“One Tree Hill” actress Sophia Bush has vowed to quit shopping at Urban Outfitters in light of what critics call a pro-anorexia T-Shirt put out by the clothing chain. The shirt, which bears the vague and condescending motto “Eat Less,” has been criticized for what some see as encouraging eating disorders while offering a pithy critique of overweight people. I remember hearing about it over a month ago. As result of the controversy Urban Outfitters no longer offers the “Eat Less” shirt through their website, but it was still in stores as of last month. Somehow Bush heard about it and quoted an article from seven weeks ago on her blog. She penned an open letter to Urban Outfitters vowing never to shop there again:

Ladies! This is OUTRAGEOUS. I hope none of you will stand for being told such a thing, in such a way. Being healthy, eating right, and staying active is one thing. Being told to starve yourselves by a fashion company? Not cool.

UO,

I have been a supporter of your store for many years, but now I’m through.

I am fortunate enough to star on a wonderful TV show called One Tree Hill. I play a fashion designer named Brooke Davis, who started a campaign on the show called “Zero Is Not A Size” and the outpouring of love and gratitude that came my way from girls and women ALL OVER THE WORLD who have body image issues brought me to tears.

To promote starvation? To promote anorexia, which leads to heart disease, bone density loss, and a slew of other health problems, not least of all psychological issues that NEVER go away? Shame on you. I will no longer be shopping at your stores. And I will encourage the tens of thousands of female supporters I have to do the same. I have fought to boycott BP. I never imagined I would also be boycotting affordable fashion.

You should issue a public apology, and make a hefty donation to a women’s organization that supports those stricken with eating disorders. I am sickened that anyone, on any board, in your gigantic company would have voted ‘yes’ on such a thing, let alone enough of you to manufacture an item with such a hurtful message. It’s like handing a suicidal person a loaded gun. You should know better.

I sincerely hope that next time you decide that making fun of serious issues is comedic, or ‘snarky in a cool way,’ that you rethink your decision.

With Sincerity but NO respect,

Sophia Bush

[From Sophia Bush's Blog via Crazy Days and Nights]

Bush has never really been on my radar but I’ll be paying more attention to her now. You know that Urban Outfitters was hoping that by pulling the shirt this controversy would quietly die down. Now that Sophia Bush has brought attention to it there’s little chance of that. She’s right that they should issue an apology and admit that it was a dumb mistake that could have grave repercussions. I guess it’s not surprising that Urban Outfitters would ignorantly think it’s a good idea to tell people to eat less. How else are we going to squeeze into their terrible camel-toe causing jeggings?

I hope you enjoyed my football pun in the title because that is all I’ve got when it comes to sport related humor. I am as familiar with football as Peter Doherty is familiar with a shower. The celeb-fueled story involves the adorable Carrie Underwood and former flame Tony Romo of the Cowboys. The two called in quits recently and have already moved on. Carrie admitted that she knew her relationship with the quarterback was “doomed” from the start. Football came first and people started blaming poor performances on his focus on the beautiful Ms. Underwood.

Underwood says, “He is about football… I don’t think he’s at the point in his life where he would be willing to sacrifice football. He hated so much that people thought he was paying more attention to me and that was causing him to not do so well.”

[Starpulse]

Translation, “I was becoming the Yoko Ono of the NFL.” While Carrie moved on with Chace Crawford of “Gossip Girl,” Tony has a new lady in his life, Sophia Bush of “One Tree Hill.” Both shows are on the CW. Sophia was dating Jon Foster in August, but that doesn’t seem to matter as things between Sophia and Romo are rumored to be getting serious. Meanwhile, Carrie and Chace have made a dinner public a few days ago. The new twosome had dinner at Justin Timberlake’s restaurant “Southern Hospitality.” The date was report to last “well into the next morning.” Do celebs do the walk of shame?

Picture note by Celebitchy: Carrie Underwood is shown performing on Good Morning America on 10/23/07. Chace Crawford is shown on on 9/20/06 at the Teen Vogue Young Hollywood Party. Thanks to PRPhotos.