For the past year, give or take a few months, tabloids and entertainment shows have chattered on and on about Angelina Jolie’s weight. They all say she is too skinny and have come up with a slew of reasons for her recent weight lose. Some say it’s because she’s upset Brad wants to go back to Jennifer Aniston ( riiight) while others, via pointly worded blind items, have accused her of having a secret heroin addiction ( because herion is such an easy addiction that you can pick it up and put it down like smoking a cig). And some, like the always trustworthy National Enquirer, say she is suffering from a “secret. deadly, mysterious disease.” (yawn) The most recent coverage on the weight issue comes from Us Weekly. In their poll they ask their readers ” has she gone too far” and asks is she “too skinny.” This follows another poll on E!Online that asked the same question.
Now personally, I wouldn’t mind if she had about 10 more pounds on her (also wouldn’t mind taking her place and hooking up with Brad Pitt, but that’s for another conversation) but is she really that skinny? Are these polls and comments real concern or is it a thinly ( no pun intended) vailed attack on Angelina? I doubt E! and Us Weekly really give a damn about Angelina Jolie and what she may or may not be going through. E! didn’t care about her emotional stability when they were attacking her in 2005. They certainly didn’t give a damn when they attacked her live during the recent Golden Globe awards. Their red carpet interviewer Ryan Seacrest asked the most boring and innane questions to Angelina (practecly ignoring the person nominated for a GG, Brad Pitt). However, being the professional, she tried her best to answer. Well, as soon as she and Brad left, Seacrest and his co- hosts ripped into her. The following day Seacrest used his radio talk show to rip into her some more. He said “if she doesn’t want to talk then she shouldn’t have come. Don’t show up!” The following week her mother died. There was no apology from Seacrest or any of his collegues that attacked her all the while she was dealing with the pain of a gravely ill mother.
Which brings me back to my question. Do these people really care? Like I said, I think she could stand to gain 10 pounds or more but this nitpicking of her weight seems to me to be an obsession. We’re too obsessed with weight in general, with losing weight and gaining weight. If Angelina Jolie put on 15 or more pounds do you really think Us Weekly and all the rest of the tabloid world wouldn’t jump on the chance to question her weight gain? They’d say she was pregnant or fat. This issue with Angelina’s weight doesn’t seem to be about her but rather our own issues with weight. Not to mention our obsession with peeking into the lives of celebrities and following their every move.
If we’re going to question her weight lose then we should do so with actual concern and not pretend to care. Us askes if she’s “taking it too far” as if she is going out of her way to be thin. Angelina Jolie has gone on record more than once this year about her weight and the rumors. During an interview in Canne, France, Angelina had this to say:
This year, I lost my mom. I’ve gone through a lot. I have four kids. I just finished breast-feeding. It’s been hard to get my nutrition back on track and learn about my body after birth. I am doing the best I can. The thing that’s disturbing is that instead of somebody saying, oh, this looks like somebody who is dealing with something from emotions—it’s, do they want to fit into skinny jeans? I don’t encourage young girls to be too thin. I do want people to understand that I am just trying to work through a very difficult year.
As a fan of Angelina Jolie, and as a human being, I will refrain from taking part in some insensire poll about her weight. Instead I will wish Angelina and her family well. Despite what we may think or say about Angelina Jolie, that she’s a “goddess” or a super woman, she’s not. She’s a human being that like us all is trying to live her life. To deal with the stress and sadness that a lose of a parent brings and the stress and joy that comes with a large family and a stable relationship.
Of course they use the worst pictures from the worst possible angle to make their point ignoring all the pictures of her and her family out and about having fun. Those bitter, twisted angry women thinking that bashing her will make them feel better about themselves, it never works that way, they should ask Jennifer Anniston.
