The "Guess Your Weight" Game, Only You Don't Win a Teddy Bear When He's Wrong
In this week's OK! Magazine, there's some rando nutritionist guessing the weights and BMIs of starlets who have been accused of being too thin by the press. First of all, how messed up is this? I would like to point out that fitness and nutrition expert Harold Palacios (translation: he's really just a personal trainer) has not treated these women or probably ever even met them in person, so I'm guessing that he's sizing up the very same pictures that we're looking at in the magazine.
Secondly, the guestimates seem wildly off base. He guesses that Kate Beckinsale, at 5'8", weighs 118 pounds while Renée Zellweger, who is four inches shorter than Kate, presumably weighs 115. At risk of getting a little too Rian, are we really expected to believe that Kate, whose shoulders look round, toned and healthy, has a lower BMI than Renée? Does Renée have unnaturally dense bones that can be assessed by Mr. Palacios? It's almost like Mr. Palacios has an agenda and is artificially inflating the weights of those most criticized for being too thin, considering that of all the women in the post, the one who receives the highest estimated BMI is MARY-KATE OLSEN.
Or maybe he just wanted to give Nicky Hilton the tsk tsk for having such a low BMI that she can't walk a runway during Madrid Fashion Week. But that's really the only reason I can fathom for assessing these women as though they are race horses.
The comments dare you to guess the BMI of Harold Palacios from this picture. Here's a hint: he's really short. How about the potential results of an STD screening?
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