Lisa Marie Presley slams media coverage

Lisa Marie Presley is in fighting form this week. The daughter of The King, Presley found herself the subject of a storm of unfavourable publicity over the last few weeks on the issue of her weight gain. Clearly all the column inches about her expanding waistline prompted Lisa Marie to announce to the world that she wasn't fat, but pregnant. But the way in which she feels she was forced to confirm her pregnancy has made her mad.

'After being the target all week of slanderous and degrading stories, horribly manipulated pictures and articles in the media, I have had to show my cards and announce under the gun and under vicious personal attack that I am in fact pregnant,' Presley writes on her MySpace blog.

'Once they got a glimpse of my expanding physique a few days ago, they have been like a pack of coyotes circling their prey whilst eerily howling with delight…They couldn't wait to find out if my weight gain was because I was just overeating… or less interesting for them and probably much to their dismay, I could just be pregnant and therefore have a legitimate reason for weight gain.'

'It is unfortunate that I couldn't have announced something that is this much of a blessing and that has made us so incredibly happy under better circumstances,' she goes on to say. 'Pardon my seething contemptuous tone but ladies, You KNOW if you were pregnant and you felt you were expanding uncontrollably by the moment as a result and the worldwide media started badgering and harassing you for it, plastering you everywhere in an unflattering light, you would be mortified as well.'

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