Can Being Overweight Affect Your Career Prospects?

There are many who’re convinced that being overweight means no more promotions and your career takes a nosedive.

While having a fit body is a pre-requisite in showbiz, it seems those in the corporate sector also stand to benefit if they take care of their body.

And for those who’re overweight, most of the time, it means your career will move at a snails pace, with the top promotions going to those who have got the looks.

And though it could be true to some extent, there are people who’re ready to accept their body as it is, and are quite happy with how they look, even if it means being overweight.

Christina Aguilera is one of them!

Christina Aguilera is an Ecuadorian but at the beginning of her career, people felt safe passing her off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl.

Few years down the line, when those labels saw her again, she was heavier, darker and full of piercings! And it definitely wasn’t an easy pill for them to swallow.

The bosses felt it would affect a lot of people if she gained weight, because they won’t be able to sell any records or tickets for her shows.

However, Christina Aguilera has hit back at record label bosses for pressuring her to lose weight, who keep on harping that she wouldn’t be successful if she had a fuller figure.

She has made it clear that she won’t be getting told what she can and can’t eat anymore and has told the bosses at her current record label, to get used to her sexy curves.

‘They need a reminder sometimes that I don’t belong to them. It’s my body. My body can’t put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore – my body is just not on the table that way anymore,’ says Christina.

Here are some more celebrity pictures who have lost considerable weight.

Oprah Winfrey

Peter Jackson, Hollywood Filmmaker

Bollywood Singer Adnan Sami

Overweight Cabin crews, Including Airhostesses, Face the Heat, Likely to be Grounded

As in other sectors, looks and body weight clearly matters in the aviation and hospitality sectors as well, and with competition getting tough, airlines are taking measures to ensure they don’t lose out on the customers.

Overweight cabin crews, including airhostesses, are facing the heat, and several of them are likely to be grounded for failure to maintain weight requirements as prescribed by aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).

The national carrier ‘Air India’ had given an opportunity to around 600 “overweight” cabin crew members last year to “shape up” within a stipulated time frame to continue flight duty following Directorate General of Civil Aviation’s guidelines to ensure that no overweight or obese person continues as a flight steward or an air hostess.

However, as per the sources, around 125, including airhostesses, failed to maintain the required Body Mass Index (BMI) or weight standards in the prescribed period. They are most likely to be taken off permanently from flying duty.

Out of Shape Sharon Stone Under Pressure to Look Good in a Bikini while on Holiday

Remember Sharon Stone from “Basic Instinct”, and the famous leg-crossing scene? That was years back; Sharon stone today is a fifty plus lady, who has stopped gymming, and doesn’t have the hot body she used to have once.

The Hollywood actress who’s planning to go on a vacation is worried about her not so shapely derriere, and feels that tabloids are just going to make fun of her.

She’s under pressure because she feels that she’s going to be clicked in her bikini while on holiday, and the tabloids will make fun of her.

Stone says, “I haven’t worked out in a couple of months because I just didn’t feel like it. But now I’m going on vacation and I know what they’re going to do – (the tabloids) are going to put a circle around my ass and do one of those crazy magnified pictures saying, ‘What happened to her ass? It’s a bag of cheese.’ I would just like to say it’s a fine triple creme brie!”

But the mom of three seems to have some idea to spice it up.

“Right when they zoom in, I should have a tattoo on my ass that says, ‘You wish you could get a bite of this’,” she said humorously.

Sharon Stone might seem worried but she seems to have her sense of humour intact!