CHUBBY CHECKER: How Anne Hathaway made sure new 'Prada' sequel included models of 'all different shapes'



A movie about fashion models that joked about not eating to stay thin has completely reversed course for its sequel.

"The Devil Wears Prada 2" is the follow-up to the fangirl favorite from 2006, starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway. This time around, however, Hathaway did not want the reality of the fashion industry to deter anyone from seeing her film.

'I just know that this movie is for everyone.'

Skeleton crew

The controversy started when Streep told fashion rag Harper's Bazaar that the models she saw in Milan during production were not only "beautiful and young," but also "alarmingly thin."

"I thought that all had been addressed years ago," Streep told the outlet. She added that Hathaway made the producers promise then and there that the models in the new movie would not be so thin.

"She made a beeline to the producers about it, securing promises that the models in the show that we were putting together for our film would not be so skeletal!"

"She's a stand-up girl," Streep stated.

Body doubled

This put the onus on Hathaway to explain herself to fawning activists during subsequent interviews. At the premiere in New York City, Hathaway told Variety that she had noticed "beautiful models on set," but "a lot of them were more traditionally model-sized."

"I thought the scene would be so much more enjoyable for the audience if we had just a wider range of bodies on display, because all different shapes are beautiful," Hathaway claimed.

The 43-year-old explained that she asked her producers if they thought the scene would be "stronger" if it had "a more inclusive approach to sizing."

At her behest, the producers allegedly made the changes within an hour.

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Diet rights

In an interview with "Good Morning America" on Monday, Hathaway continued her campaign by saying she wanted to correct any "misinformation" about getting thin models fired "because of the size inclusivity."

"That just didn't happen. Nobody lost their jobs. In fact, it created more jobs," she claimed. "It was just about making sure that so many different body types saw themselves in a moment in the script."

Amid the hosts' gushing over her progressivism, Hathaway asked, "Isn't it better when you see so many different types of bodies up there with that?"

Original thin

"The Devil Wears Prada" had a $27.5 million opening in June 2006, eventually totaling over $326 million against a $35 million budget. The sequel seems football fields away from its original tone, however, which poked fun at the absurdity of models starving themselves.

One memorable scene included Emily Blunt's character telling Hathaway's about her lack of eating in order to stay thin.

"You look so thin," Hathaway's character says at an event.

"It's for Paris. I'm on this new diet," Blunt replies. "It's very effective. Well, I don't eat anything, and when I feel like I'm about to faint, I eat a cube of cheese. ... I'm just one stomach flu away from my goal weight."

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Size queens

In another red-carpet interview with Etalk, Hathaway again remarked that she relished the ability to utilize "a more inclusive approach to beauty standards" in the new film, repeating the term "traditionally sized."

The actress was met by yet another journalist eager to speak about the issue, revealing that she has been a "size inclusivity advocate for 15 years."

Hathaway boasted to the reporter that she "had seen that there were a lot of traditionally sized models in our movie, and I just know that this movie is for everyone."

Hathaway even spoke on behalf of her producers, saying they were "so embarrassed" when they realized there was a serious lack of body diversity on the movie set. Now moving the timeline to two hours, she said the producers quickly brought in more girls for the scene.

In what seemed like a borderline-forced happy-go-lucky attitude, the actress concluded that everyone feels "happier" when everybody feels "included."

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‘Don’t touch it’: Michelle Obama tells white folks to ‘get out of’ black women’s hair



Michelle Obama is making waves after claiming that black women have been trapped by the beauty standards of white people, which is why they straighten their hair.

The former first lady went on her rant during a live sit-down with Tracee Ellis Ross to discuss her new book, “The Look.”

“Let me explain something to white people,” Obama said. “Our hair comes out of our head naturally in a curly pattern. So when we’re straightening it to follow your beauty standards, we’re trapped by the straightness.”

“That’s why so many of us can’t swim and we run away from the water … trying to keep our hair straight for y’all! It is exhausting and it’s so expensive and it takes up so much time. Braids are for y’all so we can work harder and focus on the work,” she continued.


“Why do we need an act, an act of law, to tell white folks to get out of our hair? Don’t tell me how to wear my hair. Don’t wonder about it. Don’t touch it. Just don’t,” she added.

