Definitely NOT FAT though.

Also, this isn’t actually my point but I have heard time and time again where people say “I saw Jennifer Aniston in person and she’s TINY!” I’m not sure it’s because “the camera adds 10 pounds.” I think it’s also because one thing looks thin when someone is on a set surrounded by other tiny celebrities, and another thing looks thin when they are out and about among “normal” people.

I can’t prove this to any of you but it drives me nuts that we think we can look at a celebrity, standing alone in a shot, and actually have any hope of figuring out what size they wear. My opinion? NOPE. Until I see some kind of documented size tag from Kate’s Gap jeans… or whatever… I will have to accept that it would be almost impossible to accurately judge her size from where I’m sitting. I suspect Mo Pie is right and she has been quite small at various points… but I just don’t know.

I still think women should go around wearing shirts with their weight on them for one day, and watch everyone (especially men) have heart attacks over how much “fatter” or “thinner” some of us are than they thought.

I don’t know, maybe I find this to be a hot-button topic for me because I feel like people try to place celebrity figures in reality where they shouldn’t. Like “So-and-so looks like a ‘normal, healthy woman,’ I bet she’s a size 10.” Yeah… “normal and healthy” compared to all of the super-thin people we see in commercials, movies, and photos every day, so our perception is skewed IMO. It’s a subtle way we pressure ourselves into thinking that there is no excuse not to look like celebrities when that is not realistic for most of us… even if we’re talking about the “curvier” population of celebrities.

I’m pretty sure la Winslet is about 5’8″ or so, and she is definitely on the slim side, but not teeny, so I completely believe that she’s a size 8. Size 8 is pretty darn slim for 5’8″, even though models are more like 5’10″ and size 2-4.

as far as scarlett johanessen i am only sad the discussion of her looks (amazing) overshadows any contemplation of her talent (non-existent).

YES. And it goes the other way, too. It’s not even the implication that they’re fat that bothers me — it’s the implication that this is, in fact, what acceptably curvy looks like, and anything bigger is OMG FAT.

I watched Little Children the other night, and there’s a scene where Kate Winslet orders a bathing suit over the phone and says, “I don’t know — size 10? 8?” Bless her heart for being willing to speak those words on screen, but PLEASE. She was naked all over that movie, and if she was a U.S. size 8 then, I’m a size a Billion. (Which is not to say there haven’t been times when she was that big, but this was not one of them.) But because the character was supposed to be “average,” they had a maybe size 4 actress refer to herself as an 8/10 instead of actually getting an average-looking woman to play the role.