When OK Magazine hit the newsstands today we see Britney Spears on the cover. Not about the kids, or the divorce, or the mental health issues...but the other golden ticket item the glossies love to obsess about--you guessed it: Britney's weight!
I may be biased, I have 2 babies 14 months apart, and I had 2 C-sections. Maybe I'm delusional. I thought Britney looked amazing at the VMA's last year. I was frankly pissed that the scum masquerading as 'media' (TMZ, Perez Hilton, etc.) had the audacity to call her fat. She wasn't 16 anymore, but certainly if you found any other woman in a bikini on a beach with that body heads would turn because she looked great.
However, I know she has been photographed with her Venti Frappuccinos and large fries--no matter the size these are certainly not the 'health foods' one should aspire to. Britney certainly has had a ton of negative media, much of which may be well-deserved, but I for one am not going to join the band wagon as railing against Britney for getting healthier. She may be uber-thin, but it appears she went about her health makeover in a healthy way.
In fact, she herself says: "I'm the healthiest I've been all my life. My diet has a lot to do with my getting into shape. I have no sugar. I don't eat fruit or even fruit juice because of the sugar. I eat chicken and salmon and rice. I eat avocados. I'll have egg whites for breakfast and sometimes turkey burgers for lunch. I try to do just 1,200 calories a day. It may sound like it's not much, but it's actually a lot of food if you eat the right things." She also is working out, doing cardio and lifting weights 5 days a week at a local gym, in addition to workouts in her own private home gym.
In regards to her favorite Starbucks habit: "Frappuccinos - gone. (laughs) I do still drink coffee, but just with Equal."
One of the things that really struck me was that Britney said she wanted to be a healthy role-model for her 2 children. You had me at hello, you had me hello (oops, or should I say OK!). Certainly my own journey has been about being healthier first for me, but also because I want my girls to have a healthy body-image, learn the healthy way to approach food, exercise, and finally so we can go and have fun and run and jump and ride roller-coasters and play soccer and go on water slides (and not have my weight take away from our family time). Now thats something maybe we can all agree on.
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