Gwyneth Paltrow's jab leads to Jenny Craig diet, also therapy
Everyone comes to the role of Jenny Craig spokesperson in their own way. For Carrie Fisher, it was a google search of her own name. For Valerie Bertinelli, it was the promise of career comeback. For Ross Mathews, the diet company's latest mouthpiece, it was Gwyneth Paltrow.
"We were taping a Chelsea [Lately] special," the 31-year-old Tonight Show correspondent tells People Magazine, "and she pointed at my tummy and said, 'What's going on here? I love you. Get it together."
Well, that was mean.
It's one thing to express concern over a friend's unhealthy lifestyle, it's another to poke them in their gut and publicly humiliate them.
"The weight was such a shameful issue for me," Mathews adds in his interview, unaware that he's taken the jab better than most. Imagine a super-skinny Amazonian movie star pointing out your worst insecurities, on TV, no less. Now open your fist and look at the spoon you just bent.
Paltrow doesn't have a great track record for doling out food advice. In January, she was criticized for touting the benefits of a 21-day-juice fast on planet Goop. And her ardor suggests, when paired with her gluttonous home-cooking (see her bestselling cookbook), she's in favor of yo-yo dieting.
Look, Paltrow may have meant well, but she's got to brush up on her tact. A callous criticism like this may inspire temporary weight loss, but it can also bring out longstanding body issues. Isn't there a better way to express concern for a friend? And is Chelsea Lately the place to do it? Not cool, G.
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