This week, photos of Jessica Simpson at a Florida concert surfaced, and guess what? Well, you already know what: She's not as tiny and uber-fit as she was in her Dukes Of Hazzard days. Tracking a celebrity's weight ups and
downs used to be the provenance of the supermarket tabloids, as Delta Burke and Kristie Alley know, but through the twin miracles of the Internet and the celebrity weekly magazines, now everyone is in on the act, and the whole nation is debating burning questions like: Is Jessica too big? Is Lindsay too thin? And do those kind of high-waisted jeans look good on anyone? (That one's simple: No!)Like Denise Richards says, it's complicated. Janet Jackson and Jennifer Love Hewitt have both been the targets of ridiculously inappropriate attention surrounding their weight. They've also then both gone on diet and fitness programs that would seem demanding to your average professional athlete and then shared the secrets of their workout plans with the same celebrity weeklies that focused all that inappropriate attention on them in the first place.
Needless to
say, this is not the kind of attention that has followed Alec Baldwin through his career as he progressed from hunky leading man to burly funniest guy on television. And while physical fitness has become more of an acting requirement for men as time goes on (Zac Efron, call your trainer!), let's all admit that this just isn't fair. The demands of celebrity culture preclude any female celebrity from ever eating a cookie. And cookies are our right as human beings. Cookies are what separate us from the animals!So, let's all have a cookie. This one's for you, Lindsay!
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