For a female reader [of gossip magazines], theres ultimately no comfort in seeing a picture of a famous woman, papped with a long-angle lens, with red ‘circles of shame’ soft thighs, streched marked upper arms or slightly swollen belly. Because what this ultimately tells a reader - usually young, and impressionable, and still hopeful about the world - is that if she were a creative and ambitious woman, who worked hard, got some breaks and, somehow, managed to rise to the top of her profession and become as famous as these women in a still male-dominated industry, the paps would come for her and make her feel just as shitty as Cheryl Cole. What a fucking depressing state of affairs.