I Still Don't Eat
The Fug Girls apparently were also watching the Oscar pre-show I talked about here. They applaud her refreshing honesty while at the same time pointing out... she may actually want to reconsider her stance on self-starvation.
"I kind of get the impression that Debbie's reaction might be, 'oh, you NOTICED! I'm so glad.' And, honestly, that's kind of f'ed up... So here's yet another in our long line of pleas to the ladies of the world: we were not all built to weigh 90 pounds. Being healthy is a good thing: being HUNGRY just makes you really crabby and then your face starts to look prematurely aged, and while some people believe you can never be too thin, there's no cliche along the lines of "you can never be too cranky and gaunt."
Thanks to Jelly for the tip!
"I kind of get the impression that Debbie's reaction might be, 'oh, you NOTICED! I'm so glad.' And, honestly, that's kind of f'ed up... So here's yet another in our long line of pleas to the ladies of the world: we were not all built to weigh 90 pounds. Being healthy is a good thing: being HUNGRY just makes you really crabby and then your face starts to look prematurely aged, and while some people believe you can never be too thin, there's no cliche along the lines of "you can never be too cranky and gaunt."
Thanks to Jelly for the tip!
posted by mo pie at 10:25 AM
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Maybe it' just I really like Debbie (more than her other co-host) but I do not see her being Keira-thin. Giulianna DePandi (sp?) on the other hand, is going to dissapear if she keeps losing weight.
It's all a matter of perceptions.
Oooh I knew I'd seen that face before! There was this doco on the BBC recently called Super Slim Me, exploring the British media's recent obsession with the US size 0 (UK size 4).
Daisy, the chick that did the doco, was a healthy US 8 and did an 8-week experiment to see what one has to go through to actually become that size. It really sent her MENTAL, she was starving on 500 cals a day and the doctors strongly advised her to stop. It was actually quite an interesting doco to show how someone who had a perfectly sane attitude to food and health before became completely obsessed with her weight...
ANYWAY, she went over to LA and she interviewed that Debbie chick you're talking about, and she spoke openly about how she just does not bloody eat to stay that size, that it's just what you have to do if you want to be on the telly in America. And she was as gleeful as the Fug girls mentioned, and so matter-of-fact, which was rather unsettling. Daisy had a set of scales with her and asked her how much she weighed, and Debbie just leaped on the couched and yelped and refuuuused to get on the scales or tell her much she weighed because she was just sooo damn huge... whoa.
honestly, i thought i had a f*cked up body image at times but this Hollywood stuff is something else all together...
(btw just to clarify, I mean "mental" in the Scottish sense, like "totally batty". Not certifiably mentally insane or anything ;)
"telly" I love that word.
I think is pretty interesting how you become kind of numbed by having all those thin images thrown at you.
My mom saw the Christina Ricci & Woody Allen movie (forgot the name) and she told me Christina was fat. what?!?
Or views have been distorted to such a lenght I do not even believe my own eyes anymore.
Only a bit OT:
It's true that our perceptions about body size are distorted by our surroundings...
After living in Tokyo for six months I picked up an American Vogue. As I flipped through the pages past the emaciated models, I thought, Damn, those models sure are fat. Then I came across a picture of Catherine Zeta Jones and was, like, DAMN! She's freakin' HUGE!
Living among size 0/1 Japanese women had really warped my perceptions.
At size 8, I felt like Godzilla.
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