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Archive for the ‘Celebrities’ Category

March 6th, 2008

Dirty Dancing and Ghost Star Patrick Swayze Has Pancreatic Cancer

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Actor Patrick Swayze, 55,  was recently diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas. Although the National Enquirer reported that he has only 5 weeks to live, more recent reports indicate that the cancer is in early stages and is responding well to treatment. According to his […]

By Kristen King -- 13 comments

February 28th, 2008

Marilyn Monroe’s Last Sitting and Lindsay Lohan in New York Magazine

I heard the buzz about Lindsay Lohan recreating Marilyn Monroe’s famous “Last Sitting” in New York magazine far before I actually saw the pictures. It seemed odd to me, her coming out of rehab and jumping into a Marilyn shoot, but wow, it’s stunning.
Here is the New York magazine Last Sitting with Lindsay Lohan as […]

By Kristen King -- 5 comments

February 11th, 2008

Enter to Win: Meg Cabot Mysteries Giveaway

Back in December, I reviewed the third and lastest of Meg Cabot’s Heather Wells mysteries, Big Boned. Heather is a size 12/14 pop-sensation-turned-residence-hall-director who solves, gulp, murders on a fictional college campus in New York. The funny and thoroughly entertaining books are packed with romance, suspense, and, yes, real body issues and acceptances.
In February, I’m […]

By Kristen King -- 25 comments

August 3rd, 2007

Study Calling Obesity “Socially Contagious” Criticized

A hilarious ad in my morning New York Times headlines e-mail made me laugh out loud even though I’m in a bit of an early-morning stupor at the moment. I don’t want to reproduce it here because of copyright issues, but here’s the setup: two hippos standing shoulder deep in water, with just their faces […]

By Kristen King -- 5 comments

June 7th, 2007

Scarily Skinny Celebs: Nicole, Angelina, Lindsay, Mary-Kate, and more

The cover of the current issue of In Touch Weekly caught my eye last night, and I just had to pick it up even though I’m not usually someone who reads stuff like that. Just look at Nicole Richie! She looks positively ill. No wonder the cancer rumors have started circulating… (Interestingly, there […]

By Kristen King -- 17 comments

December 17th, 2006

Skinny or Not, Celebrity Women are Still Women

Over the past year, celebrities have gotten skinnier and skinnier. Everyone has noticed and talked about it ad infinitum, but what’s the point? The rest of us are still just as hefty as ever even the slimmest among us. Few are as tiny as Nicole Richie who, at her arrest for drunk driving, weighed in […]

By Administrator -- 11 comments

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