Tag — Celebrity

We’ve all seen pictures and read reports of Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon working out together. Some media have even gone so far as to say the couple that works out together stays together.

Having a gym buddy can be motivating, but who do you prefer to work out with?

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Anna Friel, the curvacious actress who stars as Charlotte, aka Chuck on Pushing Daisies is a native of England.  And even though she looks drop dead gorgeous she admits that since she has lived and worked in the US, especially in Hollywood, she has had to deal with the constant pressures she feels about the need to be rail thin. [Read more →]

The British have voted on which celebrities’ body parts would create what they deemed the perfect body. The survey, which was conducted across the United Kingdom sampling answers by men and women, was carried out by weight loss company Proactol and polled pretty surprising results.

Unfortunately the original results could not be found on the Proactol website and The Sun newspaper is the only media that printed it, so the credibility of the survey is questionable. But the results do make for entertaining reading…

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Dr. Regina Benjamin, President Obama’s nominee for surgeon general, is receiving quite a bit of bad publicity because of her weight. The curvy 52-year-old, who has been nominated to be the public face of the United States’ healthcare program, has been slammed by bloggers after pictures of her (and her chubby cheeks) circulated across the Internet.

Benjamin, however, is not short of supporters. Bloggers and organizations (like the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance) alike have rallied to her defence. A blogger on Frisky.com said:

“The job of surgeon general is to make health care and policy decisions for the country – not to look hot in a pair of skinny jeans. Perhaps her size could actually be an advantage – she’s in a better position to understand obesity and contemplate out-of-the-box ways to roll back ever-expanding American waistlines.”

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Mischa Barton is currently being hospitalized at a psychiatric ward and no one seems to know why or how but there is something definitely going on because she even missed walking the red carpet last week for the premiere of her new movie, Homecoming.  It’s no secret that Mischa has struggled with fluctuating weight and now that her current condition is being scrutinized by all the news agency some sources have come forth to imply that Mischa is still struggling with body image issues.

“She has big self-esteem issues. … She hates her legs,” says a source close to Barton. “She isn’t comfortable with her body. It’s been a big source of stress and self-hate.”

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Can you believe it’s been a year since Diet.com released their popular online video, The Photoshop Effect? What’s even more surprising is that nothing’s changed since then. But are we really all that surprised?

The controversial yet educational video, which has since received almost three million views, investigates just how far some digital retouchers go to literally shave 10 years off the faces and bodies of celebrities.

“Every [celebrity] picture that gets put through, like a Meg Ryan or Nicole Kidman, they have people on staff or a freelancer and they pay them very well to retouch every image that is released of them,” says Tim Lynch, photographer/retoucher, in the video. “That’s the reality of it. They don’t want to release anything that isn’t retouched.”

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Raven Symone, the bubbly actress from That’s so Raven and The Cosby Show has been a hefty girl for years.  She’s always been one to embrace her weight instead of going on fad diets and yo-yoing on the scales.  Recently, her co-host Debbie Allen was interviewed by US Weekly to promote her new film Fame.  However, when Allen explained that her younger fans know her because of her work with Symone, she referred to Symone as a ‘heifer.’

“I was wondering how they knew me and then they say, ‘Do you know Raven?’ I’m like, ‘Of course, I know that little heifer! I love that girl.’”

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Gerard Butler and Katherine Heigel or on the July/August issue of Fitness First Magazine promoting their summertime romantic comedy, The Ugly Truth.  The cover story was primarily about Gerard Butler but we did get a bit of insight into Katherine’s views on body image and the influences of Hollywood.  She said,

“I don’t have a lot of discipline.  If I wasn’t in this industry I wouldn’t workout.  But I have hips and a butt and everything that goes along with that, including cellulite, so I do the best I can.When people say, ‘You have a real body’ to me, I’m like, ‘Is that a backhanded compliment?’”

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Denise Richards is one of a handful of celebrities who have signed up to take the NIVEA summer 2009 challenge.  Denise is taking the ‘My Skinny Jeans’ challenge.  Denise said,

“I’m excited to be a part of NIVEA’s first My Silhouette Challenge to help thousands of women feel great and fit into their favorite skinny jeans.”

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Hayden Panettiere one of the stars of Heroes and an activist for various organizations recently spoke with the online magazine, A Girl’s World.  Hayden is only 19 years old but she has become a role model for girls everywhere as she stays out of the tabloids, has a great acting career and continues to inspire others through her charity work.  During the interview she was asked how she handles the Hollywood pressure of having to look ‘perfect’:

“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve thanked God and my parents for raising me in a place that was so humbling and so outside any of that stuff. I mean I live criticism every day. I’d go walk my dogs and I used to walk them in my PJ’s and now I have to make sure I look half decent or else I’ll get trashed. Or like having cellulite on the back of your legs. ‘I’m sorry, I’m a woman. I don’t know what you want me to tell you’ [we laugh]. ‘I’m sorry. It’s not going to go away. I can’t do anything about it. I apologize if I offended you’.”

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