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Bridget Jones – Contemporary Cultural Icon?  

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Amy Nickell Bridget Jones - Contemporary Cultural Icon? 'Charlottes weight battle', "Stars say 'Stuff The Diet!'", 'Lindsay's Weight Plunges'. Those are the three headlines from 3 consecutive issues of Heat magazine. As I flick through the most recent I am met by yet more headlines. I am greeted in the first two pages with images of a rather ordinary looking Brad Pitt and headlines claiming how the 'worlds sexiest man has gone from hunky to haggard'. As I delve into the heart of the magazine - I come across photos taken of Charlotte Church from a recent holiday in which she is wearing a bikini. The magazine praises her for not caring and putting comfort first. This is the same magazine which in an issue from the month prior had run a front page hitting story concerning' Charlottes Weight Battle' and the constant 'fight to keep her contours under control. Surely this...

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