Watching Celebrities with Weight Issues

[Green Lady]

Hope it's o.k. for me to start a thread here. It looks like it has been a while since we have had a new question.

WHO IS ONE CELEBRITY THAT YOU TAKE NOTICE OF WHO SEEMS TO GET ALOT OF PUBLICITY CONCERNING THEIR WEIGHT? HOW ARE THEY DOING?

One of the most noticed over the years has been Oprah. I have watched her because she is about my age. It seems to me that she has really learned so much that has been valueable and has made that known by her programs and guests. I don't watch her show too often but it does seem she has really learned that weight maintenance has to be a life style and has accepted that they way I know I must also. She has learned alot since her big weight loss many years ago that seemed to get her down to only temporarity to a very, very small size. It might have been on SlimFast or something. I can really identify with her!

Carmen

How about the rest of you?

[Christena]

I agree with you on Oprah. Also, Kirstie Alley has been getting lots of attention lately, as is one of the Olsen twins--not sure which one.

One celebrity I'm fascinated with weight-wise is Renee Zellweger (sp)...she goes up and down all of the time for her movie roles. In Bridget Jones' diary she reportedly put on 20-30 pounds and I thought she was pretty in that movie. Then, not too much longer, she was down for an awards show and she was also teeny tiny in Chicago. Then, she looked a little chubbier in Cold Mountain, but still good. The last time I saw her on TV, she was back up for Bridget Jones #2 and I thought she looked great.

It's bad that she had to put on SO much weight to look "average." In the movie, I think Bridget is supposed to be like 130-134, in the book it is 124 or so. Also, I wonder what all of the gaining/losing is doing to her body.

[Paris Madeleine]

I often think of Brittney Murphy. She was adorable in Clueless, and clearly at a healthy weight. Yet the next time I saw her in a movie she looked all heroine chic - not a good look on anyone. I then saw her mentioned on E! top make-overs or something like that, and the anchors went on and on about how she'd "slimmed down" and looks so amazing now. My mouth dropped open!

However, I recently saw her on the cover of Cosmo and did a double take. BM seems to be working out now because she is all toned and quite lovely again.

[Mrs Peterson]

I was just watching the Brittney Murphy thing the other day too. I like the blonde hair, but yeah, she does look sickly skinny. It's a shame.

As for the Olsen twin, it worries me that it is so public knowledge that she has an eating disorder and that it's being watched like a hawk. She is a multi billionaire with millions of very young, extremely impressionable girls who are the Olsen Market. I worry that they may now think since their "idol" has an eating disorder, that they might follow down that same road as well.

[America's.Sweetheart]

I often think of Brittney Murphy. She was adorable in Clueless, and clearly at a healthy weight. Yet the next time I saw her in a movie she looked all heroine chic - not a good look on anyone. I then saw her mentioned on E! top make-overs or something like that, and the anchors went on and on about how she'd "slimmed down" and looks so amazing now. My mouth dropped open!

However, I recently saw her on the cover of Cosmo and did a double take. BM seems to be working out now because she is all toned and quite lovely again.
First off - great idea for a thread!!

Paris - good call on Brittany Murphy. I started a thread on another message board about this called "Margaret Cho is Skinny and Janeane Garafolo is Blonde, What The Hell?" Its hard when icons who are less-than-traditionally-beautiful-in-the-mainstream-view start looking all svelt. I could start a huge list of these people. BM looks very bad these days (but was cute in Clueless, and Girl Interupted) and I would not trust the cover of Cosmo because they airbrush people on magazine covers to get a desired effect.

Here are a few other ladies whose sizes go up and down or who was bigger and got much smaller

Drew Barrymore
Toni Collete
Queen Latifah (had breast reduction)
Missy Elliott
Courtney Love

[Paris Madeleine]

I started a thread on another message board about this called "Margaret Cho is Skinny and Janeane Garafolo is Blonde, What The Hell?"

For real? Margaret is gorgeous and so much of her routine is predicated on talking honest about her ED and the media's obession with skinny. Janeane?! Say it isn't so? My best friend (whose looks I've always idolized) looks just like her, well, without the blonde hair.





Here are a few other ladies whose sizes go up and down or who was bigger and got much smaller

Drew Barrymore
Toni Collete
Queen Latifah (had breast reduction)
Missy Elliott
Courtney Love

Sigh. Drew still looks great (I just saw her on TDS last night), Queen too. I don't know what happened to CL -- I liked her spunky and tough (what happened to the good ol' days of bar fights with Kathleen Hanna? ;) ). At least Kate Winslet is still fighting for her curves IIRC.

[newme7]

I think Drew Barrymore always looks great! We can't forget about Anna Nicole Smith.

[MON]

Oprah has a very interesting story. I read her book and was very honest and inspirational

[America's.Sweetheart]

Paris -If you watch Margaret Cho's new stand up routine you will see a new and improved Margaret. She swears by a diet she calls the "F **k It" plan, which is basically to quit obsessing and eat naturally and healthfully and the weight comes off (I justdon't beleive this is the only way she lost so much, but others say its so ....). She does look beautiful in a way she didn't before, but I found her cute before, personally. Janeane Garofalo was blonde on the cover of Venus magazine recently but more interesting to me is the fact that I saw her on Hardball with Chris Mathews the other night and she was pencil thin (face pointy and shoulders scrawny). But she was back in black, though.

I like the "Donnie Darko" version of Drew Barrymore (those fleshy arms ...) better than the "Charlie's Angels" version. She always used to eschew the rigid Hollywood beauty standards, or she said she did. :ugh:

Kate Winslett is someone I forgot. I just like her a bit larger but she couldn't get acting jobs that way.

Oprah is lovely at any size - but she does look stunning now.

I am just hoping that my true love, Courtney, makes it another year, what with losing her daughter and all the drug charges, etc. I fear for her life, at this point. Her weight has always been an issue (notice how David Letterman zapped her on his show this summer when he asked "how much do you weigh?" He honed in on her deepest personal issue that way. I think he was just trying to get her to stop pulling her top up, however).;)

I guess you can gather from my opinions that I find women with a bit of flesh more attractive. "Fleshly" does not have to = unhealthy, IMHO. Rail thin does not always = healthy, either. That is why I am not happy with the goal weight WW has for me - I don't want to weigh 120 lbs. I would be very happy (and healthy) with 140-150. When you get that skinny your face starts to go (hello Courtney Cox! and Jenn Anniston!) and I choose my face over my butt any day. Just me, tho! :) YMMV.

[shelac]

Christena, I laughed out loud when you said you weren't sure which of the Olsen twins had the eating disorder. I heard a (slightly cruel) joke awhile ago about how you could tell them apart. It went like "how do you tell the Olsen twins apart? Well first off you have to care!". I can't understand the public's fascination with most of these people and that includes the Olsens. I read People or Us once in awhile, half of the "stars" aren't people I'm even a little familiar with - they are very much "flavor of the month" and I think MANY of them have no staying power. One hit wonders, a lot of them. But wow, they are under SO MUCH PRESSURE. To always look good - even when you're just running out for a loaf of bread or whatever? No one can maintain that for long. And how horrifying it must be to see you swimsuit clad butt on the cover of some trashy magazine as "the worst"! It's unrealistic. But the public keeps lapping it up. Sheila