To think Kelly Osborne must have body dysmorphia?

[Seymorbutts]

I’ve just seen a photo of Kelly Osborne, having not seen one for years. I don’t tend to keep up with celeb gossip but this photo actually shocked me. She looks about 55, despite being only 40, and so frail because of how much weight she’s lost. She can’t possibly think she looks good. I think she must have body dysmorphia. I can see how growing up in the spotlight somewhere like LA, being surrounded by ridiculously beautiful people, where cosmetic surgery and being a size zero is standard, must have been very difficult for her, especially as she has been overweight for most of life. Do you think she’s able to recognise how awful she looks but is just unable to stop herself losing weight & getting surgery and she’ll never be satisfied? Or do you think she thinks she actually looks good?

Her body, her choice.

I don’t mean to be flippant about the effects of loss and grief on people, but I’ve seen this line trotted out on every thread about Kelly Osbourne. And to me it just doesn’t ring true.

I’m at that age where a lot of my friends who are in their forties and fifties are losing their parents. Like Ozzy, these parents are often in their seventies. My mum also died aged 72 a few years ago.

People respond to grief in many different ways, and yes I know a few people who struggled to eat properly in the weeks or months following bereavement. But I’ve never seen such drastic and sustained weight loss following a death as this. It is beyond the realms of normal or understandable behaviour.

I think it does a disservice to Kelly, to give her this excuse as a ‘get out’. She appears to have severe mental health struggles relating to her weight, and glossing over these is not going to be helpful to her. I hope she’s getting the support and therapy she needs.

I don’t have “concern”. That would be weird for someone I don’t know IRL. I’m also not in the habit of criticising others’ appearance. However, it’s an interesting and relevant topic of conversation and she’s someone in the public eye, so obviously she’s someone that’s going to be used as an example - I’m mainly fascinated by the cosmetic surgery side of it. I’m genuinely interested in whether women think it makes them look younger/more attractive or it’s more like an addiction that they can’t control. I’ve got nothing against a bit of Botox here and there or some dermal fillers, a chemical peel. I can see why women do it in our youth obsessed culture. I’m even considering dermal fillers myself! But I don’t get why they get such drastic stuff done that ends up making them look like wax dolls & IMO, ironically, massively ages them. They always end up looking so much older or they look ageless - where they could be anything from 30 to 60. Even less understandable when young women do it, a couple of women on the last series of Married at First Sight, who weren’t even 30, had such extensive work done on their faces that they looked at least 40. Do they look in the mirror and see something different? I don’t get why they don’t look in the mirror and think, right that’s enough now, I’m starting to look like a waxwork. But they don’t, so that leads me to believe it’s an addiction that they don’t have much control over, and maybe their brain is somehow distorting what they see in the mirror.

Saying we should never discuss others’ appearance is reductive. It’s human nature, and there’s nothing wrong with discussing topics like this. Without using an example the discussion would be very vague and hard to understand. It’s not unkind. It’s curiosity. Being unkind would be commenting on her Instagram picture and telling her she looks like a haggard old troll.

This is still a public forum. And even very young children are taught not to comment on people’s appearance.

She has had an unconventional life with addiction issues. How about allowing her to get on with her life? Or at least have one single thread which everyone can pile on.

"Being unkind would commenting on her Instagram picture and telling her she looks like a haggard old troll"

Do these words look any less unkind because you've said them on here OP?

Can't you see that there is no difference? And presenting your interest in Kelly Osborne's appearance as mere curiosity well I think that's very disingenuous of you.

The amount of shit that poor woman has had chucked at her about her appearance her whole life is disgusting. I'd be amazed if it hasn't badly affected her

I don’t know about LA, but I’m old enough to remember young British men being absolute arseholes about her ‘chubbiness’ when she was a young woman, quite possibly still a teen. So I think our own country has had its own role to play in bullying her into body dysmorphia if she has it, as well, of course, as bullying her now that she has the body dysmorphia we bullied her into.

Tale as old as time as far as women in the public eye are concerned.

I've always liked her, she's got a great character. I just think she's sad, going through a nasty time and it's affecting her physically. End of.

