Makes Me Wince
I hate to jump on the gossip train, but the photos of Lindsay Lohan at Fashion Week make me wince. She is so thin that her face looks distorted.
While, as someone who suffered from anorexia as a teenager, my heart completely goes out to her and I understand all too personally how it feels… I think that when celebrities who clearly are struggling with disordered eating on some level or another claim that they are so healthy and that they just ate a Big Mac, it creates huge problems for the girls at home who observe them and want to be them. Again, I can understand wanting privacy, and I honestly can’t picture LiLo speaking into a reporter’s microphone at Fashion Week and saying, “Yes, I ate 700 calories today” but–whether they like it or not–female celebrities become youth culture paradigms of beauty and style. My hope, though, is that girls don’t want to emulate Lindsay Lohan’s new physique and that they’ll look to women like…
Uh oh. I’m drawing a complete blank for ideas on healthy women celebrities. Ideas? I would volunteer America Ferrera, but I was disappointed at how the star of indie movie Real Women Have Curves dropped a lot of weight when she made her prime time debut. I would volunteer Blake Lively or Lily Allen, but I actually don’t know a thing about their eating habits, I just like them a lot. Haha…
Rebecca @ The Book Lady's Blog | February 17th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
This is just so disturbing. I’m thankful that I was a teenager just a few years before all of the actresses got so thin (I’m 26 now). I think Kate Winslet always looks shapely and healthy…and how about Salma Hayek and Scarlett Johansen? Talk about va va voom!
Lose That Girl | February 18th, 2009 at 9:47 am
I think Rebecca has chosen wonderful female role models. All three actresses look healthy, fit and real. The media is constantly parading the likes of the Olsen Twins, Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton in front of us, and many an impressionable teenage girl thinks their body shapes are normal. I think the Kate Winslets and Scarlett Johansens of the world should be celebrated more frequently — they’re beautiful, smart and very talented. I’d much rather look like them than the unhealthy Kate Mosses and Nicole Ritchies any day.
Blake Lively and Leighton Meester look fantastic. Not too thin, normal. Taylor Momsen though is another story altogether.
Jennifer Kelton | February 18th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
I was shocked when I saw the pictures as well, clearly something is going on in her life. Sad! I hope she gets some help.
Alexandra | March 17th, 2009 at 10:44 am
I volunteer Catherine Zeta Jones as a healthy example, but it sure is sad how hard it is to find one…