Last week, I spoke of how lame (to be frank) I thought it was that Mariah Carey and Oprah had to focus on her weight loss before talking about Mariah's accomplishment of beating out Elvis in #1 singles, and her new album, E=MC2. I did think it odd that the two didn't get into Mariah's "stats", but US magazine did, and I read the article after writing my blog post.
zOMG! I cannot believe what I was reading. Did any of you read the US article on Mariah's weight loss?
According to the article, here's some of Mariah Carey's weight loss stats:
- Mariah shed 20 lbs.
- She went from a size 8 to a 2 on her 5'9' frame and she says, "It may only be going from a size 8 to a size 2, but that's kind of huge!" She mentions that she can wear a size 0 if it's made out of stretchy material.
- Her "diet" consisted of 1,000-1,500 calories per day and exercising up to 1-1/2 hours per day up to 7 days a week doing mostly workouts in the pool with her trainer/personal chef Patricia.
- The famous person who told her she needed to lose weight was Vogue Editor-at-Large, Andre Leon Talley.
See, I'm telling you. Vogue really is horror science fiction and they are evil space beings trying to single handedly take over women's minds using psychic manipulation and photoshop. Call me a crazy conspiracy theorist, but Sculley and Mudler would no doubt have my back.
{Back on planet earth}
How the frickin' hell is a size 8 a zaftig woman who needs to lose weight?!? Why does a 38-year-old woman need to have "her teenage body back?" So, all of Mariah's song & dance about "healthy living" is really about how to get to and stay at being a size 2 like a teenager?
And worse yet, why did Mariah Carey believe that wretched space alien? And why Oprah, did you give this story center stage and neglect to tell the audience that Mariah's big weight loss was to go from an 8 to a 2. Lemme guess. Hmmm, is it because she knew we'd all go ballistic!
Getting into a size 2 pair of jeans from a size 8 is more important than beating Elvis Presley in #1 single hits.
*Major sigh!* I am so verklempt I cannot begin to tell you. My respect for Mariah and Oprah frankly has taken a serious blow over this, and it does break my heart because I do think both women are extremely talented and accomplished women. Yet, even these two superstars cannot break away from the tryanny of thinness. For Pete's sake, why ladies? WHY?!?!
Seriously, I'm really wondering if Oprah is in some alternate universe because of the Vogue space aliens because I cannot think of any other logical explanation for this. Can you?
