To wonder why both Duchesses are so thin?

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Talking about both the Duchess of Cambridge and the Duchess of Sussex. And ok, I know IABU, but I thought I'd namechange and put it out there to see if other posters agreed. Putting my tin hat on, as I know I'll get lots of criticism for my gossipy thread. Oh well!

Both Catherine and Meghan are beautiful women with naturally lovely figures. But they are both so so extremely thin! Right now Kate is less thin, I assume because of her recent pregnancy and new baby, but no doubt she'll bounce back to her usual skinniness soon.

Kate was nowhere this thin before getting engaged and married into the RF. Meghan has always been very slim, but is now thinner than ever and I bet she won't gain the weight back. I remember even Diana lost loads of weight as soon as she got engaged and married! And she stayed very thin from then onwards.

Why does it seem like extreme thinness is a prerequisite to be a royal wife?

Kate ritchie before fame...

Nicole sorry. No idea where kate came from!

It’s not fatter people though is it? I’m likely to be thinner than the majority of the thread, and I think it’s perfectly plausible to be too thin. You have no idea how much the posters on here weigh

Always amazes me how fatter people are allowed to pass comments on fellow slimmer women and somehow that’s acceptable.

It's also acceptable for slim people to pass comment on fat people as long as it is disguised as concern for their health.

Yes. No one said Nicole Richie is naturally thin- but is she too thin, now?

Seren

No it’s not acceptable girl anyone to comment on any one else’s body unless asked or a medical opinion. It’s just rude and bad manners

'They are amazing role models - not because of how they look but because of all the amazing charity work and campaigns that they do. '

PMSL! What role models: marry someone rich and famous, jack in your job if you had one, pop sprogs and do some charidee work.

Never mind women like Michelle Obama, Tammy Jo Shults, Oprah Winfrey, JK Rowling, just find some 'prince' to marry and sponge off the taxpayer for life whilst cutting some ribbons and shaking hands with folks for a few hours.

sprinkles who on this thread has said you can't be too thin? Of course there's a limit.

Nicole Richie was addicted to coke and heroin for most of her 20s, so of course she doesn't look healthy in those pictures.

KM and MM would be better role models if they ditched the post baby hairdressers - how about if she'd rocked out in a pair of sweatpants and looked like most people do post-birth?

I agree weight is in the mindset, whether you eat for pleasure or for fuel has a lot to do with it.

Also, there are a few very poorly anorexic people around where I live - KM/MM are deliberately very slim, but someone who's genuinely poorly makes you gasp in shock and doesn't have that glossy look. I can see it's different.

They're not great role models in the same way the Kardashians aren't, their lives are about style over content.

My point was they shouldn't be based on their looks to be role models. The PP was suggested they couldn't be role models because they are on the slim side.

And I think it great that they do speak out about mental health and they have chosen to do charity work and campaigns rather than just sit back and do nothing. I wasn't saying every girl should be aspiring to marry rich and quit their jobs but just saying there is more to them than their looks and they do more than just being a wife (and mother).

Very few women are naturally very thin. Some are but most aren't.

I knew a woman who was really skinny, I assumed she was naturally like that until I saw her lunch one day. She'd cut up an iceberg lettuce and eat it. That was it. No other veg, protein, dressing...just a chopped up iceberg lettuce. No wonder she was thin.

I bumped into a very thin woman I know in a cafe once...again, I'd assumed she was naturally like that until she told me she wasn't having lunch as she'd had a crumpet and some raisins already that day !

And I think it great that they do speak out about mental health and they have chosen to do charity work and campaigns rather than just sit back and do nothing

But that is the very least that could be expected of them in their roles.

formerbabe

"Very few women are naturally very thin. Some are but most aren't."

How can you possibly know that?

Because anyone I've ever met who is very thin actually don't eat very much at all once you get to know them. Like I said, you get the odd person who can eat anything and stay slim but most can't.

Mumsnet is obsessed with weight and thinness!

Also every very think person tells you they eat like a horse which objectively, can’t be true. So they have a unusual interpretation of normal eating. Not disordered, just different

Maybe this depends on what you mean by 'naturally'. I think it's probably quite unusual for anybody to be very thin regardless of what they eat. As I mentioned up-thread I am thin and people often tell me I'm 'lucky' as I must have a fast metabolism. I don't, I just 'naturally' have a very small appetite. And if I feel stressed or anxious (quite often!) I find it quite difficult to eat at all. So if I'm 'lucky' (not sure if that's the right word) it's because of that.

I do think we're so messed up about food and weight as a society, there's judgment in every direction, including the assumption that somebody who is 'too fat' has no self control, and someone who is 'too thin' has too much! I do know that if I was in the public eye I would monitor my weight downwards.

naturally thin is an interesting concept - if I didn't eat sugar, or nasty carbs, i'd be naturally thin. I don't believe there are many people wolfing down 3500 kcal per day and looking like KM/MM either and I don't believe they claim they are doing that.

KM didn't have to champion MH charities though - hardly a sexy area of charity work, that's the one thing I do admire them for.

MM doesn't have to proclaim feminist causes (although I wish she'd walked herself or gone with her mum down the aisle but perhaps her mum didn't fancy it and she couldn't snub Charles - whatevs).

Sprinklesinmyelbow

Yes, that's very true. Like the woman I mentioned...she honestly thought a crumpet and some raisins was enough food to have eaten in the morning to warrant missing lunch.

I think they'd both look better with a bit of weight on I. E five pounds, especially our Kate. She'd look younger too.

I wonder if Meghan's mother was told it wouldn't be possible for her to walk Meghan down the aisle and that was why she looked a bit sad on the day? Sorry off topic.

Sprinkles - in my experience people want me to say that I eat like a horse. I think it's something to do with not wanting to acknowledge that weight is in large part related to how much you eat rather than genetic good fortune in terms of metabolism for example. If people comment on how thin I am or say how do you stay so thin (this happens quite often), sometimes I tell them it's because I don't eat very much. And they always seem really shocked! Like I've broken some sort of social code or pact. I tend not to say it now.

"Very few women are naturally very thin. Some are but most aren't."

How can you possibly know that?

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Observing closely really. Anyone thin I've ever known hasn't eaten much at all. 1200 cals per day kinda intake. It's about calorie restriction, these people aren't double carbing and loading up on cheeseburgers!

"Because anyone I've ever met who is very thin actually don't eat very much at all once you get to know them. Like I said, you get the odd person who can eat anything and stay slim but most can't."

"Also every very think person tells you they eat like a horse which objectively, can’t be true. So they have a unusual interpretation of normal eating. Not disordered, just different"

I eat the required calories for the day. So do most thin people. They just don't eat over the limit, which is what most chubby people do.

I'd say it's the chubbier people who have an unusual interpretation of 'normal' eating. Obviously. Or they wouldn't be fat.