ITA….these tabloids don’t care about angie’s health….they are more concern how much profit they can get from their media bashing against her….haters will buy this kind of exaggerated news because they are stupid and idiots…
I REALLY CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH for exposing “The Witch Hunt” this tabloids have for Angelina!! It’s DISGUSTING the way they attack her for everything!! Angelina has always been thin and when you are naturally thin; it’s so hard to gain weight and it’s even harder to gain weight when you has lost a love one like Angelina lost her beloved Mother!! So this tabloids are PATHETIC for the way that they attack her!!
What a find this site is. I was referred and within reading the first paragraph of the first article I addded it to my favourites.
Amazing to come across a site that actually sees through the cr*p peddled out there by tabloids and utilised by the ?”legitimate” press to boost their ratings/sales.
Up to now Ryan Seacrest has not dealt with the issue.
thank you for posting this;
it’s good to see some normal people who can discern “celebrity and gossips news” from “celebrities nazism news”
i’ve never seen a celebrity bashed like Angelina Jolie is, and for what? nothing !
she never harm anybody, neither drove drunk, neither showed her procreation fabric ,neither insult anybody ;
and what ’s up ?
sexist, racist, nasty remarks are her lot these days!!
And because average people are not in the blogs and forums around , is not a reason to vehicule such ideas that all “minivan women” agree with the tabloids;
no; minivan are raising their chiildren , are trying to live through the joy and pain in the life ;
and minivan feels the pain when a mom is trashed like that, a mom who appears to get through a big loss in her life ;
Shame on this entertainments news who are leading and giving credits to this inhuman and new privilege of so called :” freedom of the press”
freedom to say whatever!
Thanks for being one of the rarest things on the internet. A civilized site. Thank you.
Is Angelina Jolie thin? Yes. Is the anorexic? No. Unless she has found a way to lose weight everywhere but her chest and behind. She has always had stick thin legs, a nice chest and a “bubble butt”, which Mr. Pitt can’t seem to keep his hands off of. Could she use some extra weight? Sure. But she is not Laura Croft, that is a character, as Brad Pitt is not Achilles. He is also a lot slimmer than he was. He is also naturally slim.
She gained all of 25 pounds with Shiloh, but the baby was 7 pounds, which is a very healthy weight, especially for a girl. Other women gained alot more and their baby’s were much smaller. This means the majority of her weight was baby and again, chest. She did not have much to lose in the first place,
Why is it that men like George Clooney can look sickly thin, but no one seems to go on and on about it. People just seem to be over the top when it comes to Angelina Jolie. I believe that alot of it is jealousy. She is stunning, naturally thin, smart, has a great career, a gorgeous, well adjusted and happy family and the love of a good man, who is also all of those things, with the love of a good woman. She has done nothing wrong.
I guess when Angelina and Brad won’t break up on cue like the “sources” tell us, they have to find something silly to write about and it is her weight. If she was ill, she would not be working, taking care of her family and carrying two babies at the same time–that takes real strength. As much I like seeing them, I will be glad when they finish up filming for the year and can go away and disappear, and have some peace.
Thanks again.
What a wonderful place to visit and read something worthwhile. I’m an older fan…just find myself loving this union from day one, but it gets rather vulgar and rude with some of the other sites. The things that are said about this family make me want to cry to think that this type of thinking and feelings are all around us. I always know that it’s all junk, but it still gets so very old! I wish I was smart, rich and young enough to get some type of legislation passed that would make it impossible for anyone to use the words “source” or “insider”!! They hide these terrible lies behind that way to often. Prayers and peace to all.
Grace, maybe you are older fan, but you get it right:
should have some type of legislation passed that would make it impossible for anyone to use the words “source” or “insider”
and also legislation about cameras in the faces of young children, it’s child abuse ;
at last, we cd trust our news again
ITA, thank you for writing facts and not fictions….. The site and tabloids out there doesn’t really care what they write as long as they could make a quick buck as fast as they can.
People like seacrest is a no talent parasite, they live by feeding off other people’s talents and lives, so if there is no juice to suck.. they will curl-up and die… so he has to keep cutting at her so that her juices/blood will keep of flowing to feed him. disgusting creature!!
I’m so going to bookmark this site!