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Kiera Knightley's minuscule waist

119 replies

alexheartbeauty · 05/03/2014 19:11

Does anyone think that KK looks good in this outfit?www.telegraph.co.uk/news/features/10678020/Keira-Knightleys-waist-sensation-lets-not-be-waspish.html
I realise a slight optical illusion is at play with the silhouette but it just makes me feel squirmy and think of her organs and bones. I also don't like the idea that impressionable girls might think that having a nothing waist is desirable.

OP posts:
Hairmare · 06/03/2014 13:43

It's obvious that the top and skirt are too big and make her waist look smaller. There is nothing wrong with the size of her waist, she has always been naturally skinny. You get people like that. It is just as bad saying she needs to 'eat some pies' etc etc as it is to call someone fat. You can't help what body shape or metabolism you have, it's not about putting people down and body shaming them regardless of their size. Its about being healthy and having a good BMI.

SundaySimmons · 06/03/2014 13:50

The problem is that she has a perfectly normal figure, and would have not been the subject of any discussion in previous generations when the majority of us had slim waistlines.

Nowadays we are expected to accept larger waistlines as being the norm, when in truth obesity rates are rising and slender people are becoming ridiculed as not being normal.

Keira looks lovely to me.

HesterShaw · 06/03/2014 13:55

Floisme I'm not "comparing myself to her" because I know women come in all shapes and sizes, though as SundaySimmons says, Keira shouldn't be seen as unusual because she is slim.

Snowdown · 06/03/2014 14:03

I like it, don't know why, interesting shape, bored with the current fashions that have just rehashed old ideas. I think it great that she wears something that's fun and frivolous...
As for her shape - she has always been small waisted, nothing wrong with that, it's her shape. She doesn't look malnourished, she has plenty of flesh/muscle on her very shapely legs, she looks healthy and happy and why not?

Floisme · 06/03/2014 14:03

Keira Knightley may or may not be naturally thin, I don't know. The point is that a) only very skinny women regularly make it into magazines etc so they are over-represented. And b) even these women have their images manipulated to make them look even thinner or wrinkle free or whatever. So we end up with a totally whacko idea of what real women look like.

Hungermonkey · 06/03/2014 14:06

She needs a pie

In what world is this acceptable? If anyone were to suggest that someon efat were to eat less pie, they'd be lynched.

NewName123 · 06/03/2014 14:28

That's nasty and that woman has a constant pout on her, yuck!

squoosh · 06/03/2014 14:34

Hungermonkey I don't agree with snide comments about women's figure whether they're fat or thin but I think you'll find overweight women come in for those sorts of comments all the time online.

Hungermonkey · 06/03/2014 14:37

Do they? I never see comments that fat women need to eat less, that they set a bad example, that they are yuk etc etc like see about slim women. Ever.
No one can ever say anything negative on here about fat people as they get jumped all over.

Hungermonkey · 06/03/2014 14:39

Is skinny even a kind word? What would be the fat eqiuvalent? Flabby, blubbery?

squoosh · 06/03/2014 14:40

Hungermonkey I was referring to the internet at large not just Mumsnet. Overweight women come in for huge abuse online.

Hungermonkey · 06/03/2014 14:46

But you agree not on Mumsnet? So why bring it here ? Or do you think slim women are just faor game because society deems their bodies desirable?

squoosh · 06/03/2014 14:50
Hmm

I've already stated I don't agree with deriding women for their body shape, whether big or slim. So no obviously I don't 'think slim women are just faor game because society deems their bodies desirable'

Hungermonkey · 06/03/2014 14:55

So why attempt to defend it at all by saying, " Oh, well but fat women get abuse so......"

squoosh · 06/03/2014 14:58

I thought I was pretty clear, maybe not.

I wasn't 'defending' people slagging KK's figure, I was arguing against your claim that 'suggest that someon efat were to eat less pie, they'd be lynched.'

Floisme · 06/03/2014 15:00

Is skinny even a kind word? What would be the fat equivalent? Flabby, blubbery?
Apologies if that offended anyone, I will re-word my point:

'...a) only thin women regularly make it into magazines... And b) even these women have their images manipulated to make them look even thinner or wrinkle free or whatever.....'

I am not having a pop at Keira Knightley - she herself has complained about photo-shopping: www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/17/celebrity-photoshop_n_4107587.html

1919 · 06/03/2014 15:10

Maybe these ' impressionable young girls' wouldn't be so insecure if threads such as this full of women criticising and insulting another woman's body didn't exist. You're directly contributing towards the culture you're complaining about.

Floisme · 06/03/2014 15:17

1919 If that was directed at me please can you show me where I have insulted either Keira Knightley or any woman's body? If I have done so, it was not intentional and I will apologise.

1919 · 06/03/2014 15:25

It was not directed at you.

MaryWestmacott · 06/03/2014 15:26

No OP - now you are backtracking - you aren't slagging off the dress, you aren't saying "look at the top and skirt being too big for her body" you are honing in on the one area that is her true size - her waist - it looks small compared to the enlarged top and skirt and creates an interesting shape, but it's the waist htat is genuine, and that's the bit you have an issue with - it's her thinness, not the dress that you are complaining about, it's her natural body shape you object to.

You would be quite rightly told to do one if say, you'd come on here when Lisa Riley was on Strictly and questioned if it was acceptable for a larger woman to be on TV wearing an outfit that showed off just how overweight she was and you were worried it was 'normalising fattness' and 'unhealthy role models' - you'd get 10 pages of people telling you that you can be larger and healthy, that 'real woman come in all shapes and sizes'

KK is a natural body shape, she's not like a lot of hollywood stars with breast implants giving an unrealistic ideal (it is a tiny minority of woman who can have large breasts and flat stomach with tiny hips - most people are fat all over or thin all over - but most female movie stars seem to magically have fat only in desirable places). She is not an example of an annorexic body shape. She's an example of a healthy, beautiful body.

I think it would do a lot more damage to only expose young woman to images of overweight woman and tell them that is a what 'normal' looks like. 'Normal' involves a vareity of shapes. Thin is just as valid.

MaryWestmacott · 06/03/2014 15:28

And 'Skinny' is as insulting as 'chubby' if you wouldn't call another woman chubby, don't use skinny.

Floisme · 06/03/2014 15:29

It was not directed at you.
Ok, thanks Smile

likeneverbefore · 06/03/2014 15:29

I think KK has a lovely, healthy figure.

She's one of those people who is delicate up top and carries more weight/muscle lower down her body.

I've seen bikini pics of her and she seems to have really healthy, muscular legs - I don't think she conveys anything dangerous at all.

Hungermonkey · 06/03/2014 15:29

applauds Mary loudly

Floisme · 06/03/2014 15:30

And 'Skinny' is as insulting as 'chubby'
Point taken. I have already apologised for that.