The Weaker Sex

Florence was likely married to a real man, not a douche bag like Brad Pitt.

She must have seen the light of reality, her stock is slipping. Is she not one of 'obamaites' that want too tax the rich.

She is probably po'ed Madonna got more free pr via the msm this week.

Not just the ladies (term used loosely) either!!

This quote from canoe today,

"Viggo Mortensen has vowed to give up making movies - because promoting them leaves him exhausted."

Da poor baby!!! Imagine the horror of flying around the world, staying in the best hotels, limos everywhere. Never paying for a sodding bit of it.

Florence was likely married to a real man, not a douche bag like Brad Pitt.

They're not married. They said they weren't going to until gay marriage was legal as well. Talk about commitment!

Is the Nanny O.K.?

Syncro

She wants to lose weight,get rid of the fake boobs and collegen lips!!!
Your great-aunt sounds like my paternal grannie.10 kids in a 600 sg/ft shack on the farm.

Uh oh, climatologist Kate, and now medical doctor Kate is on the loose! Is there anything that airbrush artists can't do?

Aunt Florence probably ate food instead of merely looking at it. Gotta keep that Auschwitz-chic shape, dontcha know.

By God, mah family lived in a paper bag at the bottom of a mud puddle!

Your great aunt likely did not have anorexia nervosa. The luxury of that disease didn't exist back then.

Realistically, this has far more to do with the diet and exercise that she has to do in-order to maintain her body weight ...

In order to be successful in modern Hollywood most leading actors/actresses need to have body fat levels far below what is normal for a healthy individual. For a lot of people to maintain this body fat level they need to eat far less and exercise far more than the average individual, and (as anyone who has done that for a moderately long period of time can tell you) you can actually become very lightheaded from something as simple as standing up too quickly ...

bleet:

Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!

"By God, mah family lived in a paper bag at the bottom of a mud puddle!"

And the rest is bottomdweller history.

my dad used to hit us so hard when we finally came to our clothes were out of style...so hard that my grandkids had bruises....

And a particularly hefty outpouring of sympathy in the article's comments section!

Posted by: bleet at April 7, 2009 12:04 PM

"By God, mah family lived in a paper bag at the bottom of a mud puddle!"

And it's too bad all the eggs hatched.

Kate, I bet your great aunt was never foolish enough to pass up good meal.

On the other hand, I also bet she didn't pull in 50mm a year for a couple of movies...

I thought Angelina was a bit over the map and was on Bush's side sometimes. She and her father (ironic as they don't speak) are about as right as you can get away with in Hollywood. At least publicly. Not on every issue, but some.

I'll take her positions over most of that lot of miscreants any day - even if she is a little nuts.

Someone has got to say it, who gives a damn, but, the gushing twit that wrote the piece, oh, and Henry above who's indignant at Kate for posting it.

What a tough day for the nanny dealing with telling her kid's that mommy had a "shocking crumble" at work. The horror of it all.

Who had her kids for her. Bet your Aunt delivered all of those 11, probably with a midwife.
Maybe she is tired thinking of what her look alike is going thru with her 14 kids.

"My grandmother's sister Florence was nearly 5 feet tall. She raised 11 children in a 576 square foot farmhouse with no running water."

Got one like that here in the UP, just down the road. She's 90+ now and still knocking off the red squirrels in her bird feeder, with a .22 and open sights.

Rural northerners are a tough lot.

has anyone thot of the emotional price these artists pay.....how they suffer for their art....a spiritual and intellectual labour of devotion to us....the simple beasts of the field who have lost their way in the Capitalist warmongering thickets of corporate rape of the world's peoples and ecosystems.......

Your aunt probably ate her three squares a day, Kate. The human body can handle a lot when it's fed. And by 'fed' I mean just about anything that contains sufficient fat (yes, FAT), protein, carbs and vitamins.

My grandfather worked in the woods for months in the winter on a steady diet of beans, bread, berries and salt pork. There were no machines back then. It was all manual. They came out a few pounds lighter than when they went in but they were lean and fit and able to work intensely as long as the sun allowed.

