Food for Thought

Like most of the world, I'm disappointed with Lindsay Lohan. Her trajectory from young girl to young woman to young celebrity is an ugly camel's hump. The Hayley Millsesque wholesomeness of her early years was endearing enough, and the milk-fed beauty she displayed in recent pictures is a kind not often seen in Hollywood. Between filming and publicizing her recent lotfiller Herbie: Fully Loaded, however, she's gone downhill. Her well-publicized weight loss is, at best, a questionable career move.

Miss Lohan's argument that because she is a celebrity she should be shaped like one carries little weight. Rather it feeds a growing crisis in our society as the gap between the images we promote in the media and the snacker's lifestyle we maintain becomes ever wider. I have been hoping that the national publicity surrounding Miss Lohan's recent evolution would turn into national outrage. Perhaps blogs like this may help.

I, for one, am the kind of person who hungers for real, natural, healthy beauty. Are our ranks so thin?