A Black Girl's Guide to Weight Loss finds that Weight Watchers' celebrity ads featuring Jennifer Hudson and Jessica Simpson reinforce an unfortunate message:

so what lessons do you think the public will gather from this? A full-throated song sung by a full-body – in leather-ish pants (that she needs to let me borrow), no less – that goes by the nickname J-Hud, running at the same time as a body-less, blonde, apologetic Jessica Simpson talking to a million strangers about how she has "so much work to do?"