Shrinking Away
Features | Michele Obi | July 28, 2005
What’s happening to certain women in celebrity land is absolutely ridiculous. Nicole Richie is so skinny she looks as if she’s just about to break in two, Mary-Kate Olsen just looks ill and Lindsay Lohan has already collapsed. Whether due to her weight we don’t know, but either way it can’t be a good sign.
Yes there has always been a pressure on Hollywood women to look thin, and we always seem to go through periods where anorexia is constantly talked about and suddenly all coverage of the illness dies down, but now it’s been all over the media for quite a while and most of all it’s very scary. Not only for the young girls who look up to these stars but for the stars themselves.
Richie and Lohan are bearing the brunt of it, with Lohan receiving a petition signed by 12,500 of her fans asking her to fatten up and Richie having to constantly defend herself, deeming her sudden loss of weight to her regular workouts with her trainer. There is no doubt that these girls are working out but there is also no denying that they don’t look well. According to the Daily Mail the hourglass figure is back in fashion. Let’s hope so!
It seems like ‘thin’ is just an adjective that is synonymous with ‘beautiful’ for these young celebrities but my question is do they continue to lose weight to stay in the press or what?
omg nicole used to be soo beautiful who cares about lindsay nicole is wayy better and she is sooo skinny omg gain some weight girl!!
wow !How is it possible Lindhsay is not that fat ! But Nicole is way to skinny , i think i prefer Lindhsay because I don’t like the girls that are too skinny . The fact is Lindhsay shouldn’t be a “show-off” !!!!!
Nicole is a snak I prefer her before because a girl shouldn’t be that skinny !!!!!!! It’s horrible ,if my see like these her heart woudl of break up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lindsay looked halthy before- now she just looks like she is skin and bones! All fo these young women in Hollywood are just wasting away! As much as girls my age (upper teens) do not want to admit it, we look to these young women as role models, and seeing them so skinny is not sending a positive message!