Within this week’s readings, one of the topics we discussed and explored, was how celebrities contributed to the image of the female body. Elizabeth Kissling, a professor of women’s studies and communication studies at Eastern Washington University, explains how female stars are making the state of being “fat” shameful and should be looked down upon, saying, “These texts consistently promote exercise and diet as the true paths to beauty and health. Thin equals health; health equals beauty. The reverse is clearly implied but not stated: fat equals unattractive, unattractive equals pathological” (555). She shows how many celebrities write diet books that tell the reader to split the body from the mind and to focus on just slimming down the fat