# Keira Knightly: disgustingly thin **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 30, 2007, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keira-knightly-disgustingly-thin/417481 "2007-08-30T10:54:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2007, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keira-knightly-disgustingly-thin/417481/81 "2007-09-05T16:15:01Z")
[QUOTE=Dangerosa] Too skinny. Needs boobs. When you don’t have the body fat to support having breasts, (and you are female) you are too thin for my taste. At the same time, she seems comfortable with her body and doesn’t feel like she is too thin. If she is comfortable and her doctor doesn’t have an issue with her weight, then it really isn’t anyone else’s business. (I think she had the perfect body in “Bend It Like Beckham” for her body type - I still like more breasts on a girl than she had, but she is not exactly the Salma Hayek type - or even the Kate Winslet type. She does have a really beautiful face.) [/QUOTE] This, word for word, could be my post. Very well said indeed. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2007, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keira-knightly-disgustingly-thin/417481/82 "2007-09-05T22:17:37Z")
[QUOTE=Fiver] Stunning, but not hot? I don’t understand the distinction. [/QUOTE] I think hot has to do more with sexually arousing, and stunning is less immediately fuckable, but still very attractive. Maybe stunning even implies less attainable?? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2007, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keira-knightly-disgustingly-thin/417481/83 "2007-09-06T04:09:37Z")
More or less what I was going to say, **gigi**. Helen Mirren could dominate the attention of a room just by being in it. And I certainly don’t mind looking at her. I don’t, however, instantly go into a fantasy involving her in my bed. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2007, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keira-knightly-disgustingly-thin/417481/84 "2007-09-06T04:14:48Z")
[QUOTE=Chronos] More or less what I was going to say, **gigi**. Helen Mirren could dominate the attention of a room just by being in it. And I certainly don’t mind looking at her. I don’t, however, instantly go into a fantasy involving her in my bed. [/QUOTE] But you did after a minute or two didn’t you? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2007, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keira-knightly-disgustingly-thin/417481/85 "2007-09-06T08:56:35Z")
I haven’t familiarised myself with the content of this thread but this morning’s _Times_ contains an interview with Keira Knightley punningly entitled [I Trade On My Body, Of Course I Do](http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/atonement/article2392986.ece). > [@](#): > > Nobody wants to talk about Keira Knightley’s body. Not the flock of assistants, stylists and acquaintances who flit about in her wake as she cruises towards a cordoned press corner of Claridge’s Hotel. Not the feisty PR martinets and film company major-domos who’ve organised the day’s interviews to publicise Knightley’s new film, Atonement. And certainly not the cowed line of TV reporters, queueing up for their five-minute burst of platitudinous bites. No, it seems that the 22-year-old Knightley has spent the last year battling the world’s obsession with her body image, even successfully suing a national newspaper over accusations of anorexia, and so an edict has been issued from the highest echelons of media management stating that nobody, BUT NOBODY, must mention the subject of Knightley’s body. Nobody, that is, except for Knightley herself. So anyone mentioning Keira’s Body here is totally out of order. There is more, but I couldn’t read anything after this similie and metaphor encrusted journalistic jewel : > [@](#): > > So let’s get this straight from the start – Knightley is not anorexic. She bounds into the room like a lightly primped gazelle, has a handshake like a welder and, later, when reaching backwards across the couch for a misplaced bottle of spring water, her delicate black mini-dress (a chain store purchase, fashion fans) rises to reveal two firm walnut-coloured thighs that would make a sprinter proud. She is quick to laugh, darkly witty, fabulously foul-mouthed, and smart enough to realise that in Atonement, at least, her body’s the thing. I do so hate platitudinous bites. ---
**Author:** ![Trisha\_McMillan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@Trisha\_McMillan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trisha_McMillan)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2007, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keira-knightly-disgustingly-thin/417481/86 "2007-09-06T09:40:33Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Arms are a [bad indicator](http://cache.gizmodo.com/gadgets/images/beer%20belly.jpg) of healthy weight. Look for the bony landmarks, I’s telling ya! 😃 [/QUOTE] Crikey, when’s it due?! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2007, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keira-knightly-disgustingly-thin/417481/87 "2007-09-06T09:46:10Z")
I would eat her ass with a spoon. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2007, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keira-knightly-disgustingly-thin/417481/88 "2007-09-06T09:58:19Z")
Well I wouldn’t crawl through 2 miles of broken glass just to stick pins in her poo. I think she, KK, is scrawny. Gimme some meat on a woman anytime…now is just fine 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2007, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keira-knightly-disgustingly-thin/417481/89 "2007-09-06T17:25:40Z")
[QUOTE=Chez Guevara] \<\\> I do so hate platitudinous bites. [/QUOTE] Me too, but I want one of those dresses that reaches for my water for me. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2007, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keira-knightly-disgustingly-thin/417481/90 "2007-09-06T17:59:55Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] No, I think the constant “The casting director really likes you, but the producer wants you to drop 20 pounds before shooting starts,” probably has more to do with it. [/QUOTE] That’s pretty much it. And little girls who dream of being actresses know they’re better off spending time starving and working out (but, you know, not too much) than learning Shakespeare. Never mind the actresses who actually get cast (after losing 20 lbs before the audition), look at the press (and, consequently, roles) they get after losing _another_ 20 lbs. Watch a first-season and then a last-season episode of Friends (Courteney Cox was talking about how she was never anorexic, just consciously 'lost a lot of weight, too much weight, and thought [she] looked really good when [she] didn’t.) Alicia Silverstone may not be a huge star anymore, but she fell off the radar after being called ‘Fatgirl’ and then resurfaced and got a (failed) series after turning vegan/losing weight. Nicole Richie basically went from sidekick to star for no reason other than dropping a massive amount of weight. Even reese Witherspoon, who seems the most talented/least flaky of the bunch, really only went from[indie queen](http://www.lovefilm.com/lovefilm/images/products/9/3839-large.jpg) to box office star after shedding some pounds. (Sure it’s sort of sad that so many little girls want to be actress/models/singers, but that’s another thread…) ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2007, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keira-knightly-disgustingly-thin/417481/91 "2007-09-06T18:33:58Z")
[QUOTE=RandMcnally] I would eat her ass with a spoon. [/QUOTE] [Oh, here. I found the perfect spoon for the job.](http://www.rtjewels.co.uk/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=73) (Okay, that was really mean. I apologize to Ms. Knightly and her ass.) ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2007, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keira-knightly-disgustingly-thin/417481/92 "2007-09-06T18:58:50Z")
Oh, and lest anyone think losing weight is only required for actresses and models, size sixes aren’t allowed in [PR](http://jezebel.com/gossip/trash-tv/the-fashionista-diaries-devora-rose-gives-mandie-cunt-face-erickson-a-run-for-her-money-297029.php?autoplay=true) either… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keira-knightly-disgustingly-thin/417481.md?page=4)