Okay, TOTAL rant time. The most bizarre trend ever has hit Hollywood: wearing fat suits in public to make a point. I am (sadly) not. kidding.

First, it was Tyra Banks, who donned a fat suit, walked around, went on some blind dates, and then talked about it - endlessly and with salty, supermodel tears - on her tragedy of a talk show. In recaps of the show (because trust me, I DON'T watch it) she tried (desperately and poorly) to make the point that, ya know, overweight people are shunned by society. Whoa, stop the presses. People can be insensitive jerks? Damn, this girl knows her news. She went on to cry, sharing the hurt she felt throughout the day, telling the two overweight women flanking her, "I know it must be weird, you guys comforting me...." Well, YES, it is. These women are supposed to hug the poor Victoria's Secret model for being fat for ONE DAY? Poor Tyra. That 24 hours - documented on film, for millions to share in her pain while *real* obese women fight it in secret everyday - must've been real rough.

You know what happened the next day? She woke up a supermodel. Just like yesterday. And last week. And last year. I get the point, Ty, and it's a good one. But it was most definitely not made.

Now you have some hack of a wannabe "news" chick on ET, Vanessa Minnillo, borrowed from MTV, doing the same thing. I'm sorry, what? What in the hell does being fat - or wearing a fat suit, trying to be fat, trying to make a point - possibly have to do with entertainment? Unless you're doing a story about Tyra's failed attempt at it, I don't wanna hear about it.

This latest "trend" has got to be one of the worst, (unintentionally) insensitive, wannabe-hard-hitting attempts at pseudo-journalism I've ever seen. What right do these two thin, impossibly hot, NON-fat people have pretending to be overweight just to further their careers? Because let's be honest, why else do people have talk shows, or reporters write stories? - it's part of their career. What lessons do these people think they're teaching viewers? That everyone has insecurities? That women have impossible-to-live-up-to physical standards? (The IRONY that a Hollywood-centric show did this.) That no one really understands what it's like to be gawked at walking down the street, unless you're fat or pretend to be? That, how dare we try to sympathize with anyone who might feel shunned in life...unless we literally walk a mile in their shoes?

Give. Me. A. Break.

Sensitivity and awareness - and, damnit, good journalism - does NOT a fat suit make. But, ya know, nice try.