Blog 1: Magazines in the checkout line

I read gossip magazines for entertainment but i don't always believe everything i read or see in them. As for the pictures in these magazines they can either make you look really good or really bad. It seems like there is no in between, no real pictures. The bad pictures are of celebrities at bad angles making them look 20 lbs heavier then they are just to make fun of them. Or pictures of them as they are leaving a bar in the middle of the night. No one looks good in those types of pictures and to publish them is not fair. I really hate when they put a celebrity in a magazine, especially a women, and criticize her for putting on to much weight, having a bad hair day, or having on an ugly shirt. This is an awful message because these pictures of the celebrities who have "gained weight" are the average size of most women in real life if not smaller. These magazines can say really cruel things about the way people and celebrities look. This can not make anyone feel good about themselves. So what is the point of pictures like this? To make people feel bad about themselves?  for some reason these magazines are irresistible for people, including myself, to read.