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.

She was, however, remarkably friendly considering we were pestering her while she was trying to enjoy a bottle of wine with her friends!

Why were you pestering her? Unless you were offering to pay for her next bottle it surely would have been better to leave her in peace? Nobody specially wants to be interrupted by randomers when they're trying to relax.

@Thewinterofdiscontent oh don’t be silly. Of course it is an insult to say lollipophead

My friend met the Spice Girls once many years ago. She is 5'6" and size 14 and said she towered over them and was huge in comparison.

Yes I saw rula lenska and trinny from trinny and susanah and both were incredibly thin and angular, but tall with it. In my opinion they looked unhealthily thin, almost skeletal. It’s the first thing that strikes you about them.

Helen mirren is tiny in real life, she is almost child like in her stature, which shocked me, I always thought she was bigger, as is Paula Abdul but I’d somehow recognised that about her so less of a shock. They are both seriously tiny little women, but neither looked under weight or unhealthy, like the first two.

I'm always shocked by how short they are in real life.

I suppose on TV I assume they're an average height and any men they're with are above average height. When in reality it is the men who are average height or shorter, and the women are just really short. I'm quite tall so that (5ft 10) so I think that makes it even more obvious.

A friend's dd auditioned for X factor, in rl she is extremely thin, painfully so. On stage Cheryl told her she had a hot body!!

Yes the few slebs I’ve seen always look smaller / slimmer irl than they do on screen

@Pieceofpurplesky

It is scary that young girls see this. There are so many teens today who are so tiny and always on diets. Doesn't help that some staff are the same! The majority of teens at my school want to be a Jenner or a Kardashion figure-wise. This is doing the rounds about Kendall Jenner having the prefect body - lots of girls talking about how they wish they could be like her in this photo. Whilst she is stunning her body is not achievable for many!

Given that 66% of adults are overweight or obese and the nhs is forecast to spend £9.7 billion on treating obesity, I don’t think we need to worry too much.

[quote Nishky]@Thewinterofdiscontent oh don’t be silly. Of course it is an insult to say lollipophead[/quote]
Don’t you be silly .It’s not in the same league at all.

@Charlize43

Victoria Beckham. Just bones really. I saw her running down Dover Street, being chased by a pack of dogs. Wasn't sure if she was going to make it as one of them was an Alsatian, but I guess she must have...

I don't understand this post.

It's not necessarily just women. I found myself walking behind Ben Whishaw for a few minutes a couple of years ago - he was quite staggeringly skinny.

And it's not just the camera that increases a person's size - lights, make-up, costumes and either perspective or perception disguise actors' proportions on stage. (Obviously setting aside deliberate padding.) So you have the same effect of an actor looking much smaller in real life.

I watched twenty minutes or so of Real Housewives Beverly Hills yesterday. They all looked emaciated and as if they were made of plastic. It's quite disturbing that women fight to achieve this look. Very odd. Personally, I find it repellent but I expect they'd say the same about me.

I think some of the messages on here are quite mean.

I am 5ft tall and weigh just over 100lbs. People can be overweight due to medications or health conditions but it's the same with being thin. I have a painful period and can't eat for several days at the start of my period because I feel so nauseated. That stops me gaining any weight. Not everyone who is thin has an eating disorder.

Chocaholic9 I've understood this thread to be about the pressures on actors, and other celebrities to look a certain way - rather than about wholly involuntary eating disorders amongst people not in the public eye.

Re the lollipop head thing. I do think some people's heads can be bigger, even if their bodies aren't tiny, therefore they look better on camera. I have a kind of narrow horse face on top of a tall body with broad shoulders. I would look like a pin head on telly.

@Pieceofpurplesky it is damaging because it’s unachievable for many and affects mental health and motivation in a negative way.

[quote Lurcherloves]@Pieceofpurplesky it is damaging because it’s unachievable for many and affects mental health and motivation in a negative way.[/quote]
@Fairyliz

I find it interesting that women on thread like these, whether discussing obesity or thinness, get their speech policed so much. It's the media and the entertainment industry that are harmful to actual humans. This shit is just chat. Ain't no one here insulting people to their faces, telling them to lose weight or they won't work etc etc. Down with tone policing!

I met Davina McCall once and was shocked by now tiny she was. I'm 2 or 3 inches shorter than her apparently but I felt much taller.

Kylie - good few years ago now, probably right when she was moving beyond the "I should be so lucky" stuff into the later songs before the relaunch in The Hotpants etc.

Absolutely tiny - I don't remember being shocked by her being excessively slim but she was so tiny and had the most amazing skin - she absolutely glowed.

The other TV person I saw relatively recently was the Siddiqui dad from Gogglebox - he is sooooo dinky in real life (didn't bother him cos he was obviously busy going around shops).

I once saw Jennifer Aniston in the flesh and mistook her for a 12 year old child. She's petite, around 5ft 2, and her body was so tiny her knee high boots were gaping around her legs. But then she turned round and her head was massive, like it belonged on another body. It really didn't appear as though the rest of her was her natural size, that she wasn't naturally that skinny and clearly had to work extremely hard to stay that way.

Depends on who! I've met both Kate Winslet and Kathy Burke to talk to in real life through my old job and they are ordinary sized.

I saw Lady Gaga live a good few years ago now. We were standing and had got there early so were at the front (it was great!) and could see her clearly. She was petite and slender, very toned and looked fantastic in an array of different outfits throughout the show. I'm not great at guessing clothes sizes but I was an 8-10 at the time and she was definitely significantly smaller than me so I'm going to say she looked a size 4-6. Well, the next day, the Daily Fail reported on the exact same concert, with barbed comments such as "a fuller figured Gaga took the stage" and "proudly sporting her new curves". The accompanying photos made her look squat and heavy with large thighs and rolls of fat on her belly. I know photos can be unflattering but I had photos too and it looked like a different person. I'm convinced they edited the photos to make her look worse - I mean, she didn't have any fat on her, let alone enough to form a roll! I've not read the Daily Fail since. Anyone who saw those photos would have thought she was a bit overweight and she wasn't, she was tiny!

@Fountainsoftea

Re the lollipop head thing. I do think some people's heads can be bigger, even if their bodies aren't tiny, therefore they look better on camera. I have a kind of narrow horse face on top of a tall body with broad shoulders. I would look like a pin head on telly.

This is me! With my hair in a bun (which only do when lounging at home) I look like a pin head as I have such broad shoulders. Luckily my hair down is curly and quite "big" so it balances the pin head thing out a bit!

Given that 66% of adults are overweight or obese and the nhs is forecast to spend £9.7 billion on treating obesity, I don’t think we need to worry too much.

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