Are most actresses very very slim in real life?

[Mitford1789]

I saw a well known actress a few days ago, standing behind her in the queue for a coffee. She was dressed down, however was clearly very pretty in person. However I was taken aback by how slim she was. I would say she was slightly taller than average, not a tiny person if you know what I mean. But so so slim. Do you think most famous actresses/singers etc are like this? Maybe I’m very naive.

Timetopoeet sure. But weight is about calories in and out. So to put weight on or take it off you change the amount of calories you are consuming, even if you are not hungry or you are hungry.
Not saying either is easy and people may choose not to do it, which is fine. It is just it is possible.

I have a very small appetite, I literally cannot eat more once I'm full or I feel awful. I have to go and lie down I feel so crap. I guess if you force fed me like a fois gras goose I'd just be sick - for the record I've never once in my life been sick from eating, I just stop eating when I'm full. I'd love to put on a stone, I'd look far better and people would stop making horrible comments.

@Timetopoeet I am sorry people are making horrible comments to you. xx

[quote astonafar]@Timetopoeet sure. But weight is about calories in and out. So to put weight on or take it off you change the amount of calories you are consuming, even if you are not hungry or you are hungry.
Not saying either is easy and people may choose not to do it, which is fine. It is just it is possible.[/quote]
Not necessarily. Weight is hormonal - the sense of feeling hungry? Hormonal. The sense of feeling satiated? Hormonal. How your body stores fat? Hormonal. How your body burns fat? Hormonal.

Many people are now coming round to the idea that calories in/out is too simplistic a way of looking at it and hormone regulation is the key to weight management. I know many people who have increased their calorie intake and lost weight because they've changed their way of eating and regulated their hormones in the process.

@Knittingnanny it was a post about going nc with family or similar. I read it because a friend was nc & wasn't going to invite them to her wedding. It made me appreciate where my friend was coming from.

astonafar

Thank you x

In 2011, I went to NY at the time of the oscars. The Armani store had windows of the all the Oscar tuxedos and dresses that Armani had done. Stunning display except what was starkly obvious was the men’s tuxes generally remained the same size through 70-2010s whilst the women’s dresses got smaller and smaller through the decades. Appreciate there may be difference in sizes, but several were the same actress over different years. As a trend - it was stark. Beautiful clothes though.
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Anyone who says they can't put on weight come and live with me for a couple of months. Guaranteed results
You could turn that around there is a host of reasons when posters say they can't lose weight? Of course they can, stay here, stop eating so much, eat healthy food and move their body more they'd soon find they can lose weight.
@Timetopoeet I get it, over stuffing my body with a huge plate would make me ill too.

Some posters can't fathom that, yet we're expected to believe a host of excuses.

I was in a restaurant in London years ago and Micheal Hutchence was talking to the owner next to my table. Pre glam Kylie was with him and she just is tiny and was/is so slim. Hitchens just looked a tall, thin v.good looking man. I remember thinking did she just have a starter?

Mel and Sue used to do a programme called Light Lunch about 20 years ago (They were dreadful!) They would get a celeb to come in and cook a dish of their choice then eat it with them, all the while interviewing them craply. I watched it every day and Kylie was the only celeb I saw who who went on, prepared her dish and then didn't eat any of it just played with it.

@Timetopoeet

astonafar

I can't put on weight either but there's nothing wrong with me

I think if you need to go lie down you feel so ill if you slightly over eat it would be advisable to see your go, human stomachs stretch snd can tolerate over eating to an extent. I’d be concerned something was physically wrong or if there was a mental health issue with food. Worth speaking to your doctor. 💐

Coincidently (or is my phone listening to me again?), fb algorithms has shown me this picture of 2002 Kate Middleton. The dress here is a size 8.

I saw Katy Perry once and she looked pretty normal sized to me. Helluva lot of makeup but not stupidly thin.

I'm not being goady at all before anyone starts that but I feel like a lot of the comments on this thread are quite spiteful and I suspect from rather larger women.

It's not a terrible thing to be slim and a lot of people are naturally so.

