On a tabloid report claiming she lost 14 pounds: “I'm someone who has always publicly advocated for a healthy body image… If I were to lose 14 pounds, I'd have to part with both arms. And a foot,” Johansson wrote in the Huffington Post. I'm frustrated with the irresponsibility of tabloid media who sell the public ideas about what we should look like and how we should get there…The press should be held accountable for the false ideals they sell to their readers regarding body image.”
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“We are conditioned that beauty comes in a specific package,” the Drop Dead Diva star noted. “That’s not the reality out there. Middle America looks like me. We hope the audience gets that beauty is everywhere and that you don’t have to be size 0 to be beautiful.”
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“It comes with what I do,” Simpson said of media criticism of her body, “and I know that every day the media’s going to challenge me, is going to want to bring me down. But I feel like I’m at such a place that I own myself, and it’s authentic. I own that authentic part of myself, and none of those words are harsh enough to make me believe them. I can’t imagine saying some of the things people have said about me about anybody else.”
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“I am completely disgusted by the headlines concerning my sister's weight. Since when did a woman’s weight become newsworthy?” Ashlee wrote after Jessica’s bigger body came into the spotlight. “All women come in different shapes, sizes, and forms and just because you’re a celebrity, there shouldn’t be a different standard.”
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"It gets silly,” the Ghost Whisperer actress said, reacting to the media’s focus on celebrity weight. “We're all supposed to look how we're supposed to look. We're made to be different people. Not everybody can be super tall and super skinny. You have to look inside yourself and find your own confidence. It wavers from day to day, but that's human nature."
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"For me, it's not about a body-image thing. I feel pretty confident. I do realize I'm a role model to a lot of people, and I've been a role model for confidence,” Queen Latifah said. “I feel being a healthier person is a good thing. If I can set the example for confidence on the inside, why not set it for confidence on the outside as well?"
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"I've always been thicker and millions of people voted for me," Clarkson told Us magazine about winning American Idol. "People are born all different shapes and sizes. People have liked me this way."
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“This is the year of hopefulness. My goal is to be the weight that my body can hold and be healthy and strong and fit and be itself. One of the things I had to learn to do is to embrace this body that I have and be grateful for what this body has given me. God blessed me and this body. I mean, I could weep right now thinking about the love and appreciation I have for this body. For that, I am truly grateful,” Oprah wrote in her magazine after gaining 40 pounds.
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“When I read in the newspaper that some radio jock says, 'She's so fat and gross,' it hurts my feelings. I sometimes get out of the shower and think, 'Oh, boy, I have to do something.' And then I have to work hard to stand in front of the mirror after that image goes through, and say, 'This is who you are, and this is where you are. You're OK in this body, and you're a great, healthy, lovable, and loving person, and go forward with love…' I just try to accept myself for where I am. I don't always succeed, but I try, especially in what I present to the media, because I know little kids are watching,” Rosie said.
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"I usually feel like, no matter how many girdles you put me in, you will not be able to zip this,” Garner said in a Marie Claire interview. "They always say to you—as though it's like something that should make you happy—'This is fresh off the runway.' But what I think is, 'That was made for some 14-year-old girl from Russia! It was not made to go on my body.'"
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"More than ever now, I believe it's so important to look as real and true to life as possible, because nobody's perfect,” Winslet counseled. "I seem to be on a mission, but I don't want the next generation, your daughters and mine, growing up thinking that you have to be thin to look beautiful in certain clothes. It's terrifying right now. It's out of control. It's beyond out of control."
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