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	<description>Rebooting our perception of healthy-weight women</description>
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		<title>Freelance Writing Break</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 03:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Ann Otte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My freelance writing has piled up (that&#8217;s a good thing!), so I need to go on a break from this blog for a while. Thank you for reading. Keep up the fight in the meantime! I know you will.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hollywoodweightwatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12266632&amp;post=377&amp;subd=hollywoodweightwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Casting director: Hollywood has &#8220;never been as open&#8221; to atypical actors &#8220;than now&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Ann Otte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my grasping-at-straws hope that one day, Hollywood will accept the full range of healthy weights, I found a little gem in a recent CNN article. From casting director Robert Ulrich (emphasis mine): &#8220;We hear over and over to think outside the box. I&#8217;ve been in the industry a long time, and it&#8217;s never been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hollywoodweightwatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12266632&amp;post=346&amp;subd=hollywoodweightwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jessica Simpson&#8217;s The Price of Beauty: Tonight!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Ann Otte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The time: Tonight! 10 p.m. Eastern and Pacific The place: VH1 The show: Jessica Simpson&#8217;s The Price of Beauty The anticipation: After all this buildup, will it be good? Come back and post what you think! Let&#8217;s discuss &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hollywoodweightwatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12266632&amp;post=352&amp;subd=hollywoodweightwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Victoria&#8217;s Secret: A Body for Every &#8230; um &#8230; make that One Body</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Ann Otte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, Victoria, whatever will we do with you? For its latest ads, Victoria&#8217;s Secret has chosen the innovative route of featuring septuplets. Oh, they have different skin tones, but you can tell the models are related because their bodies are EXACTLY THE SAME. &#8220;There&#8217;s a Body for every body,&#8221; goes the tag line. You&#8217;re funny, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hollywoodweightwatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12266632&amp;post=371&amp;subd=hollywoodweightwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly &#8220;Bravo!&#8221; Body Image Roundup</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Ann Otte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And now for a new addition: A weekly roundup of awesome quotes that I didn&#8217;t blog about but that deserve recognition. [Cue applause sign.] Here they are &#8230; posts that make you think. Cinematical: &#8220;Girls on Film: Breast, Hair, and Hollywood Beauty&#8221; Have you ever experienced this? Countless times, I&#8217;ve been faced with people who will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hollywoodweightwatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12266632&amp;post=335&amp;subd=hollywoodweightwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Next up: New Zealand and Jo Lawn—Ironman athlete</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Ann Otte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On our surprise trip around the world this month, let&#8217;s venture down under, shall we? Thirty-six-year-old athlete Jo Lawn just won her seventh Ironman New Zealand, reports The New Zealand Herald. She swam 2.4 miles, biked 112 miles and ran 26.2 miles—all in nine hours, 14 minutes and 35 seconds. You&#8217;d think she&#8217;d be more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hollywoodweightwatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12266632&amp;post=320&amp;subd=hollywoodweightwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Plus-size models not really average</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Ann Otte</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Weight Information]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We keep hearing that plus-size models represent the average American woman, who&#8217;s around a size 14. But people who cite that number also say the average height is 5&#8217;4&#8243;. Um &#8230; size 14 at a model&#8217;s 5&#8217;10&#8243; looks a lot different than at 5&#8217;4&#8243;. So while some plus-size models may represent the real American woman&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hollywoodweightwatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12266632&amp;post=292&amp;subd=hollywoodweightwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tiny-waist t-shirts make body-image statement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Ann Otte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now there&#8217;s a greeting card! The National Eating Disorder Information Centre, in Canada, launched a campaign last month targeting the fashion industry. They sent greeting cards and t-shirts to &#8220;selected fashion leaders and marketers all over the world.&#8221; The cards were lovely, elegant things with a rose on the front. Inside, they read, &#8220;Thanks for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hollywoodweightwatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12266632&amp;post=255&amp;subd=hollywoodweightwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Even Japanese women getting thinner!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Ann Otte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese eating habits have been held up for years as wonders of modern healthfulness. If only we Americans ate more like the Japanese, we&#8217;d be skinnier, have lower cholesterol and have less heart disease. Except &#8230; now, the women are going overboard. From The Washington Post: Public health experts say that younger Japanese women, as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hollywoodweightwatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12266632&amp;post=261&amp;subd=hollywoodweightwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What sorority rushees can teach us about body image</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Ann Otte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorority girls are hard on themselves. At Psychology Today, Dara Chadwick blogged about a study that found some, well, not-so-surprising things about sorority rush participants and body image. She used the study to teach about how friends can influence how we look at ourselves. I agree but would go further: We can influence how our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hollywoodweightwatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12266632&amp;post=241&amp;subd=hollywoodweightwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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