OK!, Derek Draper and Nip/Tuck Celebs
A kind friend thought I would appreciate a look at OK! magazine. Not because I’m a celeb obsessive, of course, but because of the eight pages devoted to my erstwhile political sparring partner Derek Draper – the man who once threatened to get his cousins from Chorley to come and sort me out.
Derek is now apparently enjoying marital bliss with GMTV presenter Kate Garraway and invited the obsequious pens and snappers from the superficial glossy to accompany them on a trip to Hackney City Farm to celebrate their baby daughter’s birthday. Aaaah.
Most impressive of all, Derek is now referred to as ‘psychotherapist Derek Draper’. How he managed to shed his former label of ‘disgraced spin doctor’ I don’t know, but he still looks comfortable hanging around with pigs and donkeys. Just like the old days, eh Del?
In a momentary lapse of dignity, I then took to reading the article about Girls Aloud. After pages of yer usual dull stuff about clubbing and boyfriends, the article came to a quite horrendous climax when the Girls discussed their weight and figures. Kimberley is 5ft6, weighs 9st, is not confident about her body, wants a smaller bum and thinner legs and would not rule out surgery. Nadine is 7st7 and might try Botox. Cheryl once got so fat she reached 9st7! Whoa, steady on, girl. 8st Sarah wants surgery too.
But the jblog award for Post-Feminist Saddo – not to mention Appalling Example To Girls Everywhere – goes to 8st Nicola Roberts. She would definitely go under the knife, but “for my boyfriend’s sake, not my own”.
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Nip/Tuck for your boyfriends sake?
Appaling on sooo many levels!
And this would the awful 'adapted child' personality trait that will do anything it takes to please the person or group putting pressure on them whilst looking for an out.
I spent a good bit of last year in group therapy getting my weight problems sorted (not for my boyfriend, but just in case I died!)and all the women in any group Ive been in were displaying more adapted child tendencies than any other. Noticeably, every woman in the group either finished with their partners or had a huge bust up with some other close friend or family member and quite radically altered their personal lives.
One of them was beaten up quite seriously by her father for going on a diet. He threw her on the floor and repeatedly stamped on her head and face in front of her kids. She had only been saying the week before what a wonderful and special realtionship she had with her father.
I wonder how many other women who alter themselves in an attempt to please find their reward is contempt and aggression? At least the women I was with were going through a system of therapy designed to make them examine exactly why they had got so heavy and also exactly why they wanted to lose the weight.
I wonder if any of these 'nip/tuck for my boyfriends' sake women would still go through with it if they had to go through a similar process of rationalising their decision?
I'm certainly not against plastic surgery, I have had a load myself and am still undergoing it. Its been to fix old injuries and is certainly worth it despite the pain and huge expense. But knowing myself just how painful it is and the psychological adjustments you have to make every time there is even the smallest change, doing it to please someone else is just madness or at least the road to it!
Thanks
Thanks for that thought-provoking comment.
If you don't mind me being intrusive, I'm interested as to why plastic surgery to fix injuries should cost you huge expense. I've had similar surgery, free on the NHS.
And I also wonder whether, since Ms Girls Aloud will be doing this for her boyfriend, will he be picking up the tab?!