Scary Skinny Celebrities

I would be, like, "Ermagerd, thin shaming!" if I thought every one of these people were naturally thin, healthy and not obsessing about their weight. Unfortunately I don't think that's the case and while the tone is pretty *****y I'm glad there's someone pointing out that, yes, you can be too thin. I've been seeing too many celebrities who were already thin and awesome-looking lose even more weight and it's kind of frightening.

I just looked at slideshow of "Worst Bikini Bodies," ranging from very thin to average weight, and every single one of them looked beautiful, albeit not posed or Photoshopped to perfection, and not necessarily under 35 years of age.

It's one thing when we've seen these celebrities before at a certain weight for a long time, then it suddenly drops drastically, like Angelina Jolie. Her extreme weight loss started around the time her mother fell ill with cancer, making me think it was stress. This can be a cause for concern for their health, but definitely not shaming.

But some of these people were just born that way, like Keira Knightly. And it's ridiculous to call them anything.

I think some of them look great, and I think a few of them look unhealthy, which doesn't mean that they are. HOWEVER - I think they look unhealthy compared to themselves and how they have looked previously - not unhealthy compared to some societal standard of what is healthy or attractive. Based only on how some of them have looked in the past, some of them do look that perhaps they have lost more weight than is healthy. But, photos can be deceiving, and "news" sources collect photos for the right articles. I'm sure they all have folders upon folders of each celebrity labeled things like, "looking too thin," "looking too fat," "looking pissed off," "looking sad," etc., so they can pull out the picture that best goes with whatever they are trying to imply. For a lot of these shots, there are probably 10 other photos taken in a couple minute span in which the person in question looks fine. So, while I agree that in some of these photos they appear unhealthy, there is really no way to know if they are based on nothing but a single photo. Additionally, even if they are, it's none of my business. But if any of my friends looked the way some of these ladies looked (knowing how they have looked in the past), I might express concern to my friend, not about their looks, but about their health.

Edited to add: regardless of the above thoughts, I don't think the article is acceptable as it does nothing to improve the health of these ladies (if that's even necessary) or promote good health. All it does is tear people down for "entertainment value." So not cool.

Diem- what a sucky thing to say. I don't comment much, but what you said totally ruffles my feathers. I eat almost 2000 calories per day and you can play xylophone on my ribs. Is it because I'm starved? I think not! I've always had a protruding rib cage, collarbone and chest bones. That's just how I'm built. You could even see it when I was considered "Obese".

Same here. Even before I lost weight, my ribs, hip bones & collar bones stuck out. Can't help it, and actually, I wouldn't change it even if I could because I like the way they look!

This article is messed up. A lot of these women look perfectly healthy to me.

One thing I couldn't help but notice is the variance in what they were nit-picking. I counted eight separate things they found something wrong with:
1) Biceps
2) Bones in Chest / Ribs visible
3) "Sullen" or gaunt fces.
4) Arms in general
5) Knees
6) Thin legs
7) Hip bones visible
8) "Freakishly toned back"

I'll admit, after my battle with cancer made me abnormally thin and after I saw it do the same thing to many of my fellow patients, thinness of frame and face will sometimes cause me to raise an eyebrow. Many animals do tend to lose weight when they are ill. But I also know there are some people who are just that way. My brother's one of them. He's healthy, but simply has a thin build. So I might be thinking "wow, (s)he is really thin" but I don't automatically assume something is wrong because of it.

I also tell my friends that I think they should focus their energies on fitness rather than on being skinny because "skinny" and "fit" aren't always synonymous. But I know people who are both. I remember being in the weightroom with my friends once and we were puzzled when we saw a very thin man putting more weight on the bar than we thought he'd ever be able to handle, based soley on our past experiences and visual assessment of his frame. He promptly started knocking out reps with no trouble. Lesson learned.


So, knowing things aren't always what they seem to be, I have to say many of these items are very, as some people said, catty. These people are going out and looking for flaws. Some of these "flaws" are also probably dependant on the view angle of the camera in that specific shot. The muscles are moving. Some are flexing while others are relaxing. Some people have thin faces, but that could be a function of the facial expression being used at the time.

One thing I also noticed- not one argument of why these people were "scary skinny" tried to use any objective data, not even hotly debated issues like BMI standard. Nobody's talking about height, weight, measurements, or body fat percentages. There's no data to say "this individual may be having health problems". It's ALL based on the opinion of the writers. If the writer's someone who doesn't like the "thin" look (opinions are like bellybuttons, after all), then anyone who's not fat, thick, or big enough is "scary".

I actually like getting the "eat a cheeseburger" comments, because I typically respond that I had two yesterday, with a side of curly fries, but tonight's pizza night. :devil:

Want the body shaming to stop????? Stop buying the stupid magazines! If all of us just stopped buying the magazines that call out every celebrity for being too fat or too thin, this whole thing would stop. God forbid they might have to actually write something of substance rather than trash articles about who looks like **** or is fabulous. Well, I guess the Kardashians would be might fall off the face of the planet but who cares.....stop buying them! Now that I have a little girl, I will not buy any of this crap. I also am doing my best to not rub my insecurities off on my daughter.

Women could rule the world if we quit obsessing about our bodies. Eat right, get some exercise, stay healthy, but don't let it rule your world. Go to college, start a business, build something, run for office, fix things, laugh, love. . . . we women are so much more than just bodies that are "wrong".

...and pee standing up.

http://www.thepstyle.com/pages/What's-a-pStyle?.html

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Some people are just naturally skinny. Keira Knightly was always small. The media will always be *****ing about weight, like they can't find something else to write about...:sick: