The Hot Spot

Jessica Simpson’s Weight

Yesterday, gossip headlines were filled with the story about how Jessica Simpson has gained weight; but today sister Ashley is striking back. You go Ashley! Ashley hit the internet and wrote on her blog stating, “I am completely disgusted by the headlines concerning my sister’s weight. A week after the inauguration and with such a feeling of hope in the air for our country, I find it completely embarrassing and belittling to all women to read about a woman’s weight or figure.”

Ashley continued on by disapproving how our society is obsessed with very thin, toothpick bodies, “All women come in different shapes, sizes, and forms and just because you’re a celebrity, there shouldn’t be a different standard…How can we expect teenage girls to love and respect themselves in an environment where we criticize a size 2 figure?” She ended the blog saying that we need to start taking about real issued and what really matters and not someone’s weight. 

Harley Pasternak, Jessica’s former trainer, also defended Jessica by telling Extra, “She has curves where a woman needs to have curves. We all go a little bit up and a little bit down. But she’s healthy…I think if more people looked the way she looks now, the country would be a lot healthier.”