There's no doubt in my mind that show business is an industry which absolutely demands its stars to be slender, partly down to the camera but also in part to the criticism they attract.

Victoria Beckham was a super normal shape and looked lovely until she went stratospheric and since then has been the only celebrity I'd say is way too thin. Her posing and veg /fish only diet she's very public about leads to me think she is pretty obsessive about her weight / shape.

As an aside, I've met a few celebs and been shocked at how tiny in terms of height they were. Anne Widdecombe is diddy and Robin Windsor off Strictly is way shorter than me! Why this is I don't know!

@Ingridla

I think while some of your comment makes sense you realise that a lot of it is a bit silly. Victoria Beckham is the only celebrity who is too thin? That's obviously rubbish. While a minority of women are naturally very very slim there are a disproportionate number of celebrities who are thin to an unhealthy degree and this is down to a huge pressure to be very slim. They are putting themselves at risk for a catalogue of health problems. Even at the lower end of the healthy BMI range there are associated long term health issues. I don't condone nasty, personal comments about anyone's appearance but most of the comments here seem to be discussing the worrying pressure to be skinny to an unhealthy degree. This is very obviously real and not motivated by jealousy.

I am not a larger woman. I've never been underweight and now I am trying to gain weight (I've had a busy few weeks and haven't eaten enough). I won't engage in the competitive celebrating of low BMIs but a woman in her 30s should usually be aiming for a BIMI of at least 20 and more often 21 to be in optimal health. Lower than that isn't great unless you have a particularly small frame. There are many celebrities who clarly work very very hard to maintain a BMI more in the range 17-19 which is a negative.

*sorry should say I've never been overweight (even when 9 months pregnant I was within the healthy BMI range).

I was in the audience for Loose Women a few years ago, and Coleen Nolan was on the panel. She's MUCH smaller in the flesh than she appears on screen, I'd actually describe her as petite!!

This is completely unrelated, but a friend made this comment about my weight recently, which sort of upset me -

'For the amount of exercise you do I'd expect you to be stick-thin!' Ok, I walk my dog, walk half a mile to work and back each day, and do school runs on foot, (quicker to walk than drive in our area)!

Would anyone else find this rude? I feel she's insinuating - 'You do so much exercise but you're still fat!' 🙁
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@Wisteriabloom yes I'd consider that comment really rude and completely ignorant too.

@Ostara212

X post I find Liz Hurley to be very beautiful but her thinness made me a bit uncomfortable, I feel like she must be hungry all the time. I can't put my finger on why. I have a manager who is skinny and just constantly eats carbs but I feel like Liz H wouldn't do that.

Liz Hurley stated in an article a while back and that she is hungry all the time and struggles with maintaining her figure

@Wisteriabloom

I know what you mean. I run regularly. A school mum once said to me "it's strange how you're good at running because I normally think of runners as tall and thin "
I am pretty short and fairly average build but instantly felt a lot fatter!

Because people think only slim people exercise.

but a woman in her 30s should usually be aiming for a BIMI of at least 20 and more often 21 to be in optimal health.

Where does this come from?

@coogee

but a woman in her 30s should usually be aiming for a BIMI of at least 20 and more often 21 to be in optimal health.

Where does this come from?

Yes, I was wondering the same, where does that come from? I'm 55, do a lot of sport, and am very healthy with a BMI of under 20.

Exercise makes no substantial difference to ones weight. No SUBSTANTIAL difference. It might for a few months but really it's about what you stick in your gob. Diet diet diet

@reallyreallyborednow

Coincidently (or is my phone listening to me again?), fb algorithms has shown me this picture of 2002 Kate Middleton. The dress here is a size 8.

Wow. She looks a LOT bigger than she does now

@Tuckedinbelly

Exercise makes no substantial difference to ones weight. No SUBSTANTIAL difference. It might for a few months but really it's about what you stick in your gob. Diet diet diet

What nonsense! I've lost a stone over the past year by implementing a strict walking routine. 5 miles per day and fast. The only thing I've stopped was cola....and in fact I am probably eating more actual food than before.