Sigh. When it comes to body shape, it turns out you actually, really, definitely, absolutely, can never, ever win.
Ever heard of Bethenny Frankel? She’s an American reality star turned weight-loss… guru? Expert? Person? Whatever you call it, when it comes to weightloss, Frankel is it.
She did away with the whole ‘healthy lifestyle’ ruse and just got straight to the point: It’s all about being skinny. Frankel launched an extremely popular brand called ‘Skinnygirl’ a few years ago and it has taken off.
There’s skinny everything: skinny alcohol, skinny bars, skinny snacks, skinny books (including one called Naturally Skinny, which seems odd since she’s insisting nobody’s naturally skinny enough without her products).
Frankel’s sad obsession with her weight has been well documented (as the problems of reality stars tend to be). She has admitted to being obsessed with her weight her entire life – a fixation she attributes to her mother, who struggled with eating disorders and extreme dieting. “There was a lot of food obsession and diet obsession and being-thin obsession,” she has said of her childhood.
She even admitted that her mother once sent her to a child obesity camp, because she had the audacity to look like this at age 8: