To think Cheryl Fernandez-Versini is way to thin.

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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

I assumed she has had a health relapse. I know she nearly died of a Malaria in the past and I don't think you ever really get over it. I agree she looks unwell, I don't believe she has dropped this weight on purpose.

I didn't believe the malaria story and I don't believe that she is naturally skinny, either.

I will get hammered for this, but I think that Cheryl, like certain other celebrities, uses skinniness as an attention-seeking device.

Why would you not believe she had Malaria?

YADNBU.

Overweight is unhealthy.

Underweight is unhealthy.

CV-S looks dangerously underweight, therefore unhealthy.

No point shouting about "body shaming," she's as bad a role model, size wise, as (for example) Rebel Wilson. It's just two sides of the same coin.

malaria was a cover for addiction to diet pills that fucked up her kidneys. Allegedly.

Wasn't she at the centre for Tropical Diseases or something? I'm not sure they would have admitted her for a diet pill problem.

They could have gone with the classic cover story 'extreme exhaustion'

The second link of the OP's post showed a pic of Nick Grimshaw looking very slim, not much difference between the two tbh. However, he was wearing a leather jacket which gave him "bulk". Take the jacket away would you be giving him the same shaming?

I didn't believe the malaria story and I don't believe that she is naturally skinny, either

Who cares?
The point is, some people are that naturally skinny. My SIL is one of them and I'm not far behind her. It's body shaming and it's unnecessary.
Cheryl may not be that naturally skinny but no one here as far as I know has a fucking clue what is going on in her personal life, other than her FIL's death, for all we know she could be ill or going through some other shit that she doesn't feel like disclosing to the world. Weight can be affected by a lot of things. It's none of our business.

People are losing sight of what's a normal body. You are meant to see ribs. Society is too used to seeing over fed bodies

Surely, the point is that young girls see that body shape and think that that's how they are supposed to look: unhealthily thin.

Where's 'unhealthily thin'?

Even if it is something more than being naturally slim, or as she explained, weight loss following a bereavement, it is no one else's business. Posts like this just feed into the all pervasive scrutinisation of women's bodies.

It's also not done out of concern, it's just an excuse to make thinly veiled, nasty comments like those doubting that she ever had malaria.

She's got muscle definition not muscle wastage. You can see it. That's how humans are meant to look. Not an extra layer or bulge in sight

I agree fitzers

Maybe the op would like to post a pic of herself so we can critique that?

She's as bad a role model, size wise, as (for example) Rebel Wilson. It's just two sides of the same coin.

Why do either of them have to be viewed as a role model? God forbid you deal with any issues you might have in your own time (if either of them have issues, they may be perfectly happy as they are). Seems now you also have to worry about being excoriated for being less than a perfect example for others.

How do you know she is unhealthy or unhealthily thin?

My best friend at school suffered anorexia for years. Believe me, there's a difference between unhealthily thin and Cheryl thin.
If she's dropped to the weight she is unintentionally then it's pretty harsh to pin the guilt trip of young girls thinking her body shape is how they should look.

All this talk about role models, truly, if my daughter ever bases her view of herself on how celebrities look, I'll feel like I've failed her. I'm not naive, I know how pervasive celebrity culture is but I'd hope to balance that out as she grows up and try to give her something less superficial to base her sense of self on.

Like it or not, people in the public eye can and do influence the younger generations.

I don't view any celebrity as a role model. Doesn't mean that some poor sod doesn't idolise cretins like the Kartrashians! It happens.

I think she looks fine. Normal sized for a young woman.

We are all getting so accustomed to seeing overweight or fat people that we're forgetting what normal looks like!

I don't lay the blame for that at the individual celebrity's feet though notsodesperatehousewife, it's a much more multi-faceted issue than one famous persons weight loss or gain.

Part of the problem is this pressure to be perfect and above reproach in any way, not that that is possible, there seems to be no end of things they can be criticised for.

Usually I am first to say "no, you'd just lost sight of what slim actually looks like". However Cheryl does look unwell so yanbu.

Cheryl is probably still physically more healthy than Rebel Wilson (as compared up thread), even if she a tad too thin currently.

Isn't it all about perspective though? People who are very slim are only ever a few pounds off 'too thin', and that can just be having a hard time or couple of weeks of work stress, it's not indicative of a breakdown or eating disorder.

Agree with other posters too that as a society we've forgotten what not being fat looks like.