What’s the obsession with celebrity weight?

I saw the amazing pictures of Jennifer Aniston at the London premiere of her new movie We’re The Millers this week.

In the movie, Jennifer plays a stripper and she flew into the UK looking as glam as always.

But the chat about the floral dress on the big night was whether it was covering up something else.

She’d been photographed recently looking a teeny bit heavier and that sent the rumour mill into meltdown again over a possible pregnancy.

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I say again because even she herself jokes that she’s supposedly been pregnant for about the past seven years.

Since her engagement to Justin Theroux, the speculation has been even more rife.

But Jennifer came out saying she’d just “gained a couple of pounds”. And she worried that the constant speculation would spoil any real announcement about a wedding or a baby.

I can understand that actually.

Newspapers over here, the same as in Britain, are much more cautious about what they print these days.

So, there are definitely lots more “softer” stories around with many areas of the media repeating the same kind of speculation over and over.

And in Jennifer’s case that’s going to be babies and making it down the aisle.

The thing about her is that there is as much of an incredible fascination with her on this side of the Atlantic as in Blighty.

She’s often talked about as the archetypal “girl next door”.

Well, if she was the girl next door to me when I was growing up I’d never have left Glasgow!

I can’t believe all this chat about her fuller figure she’s gorgeous.

I’ve been lucky enough to meet her a few times and she is, genuinely, one of those stars who looks every bit as good up close as she does on screen.

That absolute obsession with a star’s weight is everywhere.

Celebrities know they’re going to be scrutinised constantly.

Yes, you get that old thing about the camera adding 10 pounds. But to look that trim on screen means they have to be even thinner in real life.

I’ve been on loads of film sets and actresses look so, so skinny. It can make “ordinary” women seem huge in comparison.

Funnily enough, Jennifer’s old Friends pal Matthew Perry also had his weight commented on this week.

He was pictured looking really heavy in LA, with folk saying how he’d gained even more weight during the past month.

I think Matthew’s weight is always going to be an issue. He ballooned on Friends and was then worryingly thin as his battle with booze and painkillers took its toll.

I was talking to a pal this week who’d lost a lot of weight and they were pointing out that when you’re heavy a few extra pounds don’t matter.

When you’re not, it’s immediately obvious. And as you get older it’s just that much harder to shift it.

I know if I go a couple of weeks without playing footie or exercising, it really shows on my face.

But then thankfully my career has never really been based on looks!

Of course, celebs worry about how they look generally.

On a film they’ll do everything they can with soft lighting and they have all sorts of filters for the cameras. But TV is so cruel since the advent of HD.

It really does show up every plook and pimple, and is one of the reasons that the dermatologist has now become the star’s best friend.

Rather than have invasive work by going under the knife, they book appointments with their dermatologist every two weeks.

It’s a case of little but often as they get peels, fillers and Botox to keep them looking their best before they have to have serious “work” when it’s noticed they aren’t!