Ashlee Simpson took to her blog yesterday to comment on the recent exploding headline news coverage of Jessica Simpson’s developing fatness.  Ashlee writes,

Since when did a woman’s weight become newsworthy…

I am completely disgusted by the headlines concerning my sister’s weight. A week after the inauguration and with such a feeling of hope in the air for our country, I find it completely embarrassing and belittling to all women to read about a woman’s weight or figure as a headline on Fox News.

All women come in different shapes, sizes, and forms and just because you’re a celebrity, there shouldn’t be a different standard.

Is this something you would say to your wife, daughter, mother, grandmother, or even a friend?

I seriously doubt it.

How can we expect teenage girls to love and respect themselves in an environment where we criticize a size 2 figure?

Now can we focus on the things that really matter.

-Ash

Weight, I wanna try too.  Why is there news about some lady who birthed an octopus?  Barack Obama’s president!  Stop talking about cloned puppies, did you hear?!? Barack Obama was inaugurated!  WTF are you doing reporting an Oklahoma City earthquake?  OBAAAAMAAAAA!