Fat without any fat in it
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firebreath613Explain to me what universe we're living in where Mandy Moore is "big" or "fat"? Maybe she's tall and has large bone structure (really, I had no idea), but the girl is skinny. Really, I always thought of her as a teeny, wispy girl. And Alicia Silverstone? Fat?
http://www.comicbookhotties.com/models/alicia-silverstone-batgirl-pictures.asp?i=6&l=true
Also, America Ferrara has a beautiful hourglass figure, as do so many "fat" starlets, where as real-life "fat" people are not so pleasantly shaped. I like that Sienna Miller is straight-up about airbrushing.
http://entertainment.msn.com/music/hotgossip/4-16-07?GT1=7702&
The weight debate continues to rage in Hollywood, a town where a painfully protruding sternum is considered the new black. In recent days, stars ranging from Mandy Moore to Gwen Stefani to Alicia Silverstone have opened up about the pressure to achieve a fat-free figure. Here's a heaping helping of the latest diet dish:
Mandy Moore is still coming to terms with being naturally robust in a bobble-head-crammed town.
"Sometimes I feel fine. Sometimes I don't feel so great. I'm a regular person. I'm not that thin," the statuesque starlet tells the May issue of Elle. "I'm OK with representing a different type than the Hollywood beauty ideal. But other people aren't so OK with that. I've been told that I have to lose weight for stuff before."
Sighs Mandy, "It's mortifying. It's hard to have someone come up and go, 'You should lose a few pounds.' And they don't say it delicately ... It's only happened to me once before. But once is enough to make you feel awful."
Turns out she's talking about her forthcoming romantic comedy "License to Wed," in which she stars as a bride-to-be. According to Elle, a studio suit saw Moore in "American Dreamz" and decided he wanted to see a whole lot less of her when filming began.
"All I can tell you," director Ken Kwapis acknowledges to the mag, "is that I've never been on any production where some executive didn't say, 'Can't that actress lose weight?'"
Gwen Stefani, meanwhile, is fessing up to her decades-long campaign to squeeze herself into a size 4.
"It's very boring and embarrassing and I hate talking about it, but it's true: I've always been on a diet, ever since I was in the sixth grade," the rocker-cum-fashion designer discusses in the May issue of Harper's Bazaar. "It's an ongoing battle, and it's a nightmare. But I like clothes too much, and I always wanted to wear the outfits I would make. And I'm very vain."
Gwen says that after the arrival of cutie-pie son Kingston in May 2006, she set out to lose the baby bulge, without realizing how tough a job it would be.
"It's so much work afterward to get the weight off," she admits. "I thought I was going to throw up [during her first postpartum jog). [But] if you just do it, it comes off. And when you're nursing, like I am, your metabolism is like, whoosh!"
Hilary Duff is also coming clean about how she went from adorably healthy to scarily scrawny and back again.
"I have the same insecurities about my body that every girl has and I made a conscious choice to get in shape. I've always been a junk-food eater, but I started paying more attention to what I put in my body and cut out foods like pizza, chicken fingers, and French fries," she explains to CosmoGIRL. "If I knew I'd want dessert one night, I wouldn't have bread that day. If I wanted to eat bread, I wouldn't have dessert."
But Duff, who is currently out stumping for her new album "Dignity," in which she allegedly disses ex-boyfriend Joel Madden's rickety new love, Nicole Richie, concedes the twiggy bod she showed off in 2005 wasn't her best look.
"Seeing how well it worked motivated me to keep going, but I hit a period when I got too skinny. I wasn't too obsessed with it, but I did learn that there have to be days when you just don't think about it."
Alicia Silverstone received no end of mocking when she slipped into Batgirl's rubber suit in 1997's execrable "Batman & Robin." Despite being enviably slim, she was still on the receiving end of cruel taunts (i.e., "Fatgirl").
But the actress tells the latest issue of InStyle Home that her onetime diet of "steak and donuts" has since been replaced with a vegan regimen.
"Now I'm a total health nut," says Silverstone. "I don't get sick very often and when I do it's for a short period ... It's empowering to know that you're responsible for how you feel each day because of the way you treat your body."
Chances are Alicia won't be breaking bread with Sienna Miller anytime soon. The semifamous starlet recently took the pages of In Touch to talk up her love of meat.
