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Two Faced

We've all been in situations of he-said, she-said. You get into a fight with one person and then you hear the next day a different story out of someone else's mouth. Who do you believe? The person you're in conflict with or your best friend?

I've been in this situation before. It indeed puts you in a sticky situation. With rumors, gossip and talk behind your back, of course you want to address it. You're reputation is at stake and people are judging you by words that are coming out of other peoples' mouths.

Yet, when it is addressed because it needs to be, who do you accredit your information to? It's hard to not reveal your source, and I totally understand how you want to protect your friends who delivered the dirty words to you.

I've done both options. I've confronted the person and told them what I heard and who I heard it from and then I've also kept my mouth shut.

While confronting gave me the immediate satisfaction of telling that person "I know what you did," it also made a third party's relationship with that person difficult. It forced her to choose sides and put strain on their friendship.

I also have kept quiet. Kept the knowledge to myself and simply used it to cater how I behave around the person who talked the smack about me. It helped me to shape how much I trusted and what I said to her.

I myself don't know what the best solution is. It's different in every case and every person.

What do you do in these situations? How do you handle gossip girls?

Jessica Gets Criticized for Weight Gain

So earlier this week some pics of Jessica Simpson surfaced of her looking a little heavier than her usual self. I wasn't going to write about it because I don't really think her gaining a few pounds is really news (or gossip) worthy — we all go through up and downs with our weight — and I commend her for not being shy about it. I think she looks good, it's the outfit that bothers me.

But apparently Fox News thought it was a worthy story, even questioning whether "the star has been eating the same diet that her Dallas Cowboys quarterback boyfriend Tony Romo does?" And of course all the celebrity gossip blogs had a field day with the fat jokes. I mean look at this cartoon. It's absolutely horrible!

Both Jessica and Ashlee Simpson had a response to the cruel media — but they should have probably discussed it first. Jess told OK! Magazine "I'm not fat. Going from a size 2 to a size 8, that's not fat. If I weren't Jessica Simpson, no one would care." True. But Ashlee took to her Myspace blog and said "How can we expect teenage girls to love and respect themselves in an environment where we criticize a size 2 figure?" Also true, well except for the part where she says Jessica is a size 2.

But of course her size doesn't matter, I'm just saying....So read Ashlee's whole blog and tell me what you think. I agree with her that someone's weight should not matter and to publicly belittle someone because of it is unnecessarily harsh. But at the same time many of the people who left comments on her blog said that it was hard to take Ashlee seriously when she is the one that changed her whole face to conform to the media ideal.

Please tell me what you think of this whole weight controversy? Should people just leave Jess alone or is this just a part of being a celeb? What about Ashlee? Should she voice her opinion or keep her mouth shut?


Olsen Twin's star gets Vandalized

Britney’s ex Kevin Federline (yes people still talk about him) really wants to be a contestant on Dancing with the Stars, says Celebitchy. When I first heard this I thought that he would be the perfect contestant, the perfect D-List, semi-famous status. But then I remembered that Brit and KFed met when he was her back-up dancer. So that isn’t exactly fair now is it? Do you think he should be on the show? Or do you even care?

We know the PETA people don’t like the fur-wearing Olsen twins and have targeted campaigns against them — but now all the tourists in Los Angeles will know too. Perez tells us that Mary-Kate and Ashley’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was vandalized with the words “Fur Hag.” So were Aretha Franklin’s and Sharon Stone’s. That is pretty hard core, but there must be a better way. Right?

Avril Lavigne is yet another celeb with her own clothing line, and it’s well, very Avril Lavigne circa year 2000. Check out the pics of her modeling her line for Kohl’s called “Abbey Dawn.” I am not saying 24 is old in the least bit, but I think these clothes are a little immature. Isn’t Avril married? Would you wear them? Tell me!

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