Why does everyone love Lily Allen when she’s thin?
I’m a huge Lily fan, and while there are plenty of you snickering, snarky types that hate her music, hate her “big mouth” and wish she’d disappear, I think she’s fantastic.
What I don’t think is fantastic, however, is the amount of praise she gets when she’s super thin.
It happened a few years ago, before she her strange relationship with that one hairy guy (and then the older guy), when she was on the cover of GQ magazine and everyone fell over themselves because she was going to the gym and had apparently gone under hypnosis to keep the pounds off.
Now, after launching a new jewellery line and becoming the new face of Chanel, people are once again commenting on how the 24-year-old pop star had “dropped 7lb in four weeks thanks to dieting, a stomach bug and the strain of touring."
In the usual places, Lily’s new figure is also described as being the result of taking on Kate Moss’s diet.
Apparently Lily has asked Kate how to maintain her thinness, and Kate’s advice was:
“The 'rock chick' diet - coffee, cigarettes, vodka and champagne, which are relatively low in calories.”
Healthy!
While this is probably just bullshit, it just annoys me how typical and full of shit the media are when it comes to Allen.
They hate her when she’s mouthy. They’re cynical when she’s successful, and then they praise her for when she’s thin due to a “stomach bug” and allegedly taking on Kate Moss’s advice of drinking, smoking as a way of staying thin.