Maybe Natalie Portman with some semblance of acting talent. 
(You did realize that Knightley played Portman’s bodyguard / double in The Phantom Menace?)
She needs more than one cheeseburger. She should come to my place for a while. My ex says she gains weight every time she visits.
I picked beautiful/cheeseburger. I don’t agree with the notion that she’s aging poorly. She still looks lovely to me. A few pounds would only help her although I realize she also has a slight frame and all the burgers in the world probably won’t change that.
I am amused when they Photoshop/airbrush the hell out of her movie posters to give her breasts.
I think she’s gorgeous. I’d do her in a heartbeat.
She has a lovely smile, something that I am a big sucker for. But she is a little thin for my tastes.
I voted the third option, but I’ll qualify it to say that she only looked SPECTACULARLY gorgeous in the Pirates films. The makeup/DP on those movies was superhuman.
Actually, I didn’t realize that. :smack: In my defense, I’ve tried to block that particular film from my memory. Oh well, I was only beaten to the joke by ten years. By George Lucas. Eww.
Anyway, what freaks me out about Knightley is her bony ten-year-old boy chest which she always seems to have on display. (Check out here and here, just from Wikipedia.)
Keira Knightley is quite beautiful, though the things that make her beautiful look better on Natalie Portman–who, unlike Keira, is also hot.
Chuckle. Note that Keira was only 12 or 13 during the filming of TPM (Natalie was 16 or 17 at that point). After the first time I saw TPM, I could tell the difference when they were in the “Queen Amidala” make-up – Natalie has more arched eyebrows, and a mole on her cheek, which is visible even through the white make-up. But, the story goes that one of the two of them (Keira, IIRC) was in the make-up during the shoot, when the other actress’s mother came by the set, and mistook her for her daughter.
make up and photoshop does wonders.
She certainly wouldn’t be hurt by a few cheeseburgers, and there are many women who would be cadaverous at her weight. But on her, it looks fine: She apparently just has a very thin frame. I also think that there must be something about the way she moves, because she always looks hotter in movies than in stills.
Quoth JThunder:
My impression is just the opposite: There’s still much more social stigma attached to an overweight woman than to an equally-underweight one, or even to a woman of healthy weight. The pendulum is finally just barely starting to nudge in the other direction, but you’ll still see a heck of a lot more tabloid covers criticizing a celebrity for being fat than for being thin, even if the celebrity in question looks perfectly fine.
Oh, and Natalie Portman isn’t really a bad actress. She just suffers from the fact that the movies she’s most famous for had terrible direction and writing. Apparently, Lucas insisted on the wooden performance we all hate.
She’s definitely not ugly, but there’s just something a bit weird-looking about her mouth and cheekbones. I think she looks a bit like an Identikit picture - all the elements are right, but somehow they just don’t work together.
She’s got a beautiful face, but her bodily proportions are WEIRD. No one part of her would make me say ‘she’s too skinny’, but somehow, put together, they don’t work, and they look as if a few extra pounds could even them out.
Or, maybe just make the weirdness more obvious. Who knows?
You were looking at her eyes?
She has always been thin. She persists in being thin. I can’t see the problem.
If she goes through a standard range of fluctuating weight as most humans do, then occasionally she’ll be thinner, and occasionally slightly heavier, which probably looks more exaggerated on a tall slender frame that is often in the public eye.
And it’s not our job to be concerned, anyway.
Keira Knightly?
and most mornings given half a chance, I’ll bring a cheeseburger if she wants it.
Of course she’s objectively beautiful. Her face is more beautiful than at least 99% of humans.
Do I find her stunning, one of the prettier young actresses out there, or is she ‘my type’? No. Don’t like her mouth. Incredible bone structure though.
She does not need a cheeseburger. I used to eat cheeseburgers all the time, fat lot of good it did me, I’m still thinner that she is. I don’t consider Keira to be super-skinny - sure she’s thin, but she just looks thinner because of her small boobs. She definitely has curves to her hips and thighs, no smaller than the next actresses.
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Keira Knightley is super hot. As a skinny guy, I find her way hotter than fat guys might simply because she has the body type that “fits” mine the best. Much in the same way a fat guy might think Sara Rue is super hot, while I just don’t see it.
This is way false. It is not unusual to see giant headlines about actresses being too thin, complete with accusations of eating disorders of the “starves herself” variety. But it’s pretty rare to see a headline about a fat chick having an eating disorder of the “stuffs her fat face too much” variety. In fact, I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen one. I do recall a couple recent headlines about fat chicks fighting back with the “I’m beautiful at any weight” party line of fat chicks, which I personally find very unhealthy. (I think the female attitude of entitlement that all women deserve to be beautiful may be the more destructive of the two, though the claim that being fat is fine is pretty damn destructive in its own right.) Of course, both Tyra Banks and Jennifer Love Hewitt immediately lost a bunch of weight after those statements, undermining their messages.
No, it’s still very much politically correct to make fun of skinny people but it is way politically incorrect to make fun of fat people. Fat people can employ all the logical gymnastics they want, but they are all too often guilty of the exact behavior they rail against.
For that matter, Queen Latifah also lost weight after being held up (misguidedly so, IMO) as an example of a “beautiful” overweight woman.
Agreed.
Don’t get me wrong; people do still poke fun at fat people. It’s just considered politically incorrect to do so, whereas ridiculing the skinny folk is more socially acceptable. Not as funny, perhaps, but more acceptable.
I selected “Beautiful but needs a cheeseburger” even though I don’t regard her as beautiful. She’s certainly attractive, but to me she just doesn’t rise to the level of a Catherine Zeta-Jones or Charlize Theron or Kylie Minogue (my personal favorite). I feel the same way about Scarlett Johansson, another actress often referred to as beautiful.