Ellen DeGeneres is all about the curves!!
The newest American Idol judge took a break from hating Simon Cowell with all of her heart wants women to stop thinking they have to be skinny to be beautiful, and spoke out to promote a healthy lifestyle:
“It’s a double standard because there are men with really beautiful women that don’t have great bodies, and yet nobody’s saying anything about that. Women [think they] need to keep themselves up to look good for a man or for society. It’s not fair. Women are looking at bodies like that and going, ‘My stomach doesn’t look like that. I’m supposed to look like that?!’ So they starve themselves and they work out like crazy. It’s not important. We put the wrong emphasis on what beauty is and what health is. Health is being vibrant and having energy and being happy. If you’re healthy, it’s got nothing to do with how much you weigh.”
Ellen’s wife, Portia de Rossi, suffered from a severe eating disorder while she was on the TV series Ally McBeal, so we can understand why the comedienne would feel passionately about the issue!
Regardless, well spoken, Ellen! You’re one of the only celebs who can speak out about serious issues without coming off like a self-important twit!
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