The obligatory.......

Ok, I am a bit conflicted here. Jessica Simpson is now "fat". Even though that is considered pretty normal to us, to celebrity standards it is not. Here is where my issue comes in. Jessica Simpson is pretty much known for nothing except being stupid, having large breasts, and a great body. She is not a singer as evidenced by her having to cross over to country music after having failed the impossible heights of pop. She is not an actress, by any means, as I once had to sit through "Employee of the Month". So what is she now? If a celebrity gets famous from and trades on her body, and obviously wants to continue to remain in the public eye, how is it tasteless to then question her use anymore as a member of that clique when she no longer conforms to that ideal? She wants it both ways. I wholly understand that most any 18-30 year old "hot chick" you see probably could not be that way unless there is a grueling regimen that may borderline on an eating disorder. But that is what the market demands, right? So, why should we celebrate her new found "freedom" to look however she wants? Yes, young girls have impossible role models and that is horrible and sends the wrong message, but she has been marketed to that message, big time. Do we seriously think she would ever have got her foot in the door with her modest talents if she looked as she does now? Basically what I mean is, there are scads of more talented people out there who don't get half the chances that Simpson has, primarily because they are not (as they don't possess a lecherous ex-preacher for a dad) going to make that deal with the devil. This is the inverse of my old theory called the Aniston Paradox: The more famous one becomes, the more skinny they will be as their star rises. It just doesn't work the other way, and I don't know whether that is good or bad as far as selling celebrity is concerned. And expect her to be dumped by the "star" QB at any time now as that is certainly not what he signed up for. She is about 20 years too young to already have the "trophy wife out to pasture" look. What is especially funny is that she is now decrying the critics who are calling her on this but in six months, like Jennifer Love-Hewitt when she was "fat" last year, will be tiny once again to conform to the same standards she now laments.