Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Jessica Simpson: Another Supermodel out to Change the World


Jessica Simpson gained weight in in 2009. On covers of People and US all over there were screams to high heaven about the blasphome, until she turned around and made a TV show based on the negative media attention she received. That made them shut up on a whole different level. "There's a lot of pressure to feel beautiful" she said in the video introducing her new show The Price of Beauty that began airing in March. In her new show she travels around the world "to see what makes a woman in different cultures feel beautiful," she added. For the May issue of Marie Claire magazine that was released Tuesday April 6th she is the cover shot and Marie Claire "au naturel" meaning no makeup or photoshop. Jessica Simpson has gone from being the ditsy blonde in the show Newlyweds, to the blonde bombshell who cared for the world. I am beginning to see a little of Brigitte Bardot's saving the seals deal. After the complete apocalyptic shots of Jessica Simpson as being fat and depressed and all the things the media loves, she decided to do the cover of Marie Claire. Though many of the comments on the pictures complain that it is a lie, that photoshop and mascara can be traced in the photographs.
Stars are in the unfortunate place for having their individuality manufactured for them. Jessica Simpson seemed to have woken up from this world that she had been in with a TV show and a husband and a long career (in pop singing years) in being a female vocalist sex symbol.
Being a celebrity can be used in so many different ways now. And it is this celebrity that has allowed her to accomplish her new goals. Jessica Simpson, without the celebrity she had before would not have been able to do the things she is doing now. Indeed, she may not have even been aware of them because it was the abuse of the media that caused her to look for that deeper, unmanufactured part of her. In a different way from Brigitte Bardot, Jessica Simpson is not leaving the world she had behind, but constantly comparing it to the world she is exploring now. In a video on ABC she describes the show and the transition.
And she will not save the world, the way Bardot will not save the seals. Possibly her fans will not take her seriously, no one is expected to believe a Marie Claire magazine cover. But this doesn't seem to matter when the journey is not really for the audience anymore.

1 comment:

  1. This one is stronger and clearer. But you really need to learn to avoid run on sentences: "But this doesn't seem to matter when the journey is not really for the audience anymore." It's okay if you don't see why that has to be two sentences, but then you need to go to the writing center for help, okay? Because you're holding yourself back with your structural problems.

    "Jessica Simpson seemed to have woken up from this world that she had been in with a TV show and a husband and a long career (in pop singing years) in being a female vocalist sex symbol." This sentence also isn't a sentence. Can you see how it's tortured? Try to think: what am i saying, and then say it as simply as possible.

    As for links, the link to Marie Claire, should be to the pic of Simpson, or you need a separate link to it. Also, i woul dhav liked to see some of the pics of her looking fat and some links to the crap she got for it. Do you see how that would have beefed this up? Also, i like the idea of comparing her to Bridgette Bardot and the seals, but you need to find a link specifically about that.

    WORK ON YOUR WRITING!!

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