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When Kathy Griffin hosted VH1's Divas Salute the Troops over the weekend, she joked that Bristol Palin had gained so much weight during Dancing With The Stars that she'd become the "white Precious." More »
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Wellspring Academy of the Carolinas costs $6,250 a month, which means staying there a year costs more than a year at Harvard, according to the Washington Post. Wellspring is a "highly structured therapeutic boarding school for rapid weight loss and intensive behavior therapy." It's fat camp meets boarding school, and kids there do lose weight: Terry Henry enrolled in September 2004 when he was 15. At the time, he weighed 558 pounds. He left 15 months later weighing 253 pounds and today weighs about 278 pounds. But not all stories are success stories. And author Stephanie Klein has a new book, Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp, in which she recalls the awful reality of being an overweight teen. The most surprising thing about fat camp, Klein tells Newsweek, was that "They weighed us on meat scales. The kids who were too heavy got weighed on a truck scale at the truck stop." It was, in a word, "Humiliating." More »
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Guys love to make jokes about chicks going, "does this make me look fat?" — but the truth is, men are just as likely to experience negative body image, according to a psychologist interviewed on an Australian news site today. "Men often worry about their bodies in secret and think it's sissy or a sign of weakness if they talk about their concerns," says Dr. Vivien Lewis. (40% of men have body image issues so severe that they're affected in a negative way.) She and a team of male students are preparing a series of body image workshops targeting men, to teach them how to feel good about their bodies. Dr. Lewis's team will instruct men on how to exercise for health (not looks), and provide eating tips. Which is all well and good, but, come on. We're living in a world where chunky dudes get starring roles in sitcoms, replete with hot-ass wives. Body image schmody image; it's just not the same. You never see Jack Black in Weight Watchers commercials, but it's all Kirstie Alley has going on now. Give us a show where a pleasingly plump working girl comes home to a lithe Rodrigo Santoro-esque hubby every night and we'll DVR the crap out it, we promise. More »
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