Is There a Double Standard When It Comes To Celeb Weight Gain?
Without a doubt, one of the most talked about celebrity stories this past week was Jessica Simpson‘s apparent weight gain.
After the 28-year-old singer performed at the KISS Country Chili Cookoff in Pembroke Pines, Florida, last Sunday, her curvy figure set off a media storm that has caused other celebrities to, er, weigh in on the matter.
It could be argued that male actors Vince Vaughn and Russell Crowe have also packed on the pounds over the years they’ve been in the limelight. But it’s been to little fanfare.
Vaughn, 38, even carried the hit film Four Christmases to a hefty box office take of $120 million over the holidays.
And yet, when pop star Christina Aguilera put on a few pounds during her Stripped tour in 2003, or Britney Spears appeared onstage at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards not looking like a stick figure, critics took exceptional notice.
As well, when Kate Winslet actually slimmed down and appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair recently, British tabloids claimed the photos had been Photoshopped.
Do you think the media places more emphasis on female celebrities’ weight than that of their male counterparts? Check out our gallery of stars who’ve increased in size at points and let us know your thoughts below!
There most defiantly is a double standard. Lots of male actors have put on the weight but if a women does, oh my god. Look at that cow…she gained 10 pounds!
As a society we want women to never change, stay that sexy size 2.
No there is not a double standard in this particular case. Jessica Simpson has made a career of selling her body. Vince Vaughn has not. If Brad Pitt porked up tomorrow then you can equate the two because Brad had made a career out of being the sexy dude with the hot body. It’s only recently that folks have been treating him as anything other than eye candy. Jessica has made a career out of her beauty and sexuality. Her own father has boasted about her Double D’s. As a result, when she gets fat, it is NOT a double standard to discuss her weight.
And the saddest part of all this is that the girl is not that big. But she insists on wearing clothes that are designed for the skinny minnies and she ends up looking like a fat oaf, instead of like a normal-sized woman. Jessica needs girlfriends. no girlfriend would allow her to leave the house in high-waisted pants and a double belt that served only to highlight the fat instead of conceal it. Same for the stupid leather pants.
If this website is part of “elebslam.celebuzz.com”, then I find this question rather hypercritcal.
Celebslam has gone out of its way within the last month to 1) take a dig at a Hilton sister because she was looking skinny and THEN 2) take a dig at Jessica Simpson because she piled on the weight.
And now we’re expected to believe this same site, or a sister site is trying to take the moral highground and raise awareness of a “double standard” going on?
Maybe you need to check out your own reporters first, before you make such alligations about the wider entertainment industry.
Its absolutely pathetic!
How are young women meant to know what to measure up to, if celebrities are insulted for being too skinny, or apparently too fat? No wonder teenage girls are so messed up when they see articals like the ones on Celebslam and they don’t know how the world expects them to look.
There is nothing wrong with being naturally slim, fat or somewhere in the middle. Aslong as your not forcing yourself into a slow death by either binge eating or not eating.
I’m not sure I agree about the double standard thing. You need only read some of the really nasty recent press and blogs about Russell Crowe’s “obesity” to see that the press et al. can be just as merciless to men as to women in this regard.
I thought there was something of a double standard until I saw all the press slamming Russell Crowe’s weight recently. I’d never before seen so much made over a man’s weight!