

Raven Symoné, the former child star who helped The Cosby Show jump the shark, penned a MySpace blog addressing the criticism about her weight and misshapen eyebrows. She seems to think that the best way to get her point across is in all caps. Raven, 22, was responding to negative stories that came out about her after she attended the Tinkerbell DVD premiere on Sunday. Our friends at Best Week Ever are among the blogs that mentioned her appearance, and commenters said at the time that it wasn’t fair to call her out for being a bigger young woman. Raven agrees and at first she wanted us to know about it – before she ended up regretting this caps lock rant and deleting it.

I WAS BORN WITH MESSED UP EYE BROWS, LOOK AT THE COSBY SHOW THEY GROW UPSIDE DOWN AND ON THE WRONG EYE. THAT IS MY PARENTS DOING AND MY BROTHER HAS THE SAME ONES. IM SORRY IF I WANT TO GO OUT ONE DAY AND NOT FILL THEM IN. IM SURE OTHER PEOPLE DONT GO OUT ALL THE TIME WITH THEIR FACE BEAT (MAKE-UP TERM, FLAWLESS MAKE UP). MY BODY SIZE; OOOHHH MY GOD!!!! HOW MANY YEARS HAS IT BEEN… IV BEEN ON TV FOR 21 YEARS, AND IV ALWAYS BEEN THICK…..OK!!!!

NOW IF ANYONE KNOWS MY FAMILY, ALL OF THE WOMEN EXCEPT FOR A FEW, STRUGGLE WITH KEEPING WHAT IS A SOCIALLY EXCEPT-ABLE WEIGHT. WHEN I STRESS I GAIN, WHEN IM HAPPY WHO KNOWS… I HAD A LOT OF PERSON THINGS HAPPEN TO ME AT THE END OF THE SHOW, DEALING WITH FAMILY, AND MY EX-BOYFRIEND CHEATED ON ME AND I HAD TO BREAK UP WITH HIM (LISTEN TO LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME, AND SECRETS) AND LIKE ANY FEMALE WITH A PROBLEM, DELT WITH IT A CERTAIN WAY! ID LOVE IF THE INDUSTRY COULD ONE DAY UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OBESITY AND FAT AND THICK AND THIN AND SICK. I AM A THICK GIRL, I HAVE NEVER BEEN OVER A SIZE 12, I CAN RUN, AND I TRY MY BEST TO EAT RIGHT ALL THE TIME. I AM NOT THE TEXT BOOK WEIGHT THAT THEY SAY I SHOULD BE, BUT EVERYDAY I HAVE MY OWN PERSONAL STRUGGLES, AND I THINK THAT PEOPLE NEED TO RESPECT THAT.

[From Raven Simone's myspace via D-Listed]

Raven’s myspace (warning: link has automatic loud music) is now just a broken image and some of her very annoying music. I didn’t check it out yesterday but it looks like she took a page from the John Mayer school of celebrity blogging and deleted everything once she got some press for her blogging.

I feel badly for this girl because she seems like she was affected by the criticism and maybe we should be more aware of it, especially with younger celebrities like Symoné who may take negative comments to heart. You have to have a thick skin when you’re famous, but that doesn’t mean you’re not human and it doesn’t affect you.

Symoné last starred on the Disney show That’s So Raven from 2003 to the end of the show late last year. She was also on The Cheetah Girls. She has a how-to website, Raven Symoné Presents (link has automatic video) along with a music career with several albums out.

Hang in there Raven. You have fans and they’re not concerned about your weight or eyebrows. If you could learn to capitalize properly and not scream your writing you might earn some more admirers.

Update: It’s possible the blog entry supposedly written by Raven is a fake. As fancyfree points out below, her official myspace is still up. The myspace linked yesterday by sites referencing this story has been replaced, though. The other myspace could either be a secondary account from which she blogged or just someone trying to spoof her. It was in the “music” section of MySpace though – can anyone just get their account assigned there?