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Top 10 Craziest Moments in Body Image in 2010

The past year was filled with nonstop reality TV weight loss drama, a smattering of Photoshopping debacles and some bonafide plus-sized model love.
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The past year was filled with nonstop reality TV weight loss drama, a smattering of Photoshopping debacles and some bonafide plus-sized model love. Snooki taught us about body image, the Real Housewives all slimmed down, and anorexia poster girl Isabelle Caro passed away. Saudi Arabia managed to make Mariah Carey seem modest, massively airbrushed pics of Madonna were leaked, and V Magazine pulled a Lizzi Miller with a multi-page spread showing bigger models in the buff.

You want more? I'll give you more! Without further adieu, I present you with the Top 10 Craziest Moments in Body Image, Version 2010:

Body Image 2010
10. Bethenny Frankel loses the baby weight -- before she even gives birth!(01 of09)
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Everyone's favorite RH star appeared on the cover of Life & Style in a turquoise bikini with a slammin' bod, just three months after delivering daughter Bryn. Not to be outdone, Octomom Nadya Suleman also posed in a bathing suit, claiming no surgery was needed to attain her trim figure. August
9. Amanda Seyfried doesn't eat(02 of09)
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The Mamma Mia star kept it real when she told an Esquire interviewer her raw-food diet is " intense. And sort of awful. Yesterday for lunch? Spinach. Just spinach. Spinach and some seeds." Toting tabbouleh is just one habit she's cultivated in a seemingly Herculean effort to stay thin: "I clearly like being fit, but it's not thin without a hell of a lot of work -- I run and I exercise a lot and then I eat...I have to stay in shape because I'm an actress. It's f**ked up and it's twisted, but I wouldn't get the roles otherwise."May (credit:Getty)
8. Kevin Smith flies the un-fat-friendly skies(03 of09)
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The Clerks director launched a full-scale Tweet tweakout when Southwest kicked him off an Oakland-to-Burbank flight because he was too wide for the sky. "Don't worry," he wrote. "Wall of the plane was opened & I was airlifted out while Richard Simmons supervised." What would Silent Bob say? February (credit:Getty)
7. Britney showed some skin(04 of09)
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I know: Shocker, right? But this time, Miss Spears was posting unretouched photos from a Candie's shoot, alongside the digitally enhanced images.That same month, Jessica Simpson appeared, makeup-free, on the cover of Marie Claire. Good thing the magazine racked up some brownie points when it could, for who knew what the debacle that was headed their way (See #1 Craziest Moment in Body Image, 2010). April
6. Ann Taylor Messes Up(05 of09)
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Following in Ralph Lauren's digital footsteps, the clothing chain copped to "overzealous" retouching when one of their models appeared to have waist the size of a taper candle. (A few months earlier, AT featured real women -- their employees -- modeling silk cargo pants online.) August
5. Jessica Simpson goes on a "shock diet"(06 of09)
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It wouldn't be a "Best Body Image Moments" year-end list without J. Simps, would it? (See: Mom jeans; Burger King commercial. ) The newly engaged singer Tweeted that she "shocked my system with a vegan diet, special Pu-erh tea from China, and cupping since friday! Who am I right now? This might be too clean!" June (credit:Getty)
4. Plus-sized It girl Crystal Renn gets airbrushed(07 of09)
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Clad in nothing but a T-shirt and heavy eyeliner, the pics showed Renn looking nearly as thin as she did when in the midst of her early eating disorder modeling days. She took to the Today Show to proclaim her dissatisfaction with the altered pics. July
3. Portia de Rossi tells all about her past eating disorder(08 of09)
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During Ally McBeal, she starved, binged and overexercised herself down to 82 pounds, but has recovered and is now thriving as Mrs. DeGeneres. November (credit:Getty)
2. Heidi Montag undergoes every possible surgical cosmetic procedure in the planet. On the same day.(09 of09)
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Among the fixes: A DDD breast augmentation, a boosted butt, a chin reduction, a nose job revision, ear pinning and liposuction on her waist, hips, thighs and neck. Whoa. January

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