[grosum]

Yeah this is sexy (NOT!!!)
Celebrity grizzle and bone fest 
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23401436-details/Super+size+zero+Renee+Zellweger+wastes+away/article.do
Photos, scroll half way down.

[cpbell0033944]

Oh dear, not good. :'(

[baditude41]

This is one of the comments left on that blog about those pictures of the "Zero" Renee Zellweger:

"My wife used to be curvy and sexy but now she looks like that and believe me, it ain't sexy when the clothes come off. Why do women think we want them to look like toothpicks?"

– James Wolfe, Atlanta, GA USA

I agree…I don't know why either.  I'm a firm believer in women being shapely, curvy, and voluptuous.  When did that become so horrible.  It's a crime I tell ya'…A CRIME!! :'(

[cpbell0033944]

I agree…I don't know why either.  I'm a firm believer in women being shapely, curvy, and voluptuous.  When did that become so horrible.  It's a crime I tell ya'…A CRIME!! :'(

The point is, they're not doing it for straight men.  It started in the haute couture world, where most of the designers are gay guys, who therefore naturally tended to favour a teenage boy-like, gawky figure.  In addition, I have read suggestions that the designer's dresses can be better displayed on skinny models.  From there, it entered the glamour world of celebrities and magazines, whereupon teenage girls and young women saw it as being chic and glamourous.  The sort of girls that read those magazines are interested in living a glamourous lifestyle; therefore they aspire to that style.  Finally, the competition factor must be considered.  Guys in a gym compare muscles, guys in business compare salaries and bonuses, so these women compare how skinny they are.  It's like the clothes of 17th-Century aristocrats: the fact that they were impractical advertised the fact that they were rich enough not to have to work.  Similarly, being skinny advertises how sophisticated and glamourous these girls (and they are girls: real women don't do that to themselves) think they are.

[baditude41]

You're right CP…oh for the age in which they believed in robustness.  (CP, help me out, there was a time period, according to some aged artwork, that being robust and shapely was a sign of wealth and royalty too.  I want to say sometime near or at the Victorian age…but I'm not sure.  Would you happen to know?)

I guess we can hope that "natualism" will be the new movement.  I also thought the famous designers were trying to steer away from the "zero" models they used.  Is that true?

[TC2]

That age would make the women "FAT" instead.  I'd rather prefer an age that's somewhere down the middle, where they have meat on their bones but are shapely in all the right places.  Naturally I'd prefer muscle over all of them but let's not get carried away here.

[stmercy2020]

To the best of my knowledge, there never was a time period in which a woman was considered healthy if she was robustly fit.  In the Victorian age, especially, women were often forced into corsets that prevented them from bending over or even breathing deeply, hence the frequent depictions of women fainting at the drop of a hat.  There was a time when it was considered sexy for a woman to be pale and somewhat fat because, as CP pointed out, this indicated that a woman was rich enough not to have to work in the fields or under the sun.

I think the closest American culture has come to seeing healthy women as sexy was, at least in this country, during and after World War II, with the popularity of Rosie the Riveter.  Generally speaking though, women who have been healthy and sexy in the public eye simultaneously have been the exception rather than the rule.

[Mimi]

It’s getting to be the norm for most of these celebrity chicks these days.  When I was younger, I used to struggle with my weight and my overall image.  It’s unfortunately an affliction that we girls have to learn to adapt to and manage, especially here in the states.  Thankfully, I overcame that hang-up when I was in my mid to late 20’s and (thankfully) embraced my natural curvy Spanish heritage.  Once that happened, my entire life changed for the better. 

I’ve always believed that nature meant to give us girls curves.  No boy or girl is EVER attracted to skeletons or boney women.  I don’t care who they are, women are NOT MEANT to be so terribly thin. 

Just my $.02 worth, I could be wrong.  :-

XOXO's

     

[baditude41]

I think the closest American culture has come to seeing healthy women as sexy was, at least in this country, during and after World War II, with the popularity of Rosie the Riveter.  Generally speaking though, women who have been healthy and sexy in the public eye simultaneously have been the exception rather than the rule.

Rosie the Riveter…oh, I remember…with the scarf on her head and the bicep.  Truly an inspiration.  

Oh, and TC, I understand what you're saying.  I'm not talking about overweight, but shapely.  In today's society, even being very shapely is found to be "unhealthy".

I agree with Mimi…People were not meant to "be" skeletons…just to have them inside.
But that's just me.

[cpbell0033944]

It’s getting to be the norm for most of these celebrity chicks these days.  When I was younger, I used to struggle with my weight and my overall image.  It’s unfortunately an affliction that we girls have to learn to adapt to and manage, especially here in the states.  Thankfully, I overcame that hang-up when I was in my mid to late 20’s and (thankfully) embraced my natural curvy Spanish heritage.  Once that happened, my entire life changed for the better. 

I’ve always believed that nature meant to give us girls curves.  No boy or girl is EVER attracted to skeletons or boney women.  I don’t care who they are, women are NOT MEANT to be so terribly thin. 

Just my $.02 worth, I could be wrong.  :-

XOXO's

       

Was my assessment in response to Baditude accurate, Mimi?

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