I hope this isn't true
Oh man. You'd think that between Naomi Campbell's community service and Cameron Diaz's penchant for dirty clothes, I would have exhausted today's most absurd celebrity stories. But I haven't. Clearly, this one will take the cake.
Skeletal celebutantes Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton's fourth season of The Simple Life will take place at a weight loss camp. Richie and Hilton will act as camp counselors, offering guidance and moral support for overweight adolescents. Of course, the irony is that Richie is a confirmed anorexic and Hilton isn't very far behind.
I usually never get worked up about television plot lines, but I have to say, right now I'd really like to punch the moronic writer who came up with this insipid plot line. In a nation where obesity and eating disorders are equally rampant, to pit possibly the two worst body image role models with a group of impressionable young people is to sink to a place where television has never sunk before.
Asking adults to walk on broken glass or eat live eels is one thing. But exploiting vulnerable and likely insecure young people for others' amusement in absolutely unconscionable.
If the "fat camp scenario" is the best thing The Simple Life writers can come up with, E! should probably consider handing out some pink slips, stat.
Source: http://www.styledash.com/2007/03/19/stylefoul-anorexics-counselors-at-fat-camp/
Skeletal celebutantes Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton's fourth season of The Simple Life will take place at a weight loss camp. Richie and Hilton will act as camp counselors, offering guidance and moral support for overweight adolescents. Of course, the irony is that Richie is a confirmed anorexic and Hilton isn't very far behind.
I usually never get worked up about television plot lines, but I have to say, right now I'd really like to punch the moronic writer who came up with this insipid plot line. In a nation where obesity and eating disorders are equally rampant, to pit possibly the two worst body image role models with a group of impressionable young people is to sink to a place where television has never sunk before.
Asking adults to walk on broken glass or eat live eels is one thing. But exploiting vulnerable and likely insecure young people for others' amusement in absolutely unconscionable.
If the "fat camp scenario" is the best thing The Simple Life writers can come up with, E! should probably consider handing out some pink slips, stat.
Source: http://www.styledash.com/2007/03/19/stylefoul-anorexics-counselors-at-fat-camp/