Hegemony & Celebrity Diet


I ran into an article on CNN about celebrity diet tricks. Note: Even CNN is obsessed with our hierarchal society! The article is online, so here is the link, but essentially it tells readers which celebrity diets to try, and which ones work. The article gives the "the skinny on exactly what the big names do to get red-carpet ready -- from the healthy strategies you'll want to steal to the just plain wacky ideas you'll want to avoid". The fact that these diets are even referred to as "celebrity diets" reflects hegemony. The diets celebrities take on automatically become famous and "the most effective". Most of the ideas listed in the article are all nutritional common sense, but it is simply glamorized by adding the word "celebrity" to it. 

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