Keira Knightley Thinks She's Fat
She thinks she’s “Hollywood fat,” anyway. Allegedly.
Knightley is quoted as saying: “Weight is a big issue in Hollywood because I’m twice the size – height and everything else – of most of the girls who are going in to see the director for a part.
“When you realise that I am, at my size, one of the largest actresses there, you start to think, ‘I don’t think it’d be healthy for me to stay here much longer.'”
I absolutely refuse to believe that this gossip is true. There’s just no way. I mean, come on, she was just talking about accusations of anorexia like a week ago! Plus, she probably doesn’t have to audition for anything anymore. She has an Oscar nomination. I call shenanigans.
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It’s a slow news day, celebrity-wise, I think. I mean, really, one week she’s anorexic, the next she’s Hollywood fat? She can’t be both, so it’s just a ploy to either keep her in the news or get you to their website to read all the other gossip about all the other stars. Personally, I could care less if she’s thin, fat, Hollywood-fat, or whatever. What matters to me about any actress/actor is their talent and how believable they are in whatever role they happen to have in a film. Just more obsessing over something that shouldn’t really matter, in the long run.
I’m actually really excited to see her in Atonement. That book was really good and I have a feeling the movie will be outstanding.
When I see stuff like this, my Libra brain has two thoughts at once:
1. If she was serious about calling bullsh*t on the whole business of weight perception in Hollywood, would she really talk about it ALL the time?
2. Of course, it’s also possible that out of conversations lasting from moments, up to an hour, these two or three throwaway lines from Miss Knightley are what the reporters choose to take away from the exchange.
“because I’m twice the size – height and everything else – of most of the girls”
Oh pleeeaase! I don’t like comparing, but because she started it herself, I really can’t resist in this case:
If she means that because of her height (according to IMDB she’s 5’7” – so she’s not *that* tall!) her skeleton makes her heavier than a lot of other starlets, then she might be right. But I still think that someone like, let’s say, “pygmy” Hillary Duff (5’2″) has more pounds on her than Knightley, as Duff looks more or less of a healthy weight at her frame, and – I’m sorry if this offends anyone – Knightley doesn’t. The most resent pics of Knightley look kind of okay, but the ones that started off the discussion of her being anorexic (her in a hidious gold thingy with the possibility of breathtaking cleavage had there been any at the UK premiere of PotC: Dead man’s chest) are kind of creepy. Maybe she just needs better dresses – so she could stop wining about her “weight issues”.
I’m not for the “just eat a sandwich” comment, but if you look at pictures of Knightley on the web, you’ll see she has thin and just-a-little-less-thin episodes. To me, that indicates dieting, not I’m-just-naturally-skinny like she claims.
Whyme63 is totally on the mark by commenting she should just shut up about it, if she doesn’t want all the emphasis on it. It’s a vicious circle, isn’t it, Keira?
Ahh, but it keeps her in the spotlight, doesn’t it?
I’ve read in the past that Knightley has said, that since her mother and grandmother battled anorexia, she is glad the accusations at least keep the disease in the public realm of discussion. And yes, I am paraphrasing here. What she doesn’t understand is that talking about the disease in context with her isn’t exactly constructive; it’s detrimental and glorifies anorexia. The most that’s come of it is that she is now the poster girl for the pro-ana movement.
I remember her attributing her gold-dress thinness to filming the last Pirates movie and treading water in a full wetsuit with a dress over it for several hours a day. I think she did acknowledge that she was thinner than her usual “natural” weight, but that it was a result of overexertion, not lack of eating. The thing is, she has gained back some but is not at her “Love, Actually” weight.
Rachel, it sounds like you are saying that when Keira addresses rumors about herself having anorexia, she is glorifying it. How so?
