Female Stars Step Off the Scale By ALESSANDRA STANLEY October 11, 2012
ON her new show, "The Mindy Project," Mindy Kaling plays a single doctor who is irked but not undone by a male colleague telling her she should lose 15 pounds. Neither is Hannah, the character Lena Dunham plays on her HBO comedy, "Girls." When a boyfriend asked her about her tummy flab, Hannah replied: "No, I have not tried a lot to lose weight. Because I decided I was going to have some other concerns in my life." On the MTV show "Awkward" it's the high school bully, Sadie (Molly Tarlov), who is a little overweight, not her victims, and her avoirdupois doesn't diminish Sadie's power or confidence. Self-acceptance has become a new form of defiance on television, especially among younger female comedians. Partly that's because it's refreshingly unusual. There's little comic shock value left in profanity, obscenity or intolerance, but it's still quite rare and surprising to see a woman not obsess about her waistline. And gaining weight, it turns out, is the most outrageous stunt Lady Gaga has pulled to date. Instead of wearing raw animal flesh at a public event this summer, she wore her own - the one metamorphosis that even Madonna wouldn't dare undertake. "I am not going to go on a psycho-spree because of scrutiny," the singer stated after admitting she gained 25 pounds. "This is who I am. And I am proud at any size." ... http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/arts/television/women-on-tv-step-off-the-scale.html _______________________________________________ Please be sure to include a URL to the article. Reply to the sender with a "Thank you" if you like this post. _______________________________________________ Medianews mailing list [email protected] http://lists.etskywarn.net/mailman/listinfo/medianews
