The camera adds ten pounds?

[SecretSquirrelsLover]

Just musing as I was alerted to an episode of a TV show I was on years ago being repeated - nothing v mainstream or primetime - but I watched it back and feel like a look huge! My daughter also told me that my face looked like a chipmunk! Yet at the time I was probably a size 6/8 and about 8 stone (I'm v short). I always thought the camera adding pounds was a myth!

I've not really come across any people from TV/film land in 'real life' either but obviously some of you out there must have - does that mean they are all really much smaller than they appear - and in some cases I guess must be skeletal to look slim on tv?!

Frankly, no. The ones I have seen look just as slim.

We don't really hear that famous men look fatter on screen?

Good point - maybe I am just bigger than I thought and it's the mirror that's flattering 😂

or maybe it's the angle you were recorded that is unflattering 😁

You could be right - face on and from slightly underneath might explain it!

It's more that it 'flattens' you. People I've met who look fab in film/TV/photos are really slim, and tend to have angular features.

I’m the same, OP. I’m slim (8-10) and I always look chunkier in photos and videos. I would say it’s the angle I’m standing at which makes my arms, thighs and stomach look bigger than real life, but my face does as well even though I’m looking straight on. I’m short as well so maybe it’s a short person problem 🤣

Although saying that, my sister used to work in PR and met a lot of famous people through her job, and she said that a lot of the women were surprisingly tiny in real life compared to what she’d seen on screen or photo.

I bloody hope that the camera adds 10lbs! My daughter took a photo of me yesterday and I looked like Jabba the hut!

We've seen a lot of the Dr Who cast when they're filming around our area, and they are pretty much universally of a very 'spare' build, and also very very brown... Jenna Coleman is doll-like, and absolutely gorgeous...

Have also seen Ioan Gruffydd and Dr Hilary Jones, and again, very slender and brown, and IG shorter than I'd have thought too.

Thoughts and prayers... 😄

Yes. I've met a lot of famous people through my work and they do tend to look slimmer in real life.

The Duchess of Cambridge is the most stark example I've personally seen.

Oh gosh I was just saying the other day how slim she looked on TV!

The majority of famous people I've seen outside of TV have been on the football pitch - the male players don't tend to look slimmer, but usually a lot better looking!