Category — Celebrity

Aislin Bates is by all accounts a healthy, active 2 year old who was denied health insurance by United Health Care for being too small. She weighs 22 pounds which is in the third percentile for children her age. Her father was dumbfounded stating:

“It seems as if they’re discriminating about the fact that she’s smaller, that her size is an issue,. I don’t see why that would be a factor in whether or not a child is healthy.”

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Ugly Betty star America Ferrera was spotted relaxing in the Bahamas over the weekend and taking some time off after filming the fourth season of the series. We normally see her in frumpy Betty Suarez gear or donned in a sweeping gown on the red carpet so this rare photo proves that she practices what she preaches and does not worry about her rather shapely figure. While many of her Hollywood contemporaries are bone thin and wearing clothes sized in the single digit varieties, the 25-year-old has always had a healthy body image.

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Victoria’s Secret model Miranda Kerr graces the cover of Sunday Telegraph Magazine this week. At only 26 years of age she’s had an incredible modeling career in both Australia and New York, she’s dating Hollywood A-lister Orlando Bloom and she somehow manages to be one of the most grounded girls in the fashion business. Kerr credits her inner calm to yoga and meditation but what makes it more interesting is that several years ago at a very young age she became a devotee of Nichiren Buddishm.   [Read more →]

Oscar winner Russell Crowe is currently producing and starring in the movie Robin Hood.  Of course we’ve seen Crowe ultra fit back in the days of The Gladiator but when he’s off camera he maintains a comfortable weight that’s a bit on the soft side.

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The ultra-atheletic Madonna has reportedly given her trainer Tracy Anderson the axe. They have been training together for the past three years but it seems that all good things must end and the two have decided to part ways. According to a source for the New York Post Tracy was carrying ‘baggage’ that Madonna was tired of dealing with. [Read more →]

Last week Carrie Fisher, the original iconic Princess Leia, opened her one-woman show on Broadway called, Wishful Drinking. She has already received a lot of press about the show and people are saying that it’s spectacular. Once a worldwide sex symbol, these days Fisher is just glad to have her life back together again after years of battling bipolar disorder and various addictions. Wishful Drinking is the story of Fisher’s Hollywood life; a life that was always in the spotlight considering her parents were singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds and she was a child actor.

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As Jessica Simpson travels around the globe to film her reality show, The Price of Beauty, it seems that she is learning to handle the criticism and media blows when it comes to her beauty and her body.  Her father Joe Simpson recently told Us Magazine that filming the new show has been good for Jessica because since she is always under scrutiny it is good for her to see how other parts of the world view beauty.  For example, while visiting in Uganada the beauty ambassador there knew about Jessica’s struggles with the media and the two talked about how beauty comes from within, it’s not what is on the outside.  Joe explained,

“In Uganda, we sat in a fattening hut because, in Uganda … fat is beautiful.  So the bigger you are, the more beautiful you are. She was with a girl who had been in a hut preparing for her wedding for two months and 25 days on a 5,000 calorie-a-day diet.”

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Gabby Sidibe is the breakout star of the movie Precious, where she plays the role of an obese, abused, 16-year-old. The actress, who is actually 26 years old, has all of Hollywood talking because of her moving and primal performance,  but what most of us don’t know is that her true character is a 180-degree turn in comparison to her character in the movie. The director of the film, Lee Daniels, said that Sidibe had to ‘unwork’ all of her natural confidence in order to star in a role that required her to be shy, abused and fearful. Daniels also added,

“She is unequivocally comfortable in her body, in a very bizarre way. Either she’s in a state of denial or she’s so elevated that she’s on another level,” he says. “I had no doubt in my mind that she had four or five boyfriends, easily.”

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Apart from her awesome music, Beyonce is known the world round for her curves, on-stage leotards and fit physique.  She recently told Billboard that she may not wear her high heels on the treadmill but she does do all of her choreography practice in her heels, and she makes sure that the back-up dancers do the same.  She said,

“But I mainly get in shape from doing the choreography during those long 12-hour rehearsals for two months before a tour.”

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A shocking (and almost unbelievable) new study has found a link between eating candy everyday as a kid and adult violence. The research followed more than 17 000 people since 1970 and found that of all the participants, 69% of those who were given candy whenever they asked for it had been violent.

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