Ashlee Simpson says she is outraged by the scrutiny over her sister Jessica’s new fuller figure.

“I am completely disgusted by the headlines concerning my sister’s weight,” she writes in a blog post on her Celebrity MySpace page. “A week after the inauguration and with such a feeling of hope in the air for our country, I find it completely embarrassing and belittling to all women to read about a woman’s weight or figure as a headline on Fox News.”

At Sunday’s Kiss Country Chili Cookout in Pembroke Pines, Fla., Jessica — dressed in high-waisted jeans and a double belt — shocked fans with her new curves.

But Ashlee says, “All women come in different shapes, sizes, and forms and just because you’re a celebrity, there shouldn’t be a different standard.”

Of the negative remarks some bloggers are making about her sister, Ashlee then asks, “Is this something you would say to your wife, daughter, mother, grandmother, or even a friend? I seriously doubt it.”

Adds Ashlee, “How can we expect teenage girls to love and respect themselves in an environment where we criticize a size 2 figure?”

Jessica’s former trainer also doesn’t mind the singer’s shape.

“She’s still sexy,” Harley Pasternak said on Tuesday. “She’s still a beautiful woman. And I have no problem with the way she looks.

“I think if more people looked the way she looks now, the country would be a lot healthier.”

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