Too Thin

Hey, I posted a new video clip here on the blog last night (it's the entry just below this one). It's about how Hollywood and Madison Avenue distort our image of what beauty should look like. Which led me to today's post.

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TOP TEN SIGNS OUR CELEBRITIES ARE *TOO* THIN

10. "CUT! Get the EMTs, Teri's slipped down the shower drain. Again."

9. He can elude the paparazzi just by turning sideways.

8. Her most recent meal refuses to enter her stomach for fear of being alone. So alone.

7. Can't wear designer dresses because her clavicle bones keep cutting through the spaghetti straps.

6. When she gets a run in her pantyhose, she falls through.

5. Needs a fat suit to star in a biopic about Twiggy.

4. His agent can submit both the prospective manuscript AND the actor through the slot in the door.

3. She's constantly being knocked over by the photons from camera flashes.

2. The new breast implants doubled her weight.

AND THE NUMBER ONE SIGN OUR CELEBRITIES ARE *TOO* THIN?

1. You can count his vertebrae. From the front.

[selected from Chris White's Little Fivers on Health and Beauty; family-friendly edits and formatting by Mark Raymond]

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WORD for YOUR WEEK: My daughter didn't understand what I meant when I used the word "listless" this past weekend. I originally thought it had something to do with sailing but upon further investigation, it comes from the same root word that gives us "lust" and "desire." Adding the "less" to the end, of course, adjusts it to mean just the opposite. So if you are "listless," you have no desires, no energy, and/or no interest in anything. (Of course, it could also mean going to the grocery store empty handed.)

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