Top 10 Craziest Moments in Body Image in 2010

The past year was filled with nonstop reality TV weight loss drama, a smattering of Photoshopping debacles and some bonafide plus-sized model love. Snooki taught us about body image, the Real Housewives all slimmed down, and anorexia poster girl Isabelle Caro passed away. Saudi Arabia managed to make Mariah Carey seem modest, massively airbrushed pics of Madonna were leaked, and V Magazine pulled a Lizzi Miller with a multi-page spread showing bigger models in the buff.

You want more? I'll give you more! Without further adieu, I present you with the Top 10 Craziest Moments in Body Image, Version 2010:

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Everyone's favorite RH star appeared on the cover of Life & Style in a turquoise bikini with a slammin' bod, just three months after delivering daughter Bryn. Not to be outdone, Octomom Nadya Suleman also posed in a bathing suit, claiming no surgery was needed to attain her trim figure. August

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Everyone's favorite RH star appeared on the cover of Life & Style in a turquoise bikini with a slammin' bod, just three months after delivering daughter Bryn. Not to be outdone, Octomom Nadya Suleman also posed in a bathing suit, claiming no surgery was needed to attain her trim figure.

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[Aitch5]

03:29 PM on 12/31/2010

well Amanda Seyfried's comment is certainly revealing isn't it?

[MiddleMolly]

12:04 PM on 12/31/2010

Who are all of these people? Are they on t.v.? I recognize few of them, and I had no idea who Heidi was until the to-do about her surgeries.

[Suzan S]

11:38 AM on 12/31/2010

It is really sad that someone thinks that a thin girl needs to be even thinner, (the girl in the beige shirt and jeans). The obsession with beauty is as old as humans themselves but with lately it seems to be off the chain. Maybe with the white hot glare of tv and the internet every pound gained or lost by some folks has become news. Do people have so little going on in their lives that it even matters what someone's weight is?
As for Heidi Montag, whoever she is, doesn't look a whole lot different than what she was. hope all the money and pain was worth it.

[halfassedfilms]

04:37 PM on 12/31/2010

Blame Advertising. They still haven't found a better way to sell then to make you feel bad about yourself or infer you're going to get laid (probably with the above mentioned overly skinny model).

[Puffin16]

05:18 PM on 01/04/2011

You got that right.

[KikoJones]

11:01 AM on 12/31/2010

Amanda Seyfried said she wouldn't get the roles she does if it weren't for her body shape/size. Without being naive about Hollywood's obsession with image, I'm gonna go on a limb here and assume Seyfried is an actress of average talent and as such has to complete with plenty others such as herself. If there were an actress or two of a much higher acting caliber in her age group, with a similar but slightly heavier appearance would these other actresses and not Seyfried and her crew be getting the roles instead?

Btw, Bethenny Frankel and Salma Hayek aren't really "butter" faces but they might be the celebrity queens of the hot bod/so-so face combo; Heidi Montag was a guilty pleasure, now she just makes me sad.

[halfassedfilms]

04:38 PM on 12/31/2010

Are you for real? To get catty over a beautiful woman like Salma Hayek is surely some sign of real mental illness. What in god's name is wrong with that woman that you'd say she has a "so-so" face?

What the heck do you look like? Stones and Glass houses and all. . .

[KikoJones]

04:05 PM on 01/03/2011

Wow, you REALLY need to get a grip. That someone differs from your opinion "is surely some sign of real mental illness"? Leave the bubble much? Here's a news flash: your opinion/taste isn't some sort of universal standard, ok? (I've also seen Salma Hayek from a distance of less than 3 feet, in the daylight, in a well-lit room. Have you? Nude magazine pictorials don't count.)

We're just making comments on appearance not impugning these ladies' right to live, so chill, please. Btw, that "catty" remark is quite lame. So was bringing up someone's appearance. Who cares what I look like? And if turned out that I happened to be quite unattractive how what that invalidate my opinion? Or what if I was the exact opposite? Then I could opine the way I did because I'm very attractive? Jeez...give me a break. Good grief!

[Liz Patrick]

03:14 AM on 01/04/2011

Amanda Seyfried is a passable actress at best. Lindsey Lohan and Rachel McAdams are both way better actresses as seen in Mean Girls.

[Erzsebet Gilbert]

09:39 AM on 12/31/2010

We're madly obsessed with the dimensions of our bodies and those of others, obviously... I suppose I'm just asking why it is that the aesthetic qualities ascribed to thinness, obviously for women in particular, seem to be a paramount vocabulary through which we can relate to the world - and what are we trying to say? How do our bodies feel, seriously?

[Highball]

09:17 AM on 12/31/2010

As I've said before, I actually feel sorry for Montag. And yeah, she did look better before.

Seyfried, well, what can say that she didn't already say?

Kevin Smith was and is freakin' hilarious. His freakout on twitter made me laugh out loud multiple times.

While the Marie Claire writer was not as ... tactful as she could have been, it was sort of funny.

[halfassedfilms]

04:40 PM on 12/31/2010

So basically you're 12 and its fun to laugh at over weight people?

[Highball]

07:56 PM on 12/31/2010

Nope. Not 12. Not even close.

But if you have a tv show where two characters are (at least close to) morbidly obese, and then you get all up in arms when people say stuff about it ... well, guess what?

[lisakaz2]

02:30 AM on 12/31/2010

Montag looked better before imo. But Portia being 82 lbs is clear INSANITY.

[TurnToTheLeft]

08:02 PM on 12/30/2010

Amanda Seyfried was refreshingly honest. Kevin Smith got what he deserved for not purchasing 2 tickets. Jessica Simpson is what she is - kind of hard to fight your gene pool. Portia de Rossi may have healed but Ellen is way too thin now. Heidi Montag looks like a blow up doll - she messed herself up - no pity.

[ljkcan]

10:18 PM on 12/30/2010

I never knew who Heidi Montag was until I read about this young woman having so many procedures done in one day. Imagine all that time and money to end up looking like you are in your late 30's.

[halfassedfilms]

04:42 PM on 12/31/2010

Kevin Smith didn't need two seats. I've been stuck with people twice his size, in coach, and without a peep from anyone.

Funny how its bad to crap on gays, blacks, arabs, women, and pretty much everyone now, except asians and fat people. They can all go to hell if we are to listen to the white collar, ivory tower "progressives" here on Huff Post.