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"So earlier this week some pics of Jessica Simpson surfaced of her looking a little heavier than her usual self. I wasn&amp;#039;t going to write about it because I don&amp;#039;t really think her gaining a few pounds is really news (or gossip) worthy \u2014 we all go through up and downs with our weight \u2014 and I commend her for not being shy about it. I think she looks good, it&amp;#039;s the outfit that bothers me.  But apparently Fox News thought it was a worthy story, even questioning whether &amp;quot;the star has been eating the same diet that her Dallas Cowboys quarterback boyfriend Tony Romo does?&amp;quot; And of course all the celebrity gossip blogs had a field day with the fat jokes. I mean look at this cartoon. It&amp;#039;s absolutely horrible! Both Jessica and Ashlee Simpson had a response to the cruel media \u2014 but they should have probably discussed it first. Jess told OK! Magazine  &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not fat. Going from a size 2 to a size 8, that&amp;#039;s not fat. If I weren&amp;#039;t Jessica Simpson, no one would care.&amp;quot; True. But Ashlee took to her Myspace blog and said &amp;quot;How can we expect teenage girls to love and respect themselves in an environment where we criticize a size 2 figure?&amp;quot; Also true, well except for the part where she says Jessica is a size 2.  But of course her size doesn&amp;#039;t matter, I&amp;#039;m just saying....So read Ashlee&amp;#039;s whole blog and tell me what you think. I agree with her that someone&amp;#039;s weight should not matter and to publicly belittle someone because of it is unnecessarily harsh. But at the same time many of the people who left comments on her blog said that it was hard to take Ashlee seriously when she is the one that changed her whole face to conform to the media ideal. Please tell me what you think of this whole weight controversy? Should people just leave Jess alone or is this just a part of being a celeb? What about Ashlee? Should she voice her opinion or keep her mouth shut? Xoxo,  Megan "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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