‘I’ve been criticised and it hurts. I've been every weight, and I've been proud of it.’
‘Jumbo Jessica Simpson: Packin’ On The Pounds In Photos!’, screamed the Page Six headline. The year was 1999 and, as a society, celebrities being extremely thin, or ‘super-waifs’ was expected. If you weren’t, it was declared open season on discussing your body. A spot of cellulite snagged you the cover of a damning tabloid magazine round up of ‘worst beach bodies’. A ten pound weight gain was deemed career suicide. Put simply: thin was in .
Jessica has had to endure her body being an accepted topic of gossip and speculation - demeaning her at every turn - for over twenty years now. She’s not the only one, of course. There is a slew of women whose bodies specifically have their own toxic tabloid narratives, particularly if they found fame in the nineties or noughties; an infamously terrible time for a woman to be famous .
It wasn’t just about being too fat. The speculation about celebrity women’s thinness and weight loss was a source of huge tabloid obsession. Stars like Nicole Richie, Mischa Barton and Keira Knightley were regularly put on the cover of US magazines like Star and US Weekly for their thinness, with the most shocking images selected for effect.
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