It drives me crazy how the media is constantly scrutinizing celebrities' weight. It's normal to go back and forth with your weight, depending on stress. And if I remember right, she used to be a model, so she's probably used to having to keep a certain figure. If she was to gain 10 pounds she'd be ridiculed for that. I felt so bad for Jessica Simpson when people were commenting on her weight gain (which wasn't even that much). People wouldn't do that to a friend, but they do it to celebrities. It's not as though they don't see those headlines about their body. Similar with Britney Spears. One minute the media would say she was anorexic, the next she had too much weight. It was kind of ridiculous.
Being a little bit too worried about weight or a little slim is far different from an actual eating disorder. And it's compounded by the fact that healthy weight gain is called "fat" by the media/fans. Really unless it's unhealthy weight gain/loss, it shouldn't be even noted. And actual eating disorders involve mostly psychological problems and are very extreme in the behaviors. It's not just someone being a little over conscious with their calorie intake.
Also I know from experience it does not help to call someone anorexic when they aren't. I had that as a teenager because I wasn't very active so never very hungry and I was pretty thin. But people calling me anorexic made me more upset and actually more conscious of my weight than if they hadn't said a word. So yeah I think the media is creating the problems celebrities have with being overly conscious of their weight, and i think they highly overuse the word anorexic and take it way beyond it's actual psychiatric meaning.
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