Dear Reader,After reading about Stephanie Pratt's struggle with an eating disorder, you may feel a little pessimistic. Is there really no conclusion to Us Weekly's story? No light at the end of the tunnel? If you're looking to feel even more confused, read MTV's story about Pratt. It came out the same week as the Us story.
In this article, Pratt says The Hills did not make her bulimic. If anything, it showed Pratt how to "get healthy" and to try to be a "role model." This is quite a different tune from the Us article, which highlighted how the "skinny girls" on The Hills made Pratt insecure. So who should we believe?
Maybe Pratt is to blame for the inconsistency. Maybe she felt backlash from her original story and wanted to put herself in a positive light. We must wonder, however, if Us ignored all the facts and wrote the article to get attention - to sell magazines. After all, a tale of a poor girl who succumbs to pressure is far more dramatic than a girl who recovered from an eating disorder and now wants to help others, right?
If Us did in fact misrepresent the story, it should come out with a public apology, not only to Pratt but to her fans as well (remember how they might think her behavior is normal and follow it themselves?).
Regardless of who is right, we as readers need to recognize that what we see in the media is not always the truth. We cannot base our beliefs off what we see on the cover of Us Weekly, because the story may be wrong.
Michael Steele, could you help us out with this and publish the full story from now on?
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