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To think Cheryl Fernandez-Versini is way to thin.

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SummerWine · 18/08/2015 20:14

www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3202619/Cheryl-Fernandez-Versini-displays-slim-physique-black-jumpsuit-perfume-launch.html

Her arms just look way too thin, the article is not the greatest photos but a quick google makes her look even thinner.

www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/cheryl-fernandez-versini-defies-weight-critics-6027419

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Prelude · 31/08/2015 15:21

Her prettiness has always depended on the soft flesh on her face rather than bone structure. I don't think she was ever as stunning as when she first auditioned.

Helena Bonham Carter (although tiny) is still a beautiful woman because her attractiveness comes from the bones in her face. Cheryl was always going to look different as she became older with her features thrown into sharper relief, but having said that, she does look too thin and seems frail imo.

sticks2 · 31/08/2015 15:25

Agree OP

The fact that she's on pro anorexia sites says it all. It's quite clear from pictures posted up thread, she is not naturally that thin and I'd guess she is anorexic.

Whether you personally like Cheryl FV or not is irrelevant. She's admired by thousands of girls who want to be like her, so she does have a responsibility to look healthy. And Simon Cowell shares that responsibility. (Not that he's concerned that thousands of girls could become anorexic in a bid to look like her)

This is nothing to do with 'body shaming'. The issue here is far more serious and I would worry about anyone who thinks she looks great.

She has lost too much weight, looks ill and girls want to emulate that. How sad.

mellowheart · 31/08/2015 15:29

if a person who works on a family targeted show wants to be unhealthily thin it's a problem.

FFS. What about the unhealthily fat?
Where are the hate threads about fat women on family targeted shows
Yes but there's a big difference. Young girls don't look at a fat person and think "I want to look like that" Fat people haven't become fat because of looking at their idols and wanting to be like them.

Lweji · 31/08/2015 15:30

But isn't giving the wrong message that it's ok to be too fat?

mellowheart · 31/08/2015 15:34

Another worrying factor is she's obviously had her top lip done. I know loads of others have but I blame it on these stupid celebs who have more money than sense who go out and get that stupid duck faced look. What role models eh. Looks like they've been stung by a wasp me thinks.

Mistigri · 31/08/2015 17:10

what about the unhealthily fat

I do think there is an issue with overweight becoming so normalised that people fail to understand what normal is. However, being overweight is not something that young girls aspire to, and seeing one overweight celebrity is vanishingly unlikely to change their perception of what is a normal/desirable weight.

In contrast, young girls DO aspire to look as thin as the women they admire on television. And as someone said above, while a person who is a couple of stone overweight may be harming their long-term health, a person who is two stone underweight may be at risk of much more immediate and more serious health consequences.

In addition, many women who maintain very low and physiologically inappropriate body weights do so by abusing drugs or by vomiting or by binge-restrict eating habits - all behaviours that have serious health consequences in addition to the health risks of being excessively thin.

SirVixofVixHall · 31/08/2015 17:11

Actually you have a lower overall risk of death in any given year being slightly overweight, than underweight. Hugely overweight is obviously not god, but a bit of extra chub is healthier than being very thin.

SirVixofVixHall · 31/08/2015 17:12

Er Good. Not God. Doh.

SheGotAllDaMoves · 31/08/2015 17:12

The difference between Adelle and Cheryl is that the former has not positioned herself as a style ambassador and is not selling her life and look at every turn.

SirVixofVixHall · 31/08/2015 17:16

She looks thinner than Karen Carpenter. She really does look emaciated. And the TV cameras add about ten pounds, so in real life she must be horrifyingly thin. I agree with a pp that there is no way they would have a man that skeletal presenting the show. And that there is clearly something wrong. I am concerned about my daughters seeing her presented as an image of beauty and glamour, and we are a family with many natural skinnies. Naturally skinny doesn't look like that.

TRexingInAsda · 31/08/2015 17:40

Mellowheart what a load of sexist twaddle. You're a step away from "well she dressed like a tart got drunk, so she was asking for it". Different subject, same misogynist attitude problem.

mellowheart · 31/08/2015 19:24

How on earth is it sexist twaddle Trex Have you got daughters? It's well known that girls like to emulate female celebs. It's nothing at all like "she dressed like a tart, so she was asking for it" What a strange comparison, and so wrong to even think it.

Lweji · 31/08/2015 19:28

She really does look emaciated

I wonder how I must look to you. :)

Emaciated is not like that.

SheGotAllDaMoves · 31/08/2015 19:31

lweji thread is not about you. Maybe you look good, maybe you look shite. Who knows?

Posters think Cheryl looks ill/too thin/ awful.

Lweji · 31/08/2015 19:35

I see it as a reflection on me because I'm about the same frame as she is now.

In the same way that overweight pps don't like overweight celebrities being criticised.

I do so it as digs at people who are that thin.
And don't like how people are over the tip on their comments about someone who is skinny, but definitely not emaciated. Not from the photos. (And no, photos don't add 10 pounds - and even so...)

MNetter15 · 31/08/2015 19:39

What I really don't understand is the fact that she's wearing very revealing clothes. It's as if she's purposely putting it all on display. I wonder is it that she doesn't realise how she looks or does she think it looks good?

I don't know how anyone can look at her and claim that she isn't too thin. She looks emciated to me Sad

Mistigri · 31/08/2015 19:50

lweji a small minority of people are naturally extremely thin - but this thread isn't about them. A 32 year old woman who was previously a more normal weight doesn't get that thin without some underlying health issue, extreme endurance training, or an eating disorder. Given her age and profession, if I were a betting person, I'd put money on the third.

Lweji · 31/08/2015 19:52

I don't know how she got there and what her motivation is. Fine to comment on that and its anyone's guess. Not so much on how she actually looks, which I do think it had been really nasty on this thread.

DriverSurpriseMe · 31/08/2015 19:55

There's a longstanding rumour that when she was hospitalised with malaria, it was actually a cover story to hide the fact she'd been hospitalised with an eating disorder.

Not sure I buy it, because as cover stories go, it's just a bit too outlandish. But looking at the way she looks right now, I find it impossible to believe she doesn't have an eating disorder. The difference between now and this time last year is so stark.

Chipstick10 · 31/08/2015 20:02

Everyone's talking about her. Job done

Sallystyle · 31/08/2015 20:07

Other people may look great at that size. She doesn't though. It does not suit her, it is not natural for her and her face has changed shape completely. She is gaunt and frail and her head looks too big for her body.

Some people can be the same size but it suits their frame. Cheryl has never been this small framed before. She was always slim but had a lovely round face and her cheek bones were not sunken.

People who are naturally thin should not take offence because we can't see you and this is not a judgment on what you look like. The fact is Cheryl looks ill with it.

As for Nick, I have never seen him before in my life. I don't know if he has always looked this way, but he looked healthy enough. I was not shocked by him looking frail or anything. I would say the exact same things about him if I thought he looked ill like Cheryl.

Lurkedforever1 · 31/08/2015 20:26

lweji I got the same response earlier in the thread, it's apparently ok to make derogatory remarks about thin people's appearance. Because if it was actual body fat levels people would be slagging many top athletes who have equally low body fat, but often just more muscle. But if someone looks bulky through muscle it's apparently ok to have low body fat. So it is just skinny bashing.
However I'm happy enough with my body I don't need to make personal comments about others physiches, fat or thin, in an effort to convince myself I look good by comparison. Confidence always looks good, and people who need to make nasty comments about other peoples appearances aren't confident about their own in my experience.
Fwiw I don't even like her cos of her behavior, but thats no reason to slag an appearance that for some of us is natural and healthy.

TRexingInAsda · 31/08/2015 20:34

Mellowheart yes I do have a dd. She might grow up wanting to look like Cheryl, or Meagan Trainor, or Adele - that's one issue, which I am dealing with by projecting a healthy and confident body image (for me and her).

Another issue is that she is going to have a career, and I want people to take her seriously, not just look at her and start discussing her body or how she looks in clothes, with the excuse of 'well she wore it/she took that job, so we're entitled to talk about her' when that would never happen to a man doing her same job, or would happen to a much lesser degree/frequency. People need to cut that shit out.

SheGotAllDaMoves · 31/08/2015 20:38

Oh stop being so self absorbed lurking.

No one here knows you or what you look like.

But we can all see Cheryl. And we can see how much thinner she is right now.

She says due to bereavement. Are we meant to admire that ? Bereavement chic? Is that a thing now?

I have big tits. Really lovely and pert, never sagged. Completely natural. However if women feel the need to have surgery to get I would understand people's anxiety. I wouldn't jump up and down making taking about me, me, me.

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