Meghan – I’m not referring to Knightley’s responses; what I am referring to is the constant media references to Knightley being anorexic. They’re not constructive in the slightest as to raising awareness of the disease as a deadly psychiatric illness. Instead, girls and women look at the beautiful, slim Knightley and see anorexia as something to aspire to. I’ve heard Knightley was even sued by the parents of a girl who died trying to look like her.
But Knightley’s own claims above that she is one of the “largest actresses there” hardly helps, either.
I don’t get how anorexia is Keira Knightly’s fault whether she talks about it, is silent about it, has pictures taken of her, or whatever? I hate it that I am constantly defending thin people accused of being anorexic, and hearing that media exposure to them is the root of “the problem.” But we ask everyone to understand that our “fat” sizes are natural and not the product of overeating or unhealthy lifestyle, that what is considered “fat” is healthy for us, yet we can’t give the same consideration to thin people and instead just toss off a diagnosis of a psychiatric illness like we know what we are talking about. Of course everyone under a size 6 has anorexia right? Or else they are on coke. And all fat people eat cupcakes and sit on their asses all day.
I for one have never “heard” of this lawsuit but then again I don’t read celebritydietnews.com or whatever.
OH for goodness sake… now we have “types” of fatness? We can’t just either be fat or not fat? Now we’re labled like brands of milk (Whole, 2%, 1%, Skim… You get my point). This sucks.
I would love to be hollywood fat.
I think she was just being sarcastic.
Every bit as valid as my struggle being fat is the cattiness and pain that a close friend of mine has endured for being naturally very thin.
I can’t tell you how often people who are too PC to say anything about my size feel free to comment on my friend M.’s thinness. “Are you anorexic?” “You need to gain weight!” “If you gained weight, maybe you would have some breasts.” and “You are making young girls hate themselves.”
M. is just naturally thin, like many of the women in her family. She hates shopping in the girls section, wishes she didn’t have to wear a padded bra, and eats all the time.
Kiera might be the same. Or she might be a raging anorexic. Or have a tapeworm. Point is, we don’t know. I’ll give her the same respect I ask others to give me – not to assume you know my mental or physical health based on my size.
Kiera Knightly has been quoted as wishing she looked like Beth Ditto. How many other superskinny Hollywood girls openly lust after fat rockstars who strip while they’re onstage? I think Kiera kind of rocks herself.
Meghan – I really have no clue where your rant came from. As a former anorectic myself, I would never blindly judge everyone of a certain size to have the disease. And I certainly do not read celebrity sites nor celebrity diet gossip sites. The suggestion that I do, quite frankly, is offensive.
Keira Knightley thinks the media references to her being anorexic are constructive. But the media doesn’t care if she withers away and dies. They care about selling photos, papers and magazines. And how they do it is by glorifying anorexia in relation with someone like Keira Knightley. Does that clarify my position a little more clearly?
So Kiera Knightly thinks she’s fat. She’s a woman living in America like the rest of us. It sucks, but it’s nothing new.
I don’t know, I read this sympathetically–it’s not as if she thinks it’s REASONABLE that she’s regarded as being larger-than-average in Hollywood terms (though I don’t follow her closely enough to know if that’s true).
“When you realise that I am, at my size, one of the largest actresses there, you start to think, ‘I don’t think it’d be healthy for me to stay here much longer.’”
–again, emphasizing the unhealthiness of the size norms in American media. Maybe she has a skewed perception of herself, but she seems to be suspicious of the right things when it comes to Hollywood’s treatment of women.
Rachel — I’m sorry if you took that personally. Someone else who I can’t recall, but in the comments on this site, offered up an uncited, poorly written article at some celebritydiettips.com web site as irrefutable “proof” that Victoria Beckham openly “promotes anorexia.” That was another instance when I was fighting for body acceptance by trying to bring light to the fact that making presumptions about ANYONE’s eating habits, exercise habits, mental state, etc. based on the way her body looks is wrong whether you are talking about a fat person or a thin person. Your reference to what “you’ve heard” about the lawsuit against KK was not much better cited, frankly.