F-Word You, Good Housekeeping

While skimming the archives of my newest blog find, the F-Word, I ran across this entry, discussing the newest issue of Good Housekeeping with Kate Winslet on the cover.

The cover quotes Winslet saying "I don't worry about weight anymore." Of course I applaud that statement, but it indicates that the focus of the article is--as usual--on Kate Winslet's weight. I mean my god, she is thin. She is gorgeous. She is perfect. She is fine. And yet her weight is constantly being harped on; it's exhausting. And the F-Word pointed out the other irony, so typical of women's magazines:

"[W]hile Winslet offers a ray of sanity in this thin-idolized culture that should be lauded, the magazine’s sing-it-sister copy is hopelessly rendered moot by the larger, overshadowing print above: 'The No-Hunger Diet: Stop starving, start losing.'"

Sigh.

Kate Winslet: Still Awesome

She is threatening to sue a British magazine that alleged she went to visit the Chinese Healing Institute in order to try and lose weight.

"I will continue to say what I feel about this issue of women being thin and emaciated. It's just out of control. I know I'm a role model to young women. It's a role that I take very, very seriously and I would never want anyone to ever think I was a hypocrite in doing something like going to a diet doctor, for goodness sake. I mean, it's really, really ridiculous."

Yes, she's still awesome, still gorgeous, still fabulous, still my fantasy celebrity girlfriend.