Op I think posts like yours are part of the problem

There’s something bizarre looking about inflated lips and artificially chiselled cheek bones when there is massive weight loss. It becomes a characuture and almost ghoulish. I think that’s why she’s had so many comments. The look isn’t just thin it’s bizarre to the eye.

YABU. She's had to speak out today due to many comments on her appearance. She just lost her dad, clearly she was very close with him. Grief is a bitch.

Normally I'd agree that it's a very unhealthy aesthetic creeping in OP (what the hell happened on the set/press tour of Wicked where Cynthia Erivo, Michelle Yeoh and Ariana Grande lost literal stones in weight) but in this case I really think it is the grief.
This is what she looked like when he died - slim, but not that different to the past few years.

Shes at an age where its sadly quite commonplace to lose your parents.

She was born a millionaire and is a millionaire through no skill of her own.

I dont see she is above criticism.

Her weight loss isnt a problem, she doesn't look overly thin.

The issue is abusive use kf botox fillers and facial surgery

I feel in increadibly sad for her. She's spent 25 years being criticised for the way she looks. Kelly was a pretty normal looking girl yet body positivity was simply not a thing when she was a teenager. She was just 'fat' at the height of the size zero trend. She is just not a naturally skinny person this was deemed completely unacceptable and she's spent her whole life trying to change herself . She waS probably only a size 14.

The she got a gastric sleeve. What sort of surgeon gives a normal sized girl like her an irreversible stomach resizing treatment? Why wasn't she just allowed to accept herself for who she is?

She got gestational diabetes when pregnant which pushed her weight up but obviously it came down very quickly.

No she's still got a third of a tummy and is probably not eating through grief. Yet again she's being picked on. She's probably now the size zero ideal. Nicole Richie looked like this back in the day and was fetishised for it.

I think sadly we will see a lot of celebs looking like this again. Ozempic will see too it. Like the last 20 years dint exist and we are back to fetishising malnourished female bodies. I'm so sad that people like Amy Schumer are all using the pen. I'm all for it if you are seriously obese but a lot of these people aren't. Is this reallly where we want society to go? In some ways seeing super skinny return has made me realise whe have made some progress as it no longer looks good. I just hope it stays that way.

Kelly, good luck to you. It's a horrible time and no one should be bringing you down when you are grieving.

I’m about the same age as Kelly and don’t think it was LA that’s give her body dysmorphia.

Coming of age in the 00s as a female was awful. Heat magazine pushing 00 and endless pap shots of emaciated Victoria Beckham, Nicole Richie etc etc really did a number on a whole generation of women.

I agree @TaraRhu - Amy Schumer and Mindy Kaling have held themselves out to be all about body positivity and brains over anything/everything else but now just prove they’re dying to be thin no o matter their hypocritical cost.

I wonder if because she’s so frail it’s frightened people. A human reaction of concerned shock and compassion rather than being unkind? We’ve all seen her grow up and it’s worrying to see.

@Seymorbutts to think why on earth would you fuel this!

100%.

Men don’t tend to starve themselves to fit a body ideal like starlets do, lets face it.

I don’t believe people are commenting out of concern, and I don’t mean just on here. It’s an excuse to rip into someone. The faux concern about her is just as bad as the gleeful bitching all over social media 😞

She was at the Brits for a tribute to her father, she isn’t trying to get attention every ten minutes like Katie Price

I’m sure none of you would like you (or your daughters) to be ripped apart on social media. She’s a human being and has had addiction issues in the past. None of the negative comments are helpful.

She is hardly a ‘starlet’! Shes a woman with a troubled past. A starlet is a very young promising actress.

And it’s no wonder women feel they need to go to extremes - men don’t have to because they don’t tend to be judged the same.

Yep this. People keep going on as if she is dangerously underweight. She isnt

The shocking look is because she has had fat removed from her lower cheeks and looks like someone with no teeth. The lips add to the effect

Its not to do with grief, its to do with plastic surgery, which is dysmporphic in its own way when done like this

She had a sleeve in 2018 by all accounts and lost weight quite reasonably and appropriately. Her arms show that she is a reasonable weight. She doesnt have lollypop head.

Her face howe ver has been carved out artificially.

She's grieving in the public eye. Leave her be.

The irony always kills me that this thread will be filled with people telling everyone not to talk about it, rather than just letting the thread die a natural death by just scrolling and ignoring.