TOO RICH, TOO THIN Madonna
A new
report is blaming a sinewy
Madonna,
Sharon Stone, and
Jane Fonda for an uptick in cases of anorexia among women over the age of 50. Whereas the eating disorder was once thought to plague mainly teens and 20-somethings, now many of the women seeking treatment for the condition are a little longer in the teeth. But bombarded by red carpet images of reconstructed lady-bots like
Demi Moore or a scary skinny
Teri Hatcher, these older women now have vastly unrealistic expectations of how their bodies should look. According to the report, "Glamorous images of celebrities in their 40s, 50s, and 60s looking as slim and youthful as they did in their 20s may give older women unrealistic expectations of how they should look as they age" leading to the oldies starving themselves in the name of beauty.
So while it may have been okay for your grandma to bake and, say, actually eat her homemade chocolate chip cookies, these days granny is supposed to be an Ashtanga yoga freak on a macrobiotic yoga kick (She likely hasn't touched a carb since '02). Fast forward to the old folks home, and hordes of geriatrics will be trading bridge for cardio kickboxing classes and pushing aside their tapioca pudding while desperately trolling Match.com for their very own versions of boy toy Ashton.