14 DAY TRIAL // For the past few months, one of the favorite topics of conversation in the blogosphere has been that of LeAnn Rimes’ weight and whether she’s not starving herself to be this thin. This much attention to her body has been very hurtful, she says in a new interview with People magazine.
We also noted on several past occasions that Rimes’ weight seemed to plummet, but she insisted that she was healthy, that she ate right and that only worked out to stay in shape.
She says the same in a statement to People magazine. After she posted photos of herself in a two piece swimsuit on her Twitter while on her honeymoon, there’s been so much negativism about her body online that she simply can’t stand it anymore.
“For someone like me who is healthy, who works hard for my body, it’s very frustrating,” the singer and actress says of what she likes to call the “hoopla about my body.”
“I work out and take care of myself, and not in an over-obsessive way,” LeAnn adds, responding to claims that she hardly eats and then nearly kills herself in the gym to maintain her figure.
As for those who say that she has an eating disorder, it’s not really their place to have an opinion on that, especially when it can be this damaging, Rimes underlines.
“People are calling me bulimic or anorexic,” she says of how people reacted on Twitter to her photos, “and these are real issues and diseases – that I don’t have.”
Her trainer, Michael Jackson at Equinox in Woodland Hills, Calif., agrees: LeAnn Rimes is healthy and toned, and both have every intention of keeping her that way.
“My main concern with her is that she’s toned and healthy. And she is,” he tells People.
As we also noted a short while ago, after Rimes uploaded the bikini photos on her Twitter page, she was being harshly criticized for her hip bones, which visibly jutted out.
She immediately fought back saying those were “abs, not bones, honey.”