Splenda replaces sugar in the new 'Sweet Valley High' series
Mar 27, 2008, 05:01 PM | by Adrienne Day
Categories: Books, Hell to the no!, Kids' Corner, Press Release of the Week, Television, Things That Make Me Die Inside
When the first Sweet Valley High book was published in 1983, Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, identical twin heroines of the soon-to-be wildly popular teen fiction series (and subsequent TV spinoff), were described as blonde, beautiful, and a "perfect size 6." Now bid welcome to a new, thinner, Sweet Valley High: Random House is reissuing 12 books from the original series with a few small editorial tweaks, one of which involves the slightly awkward issue of the Wakefield waistline. The twins' "perfect size 6" has been reduced to a "perfect size 4." Kudos, Random House, for not only introducing body-image issues to a whole new generations of young fans, but proudly trumpeting this point in the press release.
To that end, if you can't manage to (or afford to) physically alter your body via starvation or plastic surgery, you may still create your own anorexic cyber-waif with a little help from Miss Bimbo.
http://gawker.com/5004617/random-house-proudly-promoting-eating-disorders
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That makes me really, really sad. I read all the SWH books up to like 108 and loved them. I'm sad now.
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