Shrinking Idols: Gaining Style and Losing Weight

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  Posted by Kelis simone Mon Mar 16, 2009 3:40pm PDT

  Wow it's cool to lose weight for your health but a few of those girls look like skeletons...Scary:)

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  Posted by reese, reese cup, big reese, Hep Tue Mar 17, 2009 5:33am PDT

  I'm trying to find out what you were looking at. Those girls look good and mostly healthy. I may agree that katherine McPhee could have left alittle more meat on her bones, but overall I think everyone else looks good.

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  Posted by ErinU Tue Mar 17, 2009 5:52am PDT

  Um, loosing?

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  Posted by Betni Tue Mar 17, 2009 7:29am PDT

  Is there a particular reason you need to go from a size 4 to a size 2? Honestly! Are we that obsessed with being thin? Was she not beautiful before? Did someone say her ankles were fat? Is this the message we want to send to our daughters? Yes when you tip the scales in the 200lbs range then for health reasons loosing weight is a good thing. But when you barely register on a scale it's a bit insane.

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  Posted by MrsKlingonPasadena Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:39am PDT

  I agree with Betni. There are enough pressure and stress on women to look perfect. It is a bad message to send to girls. Does every women have to be a size 0?

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  Posted by Rowdygirl Tue Mar 17, 2009 10:42am PDT

  I guess if you post something that the author doesn't like (i.e. a spelling comment) your post just disappears..

  that's nice

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  Posted by JustMe Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:55pm PDT

  This just goes to show how skinny obsessed the media, and pretty much everyone, has become. I have multiple friends who deal with problems such as anorexia and bulimia because of this exact thing. Beautiful girls at a size 6, which used to be considered the most sexy size, are loosing weight on purpose because thats what they need to do to get the camera trained on them. It is NOT healthy to be THAT thin. Not only is it more dangerous for bones, since there is less protective padding, but your body cannot run its usual course without the proper amount of fat to run off of.

  Its unhealthy to be extremely overweight, but it is just as unhealthy to be underweight. What happened to "healthy" becoming the new "sex?" What happened to Spain's decision that models had to be OVER a certain size to do the runway? Yeah, that worked for a while, but just at face value. Some of this makes me sick, while some of this makes me proud. The people who were obese who lost or are loosing the weight and now look or are starting to look healthy; wonderful! But those who were already perfect or even under perfect now loosing more weight; I'm pretty much disgusted.

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  Posted by Susan Wed Mar 18, 2009 10:15pm PDT

  Look how beautiful J is and classy. SEXY is curves and true beauty is our hearts and attitudes to wards others and the world. True beauty is reflected through our eyes.

  True beauty is how we treat the world.

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  Posted by hobbit Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:22pm PDT

  What's wrong with being a size 10? I am 4'11'' and I am a size 10, I don't think I'm perfect but I'm not gonna start dieting anytime soon either. As for Carrie and Kellie I loved them when they came out. I still do but lately Carrie is looking more and more waifish with every appearance, and Kellie I fear won't be far behind. I know that there is nothing wrong with wanting to be healthy and fit but it needs to be because you want it, not because your favorite celebs are doing it.

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  Posted by Mmgirl Thu Mar 19, 2009 3:44pm PDT

  It was written in to Carrie's contract that she had to stay under 115 lbs.

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