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OBSESSION WITH CELEBRITIES
By Robert | July 11, 2009
Why should I care about celebrities? For that matter, why should any of us? Celebrities live in a parallel universe – one that looks and feels just like ours, yet is light years beyond our reach and that is why they are fascinating. “Celebrity worship syndrome” is what many american’s suffer from.” It’s an unhealthy interest in the lives of the rich and fabulous. According to the researchers, about a third of us have it to some degree. In fact, over the past few years, a wealth of academic literature has cashed in on our relationships with the stars.
Fans used to be lumped into two distinct groups. The first were harmless admirers who enjoyed their celebrity’s talents from afar. A second group of fans were the letter writer obsessed and stalkers. Why the fascination? Why do we care about the personal lives of people we’ve never met?
Social psychologists agree that the reasons are complex, but some issues seem to recur.
1. One is that we’re bored, and living through movie stars is a way of alleviating that boredom.
2.Another reason is that we are searching for identity, the evidence for which is that teenagers usually score highest on celebrity worship syndrome.
3. Social fragmentation: as family and community values are crushed by individualism and the omnipresent media, perhaps fantasy relationships are becoming easier to form than real ones.
4.If the new religion is Fame, then celebrities are our gods. According to psycological research, the more a person subscribes to a formal, institutionalized religion, the less likely they are to worship a celebrity.
5. Gossip – whether about family, friends, neighbors or celebrities – still plays an important role in cementing social bonds and improving an individual’s status within a group.
6. Evolution – it makes sense for us to copy high-status individuals. People with high status, among our ancestors, tended to reproduce more often, so copying their techniques was a way of improving our own fitness.
Which brings us to our own personal appearance.Our obsession is looking just like our celebrity idols -trim and fit. Beauty bias is well known. We do pay more attention to people who are good looking. Throughout human history we’ve always idolized people more successful and beautiful than ourselves.
Models, musicians, actors and singers all fall into the same category when it comes to weight loss. If you the one the one preparing to go on tour, need to be walking the red carpet, or flying off to meet a photographer in an exotic location, how would you lose those extra pounds?
Many Stars are quick to share their diet secrets:
KIRSTIE ALLEY revealed how at her heaviest she demolished up to an astonishing 28,000 calories a day. Kirstie now eats healthily — around 1,500-2,000 calories a day.
RENEE ZELLWEGER: for both Bridget Jones films Renee consumed 4,780 calories a day for three months, eating 20 doughnuts a day, battered beef, fast-food burgers, chips and shakes as well as pizza and peanut butter. She embarked on the Atkins diet after the first film. Now the 5ft 5 inch star maintains her figure on tuna, cold meats, dressing-free salads and raw vegetables.
LIZ HURLEY: Liz has admitted in the past to ‘eating very little breakfast, not too much more lunch. Then tiny little snacks in the day, such as a banana or six raisins. The only meal I have is dinner’.
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