How skinny is too skinny for TV?
Filed under: Style in the News, Celebrities with Style, Celebrity Fashion Mistakes
Here's a quick answer to that question. If you're on the cover of US Weekly, with the headline "TOO THIN FOR TV" across your chest? Then you absolutely are too thin.
Shenae Grimes and Jessica Stroup, stars of the new 90210, are at the center of the latest "are they anorexic?!" tabloid frenzy. Cripes, sometimes it seems like everyone in Hollywood is either rumored to be pregnant or about to faint dead away from hunger.
We think it's totally unfair that young women are under so much pressure to be super slender, but the minute they cross some imaginary line those same girls are attacked by the media. Plus, lots of women really are naturally slim.
On the other hand, just look at these two. The US Weekly expert estimates that the 5' 3" Shenae weighs 90 pounds. Jessica, much taller at 5'8", is estimated to be only 100 pounds! That's unhealthy, whether it's "natural" or not.
And if you track their behavior -- they're always together, skipping meals and smoking during breaks, plus wearing clothes that show off their ribs and pointy backbones -- we have the latest incarnation of "Lindsay and Nicole, the Terrifying Rachel Zoe Years." They're the new Lollipop Twins.
Sooner or later, one of these size 00 starlets is going to drop dead from malnutrition. Is that what it's going to take for us to stop glorifying this starvation aesthetic?
In the gallery, you may judge for yourself if the girls look like they've crossed the line from "I don't eat dessert" to "I don't eat." We see a lot of ropey tendons, sharp clavicles and thighs the same size as their arms.
