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i think what rankles most salon readers about Ayelet is that she is a liberal feminist turned mother and wife. Two things that seem to be at odds with one another. When she breaches the issues of our day from a very 'my life, my world' perspective; it's almost too close, too real. She brings up the hidden dilemmas in all our every day lives, the ones we fear to see. I look at Nicole Ritchie with disgust, as the rich white girl starving herself to be part of the hollywood 'scene'. Yet, I know what disgust me most about her is that I was there at one point too; when I was in college I had starved and excercised myself of 40 pounds, down to an emaciated 90 pound frame. I wasn't rich, I wasn't suburban, I wasn't white, I wasn't even an out and out anorexic. I didn't need an intervention to come back to real life, it just took time. But there is no denying that for the better part of two or three years it wasn't a prestigious university, or a multitude of extra-curricular activities that ruled my life- it was food, always at the back of my mind as I went about my day to day. So I commend Ayelet a thousand times over for bringing up the food demon in us all, and for having the courage to face him so openly.
