And second – GASP! – is that an advertisement for Allure Magazine I see on your side panel PQ?? Perhaps Fitness Magazine, or Runner’s World, or even Reader’s Digest…these I would understand – but the celebrity filled, self-confidence stredding Allure? Horrors!

PQ – Well, that’s why it’s an advertisement, not an endorsement. You can read my ad policy here. And Runner’s World is certainly welcome to place an ad with me if they wish!

I read an interesting article in Chatelaine magazine about the new bizarre trend of the public accepting photoshop version of celebrity- like Oprah looking slim and trim on the cover and then .. well like a real person elsewhere.

That we now think that this is NORMAL .

I’m sorry to hear about Lisa Marie’s woes – maybe you’re right that she picked up a sensitivity about her weight from her dad (?).

Shame you gotta pay more for groceries just to not be visually and emotionally assaulted… but them’s the breaks.

Another possibility is the mom ‘n’ pop grocery store, and I don’t mean convenience stores. Up here in Columbus they are typically ethnic food shops. Down in my parents’ south Louisiana hometown they were a couple of regular grocery stores because there wasn’t enough of a customer base to support chains. Until Dollar General came to town and shut down the grocer who was a friend of my family, but… grumble… I’ll not hijack the thread… grumble.

Except for a few fleeting years in high school, I never had any interest in such magazines. My mom tended to subscribe to magazines with pies, cakes, and cookies on the cover. I think that took a lot of the pressure off me to look a specific way- although I have a passion for sweets that lingers.

I was always the way-too-skinny kid. All knees and elbows with pants that wouldn’t stay up and Olive Oil legs. The cookies didn’t judge me (although they did contribute to high cholesterol and other long-term health issues).

Now I subscribe to magazines with babies, kids, DIY projects, or vegetables on the covers.

If they manipulated pictures & print them – it’s false; therefore it’s slander.

If they defame her, it’s slander. To defame is to charge falsely or with malicious intent.

No one here can tell me that the comparisons to the death of her father and her going down the same path was meant in kindness.

London newspaper The Daily Mail said, “Like father like daughter? Bloated Lisa Marie is now the double of dad Elvis.”

It’s really sickening the magazines print this filth, and more sickening that enough people buy it and believe it to warrant continuing. Most these women they try to catch in unflattering poses are not fat by any stretch, and so what if they did put on a little weight? Weight is not an indicator of who you are. I despise it, and will never purchase a magazine that participates in or encourages such things, and I do enjoy and regularly purchase magazines.

It has to be said that British newspapers tend to have sharper teeth as far as gossip is concerned than newspapers in some other countries. The Daily Mail isn’t exactly an intellectual paper, but it’s not a traditional tabloid, either.