Ugly Betty is HOT!

Note:  I don't know why, but Typepad decided to publish just a fragment of this piece on Monday, then save the whole thing for today.  So, in case you were one of the people who saw the snippet of this, so sorry!  Now you know I start working on these posts a few days before they actually go up, to provide you with the highest quality funny and strange.

I just saw this Glamour magazine when I was traveling, and I have to say, this made me laugh out loud.  If you'll enlarge the photo, you'll see that Glamour has totally Photoshopped the hell out of America Ferrera, perhaps to the point of putting her head on someone else's body, and then put a headline beside that, exclaiming "UGLY BETTY IS HOT!"

How much does ABC want you to know that America Ferrera, who plays Ugly Betty, ISN'T REALLY UGLY?  So much that they've apparently entered into some exclusive Photoshopping contract with Glamour magazine to make sure that Ferrera looks both SKINNY AND HOT when she's not actually on the set of her hit show UGLY BETTY.  Apparently it's ok for them to make a show ABOUT an ugly fat girl, but only if it's 100% clear to everyone watching that she's actually a CUTE SKINNY girl in a fat suit and fake braces.  Because-- a real ugly fat person on TV?  No no no!  That would violate some kind of international trade law.

Let us not forget, however, that this is how America Ferrera GOT this job-- remember Real Women Have Curves, which was all about how she shouldn't have to be skinny just to fit in and get people to like her?  Here's how she looked in that.

And here's how she looked at last week's Emmy awards, where, I kid you not, I saw her with my own two eyes, weighing in at about 110 pounds and standing next to her dinner, holding her Emmy.

I'm not knocking her-- she can lose weight if she wants to, I don't really care.  It's just so very Hollywood to me that they would hire a girl whose whole career up to now has been about how "she's not just some skinny white girl," then they immediately start going after her with a pair of tweezers, some diet pills and a magic PhotoShop blur tool, so that you know it's JUST A FAT SUIT-- SHE'S NOT REALLY FAT!

Hollywood Car Wash?  Anyone?  No?

She's UGLY BETTY, dude.  It's got to be ok for UGLY BETTY to not conform to this ridiculous Hollywood standard.  This is the pressure that leads people like Jamie Pressley to lose all of her baby weight six weeks after she gives birth, because she's "afraid she's going to lose her job," (ha ha, but not really). 

Comments

[Rachel]

Hey, didn't you write a really awesome book about this? And aren't you promoting it at the WeHo Book Fair that everyone reading this blog should go to? Shouldn't everyone who hasn't yet read that book go out and buy it, like, now?