To think that skinny celebrities do have a negative impact on women and girls?

[thatisnotcoffee]

How could they not? When you constantly have this ideal body type pushed in your face as the only right one and and when size 14 is considered to be overweight then how can that not effect you?

Dakota Fanning is considered to be a good role model for teenagers and young women but she's a stick! How can that be healthy? She's 21 and still has the body of a child.

I watched an interview with Amanda Holden recently and she's wasting away. I also looked up Gillian Anderson recently when I found out the X Files was coming back and I was shocked to see that she's also very thin. I was even more shocked when I looked at even older pictures of her from 10-20 years ago and I realised she was very skinny even back then. I just don't understand how being that thin can be healthy tbh.

This sort of shit just makes me feel like crap and that I must be a hippo at a size 16 even though that's the average size.

Dakota Fanning is perfectly healthy and has a stunning figure www.popsugar.com/celebrity/Dakota-Fanning-New-York-Fashion-Week-2014-34008528 how many children do you know with a figure like that?!
And size 16 May be AVERAGE but that doesn't make it HEALTHY necessarily.

I'm an 8 and naturally thin. I eat healthily and do many sports. How do you know that these actresses don't?.... Am I setting a bad example to my daughter for being thin?

I totally understand where you are coming from especially if the celebrities are dieting and not really being "healthy" per se. The problem is is that there will be a few people out there like me, I'm on the skinny side but I eat,all the time and cannot seem to put weight on. I'm currently 7 months pregnant and just over 9.5 stone. When I'm not pregnant im usually around 8.5-9 stone. I do find it frustrating when people look at me sometimes in disgust because they think that I'm not looking after myself properly or not eating. Sometimes it can be as maddening trying to gain weight as it is to lose it. Ive seen a lot of threads like this lately and if people where doing the same about a plus sized celebrity there would probably be uproar.

my DD is a size 4 (14 years old, 5ft 6 and a size 4) as is her grandmother (84years old 5ft 6 and a size 4) -

you know sometimes it IS just genetic and the sort of shit that tells kids it is not ok to be skinny, X is sooo skinny, Y is way too skinny etc etc etc makes my DD feel like crap too...

I don't think it's fair though to pick up on a few examples and blame them for a much larger problem. For all we know Amanda Holden is naturally slim and even if she isn't she's subject to an enormous amount of pressure to maintain that body shape.

I think the point is that you have to look at the shape of women in the media in general, rather than a few examples. Having a few very skinny women in the public eye isn't a problem - some people are just naturally skinny despite being healthy. The problem comes when very skinny women are the only body shape represented. Ideally they'd be a range of shapes that reflects the normal range of healthy women; some very skinny, some very curvy, most somewhere in between.

Who is healthy wearing a size 16?

I'm 6 foot tall and size 14, yet I'm still heavier than I should be. I guess if you are 6 foot 7 a size 16 May be ok

Gillian Anderson has a gorgeous figure imo. I'm actually quite jealous.

And I'm a 16 as well, I'm overweight but I work out a lot and lift weights. I'm fit and I like my body the way it is. But I don't agree with picking on young women for being 'too thin' and a 'stick'.

I've just googled all 3 women your have mentioned and they all look fine :/

And dakota is not ' a stick' !!

You do know that it's normal for humans to show bone beneath skin don't you?

This is about the 3rd thread this week about women being too thin .

I'm 'thin', size 6, weigh 7st 6lbs at 5ft 4" and have been like that for the last 30 years. I get a bit sick of it being assumed that I must be anorexic or suffer from an ED, some of us really are like that naturally you know.

Oh put another record on.

I am 5ft 4ins and size 8.

Size 16 may be okay for you but it's not for me.

The problem is only one body type being represented on screen.

Not the individual, very beautiful and healthy actresses.

I would also like to say that it is women hating on other women for whatever reason that has a negative impact on young girls and women....

So do you think overweight women make better role models?

At just over 5'7, I'm on the verge of obese at a size 14*. That's not the fault of any actress or celebrity, it's a medical fact not a judgement.

*your mileage may vary, I'm very muscular.

Op name some good role models who are fat....

Fat
Lardy
Bloated

You used offensive words to describe some women. Are you ok with me using the opposites?

You do know that it's normal for humans to show bone beneath skin don't you?

Um, no it's not. Your perception of what is healthy has been skewed.

Size 14/16 is actually a perfect and healthy size for women to be. I'm a size 16 and I'm 5'4 and just over 12 stone. I am perfectly healthy! And a lot more attractive than skin and bones.

Yet seeing all those skinny actresses makes me feel like I'm obese and like I'm a hippo . It shouldn't be that way.

Most children will see bigger adults and overweight children much more frequently than they see celebrities and assume it's normal to be overweight. My dcs wouldn't know who Amanda Holden is (I don't think). I'm at the bottom end of the BMI scale but don't feel I'm a bad example to anyone as I eat healthily in normal quantities and exercise regularlly. Although most would call me skinny I'm a normal weight 9st 2 at 5'9.

Well stop being so rude to slimmer women than you! You are calling other women skin and bone and then get upset that others make you feel like a hippo? Jeez...

So do you think overweight women make better role models?

Not overweight women, no. Healthy women, yes.

So anything from a size 12 to a size 16.

and I don't have a child's body at aged 49 and having had 3 children, you sound very bitter and jealous to me.

I'm healthy and I'm a size 6.

I'm a size 16 and I'm 5'4 and just over 12 stone.

Sorry, but that's overweight.

So you're basically describing anyone who is a size 6, 8, 10, 18, 20, 22 as unhealthy?