Isla Fisher: fat thighs, no good

Isla Fisher was chatting to Page Six about her new movie, Confessions of a Shopaholic and just happened to drop a juicy tidbit about pregnancy:

"I never work out. I just don't enjoy it. I gained 60 pounds during my pregnancy, so [producer] Jerry Bruckheimer hired me a trainer for Confessions of a Shopaholic. But the trainer said I had a bad attitude. He told me I was genetically blessed because I'm little, but he did warn me that it was gonna catch up with me.

Just when you start to think that she's refreshingly 'normal', she goes on to say:
"I didn't feel self-conscious about my body until I had a baby, and now I think, 'Thank God there's a photograph of my thighs when they looked like that."

Aw. It's sort of like putting ketchup on an expensive steak. Can you just admit that like most other women and celebrities for that fact, you do care about your weight? The whole 'I never exercise or worry about my weight' thing is so old it's like 1985 and we're all wearing leg warmers.

Source: http://www.nypost.com/pagesixmag/issues/20090215/Enchanted+Isla

Isla says thanks to spanx

Isla Fischer had a baby, in case you didn't know. In fact, that seems to be the only thing that journos want to talk about with her these days. Why is it that when a woman has a baby, all of her lifetime achievements, her every career success, is eclipsed by motherhood?

Isla Fischer is a primary example of this phenomenon because as her new movie 'Definitely, Maybe' is due for release this week, every article about this woman begins and ends with her recent birth. For example, USA Today captures the movie star in today's headline thus:

'Maybe' star Isla Fisher is a new mom, but definitely don't ask!

The author frames the movie release around the fact that Isla doesn't want to talk about being a new mother, which is ironic, given that not talking about being a new mother, actually frames the entire article about being a new mother. Isla argues she does not want to open her baby up to publicity; she wants to keep her private life private, and rightly so.

However, the reporter did manage to squeeze out a juicy tidbit about her post-baby body. In positioning herself as the saintly celebrity that does absolutely nothing to regain her figure, Isla does mention that her post-pregnancy body is all thanks to Spanx, a sort of postmodern 'girdle' that is a celeb favourite. To justify her lack of an exercise regiment, she says:

"I really felt like there's so much pressure on young women in show business. There's so much body fascism. I don't buy into any of it. But I do have good genes."

Hmm. Ironic, because by wearing Spanx she acknowledges that in order to be considered an attractive woman, she must have a flat stomach. Maybe she didn't sweat her pregnancy kilos off, but wearing 'slimming' garments is actually no different because it signifies the adherence to normalised images of slenderness. Isla, in fact, you are literally buying into and participating in 'body fascism'.

I mean what could possibly be more 'body fascist' than shoving your post-preggo body into uber-tight lycra with 'tummy control' panels and 'slimming' liners? Yikes!

Sources: http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2008-02-12-isla-fisher_N.htm
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Isla Fisher back in shape in 3 weeks

Apparently, all a result of breastfeeding.....


Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=493545&in_page_id=1773

Isla Fisher: baby weight is not a worry

The Borat baby is on its way and Isla Fisher is chilled out with the prospect of having a few extra kilos lingering after the birth. Racing back into the gym is not high on her list:

"That's just so not me," she told the Sunday Express newspaper. "Besides, I suspect I am going to be a bit too preoccupied with my personal life to think about any of that stuff."

Good on you, Isla. Here's to hoping you stay sensible!

Source: http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22234662-5001026,00.html