Jeepers, can Nicole Kidman get any thinner? She looked rather pale, wan and insubstantial at the Oscars but though maybe the thinnest (although 'Desperate Housewives' Felicity Huffman ran her a close second) there was no shortage of bones on display. I don't want to go all 'Heat' on you but surely all this paring down women until they are nothing but honed muscle and bone cannot be a good thing.
Some of the actresses (eg.Thandie Newton) resemble famine victims - for all there glitter and gloss.
And with real famine vicitms available for view in Africa and elsewhere it seems especially galling to me that some well off folks from well off countries seem to think that starving themselves is a reasonable act.
Get a pie Thandie, eat a burger Nicole while I wonder why we are so convinced about the aesthetic of thinness. I am kind of normally built. Not fat but little rolls of flesh tend to escape from the tops of my jeans when I sit. My thighs come together at the tops of my legs when I stand. I have a pair of breasts that fall somewhere between fine and splendid. I have in short a womanly shape. Now think about Nicole or Thandie or Keira - they have thin, muscular bodies, no breasts and their thighs have a gap at the top (certainly in Keira's case, the other two are are bit more speculative as I have only seen them in trousers or skirts). This body shape is associated with pre-teen girls and boys. Indeed skinny women athletes often cease to mentruate ( i.e lose a characteristic of adult womanhood).
I maybe going out on a limb here but really, are the bony bodies of the vast majority of female celebs really that attractive? Where would the sensual thrill come from - running your tongue over a prominent clavicle, counting the ribs between collar bone and nipple? Bouncing coins off your partners inverted and muscular tummy. Yuech! If I may say so! Imagine skinny minny and her skinny boyfriend having sex - how could you tell which was which when two sets of bones and gristle intertwine. Tuck away a penis and stand some of these skeleton people side by side and you would be hard pressed to differentiate them. This cannot be a good thing can it?
I know that the reason that celebs are doing thin is because the hoy-peloy are doing fat. Make food an expensive and scarce luxury and then at the Oscars we would see Nicole and Felicity, Hilary and Charlize wearing flowing kaftans and sporting fat bums, expansive tums and generous milky breasts.
I wonder if we can maybe get a grip before then and do without famine and appreciate diversity of shape and form.
Boycott Heat and Star and shit like that until they desist from pointing out celebrities fat days and muffin top tummies. Write to Elle and Cosmo and suggest that clothes pictured on giraffes are unhelpful as a buying guide, remind all those gay men who design clothes for women, that women have curves and tits and flesh and that if its boys they love well make clothes for them instead.
Let's try to look at the muscular or anorexic bodies of the stars and see them for the pitiful sight that they are - Madonna looks desparate and sad, Nicole fragile and thin, Vicotoria freakish and plain and all the others with their bones out at the Oscars - yuck yuck yuckety yuck. Eat some pies!