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Are most actresses very very slim in real life?

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Mitford1789 · 04/06/2021 22:38

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.

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DameLucy · 04/06/2021 23:59

I got chatting to a soap actress in a bar in Dubai a few years ago. When I commented how slim she was she just shrugged and said oh I just have all my fat sucked out every few months 🤷‍♀️ I was like 😳

MmeLaraque · 05/06/2021 00:03

Goodness. I know the UK is an obesogenic country, but some of these comments are appalling. "A tiny size 8"? Some women are naturally petite and slim.

Imagine this conversation the other way around. Wouldn't happen, would it?

LocalHobo · 05/06/2021 00:11

At an airport I noticed lots of photographers rushing to get in position. Jennifer Anniston was coming off a flight apparently, so I decided to hang around. I was taken aback at the tiny figure, wrapped in a huge cardi and topped with a large amount of hair.
In 2019 I saw Gillian Anderson on stage and the phrase "disappeared when she turned sideways" has never been so true. She was acting with Lilly James who was slim but nowhere near Gillian Anderson's proportions.

justasking111 · 05/06/2021 00:16

Am binge watching Buffy by series 6 I hardly recognised her. The facial features looked odd she had lost so much weight. She did all her own stunts learnt many forms of martial arts so perhaps burnt it all off.

I know Jennifer Aniston is a size 0 which is a 4 in the UK so she is very slender. They say starving yourself gives you awful halitosis I wonder if that is the case with these beautiful women.

toocold54 · 05/06/2021 00:17

I was extremely unhappy looking through my photos of me standing next to the mannequins at Madame Tussaud’s!

I’d say it’s only the last 5-10 years that larger/average sized women were allowed on tv, before that you had to be under a certain weight and I think that still exists more than what is spoken about.
I don’t think all of these women starve themselves as I have friends who are naturally tiny but they would be more likely to be on tv than someone who was larger so of course some people will starve themselves to be successful.

BunnyBerries · 05/06/2021 00:17

I flew back from Japan many years ago and this sort of hidden but not hidden 'mystery' door opened in the wall at Heathrow arrivals and out walked Emma Watson in massive shades who must've been on the same flight. I remember knowing instantly it must be her from her build as well, as she was sooo little and only actresses and models are ever so little.

mobear · 05/06/2021 00:18

I think it’s probably more common than in the general population. Emily Blunt is very thin in person. Carey Mulligan looks very normal (albeit slim).

ovensoff · 05/06/2021 00:19

@MmeLaraque

Goodness. I know the UK is an obesogenic country, but some of these comments are appalling. "A tiny size 8"? Some women are naturally petite and slim.

Imagine this conversation the other way around. Wouldn't happen, would it?

No there is a difference between someone looking naturally slim, and some of these famous women who are very thin.
WorraLiberty · 05/06/2021 00:21

@MmeLaraque

Goodness. I know the UK is an obesogenic country, but some of these comments are appalling. "A tiny size 8"? Some women are naturally petite and slim.

Imagine this conversation the other way around. Wouldn't happen, would it?

Some of the comments are really nasty.

'The body of a 10 year old child'....'Pre-pubescent boy' etc.

And in the same breath, most MNetters who join these threads to pick women's bodies apart can be seen blaming the 'patriarchy' for women feeling insecure about their looks.

ovensoff · 05/06/2021 00:23

@WorraLiberty so we are supposed to pretend all these women are naturally slim? When it is obvious some are unhealthily thin?

toocold54 · 05/06/2021 00:24

'The body of a 10 year old child'....'Pre-pubescent boy' etc.

I think this poster was just describing what her body looked like for the thread rather than having a dig at 10 year old children/actresses.

NewbieSM · 05/06/2021 00:24

I'm quite disappointed in the tone of some of the comments on this thread, why do you think it's ok to discuss strangers weight in such a judgemental manner? If we were discussing fat people's weight and guessing what they eat, there would be uproar!

Tbh some of the comments come off as projecting the posters own weight insecurities..

Not very nice at all.

