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How is Ariana Grande allowed to keep going?

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fartotheleftside · Yesterday 18:30

She looks like she’s at death’s door with anorexia and yet she’s just kicked off a world tour.

I thought we were living in more enlightened times now and that celebrities’ ill health wouldn’t be enabled like this. If she went to any hospital she’d get admitted for malnutrition.

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poig · Yesterday 21:26

HoraceCope · Yesterday 21:10

i have to disagree
she looks slim but not anorexic imo

this is a typical mumsnet response when it
cones to weight. This can be an unhealthy place shen it comes to weight.
Ive seen threads where women have said they’re 7 stones and 5ft 4 and feel chubby, with replies agreeing that you can be chubby at this height/weight. Appalling.

lazymaw · Yesterday 21:27

PembrokeshireDangler · Yesterday 20:54

I'm sure I read that Grande recently split up with her husband, so that won't be helping.

I also agree with an earlier poster re: Princess Katherine - I've always thought she looks borderline unwell. Her family are all naturally slim, but she is beyond that.

Dalton? She divorced him and immediately got with Ethan Slater, her co star
(affair, both married at the time) who recently had had a baby with his then wife. She got so much bad press because of it. Ethans non celeb wife who was none the wiser, even being introduced to Ariana and letting her meet thier baby, eventually had to leave her job as a psychiatrist due to legal issues about confidentiality/patients/fame. This is when she started to become even more thin as it coincided with wicked movie promo, and I also think in part to garnish public sympathy
for being shitty (along with Ethan).

Her and Ethan have unsurprisingly now split (not married) after 3 years so yes, maybe the guilt of her part in that situation is taking its toll. She has all the money and resources in world. Her public image is carefully planned and curated so I honestly don’t think she appears any way that is not wanted or planned.

Empress13 · Yesterday 21:30

Her co-star Cynthia is just as skinny the pair of em are weird

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Okiedokie123 · Yesterday 21:30

AlexaStopAlexaNo · Yesterday 18:59

A fat celebrity is a bad example too.

So?

TeaForTwoPlusDog · Yesterday 21:31

She looks very unwell. I can’t imagine that her body will cope with a tour, although I think it’s only for a few months, so maybe that is with her current health in mind. I hope she’s ok, she seems to have been through a lot and seems a very gentle person.

TheWineoftheChicken · Yesterday 21:33

Empress13 · Yesterday 21:30

Her co-star Cynthia is just as skinny the pair of em are weird

Is AG ‘weird’? Or is she massively affected by someone bombing her concert and killing multiple people, including children?

Marmalademorning · Yesterday 21:34

My 9 year old daughter shocked me recently when she mentioned Ariana Grande and said she had an eating disorder. I didn’t even realise she knew what an eating disorder is. It’s something I suffered very badly from as a teen but kept hidden from and never mentioned to her.

Illegally18 · Yesterday 21:35

AlexaStopAlexaNo · Yesterday 18:59

A fat celebrity is a bad example too.

How fat are we talking?

BringBackCatsEyes · Yesterday 21:37

Empress13 · Yesterday 21:30

Her co-star Cynthia is just as skinny the pair of em are weird

Cynthia just ran a very fast London Marathon. She is at the peak of fitness.

Okiedokie123 · Yesterday 21:37

JollyGreenWatermelon · Yesterday 19:43

Funny how Kate Middleton, who is not much bigger, is being praised for her accomplishments , and losing the weight so quickly after giving birth.

ie the Princess of Wales, Catherine Windsor.
She hasn’t been known as Kate Middleton for 15 years.

Zov · Yesterday 21:39

poig · Yesterday 21:26

this is a typical mumsnet response when it
cones to weight. This can be an unhealthy place shen it comes to weight.
Ive seen threads where women have said they’re 7 stones and 5ft 4 and feel chubby, with replies agreeing that you can be chubby at this height/weight. Appalling.

I have seen this too on here.

..... in fact you often see 'I am 7 stone 3 pounds - at 5 ft 3 inches tall, but when I am 8 stone I am FAT' type comments! Very disturbing and weird.

Also, just today (may have been yesterday,) I saw someone on a thread say that a BMI of 26.5 is quite overweight. 🙄

.

