I’m amazed at how great Valerie Bertinelli looks on the cover of People, aren’t you? Normally seeing a celebrity in a bikini just bores me to tears… like… who cares? But Valerie really has a likability factor, doesn’t she. And yeah, she wasn’t HUGE…. (172 pounds) but she clearly had body issues that we all can relate to.

In reading her shape up secrets, I saw that to lose the majority of the weight she simply walked 10,000 steps a day. That’s the equivalent of about 5 miles. To give you an idea what the rest …read more

No one profits from having an eating disorder… or do they?
During a recent trip to the grocery store, I spied a tabloid headline asking the question of whether Tara Reid was too thin again.  The accompanying photo showed Ms. Reid in all her glory, clad only in a skimpy bikini.  She was obviously emaciated.
At first, I thought, “How terrible!  I hope she gets help!”  But then I started to think about what it means to be anorexic or bulimic in Hollyweird.  You see, in some strange way, I believe it can jettison an actor or actress into copious amounts of publicity.
Yes, …read more