When I read the Daily Mail article comparing pregnant Lisa Marie Presley to her late fat father I was pretty surprised. Even though the journalistic standards for the Daily Mail are lower than American tabloids, and involve making fun of skinny women’s knees regularly, I was amazed to see how rude they were to her. They included a side-by-side picture of pregnant Lisa next to fat Elvis. They did mention halfway down the article that she was rumored to be pregnant, but that didn’t get in the way of trashing her for moderate weight gain. The NY Daily News did the same thing.

The Daily Mail’s article has been removed, but I quoted the NY Daily News in an earlier article, and they were super nasty to her:

Wearing a grungy yellow hoody and sweatpants, greasy hair pulled back, and no makeup to conceal her splotchy skin as she shoveled food into her bloated face, it’s hard to imagine the former bombshell that looked so much like her mother.

The singer and philanthropist, whose ex-husbands famously include Nicolas Cage and Michael Jackson, is rumored to be pregnant with fourth husband Michael Lockwood’s child, which might explain some of the dramatic weight gain.

[Article originally on NY Daily News’ website, which has since been re-worded]

That’s not very nice considering that the National Enquirer reported her pregnant a few days before those pictures came out, and you can see that she has a pregnant-looking tummy. The Daily News has since changed the wording on that article to be a lot more flattering to Presley, saying, “If it looks like Elvis Presley’s daughter Lisa Marie, now 40, has had a few too many of those peanut-butter and deep-fried banana sandwiches her father famously enjoyed, it’s because she’s eating for two! Presley is pregnant with her third child, her rep confirmed to People Magazine.”

The misogynistic body critics over at the Daily Mail are getting their asses sued by Presley, though. If only every celebrity would sue the Daily Mail for every stupid article they write, maybe they would be put out of business.

Presley wrote a scathing response to the very cruel articles about her. She blogged on her myspace that it was personally upsetting, and called it “nothing short of irresponsible and disgusting”

After being the target all week of slanderous and degrading stories, horribly manipulated pictures and articles in the media, I have had to show my cards and announce under the gun and under vicious personal attack that I am in fact pregnant.
Once they got a glimpse of my expanding physique a few days ago, they have been like a pack of coyotes circling their prey whilst eerily howling with delight. Starting with a London publication and then New York and Chicago all writing false defamatory degrading stories about all of the dark possible reasons I could be putting on weight.

[From Lisa Marie Presley’s myspace blog]

Let’s hope she gets an apology and a hefty settlement from these assholes. Maybe they’ll think twice about running articles every day trashing people for not staying young, thin and perfect forever.

Lisa Marie Presley is shown at Clive Davis’ pre-Grammy party on 2/10/07.