Tori Spelling has said several times that she’s not anorexic, and that her weight is healthy. She’s also admitted that she feels pressure from Hollywood to be thin. Whatever is going on with Tori, at least she eats once in a while. Tori was spotted having a bite of a sandwich she really seemed to need while poolside in Palm Springs, California with her family yesterday. She carried little Stella, nearly one, and comforted Liam, two. Those implants really look ridiculous on her frame, but it’s her business if she wants to look like an insect carrying around two water bubbles. (I’m trying to be generous and not too mean here, but it’s hard.)

Tori said earlier this month that it does hurt her to read criticism in the tabloids, and that she is hoping to set a decent body image example for her daughter:

“At the end of the day I have two kids, a husband, that’s my priority,” Spelling said. “I have a lot of businesses to run. I don’t have time to deal with whether they think I’m at the perfect weight or what they think I should weigh, but I want to be healthy for my children. When they start writing stories and criticizing you it starts to hurt because there are children involved. I think, my little Stella, she’s a baby now but imagine if she were 15 and going through the body self-image thing and turning into a woman and she had to read this about her mother. I want to be a positive role model for her so it’s a difficult thing to deal with.”

When that time comes, Spelling will be able to impart her years of dealing with the spotlight on her children. “I’ve always gotten it. I remember in my 20s there were always stories, ‘She’s too thin.’ I’ve always weighed the same, since I was 16. This is my weight. I’m not unhealthy. I’m very healthy. It is hard to be criticized in the public and it’s harder for your family to deal with, I think. You kind of get a thick skin but when you have kids and a husband it’s upsetting.”

[From Starpulse]

You may have heard that already, but I needed some kind of quote to go along with these photos of Tori. She’s not my favorite person but I can’t fault her for being too thin. One of my girlfriends is tiny like that and it hurts her feelings when people point it out, but at least she looks proportionate all over. That said, if Tori doesn’t want the tabloids to talk about her she should stop using them to promote her books and products and stop hitting the paparazzi hot spots for dinner. She’ll never do that though, because it would be so much more painful to her if everyone just ignored her entirely.

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