Friday

Smelling Hypocrisy

In May, 2009, Wintour was quoted as saying that her magazine and others have a duty to address America’s weight obsession.There's such an epidemic of obesity in the United States, and for some reason, everybody focuses on anorexia," Wintour told Us magazine.

"We need to spend money, time and education on teaching people to eat, exercise and take care of themselves in a healthier way. It [has gotten people] provoked, which is really the point."

[This was in relate to Precious star, Gabourey]
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If Anna Wintour didn't know, I should probably let her know, that Gabby didn't walk into the spotlight because she wanted to make a fashion statement. She is a brilliant actor and had fame handed to her. She isn't dying to be on the cover of Vogue, as far as I know, either.
Also, Anna Wintour, despite her brilliance in the fashion industry, comes off like such a cock in the above quote, no?
Does she mean to say by displaying air-brushed and thoroughly manipulated pictures of made up people, she will spread a message of looking healthy, to the world? I smell hypocrisy.

Er, not.

You just make more people feel bad about how they look and lure them into being something that isn't even real.

Whilst I respect Wintour's hardwork and creativity, and I don't know much about this matter, what is clear to me however, is the constant tackling on Gabourey's weight issue.
She looks good, acts amazingly without any help... Isn't that the points to focus on, instead of how much she weighs and what she eats and wears?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I couldn't agree more,
This would be another classic example of a judging a book by its cover paradigm?

Anonymous said...

I couldn't agree with you more
Probably Wintour wants to take the heat of size 0, but hey that's just my take on it...

Anonymous said...

oh and sorry for the repeated number of comments, The arabic text made me crazy...my apologies...