Jennifer Hudson's New Bod: Do You Respect It Or Resent It?
By Alison Caporimo, Allure magazine
At a friend's Oscar party last night, a much-thinner Jennifer Hudson was the conversation topic of the evening. "She looks fabulous," one friend said. "Really stunning...and so thin!" The entire room nodded in agreement.
However, as the moments passed and Jennifer continued to stand, statuesquely, on the interview platform, the dialogue about her brand new bod started to take on a different shape. "You know," the same friend began, "I think she might be toothin, you know? I liked her better when she was in the middle: not overweight, but not too skinny." This got me thinking about weight loss (and not in the stereotypical "how thin is too thin?" way).
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A new study by two University of Delaware psychology professors found that women who were made to feel jealous became so distracted by unpleasant sentiments that they were unable to spot targets they were trying to find. In this way, the researchers argue that jealousy can actually be blinding.
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With these findings in the back of my mind, I started to wonder if this was the case with women's love/hate relationship with celebrity weight loss. Were women at the Oscar party, myself included, jealous of Jennifer's new form? Were we blind to her new, more attractive body because we just couldn't handle our subconscious envy? Or was there something larger at play here? In a culture where thin is always in, we can't help but feed the system with our own indulgences in "diet" this and "zero calorie" that. But when faced with a tangible representation of that obsession (a voluptuous Hudson turned a size 2), do we feel a bit ashamed of our own weight craze?
Are you jealous of Jennifer Hudson's new figure or do you think she's right on track for a Dream Girl bod?
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