The ME in the Mirror

I was in a chat with a bunch of friends last night, when someone mentioned seeing an article about Kirstie Alley and having her stomach stapled.

"Isn't she the Jenny Craig spokesperson?" someone asked.

We were all pretty sure she was...but apparently Jenny Craig only KINDA worked for her. So she had her stomach stapled. I couldn't help but roll my eyes.

Women of today already have self esteem and image issues, all these unrealistic expectations they're trying to live up to. Not everyone can be Kate Moss....THANK GOD!

But on the other hand, it doesn't help to watch people represent things like "healthy" weight loss and then find out that she's had her stomach stapled. So going on Jenny Craig won't yield the average person the same results as Kirstie, will it? So how fair is it to hold HER up as the example of what Jenny Craig can do for you? It's hypocritical, not to mention even more damaging to the already fragile female self esteem.

Of course this is just one more in a long line of unrealistic expectations. I mean, in the '80's and early '90's people were gobbling up Jane Fonda work outs. How funny is it that despite all her exercise videos, she'd had liposuction to help her figure and image out?

And what does this say to the everyday person? That if you've got money, you don't HAVE to take care of yourself...with enough money, you can BUY the body you want....and laziness is acceptable.

Gotta love the double standards. I still say the old fashioned way of hard work, exercise, diet and self control are more effective, not to mention easier on your system.

But hey, I could be wrong.

I've heard it's happened once or twice.