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My dad had a subscription to the National Enquirer for decades, and one of the fascinating things about that publication was how it focused quite narrowly on the weight gain of a specific set of celebrities: Kirstie Alley, Valerie Bertinelli, Delta Burke, and John Travolta
Others came and went - Barbra Streisand, Roseanne, John Goodman, Justine Bateman, Oprah, Mariah Carey, and eventually Jessica Simpson - but those first four were covered on a near weekly basis, even when they weren't working regularly or, in Bertinelli's case, at all
I wrote about the NE's positive impact on my life in a piece for @KenSilverstein1 https://washingtonbabylon.com/the-national-enquirer-did-it-first/ …
Kirstie Alley's weight gain seemed to be the most important, for some reason. Oprah's weight gain was public, but she always acknowledged it, so it paled in comparison. I probably saw as many photos of Alley in loose sweatpants walking the LA streets as I did photos of family
The National Enquirer also did a decent job exposing baldness, though the lesser rags were better on the toupee beat. I remember learning what a toupee was when my father showed me an article about how Ted Koppel wore one. "He's bald as hell, don't let that bastard fool you."
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