...can we just talk about how skinny Margot Robbie is?

[Champagneponies]

..first of all, I really appreciate her as an actress and know she is naturally very slim. But seeing the size she is now promoting Barbie and doing all these premieres - she is a lot skinnier than she has been previously.

I don't know why but it doesn't sit comfortably with me. Here is an insanely talented actress who has always been praised for her talent. I've always appreciated that, albeit small, she's always been quite a 'healthy' slim and I've thought she's set a good example to young girls.

But she seems to have dropped weight to become drastically tiny just as she is being glorified as the real life Barbie. And no one's talking about it. Am I the only one whose noticed and who feels weird with it?

I love the fact this threads always bring out the "I look like that", I used to model and what looks small in photos tends to be very small in real life. She doesn't look unhealthy though.

Assuming you're also doing a thread about Cillian in Oppenheimer who also slimmed down a lot and ate a minimal diet for the role?

Thin is back in. The Kardashians, beauty trend bellwethers, are having their bum enhancements removed and are pursuing a more slender body so we can expect the red carpet inhabitants to look slender, in a 2005 Rachel Zoe kinda way.

I haven’t seen the Barbie film, but isn’t there a possibility she worked on making her body something approximating the Barbie doll’s impossible stats? Like male actors are continually lauded for doing for parts that involve them dropping weight like Michael Fassbender in Hunger or Tom Hanks in Castaway, or bulking up like Robert de Niro in Raging Bull?

Wouldn't be at all surprised.

Who cares??

I’m liking ‘beauty trend bellwethers’!

@Annfr yes - and your proving my point that for Cillian its obviously in the press that he's slimmed down for the movie.
For Margot and Barbie NO ONES TALKING ABOUT IT.
(Except me and I'm getting slammed).

I honestly don't see a real difference between the two photos. In the first her arm is over her waist, giving the illusion of a thicker torso. In the second she is wearing a sculpting dress. I mean maybe she's lost a few pounds but it's hardly dramatic.

I say this as another person who looks "skinny" when I'm at my healthiest, happiest and most energetic. Bollocks to the idea that I need to let myself slump into weight gain in order to be "an example to young girls".

Really?

She looks fine, good, healthy, toned, not even skinny nor underweight.

Who cares?

Super toned and athletic. I like her look.

I’ve got no idea how tall she is but she looks like I looked at 10-11 stone in a bikini which is curvy (I’m 5ft5).

Considering when I was 7-8.5 stone and looked like her in the dress (prob too skinny at 7 stone and under) I looked prob better, she looks good. I mean she looks good both ways. But the camera adds weight anyway. She’s prob been told to lose weight for Hollywood and Barbie.

Why do you want to talk about someone’s body?

Maybe because the actor is playing Barbie - a doll who is widely recognised to have completely unrealistic proportions?

So to play this character, it's not very surprising that the brief was always going to include being very slim.

The movie is meant to be about subverting the Barbie status quo and I'm sure it is very clever and entertaining (have not seen it yet, but definitely will at some stage as I think it looks fun) but people are going to question stuff about Barbie's character - the hyperfemininity, the very slender physique.

Margot Robbie's body is going to be part of this discussion as she plays Barbie.

I love MR and don't think she is doing anything wrong btw! But people are going to discuss stuff around this.

How it "sits with" you is your problem to handle. Extremely tone deaf and inappropriate post. You're seriously posting pictures of a woman to compare her at various weights because you're uncomfortable with her weight loss? It is not, in any way, MRs job to be a role model for young girls with how much she weighs. You have no idea what's going on in her life, what her weight is, or any say in it. "Can we talk about her weight?". Why don't you post pictures of yourself at various times in the last few years for us to "talk about" if that's something you're interested in. Would you have posted this about a larger woman? Since you're so concerned with people being "role models" they haven't asked to be why not have a think about how much of a role model you're being by body shaming young women on the Internet?

Ugh. When will women stop being so pathetic in their constant need to talk about other women's bodies.

... and you absolutely deserve to be slammed.

And I'm not saying MR's body has unrealistic proportions btw - her body is obviously perfectly fine. But to find a human that would fit the role, that brief was always going to include being slim.

You're right. There has been a lot of talk around Cillian Murphy's weight loss for Oppenheimer.

and tbf the talk around Cillians weight loss was that it was negative/extreme that he had to do it.

She looks fit and toned to me rather than skinny, as she has for many of her film roles over the past few years.

As in she's looked fit and toned for many years!

Lots of actors go up and down with their weight for different roles.

I saw that photo of her in the mini dress and thought she looked damn near perfect.

Not that it matters what I think as its none of my business what her body is or isn’t like.

I’m very happy to see someone this slim- representation is vital - I have daughters one is very tall and very slim (5’10 and size 6-8) the other other very petite and very slim (U.K. size 2) - it’s good they see people who are like them. Margot Robbie isn’t underweight she’s just very slim and that isn’t unhealthy