Not that she should stop eating, but she will. I started thinking about this after reading all the hullabaloo over her recent
Glamour cover on
Glossed Over and
Jezebel. People are making such a big deal about the fact that the cover was obviously Photoshopped; they whittled America down to a skinny lady. Not super skinny, but smaller than she is in person. Enough to notice, let's say.
Anyhow, it would be nice to think that someone other than Kate Winslet had the balls to stand up to the Hollywood standard of what skinny is, but history teaches us otherwise. America Ferrera seems like a nice, wholesome girl from a good family, but yeah, I predict anorexia/bulimia any day now. It seems too tough to be in a Hollywood environment and hear everyone say, "Oh, that's great, you're so curvy," knowing that they really mean, "Man, that sucks, you're totally huge." She's not, of course, but you know, Hollywood is warped, etc.
This all made me think of that girl
Sara Rue (whose name I couldn't remember at first) and she starred on that show,
Less than Perfect, which you may or may not remember. She was totally adorable on the show and then I guess after she started to lose all this weight and now I think she looks like
Tracey Gold from
Growing Pains back in her Karen Carpenter phase. I present as evidence:
OK, maybe not Karen Carpenter; I mean, she obviously looks pretty here and not sick, but maybe it's just the idea that she looks more like all the other H-wood gals now, like she lost her spunk or something. I forget the name of that show that Selma Blair was on when she was first starting out, but the same thing happened to her. She was probably like 125 pounds or something, and people made fun of her and called her huge, and then she got super skinny, too. Nicole Richie, of course, also -- and now it's hard to remember a time when she looked normal (even now, knocked up). I give it six months before we start seeing split-screens of America Ferrera before-and-afters in
US Weekly with the headline, "Has She Gone Too Far?"
As an animal lover and vegetarian (except for fish, I know, I'm so ashamed), I'm really glad that Natalie Portman came out with a vegan line of shoes. Usually vegan lines are super ugly because the designers assume that they're for crunchy girls who enjoy pigtails, granola, and long hikes in Vermont woods. God bless people like the wonderful Stella McCartney who realize that you can be animal-friendly and extremely stylish!
