No Hiding From High Definition

It's hard to pick up a newspaper or magazine without reading something derogatory about a certain celebrities' appearance. Whether they've stepped out to the local shop in their jogging bottoms or haven't got round to touching up their roots, the press are obsessed with pointing it out. Fame doesn't make people superhuman; they're still normal and have the same problems as the rest of us. If we were papped 24/7 we wouldn't look perfect in every single photo.


Pixie Lott recently attended the Dark Knight Rises premiere and was absolutely hounded for having "hairy armpits". The way headlines made out I thought she must have 11" of hair tumbling beneath her arm. When I actually saw the picture of her armpit, there was virtually nothing there. She apparently "drew attention" to her "hairy underarms" by posing with her hand on her on her waist. Forget the fact Pixie looks beautiful in her stunning blue floor length dress, instead let's focus our attention to the fact she had a tiny bit of stubble on her armpit. It was refreshing to see her taking to twitter to laugh it off, rather than dwelling on it, she moved on like the rest of us should have.

You'd have thought after Pixie explaining herself (which she shouldn't have felt compelled to do anyway) it would all go away but no. The following day at The Art of Rap premiere Pixie wore a gorgeous lace dress with short sleeves and was picked on once again for "covering up to avoid embarrassment once again". This meant reminding the nation, once again, of her "faux pas" from the day before. In amongst all of the drama, columnists felt it necessary to bring to our attention other stars that have been caught out in the past, Beyoncé, Britney Spears and Sharon Stone all on the shame list.

Why can't we just leave them alone? Shouldn't their talent matter more, I think we should go back to talking about the reasons as to why they're actually famous. It all comes back to the world caring more about appearances than ability, Kate Middleton's £35 dress is more important than the sports project she's attending with Prince William and Prince Harry and an A-listers weight is more front-page than their charity work. The media is so desperate to feed the public's lust for celebrity imperfection, it would be nice to go back to celebrating their talent instead.