Lisa Marie Presley won an apology from the U.K.’s Daily Mail, which implied that she was overweight and overeating. They published some very unflattering photos of Presley, which forced her to announce that she was actually pregnant – well before she planned on it. The Daily Mail didn’t just call Lisa Marie fat – they compared her to her father Elvis, who in his later years developed quite the voracious appetite.
Last month, Britain’s Daily Mail published a photo of Presley, dressed down and without makeup, eating with friends in Los Angeles, and the accompanying article said she was “growing just like her dad.”
Presley’s lawyers sued for libel, and on Friday the newspaper printed an apology. In fact, Presley, 40, felt forced to reveal her pregnancy secret two days after the article appeared. “I have had to show my cards and announce under the gun and under vicious personal attack that I am in fact pregnant,” she wrote on her MySpace Celebrity blog.
“My client is deeply upset and offended by this article, especially as it was widely published just as she and her family were meant to be celebrating her happy news,” her legal rep, Simon Smith, said at the time.
[From People]
I searched for the offending article, and it appears that the Daily Mail has removed it. Their apology is that typical terse stuff that somehow reads, “We’re technically apologizing for calling you fat, but only because we have to.”
On March 4, we published a photograph of Lisa Marie Presley while she was dining with friends. We suggested she might have an unhealthy appetite similar to her late father. We now accept that the suggestion is untrue and apologise to Ms Presley for any distress caused.
[From the Daily Mail]
Lisa Marie is believed to be expecting twins, but mom Priscilla was sort of tricked by a TMZ photog into answering the question. He asked, “How do you feel about Lisa having twins?” and she said “It feels great!”
The Daily Mail can provide some good articles once in a while, and has decent coverage of Brittan’s bigger stars. But at least a few times a week they seem to run out of stories to cover, and instead of finding something useful they find a bunch of unflattering photographs and dissect people’s appearance. I’d love to say that this will stop them, but there were no financial penalties, so I doubt it. But at least Lisa won a moral victory.
Here’s Lisa Marie Presley leaving Madeo restaurant with her husband Michael Lockwood on April 7th. Images thanks to WENN.
moral victory schmoral schmictory. You can be overweight and pregnant and while it make be more difficult to tell which is which, in this case, I would say Lisa Marie is definately both.
What they really should have said what sorry we said it so nastily.
yea well still, thats not something you want to see the whole world to see when your not looking your best, especially if your just going for a quick errand or something, i dunno everyone has the right to be fabulous as sarah jessica parker would say, or just do kimora and be fabulous all the time
Utterly ridiculous! Lisa looked dreadful and she was caught out! Lisa was not FORCED to announce anything after the photo’s were published. The woman has got too much money. The fact is she was embarrassed
Who is she kidding? She’s definitely overweight. Angelina Jolie is reportedly expecting twins and she doesn’t resemble a Thanksgiving day blimp. I would never have posted a retraction or apology. Look at the photos above, wow. She obviously looks overweight to me, despite the pregnancy. Its clearly obvious. Apologies seem pointless and delusional.
Hiyori, Angelina is extremely thin to begin with!
The dress she is wearing in this picture is unbelievably unflattering making her seem much much larger then she is.
I just can’t get over her husband. Where did she find that? Why does he dress like that? He’s like a caricature.
she is not over weight at all, to those who say she is over weight , are blind just look at her picture if she was wearing tight close it would show that she is not over weight,she is wearing loose dress , her crime is that she doesn’t know how to dress , just take another pick at her pic.
She always looked like an angry bulldyke, now she looks like a fat angry bulldyke.
im sorry but when you get pregnant you are supposed to carry it in your belly not your chin and ass, she is fat too, you’re not supposed to gain 50 lbs, more like 25 lbs considering most babies weigh around 10lbs
i think she’s a beautiful pregnant woman and the daily mail is rude. not everyone has the luck of “beautiful, thin” genes like angelina. most “normal” women gain quite a bit of weight …everywhere..not just their belly. shame on everyone for being so rude.
But when is she going to apologize for that album she made ?
Ugh, she IS fat and disgusting. Too bad if this worthless Scieno doesn’t like being called out…let her get a taste of how the critics of Scientology are treated, with vicious personal attacks and constant harassment. After all, she supports that sick cult, so screw her and her feelings. She obviously doesn’t give a shit about anyone else, so she shouldn’t be surprised when someone does the same to her.
And if that’s what pregnancy does to you (turns you into a disgusting bloated whale with a double chin and a hideous belly), then thank God I hate children and am terrified of pregnancy. Obviously i am not missing out on anything.
Oh yeah, and that husband of hers looks like a total greasy loser. And he’s also really appallingly ugly. I cannot imagine letting something that looks like that touch me with a ten-foot pole. Obviously LMP has WAY bigger issues than I previously thought.
CawCAW – she let Michael Jackson too. Doesn’t say much for her taste in males (I can’t bring myself to call either one of them a man).