JollyGreenWatermelon · Yesterday 21:40

Okiedokie123 · Yesterday 21:37

ie the Princess of Wales, Catherine Windsor.
She hasn’t been known as Kate Middleton for 15 years.

Maybe in your private circle, I am not posh enough to be close to that
and yet, still called Kate Middleton everywhere else so we're good.

JollyGreenWatermelon · Yesterday 21:42

Zov · Yesterday 21:39

I have seen this too on here.

..... in fact you often see 'I am 7 stone 3 pounds - at 5 ft 3 inches tall, but when I am 8 stone I am FAT' type comments! Very disturbing and weird.

Also, just today (may have been yesterday,) I saw someone on a thread say that a BMI of 26.5 is quite overweight. 🙄

.

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it is.. or it can be

I just had a look, to get a BMI of 26, I need to put on 3.5 stones! No one would ever describe me as skinny now, I would be more than overweight

Backedoffhackedoff · Yesterday 21:46

Helpwithdivorce · Yesterday 21:23

She has PTSD after someone set a bomb off at her show and murdered 22 of her fans.
She visited the injured in hospital. This isn’t something you get over. Especially when you have the type of personality she has.
Im sure she wishes she was well too. But she’s a performer and perform she will

She had an eating disorder and was involved in a bombing. These things are not necessarily as connected as your post suggests.

grrrlatrix · Yesterday 21:47

Is it possible the really shocking ones are edited?

How is Ariana Grande allowed to keep going?
JuliettaCaeser · Yesterday 21:48

When dd looked like that she was definitely anorexic and had to have regular ECGs to check on her heart. She wasn’t allowed to exercise or walk to school so how this lady or those around her think she can physically do a gruelling world tour I don’t understand.

IcedPurple · Yesterday 21:48

grrrlatrix · Yesterday 21:47

Is it possible the really shocking ones are edited?

Honestly, I'd say it's more likely that the more flattering photos (in this case the one on the right) are edited.

TeaForTwoPlusDog · Yesterday 21:53

Kate Middleton has also definitely looked underweight at times, even before her cancer diagnosis, but maybe she suffered with a chronic ill health condition that caused this. She has looked very thin since having cancer but it can be very difficult to build back muscle and get to a healthy weight after cancer. For all we know she may be very unwell still with cancer.

Backedoffhackedoff · Yesterday 21:57

TeaForTwoPlusDog · Yesterday 21:53

Kate Middleton has also definitely looked underweight at times, even before her cancer diagnosis, but maybe she suffered with a chronic ill health condition that caused this. She has looked very thin since having cancer but it can be very difficult to build back muscle and get to a healthy weight after cancer. For all we know she may be very unwell still with cancer.

I would suggest POW allows certainly has an eating disorder.

NImumconfused · Yesterday 21:59

Backedoffhackedoff · Yesterday 20:14

She has anorexia. She’s nowhere near lacking capacity

People with anorexia can be judged as lacking capacity, DD is currently receiving treatment but has been told if she stops complying with it she will be sectioned and Ng tube feed on the basis that she is putting her own life at risk. And she doesn't look nearly as thin as Ariana.

HighHeelsRedLips · Yesterday 21:59

Poor girl, she is clearly very ill. Very sad to see.

ruethewhirl · Yesterday 21:59

IcedPurple · Yesterday 19:43

Someone will be along to say 'we've lost sight of what a healthy weight is' any time now.

I was thinking the same, I've got my bingo card ready. 😄

I have to say I think anyone who thinks Ariana looks a healthy weight has definitely lost sight of what a healthy weight is. She looks so thin she could snap in two. Frightening.

BringBackCatsEyes · Yesterday 21:59

JollyGreenWatermelon · Yesterday 21:42

it is.. or it can be

I just had a look, to get a BMI of 26, I need to put on 3.5 stones! No one would ever describe me as skinny now, I would be more than overweight

Exactly. For someone tall and slim to tip right over the other end of the healthy BMI range would not be healthy for them at all.

SecretSquirrelLoo · Yesterday 21:59

Oh the poor woman must be so unhappy. Anorexia is a vicious disease.

However willfully stupid some posters are being, she is obviously very seriously underweight.

furimosa · Yesterday 22:01

Also, just today (may have been yesterday,) I saw someone on a thread say that a BMI of 26.5 is quite overweight

Normally it’s just slim & morbidly obese, there is no middle ground 🙄

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