BlazeTV host Pat Gray is not amused by Obama’s little rant.

“Can you imagine if this was a white person saying, ‘All right, let me talk down to black people. Let me explain something to you black people about reality.’ … You’re an instant racist if you say that. And you’re labeled as such the rest of your life,” he says on “Pat Gray Unleashed."

“There’s no escape from that. How is she immune to all of that?” he asks.

“Good lord,” executive producer Keith Malinak chimes in, adding, “She is insane.”

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Candace Cameron Bure talks eating disorders, Hollywood's beauty standards, and faith



Staying levelheaded despite overwhelming pressure to be perfect as a Hollywood starlet is no easy feat — but Candace Cameron Bure has done so with grace.

The former "Full House" star has been very transparent about the eating disorder she’s suffered from as she’s tried to keep up with Hollywood standards.

“The pressure is so ingrained,” Bure tells Allie Beth Stuckey. “I’ve been very public and open about having an eating disorder, which has been really good for the last, probably, you know, 20 years.”

However, she’s noticed that with certain crazes, like the recent trend of celebrities using Ozempic to drop weight fast, she still feels that pressure.

“These are, like, the crazy thoughts that still go through my head, and they’re so dumb and they’re so unrealistic and I hate that I have them, but the fact is I do,” Bure says.

One of the ways she battles the thoughts is sharing them with others as well as maintaining a fitness regimen.

“The more I just share it and am open about it, it frees me from it because I can hear myself say it out loud and realize, like, this is not what life is all about,” she tells Stuckey, adding, “I do love fitness for the reasons that obviously I want my body to feel strong and healthy, but it frees my mind.”

While sharing and exercise have been huge in overcoming her eating disorder, one of the other ways Bure stays grounded is through her relationship with God.

“My prayer life is pretty strong, my conversations with him are very strong,” Bure says. “Really, it’s a battle of the mind, a lot of disordered eating is, and so if I pull the Holy Spirit into my mind, and I’m constantly praying and asking God to renew my mind, it helps.”

Stuckey is no stranger to eating disorders herself, telling Bure that she suffered from one in college.

“I was enslaved to that, and that’s what I think about,” Stuckey says, adding, “I’m like, ‘Do you want to be enslaved to that again? Do you want to be controlled by that again?’”


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Actress shares the ‘tools’ she uses to navigate Hollywood’s impossible beauty standards



Candace Cameron Bure, best known for playing D.J. Tanner on ABC’s “Full House,” is no stranger to the crushing pressure of Hollywood’s impossible and toxic beauty standards.

Bure is now back in the entertainment industry, and while she loves her “fitness routine” and “being a healthy eater,” she knows where to draw the line.

“There are unrealistic and unhealthy beauty standards in the entertainment industry that I'm sure you had to battle against,” says Allie Beth Stuckey.

“I still do,” Bure admits, citing “the Ozempic craze” as one area she’s currently struggling with.

“I’m like, ‘Should I go on Ozempic?’ … I’m not going to go on Ozempic, but these are the things that cross my mind because the standard is so high and I’m in front of the camera all day,” she continues, adding that “a lot of the pressure comes from [herself].”

Bure is open about her former eating disorder, and while she’s had control over it for “20 years,” she still has to “battle it all the time.”

“I have tools in place that help me,” she says.

Before making a decision, “I'm going to remind myself how I'm going to feel, I'm going to remind myself of every physicality” that might happen — “whether my stomach’s going to feel bloated, whether my eyes and face are going to hurt.”

“I was bulimic for a long time, so I remind myself of the things that feel awful and the consequences of it,” she says, adding that this method “snaps [her] back to reality.”

As for exercise, Bure focuses on “[feeling] strong and healthy,” allowing “all of those endorphins” to help “clear [her] mind.”

“My fitness journey is really for my emotional health,” she says.

She also looks to her Christian faith to guide her through those internal battles.

“I have an ongoing dialogue with God, and so, my prayer life is pretty strong,” she tells Allie. “If I pull the Holy Spirit into my mind and I'm constantly praying and asking God to renew my mind, it helps.”

To hear about how Candace handles the pressure to look perfect on social media and the inevitability of aging, watch the clip below.


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