The Music Elitist

This is a picture of Jessica Simspon performing at the KISS Country Chili Cookoff in South Florida this past weekend. I think I speak for everyone when I say “WTF?!”. She must getting ready for her role in The Dukes of Hazzard 2: Daisy Eats a Whale. Seriously though, I saw a picture of her from like a MONTH ago and she didn’t look nearly this big. In any case, celebrity gossip blogs get ahold of this and had a field day (as you can probably imagine). Let’s just say her sister Ashlee is less than pleased:

“I am completely disgusted by the headlines concerning my sister’s weight. A week after the inauguration and with such a feeling of hope in the air for our country, I find it completely embarrassing and belittling to all women to read about a woman’s weight or figure as a headline on Fox News,” Simpson writes on her blog under an entry titled “Since when did a woman’s weight become newsworthy…”

“All women come in different shapes, sizes, and forms and just because you’re a celebrity, there shouldn’t be a different standard,” Ashlee Simpson writes, adding that she “seriously doubt[s]” people would make the same remarks to a wife, daughter, mother, grandmother or a friend.

“How can we expect teenage girls to love and respect themselves in an environment where we criticize a size 2 figure?” she says. “Now can we focus on the things that really matter.”

SIZE 2, Ashlee??? That has to be the worst estimate I have ever seen in my life. Maybe it was typo and you forgot to type the zero after the two. And yes, women come in all different shapes and sizes and forms. However, the shape/size/form your sister is in now is not the one she originally “came in” (or the one she was in a few weeks ago for that matter). Hence all hoopla over the fact that she looks like this now.