Skinny Celebrities

I agree! You don't get that way by eating healthy. You become underweight by eating unhealthy. I'm in no way saying that some people who are underweight don't eat enough. For some it is genetics. But when you've seen a lot their past pictures (i.e. Lara Flynn Boyle, Jennifer Anniston, Nicole Richie) at healthy weights with flesh on their bones before they became famous, it makes you wonder how they've become so underweight and malnourished looking. It definitely is not genetics IMHO.

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It is a loadof crap for a lot of these woman to say "I'm just thin, I don't gain weight, I don't do anything to stay bone thin" when you see them in movies YEARS ago sporting more weight. Example, Sarah Jessica Parker in the Las Vegas movie with Nicolas Cage...the comedy where they were supposed to get married but he "lost" her in a poker game...can't remember the name of the movie.

I always thought that Nicole Ritchie was kind of hefty, at least in the early episodes of Simple Life. However, I haven't seen more than a split sec of the show since I turn it off. Maybe she just looks heftier compared to Paris Hilton.

Jen Aniston was sporting more weight in the earlier Friends.
 
Nicole Richie was on Howard stern - and he mentioned how she lost so much weight (and now is looking 'hot' in his terms). She said that she is not doing anything to lose weight - that she was in rehab for drug use and that in rehab all you do is eat. So now that she's out and she's clean, she's naturally (slowly) losing the weight.


.... OK edited to add I wrote that without reading the article.
Whoops.
 
*sigh*... i've been waiting for this to come up on one of the boards....


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I find it interesting that Sarah Jessica Parker claims she's naturally thin in this article and in several other articles I've read she's made claims that it's been a struggle for her to stay a certain size, and how tough it was for her to quickly lose the weight after having a baby. She has a personal yoga instructor visit her in her NY apartment every morning for a 2 hour workout. No big deal, but so many of these articles contradict themselves.

Incidentally, cigarettes are a big diet aide for many of these celebrities.
 
And I think it's perfectly fine that it should do so. Cultural stereotypes of acceptable femininity and pressure to remain thin needs to be combatted constantly. What is touted as acceptable and recommended behaviour for celebrities is held out as the cultural standard for us all. Who here does not have daughters they wish to safeguard from this pernicious pressure?

Clare
 
But its not just the celebrities either.Its the average "joe" or "jane".
A girl I use to hang out with is (from what I've heard super thin.The reason I stopped hanging out with her was b/c all she ever did was talk about how much weight so and so had gained or the other way around. I saw her christmas time and she was weighing in at 110 lbs and she 5'3".Which may be normal for some people but not for a person who use to weight 160 lbs.Since christmas apparently she has gotten smaller which is sad b/c she as two babies to raise and she shouldn't really have time to be torturing herself the way she is.
I liked her alot more when she was normal...and there are days when I miss her company.But I can't be around someone who is constintly comparing themselves to others,even her friends.
Lori:)
 
I read an article in US once (before it became US Weekly) on Kyra Sedgwick (sp?). In the article they said, "You're so fit, what's your workout regime?" She replied, "I don't exercise." A few weeks later, I saw her on the Tonight Show and she was telling Jay about getting locked out of her gym in only a towel. She then said, "I do workout. I recently told a magazine I don't but that's because I hate when they ask about that stuff." Now, I think Kyra looks great - not too thin - I'm just saying - celebs are fallable.

I used to be anorexic and take it from me - I was very adept at lying. I'm not saying these women lie, but I'm not saying I believe it when Lara Flynn Boyle says, "I had a cyst removed and now I'm thin" either.
 
lara flynn boyle is a mosquito. :7 Even kelly ripa looks almost anorexic. I thought she was cuter when she had some more meat on her bones.
They are all lying if u ask me. Plus half of them or more are smokers and on drugs...so they probably don't eat much!
 
