Bonnie Fuller’s Bye Bye Skinnies! Why Bumpalicious and Not Naked Stars Are Taking Over Monthly Mag Covers is making me all kinds of nauseous. Ya’ll pardon me while I toss my cookies – and it isn’t because of morning sickness, either. Can you blame me with quotes like these?
“‘Now, pregnancy is sexy. And you don’t have to be married to be pregnant, like Halle Berry. Hollywood has led the way in making different lifestyles accepted.’”
Yeah, Halle doesn’t have to get married if she doesn’t want to, so her lifestyle is totally accepted. Meanwhile there are tens of thousands of people who would love to get married, thereby making their “lifestyles” more acceptable, but whoops, they can’t.
“(P)regnancy can make an actress more saleable and appealing. It humanizes actresses. They aren’t just skinny and perfect. Pregnancy adds pounds, making their bodies more like yours and mine.”
Excuse me? The only thing my body has in common with Halle Berry’s is that we both have vaginas.
“I’ve always thought that pregnant women were beautiful. And the other thing is that magazines are willing to photoshop a little here and there, if things aren’t absolutely perfect.”
Because pregnant women are beautiful(!) and pregnancy is natural (!) but even when you’re at your most beautiful (!) and natural (!) you’re still an imperfect cow (sometimes).
“Everyone wants to be pregnant, it’s a very desirable situation to be in and if we want to shoot someone and they happen to be pregnant, then fine.”
So, it’s OK if they’re as big as the side of a barn “bumpalicious” if they’re spawning, but if they’re like that naturally, then we have to pack them off to Jenny Craig?
God, I hate Hollywood.
[via PDN Pulse]