So there’s this article in Us Weekly about some “concerns” over little Madison de la Garza’s role as Eva Longoria’s “fat daughter” on “Desperate Housewives.” Which is funny because we weren’t aware that people still watched the show. Madison happens to be Demi Lovato’s younger half-sister and, rather uncomfortably for us, an exact replica of what we looked like around kindergarten… and up until sixth grade. A recent episode was devoted to Eva’s character, Gabi, dealing with her daughter’s weight. And it would have likely been fun in a really dark, tragic way had Eva possessed any sense of comedic timing or delivery.

Judge for yourself, and watch Madison as a tiny Guanabee editor-in-the-making, after the jump:

The Us Weekly article theorizes, supported by quotes from a bonafide therapist, that Madison’s role as the “fat kid” might be detrimental to her psychological well-being - a fact, they say, made worse by the fact that half-sister Demi happens to be so thin. Her self-esteem, of course, will remain relatively unmarried by weekly tabloids higlighting celebrity cellulite or heralding women for losing weight about six and a half minutes after giving birth.

A fun fact we learned while reading this article? According to “L.A.-based weight specialist Dr. Joyce Peters:”

“Over 66 percent of all Spanish-American children are overweight.”

Remarkable! Where do you suppose all these Spanish-American kids come from - Galicia? Asturias? We’re keeling over at the amount of sheer, unbridled genius being hurled in our direction here.

We don’t deny there’s currently an obesity epidemic in the United States and that this extends to Latinos and their womb-hobbits but, you know. Perhaps more detrimental than being overweight as a child is having a lot of emphasis placed on your weight. Take it from a former fat kid (And, trust: Once you’re a fat kid, you’re always a fat kid. No matter how much you weigh in adulthood.), we were healthy. We played, we ate fruits and vegetables, we stayed away from soda and candy. We were just fat. And we spent absolutely no time or effort worrying about it until, around puberty hit, people began to wonder about our “weight problem.” Which, ironically, is exactly when it turned into just that - a problem.

Take care of kids, man. Make sure they’re healthy - from the foods they eat, to the comments they hear from adults about their size.

“Housewives” Child Star Controversy [Us Weekly] (print version)