The National Enquirer’s Stars with Eating Disorders


The National Enquirer’s Stars with Eating Disorders issue is full of the usual stick-thin subjects like Nicole Richie, Ellen Pompeo and Portia De Rossi, but they also add a few stars who have gained some weight or are fit and don’t really deserve to be ridiculed. Mandy Moore must have an eating disorder since she’s a whole size 10, they reason, and Kelly Clarkson is also up for scrutiny for a maybe-12. Barbra Streisand and Clay Aiken are also included since they’ve packed some on.

Poor Pierce Brosnan’s wife, Keely Shaye Smith, stars front and center as she did in the 50 Worst Beach Bodies issue. She’s an easy target as she’s a heavier woman and is willing to wear a bikini around the paps.

Athletically-thin stars like Gwen Stefani, Katie Holmes, and Jennifer Aniston are featured, with experts warning of over exercise. It seems the celebrities can’t ever win.

Here’s how they justify including just about everyone in this pictorial:

While some of TinselTown’s most recognizable beauties are withering away from crash diets and diseases such as anorexia and bulimia, others are putting their lives at risk by overeating.

“There are a lot of celebrities who have made it to the top not on their talents alone, but also by maintaining a certain image,” says Dr. Cocores….

“But when image becomes more important than health, and people starve their bodies of the proper nutrients, the results are often fatal.”

Fitness guru Jonny Bowden agrees, but is quick to point out that eating disorders can go in the opposite direction and involve overeating, which can also lead to life-threatening conditions.

“Binge eating is a disorder that can be just as fatal,” says Bowden.

[From The National Enquirer print edition, April 9, 2007]

So there you have it. If you’re famous, you better stay ar the exact right weight or someone will pick on you. And even if you do stay there, they’ll find something else to point out.

Eating disorders are a serious problem, and super-thin or obese celebrities aren’t healthy role models, but when the definition is expanded like this it kind of defeats the purpose.

These are original scans for Celebitchy from The National Enquirer.

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  1. countrybabe says:

    They should leave people like Pierce Brosnan’s wife alone. But a spot light should be put on these girls since they try to stay thin just for the camera.

  2. gavin says:

    Countrybabe, I ditto your comment.

  3. m.a. says:

    I’m not a HUGE fan of Mandy moore, but I like how they’re like “Oh, yeah, mandy’s been battling depression all year, and she’s gained a lot of weight, what a hog” Ok, it doesn’t say EXACTLY that, but it’s insinuated. I’m sure THAT will help her depression, if she reads it. She looks FINE! NOT fat. Women who are a TINY bit overweight or less than 20 lbs overweight, or NOT OVERWEIGHT AT ALL, shouldn’t be listed in this article about eating disorders. It’s like they’re saying “Oh yeah, mandy moore, for example, she’s looking like a hippo and she’s going to die of a heart attack any day now because of her “eating disorder”. You know, cuz she’s SO fat. All that extra weight is really dragging her down.” What the hell? Like Celebitchy said, even the NORMAL sized girls are being picked on. Being told they need to be thinner, but as soon as they do, they’re TOO thin, and anorexic. F@#K! What the hell does the “perfect” woman look like?! I really wanna know, damn it!

  4. MaiGirl says:

    This double bind is the reason why body types shouldn’t be included in fashion fads. I am so tired of fashion and entertainment magazines blaring on about how superthin is in (like the waif look of the ’90s), or curvier bodies are higlighted now (like the Glamazons). As if women can change their essential body types like we change our shoes.

  5. Other Karen says:

    Jamie Pressly is underweight because she’s 5’5″ and 110 pounds? Which is standard for pretty much every actress in Hollywood? Baffling. And Streisand is getting on in years, how skinny do you want her to be?

  6. Anni says:

    no wonder these actresses have eating disorders, if you are normal, you are fat and your every flaw is pointed out while the tabloids say how much of a fat pig you are (which is just that anorexia voice externalized making you think you are fat when you are not) so you eat less, get skinny then you are anoxeric. Enough already.

  7. LJ says:

    It must be nice to be the people who wirte for this magazine since they are obviously so perfect that they can sit back and judge other people.

  8. LJ says:

    oops, I meant write.