"I don't really exercise and I eat all the burgers I want," she asserts to the mag. "But I'd rather be lumpy and heavy than skinny and miserable."
According to Miller, "My so-called fabulous shape is the result of very clever airbrushing. I have small boobs and cellulite!"
But not even her harsh self-criticism and supposedly slowing metabolism are enough to convince her to give up her favorite foods.
"Soon, all the burgers will attack my rear end and I'll be a whale," says Sienna. "[But] I'll remain an eggs, bacon, waffles girl."
America Ferrera may hide her fit figure under frumpy and lumpy sweaters on "Ugly Betty," but she tries to maintain a positive outlook when it comes to real-life body-image issues.
"There are times when I go to the gym and really try, and there are times when I just don't," she says in the May issue of W. "I gain a pound; I lose a pound. But I think I've developed a really good sense of when I'm doing something for myself as opposed to when I'm doing something because of other people's expectations of me."
Besides, the affable actress quips, "Even if I wanted to be anorexic, I just don't have what it takes. After four hours of being anorexic, I'd be like, 'It's been four whole hours! Feed me!'"
Also unwilling to forgo food is Jennifer Lopez, who is more than happy with her va-va-va-voomy voluptuousness.
"I have a butt, I have boobs and I have a woman's curves," she says in the latest issue of Elle UK. "There is no way I'd see them go to zero. I just don't see how I could get down to that size and still be healthy. It wouldn't work."
And although J. Lo readily reveals, "I eat meat, I eat carbs, I even eat McDonald's," she is quick to point out, "What I don't do is ever overeat. I don't eat desserts and I can limit the chocolate chip cookies to one or two."
When there's a little extra junk in her well-ogled trunk, "I feel it immediately and I just get a bit more strict with myself."
Declares Lopez, "For me, looking good is all about looking healthy, and the ultimate beauty secret is about being happy in yourself."
But just how ridiculous has Hollywood's beauty obsession become?
Keira Knightley, who just a couple months ago revealed how a photographer bruised her self-esteem by telling her to keep her shapely stems covered at a photo shoot, was supposedly supplied with a foot double for her forthcoming drama "Atonement."
"Keira's feet were too big and veiny," a source alleges to Britain's Closer magazine. Luckily, the sylphlike actress "thought it was really funny.
http://www.comicbookhotties.com/models/alicia-silverstone-batgirl-pictures.asp?i=6&l=true
Also, America Ferrara has a beautiful hourglass figure, as do so many "fat" starlets, where as real-life "fat" people are not so pleasantly shaped. I like that Sienna Miller is straight-up about airbrushing.
http://entertainment.msn.com/music/hotgossip/4-16-07?GT1=7702&
The weight debate continues to rage in Hollywood, a town where a painfully protruding sternum is considered the new black. In recent days, stars ranging from Mandy Moore to Gwen Stefani to Alicia Silverstone have opened up about the pressure to achieve a fat-free figure. Here's a heaping helping of the latest diet dish:
Mandy Moore is still coming to terms with being naturally robust in a bobble-head-crammed town.
"Sometimes I feel fine. Sometimes I don't feel so great. I'm a regular person. I'm not that thin," the statuesque starlet tells the May issue of Elle. "I'm OK with representing a different type than the Hollywood beauty ideal. But other people aren't so OK with that. I've been told that I have to lose weight for stuff before."
Sighs Mandy, "It's mortifying. It's hard to have someone come up and go, 'You should lose a few pounds.' And they don't say it delicately ... It's only happened to me once before. But once is enough to make you feel awful."
Turns out she's talking about her forthcoming romantic comedy "License to Wed," in which she stars as a bride-to-be. According to Elle, a studio suit saw Moore in "American Dreamz" and decided he wanted to see a whole lot less of her when filming began.
"All I can tell you," director Ken Kwapis acknowledges to the mag, "is that I've never been on any production where some executive didn't say, 'Can't that actress lose weight?'"
Gwen Stefani, meanwhile, is fessing up to her decades-long campaign to squeeze herself into a size 4.
"It's very boring and embarrassing and I hate talking about it, but it's true: I've always been on a diet, ever since I was in the sixth grade," the rocker-cum-fashion designer discusses in the May issue of Harper's Bazaar. "It's an ongoing battle, and it's a nightmare. But I like clothes too much, and I always wanted to wear the outfits I would make. And I'm very vain."
