica is in no way fat. Yes, she looks a little heavier than when she was only 100 pounds, which is probably a good thing. Also, I just found this entire cartoon ridiculous. It says Perez Hilton across the front. Has anyone ever seen him? I could care less about his weight, but he’s a mess of a human being. He should probably look in the mirror before posting photos to his blog of whatever.

ok lets just say that she is….the majority of our country is and embarassing someone is not how you get them to be healthy THIS right here is why little girls diet and starve themselves the media should be more responsible with the things they put out for the public to see

anon – i think you kind of missed the point.

This is what happens when someone builds their career on being super model thin when they are young. Jessica has no one to blame but herself for the way she presented herself to the public earlier on. Now that she can't live up to the hype of un-realistic beauty in America you people call her "poor"?

She is a casualty of her own sword and all you people defending her from the FAT POLICE should be condeming her to LIE IN THE BED SHE HELPED CREATE.