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Flotsam & Jetsam

Half Of Men Would Dump Girlfriend For Getting Fat

3:18AM Defamer US Edition | According to Ask Men’s annual Great Male Survey, half of all straight men in the English-speaking world say they would dump a girlfriend if she got fat. More »
People

Gwyneth Paltrow Shamed Ross The Intern Into Losing Weight

4:56AM Richard Lawson | Ross Matthews, Jay Leno’s former dandy jester turned Chelsea Lately panellist, recently lost a bunch of weight. Good for him! How’d he do it? Through terrible shame. Terrible shame instilled in him by none other than diamond willow reed Gwyneth Paltrow. More »
People

Skinny Model Bends Over, Shocks World With Her Skinniness

5:11AM Maureen OConnor | Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Candice Swanepoel went to a Victoria’s Secret event yesterday and made the fatal mistake of bending over. Now the blogosphere is fretting that she is “scarily, skeletally, stick-thin!” And, yes, she is quite thin. But is she any thinner than the size she has been rewarded for being, for years? More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

Stay Thin By Imagining Yourself Eating Stuff

6:47PM Max Read | You know how when you’re on a diet, you’re not supposed to think about food? A new study indicates that imagining yourself eating a specific food means you’ll eat less of that food in real life. So start imagining. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

Skinny Women Make More Money – But Skinny Guys Make Less

4:13PM Max Read | This may come as a shock, but many people treat thin women better than heavier women. I know – it seems unbelievable! But it’s not just that thin women are treated better – they also make more money. How much more? More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

Abercrombie & Fitch Model Fired For Eating Croissant

6:16AM Richard Lawson | Belgian up-and-comer Florian Van Bael was at a Bruce Weber shoot in Montauk for the teen-saddening clothing store when he was caught nibbling a French pastry. He was promptly fired. The models’ eating habits had been closely monitored. Photos via models.com.
Small Screen

Fat People Just Don’t Belong On Television

8:10AM Richard Lawson | That seems to be the case, anyway, according to a new television show cancellation. Also today: The fourth Bourne movie finds a director, so too does The Hobbit (maybe), and lots and lots of Entourage jokes. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

Fat Men Are Better In Bed

6:53AM Maureen OConnor | After a year-long study of male sexual performance, researchers have found that men with higher body mass indices last seven minutes longer than their slender counterparts. The decidedly unsexy reason: Fat men have more female hormones. More »
People

Drew Carey Loses 36kg, Turns Into Orville Redenbacher

5:38PM Max Read | Price Is Right host Drew Carey lost 36kg by removing carbs from his diet and exercising six days a week. Good for him! Now he can beat up Bob Barker for talking shit about him. [People; pics via AP]
Flotsam & Jetsam

Gay Men Are Skinnier Than Straight Men, Duh

3:00AM Richard Lawson | Heyyyyyyyyyyy science!! We are just facting up a storm today. First it was totally gay jungle cats, and now it’s a study that proves that gay dudes are skinnier than straight ones. And lesbians? Well, they’re heftier than straight girls. More »