U.K.'s "Daily Mail" throws hissy fit over Britney Spears' "chunky thighs and bloated belly"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Britney packs a paunch... Spears looks out of shape on the opening night of her Femme Fatale tour

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 7:27 PM on 17th June 2011

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2004614/Britney-Spears-looks-shape-opening-night-Femme-Fatale-tour.html#ixzz1PYhXTRq5

Most singers lose weight before they go on tour owing to all the rehearsals and training they have to put themselves through.

However Britney Spears appears to have gained weight, yet again, in the run up to her Femme Fatale Tour in the U.S. with chunky thighs and a bloated belly.

The 29-year-old singer hit the stage at the Power Balance Pavilion in Sacramento, California in the kind of shape you might expect to see someone who is taking a career break - not embarking on a hectic, 33-date tour.

Prancing around on stage in a variety of skimpy outfits, it was clear that this was not the Britney some might have expected to see.

[monmouth]

1. She looks rough, her face is aging very quickly...n/t

[catgirl]

4. Stage lights are intensely bright

They aren't flattering on anyone unless they wear tons of makeup. Even then, Ever seen a ballet dancer after a show? very clown-like.

I personally think the media critics are ridiculous. She looks great!

[Liberal Veteran]

7. True that. You'd think she was jiggling with "back boobs" and folds of blubber.

From the description of the critics.

In truth, calling her "rubenesque" would be a stretch.

[Liberal Veteran]

2. She looks healthy to me.

Women aren't my thing, but I see nothing wrong with her body.

[n2doc]

3. Looks fine to me

She will likely lose some of that belly roll as the tour goes on. Aren't people going to hear the songs? Or just to gawk?

[Warpy]

5. Having kids changes a woman's body

from gawky teenager to zaftig.

If they were expecting a 29 year old woman to look like a barely pubescent teen, the problem is theirs, not hers.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. + 1

[oldironside]

8. I wouldn't take it seriously.

It's the Daily Mail. It's a right wing comic. A joke. It's obsessed with celebrity gossip and the end of civilisation being round the corner.

They also have an obsession with Nigella Lawson, a TV chef. Dear Nigella is a 51-year old mother of three, but they hold her to a standard a teenage underwear model would find hard to live up to. See the link below.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1378660/Nigellas-big-burkini-blunder-She-looked-utterly-daft--Domestic-Goddess-hiding-skin-ample-curves-sun.html

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. Perhaps it was a typo- it's actually the "Femme Fat" tour.

Put down the torches and pitchforks and gender inequality speeches, I'm kidding, AND, I say this as someone who once lost over 100 pounds...that appears to have hired a private detective and tracked me back down :rofl: