[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.)
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This, word for word, could be my post. Very well said indeed.
[QUOTE=Fiver]
Stunning, but not hot? I don’t understand the distinction.
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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??
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=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.
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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.
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 :
[QUOTE=Chez Guevara]
<<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 >>
I do so hate platitudinous bites.
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Me too, but I want one of those dresses that reaches for my water for me.
[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.
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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 fromindie queen 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…)
