Hence the outrage that many fat people feel over the pervasive 'fat people don't know they're fat' and other such ludicrous sentiments. The suggestion that people of size might, somehow, be unaware of of the state of their own bodies and the subsequent pharia status we enjoy within society, is an insult to our intelligence. Yet it's common staple within pop-psych spheres and the media. Kind of odd when phenomena such as the type you've highlighted here? Nobody seems to notice. It flys right under peoples radar.
Unless, of course, you happen to be fat. In which case, it's just another of hundreds of daily reminders that you body isn't acceptable. Or that your mind is broken (remember; you don't KNOW your fat.) No matter what; your fat = there's something WRONG with you.

Also the quotation marks--implying that she lost, in fact, not 15 pounds but some other amount of weight that she refuses to disclose? I "like" what they did there!

As I understand how the ads work, they are based on keywords within a page. Since it's assumed that anyone talking about weight wants to loose it, ads directed at weight loss or similar themes are automatically places on those pages. This issue was examined on another blog with a very different example.

It bothers me that she feels she looked like a woman when she gained weight. The "real women have curves" attitude is just as crummy (if less prevalent) than the reverse.

I hate these kinds of things anyway. Most non-celebrity women would probably be delighted to have a figure like Hendricks', fifteen pounds included. Featuring a woman who obviously fits very well into society's beauty ideal (just maybe not the fashion-model ideal specifically) in an article about self-acceptance, rather than sending the message "your body is OK" sends the message "even this beautiful woman's body is *barely* OK, to the point where it's revolutionary to talk about it in a positive way". If anything, it's *more* hurtful than direct body snark.

Also if you read the article when she is asked to comment on the fact that she has one of the "most desirable bodies in hollywood" she cites Jessica Alba as someone who she thinks she would would want to look like, so really it doesnt add up.

This made me laugh, because I was confused about the contradiction until I finished reading the screencap and saw the text following it - my eyes involuntary skipped over the pink text in the yahoo article, knowing they were ads.

"... Christina Hendricks loves her non-waifish body ..."

can we PLEASE stop with the DOUBLE SHAME? please??

I, too, am annoyed at the thin-shaming that inevitably seems to happen whenever we are encouraging larger body types. Charlotte (above) pointed out the use of 'non-waifish body' and maggie (above) pointed out Hendricks' implication that being thinner = being less of a woman. But I'm used to that. I actually wanted to comment on the way that somehow when a woman is still pretty thin but has big boobs or an ass, suddenly she becomes the example that people point to when they are saying "Look! The media doesn't hate big women!!! She got famous!!' I was sick of it when everyone said that about Beyonce and I'm sick of it with Hendricks. Beyonce and Hendricks are NOT FAT. AT ALL. Neither are any of the women I've seen that have been called 'plus sized models.' I wish we could have some real fat girls representing out there. But then I guess when we do they just get bombarded with people telling them they are going to die if they don't lose weight immediately, like with all of the horrible comments I've heard about the girl in 'Precious.'