Roughest & Nastiest Words Saved for Britney's Body with Spangled Bra and Hot Pants at MTV's Video Music Awards

Britney Spears performed like she was sloshing blindfolded through clay at MTV's Video Music Awards.Spears was stuffed into a spangled bra and hot pants and jiggled like Lossy as she sleep walked through the song. No body disputes that the troubled pop princess royally mangled her much heralded comeback.

The nastiest comments of all — those about her body? read Monday's headline in the New York Post. "The bulging belly she was flaunting was SO not hot," wrote E! Online article.

What you think? Was it fair? Did Spears, lest we forget a mother of two, deserve to be held up against the standard of her once fantastically toned abs, sculpted by sessions of 1000 tummy crunches? Or was she asking for it by choosing that unforgiving black sequined bikini outfits?


In an age of this current fashiontrend where skinny models and skeletal actresses are under scrutiny for the message they're sending young girls, what does it say that we're excoriating a young woman for a little thickness in her middle order?

As per media hype, certainly people were curious to see her. According to Nielsen Media Research, the show drew 7.1 million viewers Sunday, up 23 percent over last year's VMAs, and was the highest rated cable program of the year among people aged 12 to 34.

The blogosphere was buzzing with opinions on that morning after what the VH1 channel called Spears' "already historic" performance. For every comment, there was an impassioned retort. "Give her a break," wrote one blogger on Aboutthink.com. "The girl's had two kids — I hope I'm a size 10 after having kids!"


For many observers, the issue was not so much the body, but the body in that type of silky outfit.

Janice Min, Editor of the celebrity magazine US Weekly said - "In that ensemble, you just can't have an ounce of anything extra," . She also added "Many women wouldn't eat for days if they were wearing that."

Min comment - "Did she look better than 99 percent of women? "But compared to her earlier form, she probably didn't look as good."

Britney Spears has always been about the whole package. It's never been 100 percent about the talent. Is it sexist? Probably, but she's built a career on an image of sexiness.


Talk of Spears' physique comes amid an increasingly critical focus on overly skinny actresses in Hollywood, who've largely replaced supermodels as the world's fashion plates. It's hard to pick up a celebrity magazine without a critical photo of, say, Angelina Jolie's birdlike arms. And curvy actresses are getting positive attention, from Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson of "Dreamgirls" to Golden Globe-winner America Ferrara of TV's "Ugly Betty."

Suze Yalof Scwhartz, executive editor-at-large for Glamour Magazine said - In the fashion industry, there's been an effort to promote healthier-looking models. "Girls aren't looking as skinny this season as they did,". "There's food backstage. They're looking sexier." At Glamour, she noted, a model won't be featured "if she shows too much clavicle."

The nastier headlines about Spears are uncalled for her, Schwartz said, but at the same time, "when you walk around the stage in a black bikini in front of millions of viewers, people are going to notice." She added that though Spears doesn't have the perfect body she once did, "Most women would die for the body she has now."


Zinczenko says - "Listen, any time you go on national television and dance in barely any clothing, you're going to be facing a lot of scrutiny. Anybody would be asking for it." Not that many people weren't pulling for Spears, he notes: "If she had come back, she would have been the toast of the country."

Everybody thinks she's a train wreck but I just felt like that performance was make or break for her comeback.Now with last night's performance, she's just kind of put herself back in the same boat

At least this puts attention back on her as a Rock performer.What you think? share with us...