Jessica Simpson's Weight Mocked on 'Fox NFL Sunday'

by Kristen Seymour (Subscribe to Kristen Seymour's posts)
Oct 16th 2009 6:00PM

Photo: Jamie McCarthy, Getty Images

You know what? Enough is enough. Jessica Simpson isn't super skinny, but she's certainly not overweight.

Apparently, Burger King and Fox feel differently. They ran a positively caustic cartoon on "Fox NFL Sunday" making fun of Simpson's weight. And while they've since apologized, what does it mean when a girl who is no bigger than a size 6 is subject of fat jokes?

Yes, Simpson is a star, and yes, she's chosen to live her life in the public eye. But she's recently experienced a painful breakup and the loss of a beloved pet. The fact that she's famous is irrelevant -- if you were her pal, or even a passing acquaintance, you'd be horrified by a commercial like this, and I see no reason to feel otherwise simply because she's not one of my close friends.

To Simpson's credit, she's handled the situation with plenty of class. On Wednesday (after Fox and Burger King finally issued apologies) she simply tweeted, "i will never understand why people attack for a laugh. own your beauty and don't listen to the judgement."

It's one thing to look at how celebrities lose and gain weight and discuss how they feel about it. It's quite another to kick a girl when she's down. Don't you agree?

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prettyrn63 10-16-2009 @ 10:29PM

It is the comments and jokes like these that are slowly killing young girls...they are the victims of this type of "humor". Young girls see this and feel the pressure of being too fat...then they starve themselves and risk their health and lives. The pressure to live up to these standards is hard for the confident famous person...for a 13 year old 7th grader the pressure to live up to society's expectations is too much. We need to realize how much a part media plays on the serious problem of eating disorders in young girls. Everyday another young girl dies or is hospitalized because to the effects of anorexia and bulimia. I think that the media has a responsibility to the public to do their part in stopping this.

Amani 10-18-2009 @ 12:55AM

I think incidences like this are to blame for plenty of girls having low self esteem. I think that the pressure to be thin is making plenty of girls starve themselves, and also makes some say "To heck with it, pass the cheesecake." Some feel that if even Jessica Simpson is called fat, there's no hope for me, so why even try?

anonymous 10-18-2009 @ 5:09PM

I don't feel sorry for her. She brought this all on herself by using anything and everything for her incessant self-promotion in the media. She constantly reminded the media that she was dating the qb of the Cowboys for publicity, and now she's complaining because the sports media got her message.

As far as messages to kids go, Jessica Simpson wasn't concerned about the message she was sending children when she courted the media with provocative images of her thin self.

Not only did she encourage anorexia in little girls with her ribs sticking out in her bikini, her image told them to measure their worth as a human by how much money they might earn by performing and posing half naked.

She didn't care about sending bad messages to little boys either. She gave them unrealistic expectations for female bodies and taught them to view women as objects.

What awful things to to tell the youngsters of America, Jessica Simpson.
I hope the youth of America learn not to be like Jessica Simpson and to never invite the public to judge them based on their bodies or who they happen to be dating. They, like Jessica, might not like it when that invitation is accepted.