I know that women are the primary consumers of gossip magazines, but why do they have to try and make us feel like shit all the time? We don’t have the right hair, the right shoes, the right bodies, and our clothes certainly look lame when compared to the gorgeous gowns that designers beg celebrities to wear.

We probably don’t have the right men, either, and those of us who are single aren’t using the right hair products to catch a man. Now even the single girls reading the glossies over pints of Haagan Daz can feel slightly better about themselves, because there are single famous women too, and experts who are paid to go on about their plight:

If Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Aniston can’t find a guy, is there any hope for the rest of us?

Actually, it turns out that being a beautiful, successful, rich woman in Hollywood can make it even harder to make a love connection.

Sure, there are plenty of men out there who would want to date A-listers like Reese Witherspoon, but not many measure up both physically and professionally ­– after all, there is only one George Clooney, and every knows he’s not settling down anytime soon.

And Notting Hill-style romantic comedies aside, on the very rare occasions when regular guys come into contact with ladies who live on the right side of the velvet ropes, “they are made very anxious [by mega stars],” psychiatrist Dr. Arnold Gilberg of the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine tells Us.

“They feel there is too much to fulfill.”

When a woman is successful and famous at a young age, there simply aren’t that many men who can adapt to her lifestyle and, at the same time, make her feel like she’s No. 1.

“Megastars are in a unique position because they are protected from so many people,” says Gilberg. “They are limited in the people they meet more than the average woman.”

[From US Weekly]

These same magazines run “sexiest bachelor” articles and pieces that glorify single celebrity guys, so why do they act like it’s some kind of failure for a beautiful famous woman to be single? I’m trying to figure out how it helps them sell products to hapless readers. Maybe after any of these women inevitably land a man her success can be attributed to whatever body cream she was comped in the gift bag at the last event she attended.