PurpleFlower1983 · 05/06/2021 00:26

@LocalHobo

At an airport I noticed lots of photographers rushing to get in position. Jennifer Anniston was coming off a flight apparently, so I decided to hang around. I was taken aback at the tiny figure, wrapped in a huge cardi and topped with a large amount of hair. In 2019 I saw Gillian Anderson on stage and the phrase "disappeared when she turned sideways" has never been so true. She was acting with Lilly James who was slim but nowhere near Gillian Anderson's proportions.
Agree re Gillian Anderson, she is tiny, height wise too. She always wears big heels in roles to make up for it.
ovensoff · 05/06/2021 00:27

No one ever has a problem saying women like Beth Ditto are fat.
But when it comes to someone slim it is a different story. We are supposed to pretend that some women are not too slim.

Nothingyet · 05/06/2021 00:27

When I worked in a pub in London, a few TV actresses came in with the crews, they were heartachingly pretty and slim. I remember particularly one Dr Who girl, just seeing her nearly broke my heart. I realised then why Hollywood heartthrobs are called heartthrobs. She had a glow around her body, and when she walked, her steps glowed for a little while. I though it was just infatuation, but I checked with another bar server (girl), she saw the same glow.

WorraLiberty · 05/06/2021 00:28

[quote ovensoff]@WorraLiberty so we are supposed to pretend all these women are naturally slim? When it is obvious some are unhealthily thin?[/quote]
Why is anyone bothered what other women choose to weigh?

Honestly, some people are far more concerned about other people's bodies than they are about their own.

Imagine if this thread was full of comments about how fat certain people are?

It'd get buried under the cries of body shaming.

ovensoff · 05/06/2021 00:29

@WorraLiberty because there is an unhealthy pressure on women celebs to be too thin.
No one has a problem saying someone is fat. It is simply a fact.

WorraLiberty · 05/06/2021 00:29

@ovensoff

No one ever has a problem saying women like Beth Ditto are fat. But when it comes to someone slim it is a different story. We are supposed to pretend that some women are not too slim.
How about not body shaming anyone?

Or is that idea too alien?

ovensoff · 05/06/2021 00:30

@WorraLiberty why do you find stating facts as body shaming?

bluetongue · 05/06/2021 00:30

I’ve got the short bit going for me. We have light hearted workplace profiles on our work intranet that include who would play you in a movie about your life. I’ve gone for Lady Gaga.

As well as very slim most famous women don’t seem to have very large breasts. Maybe it just goes along with being very skinny.

WorraLiberty · 05/06/2021 00:31

[quote ovensoff]@WorraLiberty because there is an unhealthy pressure on women celebs to be too thin.
No one has a problem saying someone is fat. It is simply a fact.[/quote]
There's an unhealthy pressure on women with regards to their looks, full stop.

And the majority of criticism tends to come from other women IME.

You only have to read the comments on this thread and literally 100s of others in the past to see that.

WorraLiberty · 05/06/2021 00:33

[quote ovensoff]@WorraLiberty why do you find stating facts as body shaming?[/quote]
Many of the comments here are not facts at all.

'The body of a 10 year old child'....'A pre-pubescent boy'....'Lollipop heads'.

Facts are they? Confused

SealHouse · 05/06/2021 00:33

This thread is a bit nasty - so much judgement. How is it that some people (ime ‘larger’ women in particular) can’t seem to understand that another women who is skinny may just happen to be that way naturally, may eat a normal diet, may not do any specific exercise yet doesn’t gain weight. Why is there always the snide insinuation that if you are naturally thin (as many girls and women are) that you must be secretly restricting calories or perhaps even have an eating disorder. All these insults like ‘lollipops’, ‘olives on sticks’, bloody hell, can you imagine if someone started a thread called ‘why are a lot of women very very fat’…. Fuck sake.

ovensoff · 05/06/2021 00:38

@SealHouse of course there are naturally slim women.
The lollipop head is a well-known phrase describing when women get too thin and their head appears too big for their far too thin bodies.

FortunesFave · 05/06/2021 00:40

@NeverEnoughCake2

I once met Olivia Colman in a pub. She didn't seem unusually thin compared to any of the other women there. She was, however, remarkably friendly considering we were pestering her while she was trying to enjoy a bottle of wine with her friends!
She's a character actor and doesn't have the same pressure to conform as the actors who play romantic leads.

I was an actor...trained at a top drama school. When I left I was a UK 6-8 and an agent said "You should lose a bit more weight...casting directors will prefer it if you're full-waif rather than just skinny"

I stopped acting not long after. The industry's horrendous.

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