Recently Britney Spears opened for the MTV Video Music Awards in Las Vegas and was harshly criticized for her lack luster performance but also for her so called "weight problem". Apparently people actually think she's fat! What kind of message are we sending to our kids, especially girls who look up to the tween star who they've grown to love since her days as a Mousekateer. This leads to girls developing self image problems because society views women, such as Britney, as being fat and overweight. The outcome leads to developing bulemia, anorexia, abusing weight loss pills, or excessive exercising to loss the weight so girls can try and resemble their teen idols.
In honesty, I'm not a Britney Spears fan and she has had her recent ups and downs in her personal life, but to say she also has a weight problem is going overboard. I thought she looked great and I would love to look like her after having two kids. Hopefully young girls will realize images of skinny models and celebrities are just "images" and that there is a huge difference between television and reality.
You looked great Britney, but that performance...well that's a different story. Guess what happened in Vegas isn't going to stay in Vegas this time. It's ok Brit.....hey, at least she had enough common sense to dump K-Fed.
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Unfortunately, we live in a consumer society where we invest so much of our time and energy into cultural icons. (In this case, Britney Spears. What's sad is the fact that there are people starving, a war is going on, and the crisis of contemporary popular culture supersedes any of the above mentioned crisis.
I agree, she's not fat at all. (The performance was awful - kind of like a bad accident where you know you should just move on, but you stop and look.) In fact she's tiny compared most people!!!! (If she's fat, then I'm morbidly obese and I'm only 10 pounds overweight.)
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