Gwen says that after the arrival of cutie-pie son Kingston in May 2006, she set out to lose the baby bulge, without realizing how tough a job it would be.
"It's so much work afterward to get the weight off," she admits. "I thought I was going to throw up [during her first postpartum jog). [But] if you just do it, it comes off. And when you're nursing, like I am, your metabolism is like, whoosh!"
Hilary Duff is also coming clean about how she went from adorably healthy to scarily scrawny and back again.
"I have the same insecurities about my body that every girl has and I made a conscious choice to get in shape. I've always been a junk-food eater, but I started paying more attention to what I put in my body and cut out foods like pizza, chicken fingers, and French fries," she explains to CosmoGIRL. "If I knew I'd want dessert one night, I wouldn't have bread that day. If I wanted to eat bread, I wouldn't have dessert."
But Duff, who is currently out stumping for her new album "Dignity," in which she allegedly disses ex-boyfriend Joel Madden's rickety new love, Nicole Richie, concedes the twiggy bod she showed off in 2005 wasn't her best look.
"Seeing how well it worked motivated me to keep going, but I hit a period when I got too skinny. I wasn't too obsessed with it, but I did learn that there have to be days when you just don't think about it."
Alicia Silverstone received no end of mocking when she slipped into Batgirl's rubber suit in 1997's execrable "Batman & Robin." Despite being enviably slim, she was still on the receiving end of cruel taunts (i.e., "Fatgirl").
But the actress tells the latest issue of InStyle Home that her onetime diet of "steak and donuts" has since been replaced with a vegan regimen.
"Now I'm a total health nut," says Silverstone. "I don't get sick very often and when I do it's for a short period ... It's empowering to know that you're responsible for how you feel each day because of the way you treat your body."
Chances are Alicia won't be breaking bread with Sienna Miller anytime soon. The semifamous starlet recently took the pages of In Touch to talk up her love of meat.
"I don't really exercise and I eat all the burgers I want," she asserts to the mag. "But I'd rather be lumpy and heavy than skinny and miserable."
According to Miller, "My so-called fabulous shape is the result of very clever airbrushing. I have small boobs and cellulite!"
But not even her harsh self-criticism and supposedly slowing metabolism are enough to convince her to give up her favorite foods.
"Soon, all the burgers will attack my rear end and I'll be a whale," says Sienna. "[But] I'll remain an eggs, bacon, waffles girl."
America Ferrera may hide her fit figure under frumpy and lumpy sweaters on "Ugly Betty," but she tries to maintain a positive outlook when it comes to real-life body-image issues.
"There are times when I go to the gym and really try, and there are times when I just don't," she says in the May issue of W. "I gain a pound; I lose a pound. But I think I've developed a really good sense of when I'm doing something for myself as opposed to when I'm doing something because of other people's expectations of me."
Besides, the affable actress quips, "Even if I wanted to be anorexic, I just don't have what it takes. After four hours of being anorexic, I'd be like, 'It's been four whole hours! Feed me!'"
Also unwilling to forgo food is Jennifer Lopez, who is more than happy with her va-va-va-voomy voluptuousness.
"I have a butt, I have boobs and I have a woman's curves," she says in the latest issue of Elle UK. "There is no way I'd see them go to zero. I just don't see how I could get down to that size and still be healthy. It wouldn't work."
And although J. Lo readily reveals, "I eat meat, I eat carbs, I even eat McDonald's," she is quick to point out, "What I don't do is ever overeat. I don't eat desserts and I can limit the chocolate chip cookies to one or two."
When there's a little extra junk in her well-ogled trunk, "I feel it immediately and I just get a bit more strict with myself."
Declares Lopez, "For me, looking good is all about looking healthy, and the ultimate beauty secret is about being happy in yourself."
But just how ridiculous has Hollywood's beauty obsession become?
Keira Knightley, who just a couple months ago revealed how a photographer bruised her self-esteem by telling her to keep her shapely stems covered at a photo shoot, was supposedly supplied with a foot double for her forthcoming drama "Atonement."
"Keira's feet were too big and veiny," a source alleges to Britain's Closer magazine. Luckily, the sylphlike actress "thought it was really funny.
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Date: 2007-04-19 09:08 pm (UTC)Tell those people they can bite me!
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