My grandmother, like your aunt, raised eight kids in a similar sized home in NL, for the most part without running water. Actually, providence of indoor plumbing is one reason Joey Smallwood remains sacrosanct in the heart and mind of my grandmother. :)

Someone needs to take Jolie to The Keg.

Look, Angelina Jolie is one of my least favourite people. I don't approve of people who move in on other women's husbands.

But the truth is that making movies is hard work. We may pooh pooh it, but you're often on the set for 16 hours straight, it's strenuous, and you have to exercise in there, too. It is stressful, perhaps even more so that great-aunt Florence because everyone's watching you do it. And Viggo Mortensen's right, too. Promoting is a big pain. You lose your private life. Of course, the multi-million dollars is a nice perk, but it doesn't buy you a stress-free life. I've done book tours and publicity tours, and I hate never eating a home cooked meal and being on the road all the time.

Which is why I think he's right to quit and Jolie is nuts. I do feel a certain type of pity--I'm sure she is exhausted--but THAT'S HER CHOICE. It was also her choice to have 6 kids or 17 or whatever she has now, and she isn't raising them. Some nanny is.

She has to make a decision. Does she want to be an anorexic basket of nerves who passes everything important off to the hired help? Or does she want to take responsibility for her own life and her own health?

I'm pretty sure she'll choose the insane course. And that's where my pity ends, even if she is more politically astute than many in Hollywood. Nothing counts more than how you treat your family. And she's failing on that one.

This is very upsetting. Kate, is there anything we blog readers can do help Angelina take her nutrition more seriously?

I've seen healthy young men and women pass out while standing on the parade square. It happens.

I don't know how it is with the Army and Air Force Belisarius, but in the Navy, when we thunder in it had better be because you are too hung over/still drunk to stand up. Not beacuse you were too stupid to make sure you did not get something in your gob before the parade started.

:)

They say that a woman in Hollywood becomes invisible when she turns 30. The truth is, for women, 30 years old is 45 years old in “Hollywood years”. It's unfortunate that so many women in Hollywood feel like they have to compete with hotties in their teens and 20's, but they do; and, they can't win.

Why?

Well, as Chris Rock said so eloquently when talking about Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction "Nobody wants to see a 40 year old tittie!"

Well, judging by her gams, I think she could stand to lose a few, eh? ;-)

Kate, my grandmum raised 9 in Melfort starting at 16. Fortunately, she had a healthy mix of sons and daughters to help granddad in the fields and her in the (dare I say it...) kitchen. They earned a "Pioneer of Saskatchewan" certificate for their efforts in settling your fair province.

On set, an actor of her calibre can make anywhere from $5000 to $10,000 per hour! Do you realy beleive she'd give up that kind of cash if she wasn't sick? Get a grip on logic guys!

Why is Angelina of any concern to anyone other than her publicist?
She's a freak and when they're running on empty, I expect they do pass out.
No news there.

Skinny or not, I'd do her at the drop of a hat!

Poor Angie. It's tough to live on 600 calories/day.

SheilaG:

I'll work 16-hour-days for 4, 5, 6 months to make a movie, take my $20 million (or even $1 million) and call it a career. Then I'll go home to raise my son, my incoming child, and any other kids we're blessed with or can adopt.

It's hard work, but like you said, it's a CHOICE and with wise spending and investing, one decent-paying film is enough to make you comfortable for life.

Begley, hilarious.

MY maternal grandparents raised 14 kids on a small acreage. When they sat down to dinner, there were 16 people and one chicken. The only thing that didn't get eaten was the beak. The family survived by indenturing the oldest daughters. This means pumping water into galvanized tubs to bath everyone, wood stove meals, washtub and line laundry, etc. I don't know about you, but it would have killed me. When Grandma was in her 70s, she fell and broke her hip. It healed fine but she refused to walk. She spent the rest of her life, fifteen years, in the nursing home with other folks waiting on her.

The Jolies are uncommonly boring yet the picture included has possibilities. First, are those swim fins or are those feet? If I presented those at my salon for a pedicure, suspect the gal would head over to Tractor Supply to procure a horse trough. Second, Ms. Jolie had quite nose job in her 20s. We were watching a movie a few years back and couldn't figure out who the actress was. It was a homely Jolie in her natural state, e. g., broad nosed and thin lipped.

Actually, Angelina Jolie is a celebrity and as such her farts don't stink.

In all seriousness, I blame the paparazzi and "entertainment" reporters for trying to make a story out of nothing.

While some have issue with her acting abilities, I enjoyed Lara Croft. She also puts her money where her mouth is as far as celeb causes.

I like my women with a lil meat and potatoes on them.
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Hey Kate - that was 10 kids, and one of them just started reading your site, at 75

Grandparents on my Dads side-21 kids-2 died at birth leaving 19 to go out and work to send home money to a 800sq ft 2 story out by Hague. No electricity, running water, indoor plumbing. Just a crank phone (line 1 ring 32 heh). My dads the oldest at 86.
Spent most of my summers learning to shoot .303s and .22s and the occasional shotgun, and a lot about farming.
Enjoyed everything except burning my fingers on those damn sacs in the lantern if you were ever stupid enough to touch one...and I was.

Amy P. Wrote
"Florence was likely married to a real man, not a douche bag like Brad Pitt.

They're not married. They said they weren't going to until gay marriage was legal as well. Talk about commitment!

Posted by: Amy P. at April 7, 2009 11:52 AM "

So which one of them had the sex change?
Actually they should get married as it would be a shame to Spoil two families!!!!!!!

Weaker sex, my ass. I grew up with three sisters. The second oldest used to look after me quite a bit. She had to fight off more perverts than there was any need of. In rural Nova Scotia, you're on your own.

Once, an insane neighbour pointed a handgun at me, when I was about 5 years old. My sister stepped between us, and pretty well negotiated for my life. The guy ended up shooting his own 3 year old daughter a few years later. Right between the eyes with, a 357 magnum. It was ruled an accidental discharge, but I know better.

People who write this crap obviously didn't have older sisters.

Wow, writing that choked me up. My sister's a little old lady now, with breast cancer. She could, and would, kick Angelina's ass right now.

Well, I can recall fainting only once. I was seventeen and had chicken pox big time, looking like a big pepperoni pizza and everything. Boy, did I feel woozy then, unable to sleep for days due to the incessant itching. So I eventually fainted... whilst taking a whiz... lucky the fainting happened after the whizzing was finished!

Angelina's a wimp. I can go all day without a bite and be totally fine, as long as I've had a really hearty breakfast. See, as long as you've got plenty of glycogen stored intramuscularly and elsewhere, you can go a long time without a bite. But exhaust the glycogen stores and things start going downhill, y'know, hypoglycemia city, which is where Angelina was... Sure, you'll switch to burning fat, but, still, lack of carbs in the system, either from food or stored as glycogen, does have negative effects on the brain. Coupled with excessive stress and too little sleep, which I bet Angelina had, it's no wonder she collapsed like a house of cards...

I fainted flat on my face one time on the parade square. Felt funny, woke up looking at the pavement. Same reason too, no breakfast.

Difference between me and Angie baby, nobody wrote about my booboo in the paper the next day.

You work too hard and don't eat, you faint. In other news, scientists discover water is wet!

But, Kate, your Aunt Florence did not, I'm sure, have to put up with the demands of a nanny for the children.

Just like my Grandmother in Saskatchewan. She raised a lot of boy's alone as her husband was killed with only my dads sister. She was a Florance as well. Started out homesteading in Carrot River Arbourfield. Never heard of a case of her getting the Vapours.

...Correction: Cousin Meat says it was 10. Maybe. Or maybe they just stopped counting...

Your cousin is named "meat"?
That's weird.
On the other hand I have a sister-in-law everybody calls "fat".
And I call her husband "stupid".
For a lot of reasons, actually

So...The Nanny's O.K.?

Syncro

Kate
Your grannie'd be so proud of ya for starting a blog like this and making everybody aware of such important information.
It's ...well, it's just beautiful...