why are all the celebrities shrinking??

Why are all the celebrities shrinking ??

 

 

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Picture this; a scrawny, lollypop head woman walking through the streets with her clothes hanging off her skeletal figure, cheek bones protruding  out of her barely there face carrying a cup of  Starbucks (skinny latte no less) with her pin thin arms. An image from an anorexic campaign you may think, but this is just a normal image of Nicole Richie in your average gossip magazine. And she isn’t the only one guilty of this as we have fellow skinny Minnie’s Lindsey Lohan, Mary Kate Olsen, Kate Hudson and Renee ‘My butt is still very, very big’ Zwellwegger.{mosimage} It seems that all these celebs have got some kind of pact to see who can get the thinnest (rumour even has it that ‘Team Skinny’ went on a weight loss weekend at an exclusive spa) what weight  we ask? Unfortunately these are the people that many young woman look up to and contribute to the reasons why women feel so pressured to look thin.{mosimage}

We have all seen Paris and Nicole’s ‘The Simple Life’ and how we all warmed to Nicole as she was the girl who wasn’t a size 0 and was feisty as hell, not to mention finding it refreshing to see a celebrity with a bit of flesh to her bones. However, over the last year, she has shrunk into a shadow of her former self. Instead of the magazines and the press being alarmed and sending her a one way ticket to the nearest anorexia unit, they seem to celebrate her weight loss and have turned her into a style icon.{mosimage} ‘Get Nicole’s new look’, ‘How to lose 2 stone by the summer following Nicole’s diet regime’ all dominate fashion pages, she has even cashed in on her rising fame by bringing out her own book, ‘The Truth About Diamonds’. Lindsey Lohan is another leader of the pack, losing a reported 4 stone making her look like a bag of bones, leaving her cute, curvy, red head look in another life.  So ladies: Starve yourself to get what you want- not really the message to get across to young women. It seems these women see ‘thin’ as an adjective that is synonymous with ‘beautiful’ and ‘success’.

There are many mixed messages in the media about a woman’s ideal body image, and frankly I am tired of it. Why can’t everyone just be happy in their own skin and celebrate what they have been given instead of being ashamed for not being the ideal. {mosimage}When Fern Britton, the lovable pre senter from ‘This Morning’, decided to celebrate her curves and throw caution and clothes, to the wind on holiday, she was very brave. But instead of being praised for not giving a damn, she was criticised by weight loss groups – not for bring fat but for being happy about it. However, on the other end of the scale, Liz Hurley appears after 2 weeks of giving birth, half her body fat has disappeared and she gets praised by all the fashion big wits.

 

{mosimage}But surely chewing on raisins everyday isn’t giving out a positive portrayal of a healthy woman, because don’t forget that this is the woman who was once quoted as saying, ‘If I was a fat as Marilyn Monroe, I’d kill myself.’ If in doubt, just look at the incredible grin on Fern’s face and try to remember the last time you saw Miss. Hurley smile like that.

 

{mosimage}Last season was all about the body. Not in the flashing-flesh, boob exposing, bottom skimming way, but in the subversively sexy, subtly covered, curve enhancing, all and every woman sense. With the explosion of Hitchcock heroine inspired pencil skirts and slinky black dresses which hug the female form, the celebration of the womanly allure was like a breath of fresh air and is set to continue throughout 2006.

 

I think all women with curves which aren’t seen as the ideal, should look to Roland Mouret for inspiration instead of Nicole Richie, because even though he is man, he knows exactly how to appreciate the female form to it’s full glory. He doesn’t believe that women should hide their curves, but embrace them. The silhouette should be classic and hourglass, just like God intended women to be.{mosimage}

 

To achieve the womanliness allure, it isn’t about losing weight or starving yourself, but about having confidence and having a more knowing attitude to your body. For example, pushing out the bosom, cinching in the waist and knowing how to highlight your best bits.  {mosimage}Curvaceous women should no longer be pressured into conforming to the traditional notion of what is beautiful. Instead of flicking through the latest gossip magazine and envying Nicole’s thin pins or Lohan’s killer abs, learn to love your love handles, saggy bums and bigger bosoms because being happy is far more alluring than being thin.  And as the beautiful and voluptuous Kate Winslet puts it, ‘There’s more the life than cheekbones’. I couldn’t have put it better myself.