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[TW for diet talk]



Oy.

This is currently on CNN's front page. Even as "entertainment news," this is some grim stuff. In fact, I can't even wrap my head around how the eating habits of the the mother of Prince William's fiancée qualifies as "entertainment," except at the intersection of the commodification of celebrity, the increasingly expansive definition of what constitutes celebrity, and the unimaginably twisted narrative that what women do with their bodies can be classified as entertainment by virtue of women's bodies being purposed for public display and consumption.

What a clusterfuck.

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