Year end review: The best...and worst...of body image in 2008
When more people are talking about Jennifer Love Hewitt's butt than about Obama being elected the first African-American president of the United States, you know you've hit a major hot-button issue. Body image was a big buzzphrase this year, from celebs to bloggers talking about all things airbrushed, dimpled or disordered. Weighting Game was no exception. Here, I offer you a recap of the Best...and the Worst of 2008:
The BEST
Ali Vincent becomes the first woman ever to win Biggest Loser.
At age 41, Dara Torres becomes the oldest woman ever to make the U.S. Olympic Swimming Team. We love her motto, “The water doesn’t know what age you are when you jump in, so why not?”
Kim Brittingham writes the faux book Fat is Contagious: How Sitting Next to a Fat Person Can Make You Fat and raises America’s consciousness about our fat bias.
Charlotte from The Great Fitness Experiment bears all with her stretch marks…and is beautiful.
I asked, “Is food blogging the next eating disorder?”…and got LOTS of responses.
...and the WORST
Reverse airbrushing makes itself known – apparently you CAN be too rich and too thin!
Christina Aguilera was preggers, naked and on the cover of Marie Claire...airbrushed into oblivion and setting impossible standards for pregnant women everywhere.
Princess Beatrice, daughter of Fergie, the Duchess of York, was on the receiving end of a low-blow body image attack.
Jennfier Love Hewitt dared to bare cellulite and the media tore into her for it.
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