Hey fatty boomsticks, why haven't you lost all your baby weight in a month?

I don't know about you, but I saw this on the Sydney Morning Herald website the other day and it made me want to throw my computer out the window.

The story is about how Naomi Watts miraculously lost all her baby weight in a month. What a thing to aspire to. I don't blame Watts for saying she lost the weight through breast feeding.

Good for her, it works for some people. BUT WHY IS THIS REPORTED ON???? IN THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD no less.

I don't know why I am surprised. The SMH website is a different beast to the old timey broadsheet people read for actual news.

Here are the things I think are wrong with this:

1. It's not a story, much less something you flag on the home page of a NEWS site.

2. It's wonderful that 40-year-old Watts had a healthy baby and looks fantastic, but she probably has help with her kids and is able to rest much more than a normal woman who has just had a baby. Normal women need to remember not to compare themselves with people who have the luxury of nannies and a good night's sleep and a team of professionals assisting them with nutrition and dieting.

3. Someone like Watts, whether she likes it or admits it or not, trades on her looks, and as such investing her not inconsiderable income in its upkeep is something the rest of us don't need to do, or simply can't afford to do in the same way. It really irks me the way people always report on how amazing Elle McPherson looks. Well d'uh, she maintains her chassis like someone who drives for a living would maintain theirs. Only she has millions to maintain it with, unlike those people who drive for a living.

4. What if breast feeding didn't work for you. So while you and the breastfeeding Nazis are beating you up about poisoning your baby with formula, you can add being fat to your list of sins.

Measuring yourself against these standards in unrealistic. I am susceptible to it as anyone else, and it makes me cranky. So let's all just STOP IT, shall we?

Eat good food, rest as much as you can, enjoy your children, be a good person and give yourself a break.