I totally beleive that they are lying.You would have to.The girl I use to hang out with,lies between her teeth.She will come up with excuses why she can't go to her in-laws for dinner...etc .And she will make it look like she eats alot if she is ever invited out.Truth be known,she hasn't eaten all day so she can go out and not feel guilty.(and eat one meal:( )
She says that she is super busy and doesn't stop.Another lie.
Lori:)
 
Hi Lori

I have to agree with what you are saying. I have a sister-in-law that is a bit shorter than I (Iam 5'4--she is 5'3 or so) I know she weighs maybe 100lbs if that.(I weigh about 120lbs) She wont eat at family get togethers and if she does, she is off walking it immediately off. She started a running program at a local club near her home. When she came home at christmas time, we all noticed how very very THING she is. She has no chest and she laughs saying "Yeah I wear fake boobs so I dont look like a little boy" She is extremely small. Smaller than my 15yr old.We noticed her face is sunken in.I know she has lost muscle mass because there is nothing on her arms but skin hanging a bit and her shoulders are all bone. When you mention something to her -- she says the very same thing "Im busy and its stress" I dont like to talk about family members to my husband-- well we both refrain from saying negatives-- when we can :) but he mentioend after she left at christmas time how unattractive and ill looking she looks. KInda sad to think you have to look like that to be attractive when really it isn't.
 
Ewwwww. Lara Flynn Boyle. Calista Flockhart. Courtney Cox. I have this fantasy that they arrive at the red carpet by ambulance, and are immediately taken back to the hospital right after their appearances because they don't have the strength to walk. They and many others are just so gross.
 
Actually I think this is very sad. Everyday people are pressured to feel that being thin is the only way to be beautiful, imagine the pressure celebrities must feel. If they gain weight they get bashed by the media. They are constantly getting critized and picked apart, even when they're out of the spotlight.
I know it's a common thought that it is these such celebrities that cause our obsession with being thin, but I kind of think it's similiar to the which came first- chicken or the egg theory.
Plus don't forget that eating disorders are also a way to feel you have control over something. In such a crazy world like show business I think it may be common to feel at the mercy of the press, and kind of like you don't have control over your life.
I'm not giving any excuses for anyone here, I just think that I can relate. The fact that anyone subjects themselves to this kind of self torture is a sad factor in our country, celebrity or not.
I find it interesting that Jane Fonda has admitted to Buliemia for over 35 years. That is an amazing fact. If more celebrities came out against it (I mean facing it) maybe it would help society.
 
Ruppie,
I agree with you 100%. In fact, I have no doubt in my mind that if I were a celebrity, the stress and being in the public eye would make me crazy and I would definitely be unhealthily thin. As you say, I don't blame the celebrities for the out-of-control dieting. It just shows that they are human.

But, ewwwwww. Can you imagine hugging Lara Flynn Boyle or Mary Kate Olsen? If I were a guy, I'd pick Queen Latifa over them any day.
 
I do think some people are just naturally thin. My office-mate is 5'6" and 95 pounds. She eats very cleanly and works out. Her skin and hair are very healthy, so no eating disorder. Just good genes.

As for celebrities, I think for the most part they hardly eat and work out like crazy. If their heads look too big for their bodies, I figure they are starving themselves. Remember, the camera adds 10 pounds, I can't even imagine how skinny they are in real life.

- Shopgirl
 
This is a huge gripe of mine. Not only how unhealthy it is, but that it's only women. If you watch old episodes of Friends the men are slimmer than they are in the later episodes, while the women get smaller and smaller. I know there are men who suffer from eating disorders, but in terms of celebrities, it's the women who apparently feel pressured to slim down.

It's the whole double-standard thing, which just makes my blood boil.
 
I always thought Nicole Richie looked a little chubby. Isn't that weird? And I don't think that 114 lbs for someone who is 5'3" (Brittany Murphy) is anything to call "skinny". I'm 5'0", 103 lbs and I don't look like Olive Oyl.

I know people who have that really high metabolism and don't have to work at it. It usually doesn't stay that way past 30 though.
 
Clare - I'm right with you on the safeguarding your daughter thing. When my daughter asks me why I exercise, I never tell her it's too help keep myself thin. I tell her it's to keep myself healthy. I do tell her, however, that we don't buy potato chips because they're fat-people food.

It's one of the reasons I don't obsess about the food I eat. I eat healthy most of the time, but will have pizza, subs, wings, McDonald's or whatever. If I've had too much, I don't make a stink about it. "Oh NO!!!! I had a piece of cake. I mnst workout for an extra hour today!!!"

It's nice not to have to worry if you put on a pound or two.

I want to know why everyone always makes a big deal about the female celebrities' weight fluctuations, but no one cares about the males. No one has mentioned how Matthew Perry gained so much weight in the last couple seasons of Friends, or how Matt LeBlanc is looking a little wider. They only mention the HUGE ones (i.e. Marlon Brando). GOD! That really pisses me off!!!!!
 
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