weighty issues
If you're at all in the public eye, it seems like you just can't win when it comes to weight, no matter what your gender is. Size acceptance blog
Big Fat Deal calls out a
Ricky Gervais interview, wherein he describes his undoing at the hands of the British Tabloids. "I never knew I was fat until I got famous… Then I suddenly realised I was overweight. The papers can’t simply put 'comedian Ricky Gervais.' They have to put 'rotund comedian' or 'chubby fatster,'"
the Office star said. "The other day, I was trying to keep fit by going jogging with my iPod, and the paparazzi leapt out a bush and got me. The headline the next day? 'iPodge.' What can you do?" And Gervais isn't the only Brit of late subjected to this sort of talk.
Jodie Prenger, a woman who just won the reality TV competition
I'd Do Anything (the prize is the plum role of Nancy in a West End production of the musical
Oliver!), has been
raked over the coals for being "too fat" for the part.
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