[cpbell0033944]

Sorry to have dominated this board recently, but I just read this and my heart is in my mouth:

From http://justjared.buzznet.com/2007/05/04/jessica-biel-elle-magazine-june-2007/#comments

On being considered ‘buff’: “This is the thinnest and the least muscular I’ve been in a long time. I’m so lean and feminine.”

Please tell me this is just a statement of fact.  Please say that her use of the word "feminine" to describe a less-buff version of her doesn't mean she's caught "Hollywooditis" – that dreaded disease that tells actresses that to display more than 1/2 a pound of muscle is unfeminine.  Please tell me I'm panicking and overreacting. >:( :'(

[Grandmaster]

You can't really blow up (succeed to levels that might seem outrageous to you and I) in mainstream films without some form of "the disease". She's probably tired of journalists/bloggers/paparazzi bringing up her muscles and her presumed "obsession" for working out all the time, and would like the more level-headed producers (there's one or two) to know that, yes, she's still interested in non-physically-oriented parts, despite being more fit than the average bubble-headed ingenue…

[Lingster]

Everything in those magazines is a lie.  Don't worry about it. 

[Prophet Tenebrae]

While Lingster is right that these magazines have about the same factual content as a litre of sea water, at the same time – there are indeed many attractive women who have gone to Hollywood… Christina Ricci comes to mind and just look what a famine victim she is these days.

There IS a pressure for all the girls in Hollywood to look a certain way but I don't suppose you can say Biel is tubby but then, I rather suspect that muscle is probably as much anathema to Hollywood types as fat.

[cpbell0033944]

Everything in those magazines is a lie.  Don't worry about it. 

I hope you're right, Lingster!

While Lingster is right that these magazines have about the same factual content as a litre of sea water, at the same time – there are indeed many attractive women who have gone to Hollywood… Christina Ricci comes to mind and just look what a famine victim she is these days.

There IS a pressure for all the girls in Hollywood to look a certain way but I don't suppose you can say Biel is tubby but then, I rather suspect that muscle is probably as much anathema to Hollywood types as fat.

That's what I'm fearing.  I'm mostly worried about her mindset, given that she describes her less-buff iteration as being "so feminine."  I fear that the muscle = butch propaganda might have claimed another victim. :'(  What you guys must realise is that she was the woman who made me realise how hot female muscularity is.  Imagine that the first buff woman you saw and crushed-on went thin, or threatened to.  Imagine how you'd feel. :'(

[cpbell0033944]

OK, recently, Lingster has posted on the front page evidence that Jess is still buff.  It seems that she really is one of us; she's still buff, yet reckons that she's now "so lean…".  Anyway, I've just found this quote, accompanying one of the photos of her at her buffeset last year, when everyone was being rude about her muscularity:

“If somebody were to mess with me, I’d feel very confident after all the training that I’ve had. I’d probably draw on some of the defensive stuff I learned on Blade. I do sort of feel unstoppable.”

How can any femuscle-loving guy fail to think she's hot for saying that? 😮 8)

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