Re: Lindsay Lohan
Can I call it or can I call it?
Last week I said:
...by the time I'm ready to editorialize her situation, her crisis managers will issue a press release stating, it was all a dream.
And what do we have today?
Lindsay Lohan is denying claims made in February's Vanity Fair cover story that she had an eating disorder last spring. "The words that I gave to the writer for Vanity Fair were misused and misconstrued, and I'm appalled with the way it was done," Lohan, 19, wrote in an e-mail dated January 9. [source]
First off all, what 19 year old says the words appalled & misconstrued? In one sentence? Or @ any point during their 19th year for that matter?
So I was off about them declaring it a dream, but spot on about the press release.
That is why I held off from patting her on the back for coming out and being so real about hers and the exact reason I loathe celebrity, not Lindsay per se.
Despite her fans cheering and saying they related to her & the pressures she faced and were happy she finally got honest about something everyone suspected to be true, I'm sure Hollyweird yelped out a collective, "WTF!?!? She's not supposed to be telling the truth and revealing the reality behind the façade of youth & fame. She's supposed to be stick thin b/c she's so healthy and works out and she's supposed to party and shop till she drops. Period."
I remember last year when I posted those infamous pics of her and Nicole, that caused one of my fave gossip sites to dub them the Skeletwins, she insisted she was like totally healthy & stuff.
As awful as they looked, Lindsay, or her people, had the gall to be defiant and catch an attitude when they were questioned about her being so skinny. @ the time she was promoting her latest movie and in interviews, she'd laugh off the concern, insisting she simply got a trainer, was doing yoga, stopped eating junk & shed her baby fat.
She was so genuine is an actress, for a millisecond, I wanted to believe her, but I'm a cynic so I didn't. The media, however, ate it all up and thrust her on all the magazine covers they could find.
To the point that by the end of the year, all was forgotten and we just started seeing her on magazine covers with the words, "Diet Secrets" next to her face. Just in time for January.
So let me get this str8, a drugged up, bulimic, ghastly thin 19 year old who is repeatedly hospitalized for exhaustion is now the poster child of how one should diet? I'll pass.
But I always do, I'm not concerned about me. It's the young girls who have this extreme thin phenomena as role models that worries me. Lindsay will be alright. She'll either spiral out of control and turn into her generations Tara Reid:
or salvage her "little girl lost" reputation and emerge into Drew Barrymore:
A lot of that depends on her mom, who seems to thrive on the celebrity life as much as Lindsay does, and what label the media has decided to give her.
I wish she stood by what she said, but understand why she didn't. After all, once her publicist realized the cat was out of the bag, her first thought was, "How do I spin this?"
They will spin this girl to her death. As much as I love being right, that's one thing I don't want to be right about this year.
