Another day, another crazy story about the fashion industry and how someone's body has been distorted to give the impression of being skinnier than they are. The latest twist in the saga of that Ralph Lauren model who appeared in an ad that had been altered to give the impression that she was freakily thin is that she'd previously been fired for being too fat. "They fired me because they said I was overweight and I couldn't fit in their clothes any more," the 5-feet, 10-inch, 120-pound model told the New York Daily News. It reportedly happened last spring. It's time to Stop, the madness already. How many more of these stories can we take? Not to hate on super-skinny models, but I prefer to see how clothes fit on regular folks, people with curves and a little extra flesh. To expect extra tall women with large frames to fit into itsy bitsy clothing is warped and unrealistic. It's time for some of these so-called fashionistas to become real-istas instead.
Read more from Jenice Armstrong at Earth to Philly, the Daily News blog on anything and everything "Green."
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Missing woman haunts her family
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Jenice Armstrong: At a time when families traditionally gather, a loved one will be missing from Pamela Browner's extended clan. A niece of Browner, a senior v.p. for the Eagles, is missing.
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When Sarah meets Hillary
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WOULDN'T YOU love to be close enough to eavesdrop if Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ever agrees to have a cup of coffee with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin? One can only imagine that their java summit might go something like this:
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'Tough Love' hosts dish the dating advice
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Jenice Armstrong; I think of myself as pretty frank, but there are certain opinions people are better off keeping to themselves, like when it comes to romance.
Enter Steve Ward and JoAnn Ward, Philly-area matchmakers and stars of a wildly popular new reality TV show. -
Miss Black America pageant returning?
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Jenice Armstrong: Remember the Miss Black America pageant? Organizers want to bring it back. Should they? Or has the pageant outlived its purpose?
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Deadline drama
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NEWSPAPERS have long enjoyed dueling images - one as bastions of gentlemanlike civility and the other as busy, cluttered places where gruff city editors chain-smoked and cussed out reporters whenever they felt like it.
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AIDS threat still raging
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LIKE THE TITLE character in "Precious," the new Lee Daniels' film, this 14-year-old Philadelphia girl had been raped by a relative and infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
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Michelle's family tree is multi-hued
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Jenice Armstrong: First lady Michelle Obama' has white cousins? Oh, my gosh! Can you believe it? Well, yeah. Just about every black American I know has white relatives.
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Women talk about sex
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Jenice Armstrong: It was kind of like being at a Tupperware party but instead of the focus being on plastic containers, the conversation centered on sex.
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Michelle's dating tips
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FIRST LADY Michelle Obama graces the cover of the December issue of Glamour. What's even more interesting is that in the accompanying article, she gives dating advice. Given that all the single women I know who are searching for their own version of Barack Obama, her advice is worth paying attention to.
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This World Series can divide households
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Can't we all just get along? Not if one of us is from Philly and the other's from New York, with the Phils and Yankees squaring off tonight. Jenice Armstrong talks about how her house has been divided, and Stu Bykofsky, a Philly institution who grew up in the Bronx, has practically become a house divided against itself. Do you have New York friends, or a Yankees fan at home?
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Cell phone was lifeline
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THE LAST thing Sheila Armstrong remembers about the attack was the sight of her lover hoisting a vacuum over her.
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