LIFE'S A BITCH: Why are celebs so weight obsessed?
Stand Girls Aloud sideways these days and they all but disappear.
If fact, if you shoved the four female slivers together, they would probably only equal one normal, average-sized 14.
Yet, if you believe the gossip mags, they still seem to be dead set on getting even thinner.
Ever so slender Cheryl is reputed to clamber into what looks like a huge rubber diving suit and exercise in a decompression chamber. Bet Ashley fancies her in that.
And now Nadine is coming in for some extreme dieting stick.
Rumour has it she's so obsessed about the amount of food she eats, she arrives at restaurants with a set of mini weighing scales in her handbag.
Though why they need to be mini, I don't know. what with the size of most swanky designer totes these days, she could easily have got a set of professional kitchen Salters in one if she'd wanted.
Nadine allegedly weighed her low-calorie lunch of fish without sauce or vegetables at a recent outing to The Ivy restaurant in London.
How utterly sad is that?
To my food-obsessed mind, anyone who turns up to dine at one of London's finest restaurants and is there to avoid the food rather than savour every calorie-crammed morsel is as mad as a hatter.
If I ever got to have a free slap-up lunch at the Ivy, it wouldn't be weighing scales I'd be taking out of my bag. It would be a full set of Tupperware boxes to sneak the leftovers home in.
If it's true, it speaks volumes about the pressure of being famous and beautiful.
A few extra pounds and everyone's saying you're either a porker or you're pregnant,
And by everyone, I mean everyone. We're all guilty of it. Don't tell me you don't feel a twinge of glee when you spot an expanse of celebrity cellulite as you flick through the papers. I felt positively smug this week when I read Kerry Katona had piled on two pounds since 15,000 worth of lipo sucked her to slimness.
You might be rich, famous and feted, but how hard must it be to stay that way?
Already a super-slim size 6-8, Nadine is said to be keen to avoid putting on weight because she wants to look good for the launch of her solo career. She is supposedly living on white fish, chicken, omelettes, vegetables and, for an occasional treat... a low-fat yoghurt.
Insiders say the scales were given to Nadine by a Los Angeles health guru few weeks ago.
I think it's quite a sobering thought for all the girls who desperately want to look like the GA girls.
It's fine to spend most of your wages on the lookalikey frocks and slave over the big hair and the polished beauty regime you've nicked from an article on theirs while you were having your highlights done. But are you actually prepared to live a life of misery and deprivation just so you can be as tiny as your idols?
I do so hope the answer is no.
Though tragically, a percentage of girls will continue to see ultra-skinny as ultra-trendy - and fall into the perilous trap of dieting when they don't need to.
Before they know it, they'll be skipping meals to lose an extra couple of pounds a week. And then anorexia will get a stranglehold on some of them.
And that's so not a good look. Nadine, Cheryl and the girls were ordinary girls once. They have to think carefully about the example they set to all the young women who wish they were them.
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