E!’s Giuliana Rancic was interviewed on the Ryan Seacrest radio show, and her employer (Ryan) asked her about the sh*tstorm over her comments that LeAnn Rimes should eat something. Rancic explained the context for that statement, which of course LeAnn got all defensive about on Twitter back when she first made it, and said that things are cool between them now. She also clarified that “I didn’t say she’s ugly skinny or that she needs to gain weight,” which kind of made it worse, in my opinion. She could have explained that “I think she’s beautiful the way she is now,” which of course isn’t true, so she sounds like she’s admitting she didn’t say what she really wanted to say, which is that LeAnn looks like a stick insect. Look at the pencil calling the pen too skinny.

Giuliana Rancic told On Air with Ryan Seacrest Monday her food feud with LeAnn Rimes was “blown out of proportion.”

It all began on August 30, when Rancic told The Huffington Post she thinks the How Do I Live singer “lost a lot of weight from all the stress in her life” and “seems a little thin right now and… looks great when she’s a bit curvier.”

Rancic, who’s slated to open an Italian restaurant in Chicago with her husband Bill, said she was asked by The Huff Post, “What celebrity would you like to feed who you think is really skinny right now?”

Rancic said, “The first person that came to mind — cause that bikini shot of her had just came out — was LeAnn Rimes. I know she’s lost a lot of weight, but I like her when she’s curvier. I interviewed her when her Shape magazine cover just came out, and I thought she looked amazing, and that’s all I said — it was pretty harmless.

“I didn’t say she’s ugly skinny or that she needs to gain weight,” Rancic said in defense of her comments. “What’s wrong with saying a girl is pretty [when she’s] curvy?”

Shortly after Rancic made the comment, Rimes shot back with a tweet, writing: “@GiulianaRancic hey, we should go to dinner sometime. You get criticized all the time for how small you are. You can see just HOW much I eat and maybe put a stop to this crazy “shrinking” once and for all.

Rancic, in response, told Ryan Seacrest, “You know how Twitter is — you can’t tell the tone” of what’s being said, and how it’s intended.

“If someone said to me, I like you curvier, I wouldn’t take that as an insult.”

Rancic said she and Rimes have communicated since the blow-up and seem to be on the right path.

“We’ve texted… she’s really cool… we don’t want enemies,” Rancic said. “We’re gonna get together, have a drink, cause I think this whole thing was kinda blown out of proportion.”

[From Radar]

Of course it got blown out of proportion. LeAnn tweeted about it incessantly and made a big deal out of it. She’ll get people to talk about her however she can.

LeAnn released the new video for her single, Give, which has an uplifting message about being a good person or something. I like that she featured real homeless and struggling people in this video, but there’s something sanctimonious about this.

Here’s LeAnn out in New York yesterday in an ugly draped brown dress. She’s wearing some fug light brown suede booties. They’re not as bad as the ones Katie Holmes was just spotted out in, but they’re still ugly. Giuliana is shown in Vegas on 9/8/11.

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