...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?

Eh you actually are skinny shaming with a post like this?!

The amount of comments my daughters’ get like this is horrible. People think they can just be rude !

What an awful thread you’ve started OP

Can't imagine it's good for either male or female actors to have to muck about with their body and diet to fit an image

@AgathaSpencerGregson

eell that's good, it's not a kids film

@RoseBucket erm talk about putting words in my mouth! I've had those comments directed towards myself personally thank you!
In school I was known as 'hat rack'.

Not the point of my thread. At all. Jesus.

Unfortunately I'm not that size anymore but I used to get so many rude comments about being slim when I was a teenager too. I ate more than I do now. I don't know why people think it's ok to comment on your size just because your slim.

I thought the opposite actually, I thought isn’t it good she’s not gone super skinny for the Barbie role? Barbie dolls are traditionally very tall, super skinny, with big boobs, I think they’ve toned downed all of these elements by choosing an actress shaped like Margot Robbie.

So it’s ok to point out how ‘skinny’ she is, but god fucking help anyone who started a thread pointing out an actress had got fatter.

It’s hardly surprising that someone is fitter, leaner and slimmer during the filming and promotion of a film, than they are during downtime.

So how are we allowed to talk about unrealistic body ideals for women? Do we have to pretend Robbie is the norm? Can we only discuss it in the abstract with no reference to actual examples? Or are we just not allowed to discuss it all? And who benefits if we can’t? Do we benefit?

So we still value extreme slimness, we’re just not allowed to talk about that.
A sound recipe for good mental health.

Pretty much!

@Gh12345 #liferegrets

My kids are 15 and 16.

Sorry, that was to @FFSwhatisthis

Why is it unrealistic? Who gets to decide what is realistic and what isn’t? Some people look like this. It’s not their fault if that makes others feel bad. That’s for the others to deal with, not them.

Oh for Christ sake. She’s not “skinny”. She’s a slim healthy young woman.

You’ve lost sight of what a healthy weight actually is.

@AgathaSpencerGregson apparently we are not allowed to discuss it... 😂

You’ve lost sight of what a healthy weight actually is.

I really don't think Hollywood has!

Quite.

No, you shouldn’t be discussing someone else’s weight. It’s none of your business.

Did you mean to come across as creepy OP?

<<Shudders>>

So sick of the constant criticism about women's appearance!!!!

Wasnt she the same size for Babylon? Because I recall a thread complaining she was too thin on Vanity Fair. Though I thought she looked great on that too.

I do not think she is excessively slim for a young, child free woman anyway. Millions of women across the world who are her size or slimmer.

I think I get your point OP which is that Hollywood is obviously still demanding thinness, and that can be damaging? Whereas you'd hope they'd moved have past that.

Some people do, but most don’t, and won’t no matter how much they try. But the former type is still held up as the ideal, as the gushing and the rushing to say “I am just like this!” Demonstrates.
is it good if we say we can’t talk about this? I’m not sure. Seems even worse than my youth, when women like this were idealised but at least we felt free to discuss why that might be a problem.