Somebody put something in my drink

What with the earthquake and the typhoon and all, what better time to check in with the Olsens? 

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen better get the skinny on their favorite Starbucks beverages soon!The  caffeine addicts always request a Grande nonfat latte from the coffee empire, but a source tellsOK! there's way more to what they ordered.
An ex-barista at the twins’ local Starbucks in their West Village, New York neighborhood made sure that skim milk was not on the menu or in the girls' cups when they came in.“The barista thought the Olsens were too thin, so whenever they ordered their usual drink, he would replace the skim milk with full-fat!” the source reveals. Sneaky, sneaky! However, the Olsens’ rep tells OK!, “This is ridiculous.”

The Olsens' rep is right, for once.It is ridiculous. But not in the sense of "impossible for it to be true." Instead "ridiculous" in the sense of "presumptious." The Olsens looked healthier than is skinny, last I checked. As higher education probably has a higher number, if not a greater percentage, of young women with eating disorders, Fessering pretty frequently includes encounters with folks in the M-K&O demo who appear to be making self-destructive choices, so I understand the impulse.* But it's the barista who gets the yellow card here. Evidently, for women, being famous is like being pregnant, in that you lose autonomy over your body. (The other day, a visibly pregnant colleague was scolded by a student for drinking coffee. On a campus with a student population that favors  "Sir" and "M'am," as forms of address, I cannot imagine another situation where a student would feel free to address a professor thus.) I don't defend starving oneself to death as a lifestyle choice, but I do think that your dress size does not determine if you are entitled to have a server show you the courtesy of giving you what you ordered. By way of comparison, it's hard to imagine a bartender bragging about slipping the odd O'Doul's to Dylan Thomas, or a pharmacist filling Heath Ledger's Vicodin scrip with Flinstone Chewables.

*Unfortunately, there is sweet fuck-all for the Cod to do, as the path to academic survival does not involve much conversation with students about their bodies. London Broil and Lilian Gish is about the limit.

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It's their choice. Starbucks is happy about it.