In a refreshing interview about her lifestyle and her
thoughts on dieting teenage pop star singer/actress Hilary Duff stated that she
would never resort to fad dieting to help her lose weight. She said: "I
think some of the crazy diets that people try are really bad. There are ones
where people eat six sultanas a day. The Atkins is wrong too. I don't think
it's good to deprive your body of things like carbohydrates. Everyone should
eat things in moderation."
Hilary is definitely setting a good example for younger
generations by publicly announcing that she shuns fad diets, however, what she
says it somewhat contradictory to how she actually looks. Recently Hilary has
started to melt away and some have speculated that she might have an eating
disorder. Granted, Hilary is still quite young and most women can go though
significant fluctuations in their weight as they mature but Hilary literally
went from plump and meaty to lean and stringy overnight. Beyond her weight
loss, it looks as though Hilary has made some other transformations to her
image such as a new set of porcelain teeth. As a female under the spotlight Hilary
said she is constantly pressured by her publicists to look a certain way and to
be a certain size.
In a recent interview with Star magazine, Hilary stated that
she’s been in an ongoing tiff with Lindsay Lohan for the past four years over
the girl’s former flame Aaron Carter. Hilary revealed that she’s still not
ready to put their differences in the past and would never acknowledge Lindsay
if she ran into her.
This just reminds us how young and vulnerable these girls
are. They are pressured to conform to a certain image at such a young age when
they are still maturing and developing their own identities. It’s unfortunate that
these women are also pressured to weigh a certain amount and sometimes have to
go to great lengths to achieve an unnatural body weight.
I commend Hilary on attempting to set a good example by slamming
some of the fad diets out there but her good intentions go awry as she continues
to whittle away.