Being rich & thin

[User14March]

Why are all the women in the smart, rich set thin enough for couture? Reading mag with ‘society pages’. Princess Beatrice in their ranks. Geri Halliwell etc. They always seem to be at lunches & dinners, parties, yet no one is even a UK size 10. What’s the secret or are they all far better disciplined than most?

There was a famous quote I read recently by Kate Moss (model).
"Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels".

Coke, fags and very high quality nutritious foods when they do eat

Princess Beatrice is not 'thin'.

she will be in real life, photos are deceptive.

@Moonshine5 thing is as some food is soooo delicious I have never understood that :)

I think if a person is rich and always out for lunches and dinners and going to functions I would imagine that the food becomes an unimportant part of that, whereas for the rest of us who don't go out that often we look forward to the food as much as the occasion because it's more of a treat.

@2dogsandabudgie makes perfect sense.

@User14March no idea, indoctrinated from birth maybe.

I used to not fathom how some of my colleagues could get through the day or a Diet Coke, cigarettes & some sweets.

Lots of celebs and society types have very disordered eating habits, specifically because they are papped a lot.

Having lots of time available for excessive exercise and avoiding anything remotely fattening.

100% this.

Women are picked apart for their weight by the gutter press.

Sounds like ‘Devil Wears Prada’, to paraphrase, if you feel you are going to pass out, only then, can you have a tiny piece of cheese’ :)

The responses on this thread are quite spiteful. Look at pictures of women from 30, 40, 50 years ago. I bet none the women mentioned here are as slim as an average woman was then. Overeating is entrenched in our society to the degree we've forgotten what normal bodies look like. My mum's weight never changed throughout her life - and she'd had 6 children. My grandmother was the same. Wealthy women can afford nutritionally rich food and good advice. No cravings for crap If your food is nutritionally rich. The problem isn't them, it's us and the empty, sugary crap.

In my experience slim people tend to eat differently to the not slim. They eat meals and do not snack/graze in between meals. Tend to eat fruit and veg not stodge.

They spend fortunes on personal trainers and can exercise for several hours a day. They also have extensive surgery, gastric surgery and access to weight loss injections. And really expensive hair and makeup artists at their beck and call.
Even with all that, I don't think either Beatrice or Geri look particularly great. Geri notoriously suffered from severe ED also. I know women on benefits who look nicer and just as slim as them both!
But they of course don't eat much either. I'm skinny but mainly due to mental illness and poverty, lol.

They are their own brand. They have to be seen this way.

I could never handle the pressure myself.

It’s a whole load of different things, including tons of exercise, ability to plan healthy meals through either time or money and also peer pressure/environment. So the rest of their family and friends eat in a similar way therefore there is probably a healthier food environment and it’s easier to resist unhealthy things if everyone around you isn’t eating them.

I could win the euro millions tomorrow and at no point would I think, 'Do you know what would make this better...giving up cake, and crumpets and fish and chips'. Fuck that for a game of soldiers.

@Rippledipple it was the rail thin majority in the society pages that caught my eye. Prob twas ever thus. No size tens. They looked fab in the clothes.

This 1000 times over!

Agree Beatrice is...a normal size.

I know someone very slim, probably size 6 and she literally only eats red meat.

When I worked in posh London restaurants, slim middle aged women would ask for things like sparkling water, black tea, egg white omelette, steamed fish fillet, no salad dressing, no carbs, no dairy, no booze, no pudding.

The responses on this thread are quite spiteful. Look at pictures of women from 30, 40, 50 years ago. I bet none the women mentioned here are as slim as an average woman was then. Overeating is entrenched in our society to the degree we've forgotten what normal bodies look like

there were definitely women on tv in the 80s who looked “normal” sized. Look at the 80s supermodels that preceded 90s heroin chic. I don’t buy into the everyone was thin in the old days and people don’t know what fat is narrative. In my teens I was about 7.5 stone & 5ft 10 because I’m naturally lanky. I’m not the same size now but that doesn’t mean I’m fat or don’t realise I’m fat 🙄

Wegovy.

Mumsnet isn't exactly known for being kind to celebrities either, is it?!