NY Times article entitled "Bingeing on Celebrity Weight Battles." This article discusses celebrities (notably women, including Oprah and Kirstie Alley) and their very public battle with weight and body image. What message do you think it sends to young women that famous women publicly debase themselves and their bodies unless they have an almost-unhealthy body size (e.g., Kirstie Alley said she would be happy at 5'8" and less than 140 pounds, which is at the very bottom end of a healthy weight for that height). How can you talk to young women about this phenomenon? What emotional impact does celebrities having weight-loss surgeries (and sometimes lying about it) have on the average overweight American woman?
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Celebrity and Weight
NY Times article entitled "Bingeing on Celebrity Weight Battles." This article discusses celebrities (notably women, including Oprah and Kirstie Alley) and their very public battle with weight and body image. What message do you think it sends to young women that famous women publicly debase themselves and their bodies unless they have an almost-unhealthy body size (e.g., Kirstie Alley said she would be happy at 5'8" and less than 140 pounds, which is at the very bottom end of a healthy weight for that height). How can you talk to young women about this phenomenon? What emotional impact does celebrities having weight-loss surgeries (and sometimes lying about it) have on the average overweight American woman?
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