Celebs & Their Weight Issues

[Freckles 79]

[BobbyD 2]

 

Do hungry men prefer heavier women?

Posted Aug 2nd 2006 6:02PM by Nick Vagnoni

Filed under: British Isles, Science, Magazines, Newspapers

 

Two British researchers have published a study suggesting that hunger may relate to how men perceive different female body types, BBC News reports. The researchers surveyed 61 male college students coming and going from a university dining hall, first asking them how hungry they were and then asking them to rate a series of photographs of similarly dressed women of varying weights and body types. The half of the group that said they were hungry rated heavier women as more attractive, according to the abstract of the study, which appears in the British Journal of Psychology. The researchers now plan on reversing the study to see how hunger affects female perception of male body types.

 

 

Damn skippy...where are my curvy women at?

Everywhere but Hollyweird, Bobby.

 

Yeah no shit, damn near impossible to find a female around here with a nice badonkadonk ass....(at least a real one), and a cute rack. The American dream.

[Krista 0]

I do not understand this disease and I never will. It must be an upper class, white race issue. I don't see it in the ghettos. Of course, they have different perspective on what is considered beautiful. Good for them. I just wish sometimes that I could have just a touch of it. I get so hungry. Someone should add Victoria Beckham to that list of skinny, lolly-pop ladies.

[mf'smom 0]

 

 

Do hungry men prefer heavier women?

Posted Aug 2nd 2006 6:02PM by Nick Vagnoni

Filed under: British Isles, Science, Magazines, Newspapers

 

Two British researchers have published a study suggesting that hunger may relate to how men perceive different female body types, BBC News reports. The researchers surveyed 61 male college students coming and going from a university dining hall, first asking them how hungry they were and then asking them to rate a series of photographs of similarly dressed women of varying weights and body types. The half of the group that said they were hungry rated heavier women as more attractive, according to the abstract of the study, which appears in the British Journal of Psychology. The researchers now plan on reversing the study to see how hunger affects female perception of male body types.

 

 

Damn skippy...where are my curvy women at?

Everywhere but Hollyweird, Bobby.

 

Yeah no shit, damn near impossible to find a female around here with a nice badonkadonk ass....(at least a real one), and a cute rack. The American dream.

 

Come to the midwest, Bobby. The girls here eat food and have lots of ba...ass and racks!

[ashley_hm2005 0]

Janet Jackson...Looking Tara Reidish?

Janet Jackson looks a damn mess nowadays. Her stomach is toooooo muscular, gross.

 

I prefer the 1993 Janet You can't see her body, but if you remeber the 'You Want This' video, you'll know what I'm talking about.

[akua123 0]

I agree, I think her face and boobs look very scary and unnatural. I'll never understand why looking "plastic" is better than fat/chubby/normal or old/wrinkles. I think those few in Hollywood that have had less plastic surgery and aren't so skinny (granted, there aren't many) look so much better. Who likes people this way? Someone must, because they keep doing it!

[Cutielb99 0]

Extreme Measures

Drastic thinness has become the reigning beauty ideal from runways to the red carpet –

and it's having an alarming effect on girls everywhere

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 2006 06:00AM EST

People.com

 

In 2002, fresh off her Blue Crush breakthrough, the

actress – a champion equestrian as a teen –

appeared slender but fit. As a leading lady at a

premiere in June, her face, bust, arms and waist

were notably thinner in 2006.

Photo by: TOM LAU / STAR MAX; JIM RUYMEN / UPI / LANDOV

 

At a party for designer Zac Posen in New York City on Sept. 14, the scene was fashion meets young Hollywood. There was Kate Bosworth looking whisper-thin in a black dress, dancing to Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack" and smoking cigarettes. There was the always minuscule Mary-Kate Olsen, who stopped by just long enough to puff a cigarette and pose for a few photos. At the center was Posen, 25, a current red-carpet favorite who has dressed a range of young actresses, from the plus-size Marissa Jaret Winokur to the sub-zero Bosworth. "I like women's bodies – I emphasize them in my clothing," Posen told PEOPLE on Sept. 21. "Healthy women are much sexier."

 

After this picture caused concern in July, Keira

Knightley (left) said she is "quite sure" she is not

anorexic. Right: The scrutiny of her body "is horrible,"

Nicole Richie (on Aug. 12) said recently.

Photo by: SH KNOTEK / SNAPPERS / ZUMA; MARTIN GRIMES / PACIFIC COAST NEWS

 

And yet the questions of who is healthy and what is sexy cut to the heart of a renewed debate that is currently raging everywhere from message boards to movie sets to modeling agencies. What makes this controversy new is that for the first time both designers and stars have been put on the defensive: In Hollywood, stylemakers like Bosworth, 23, and Nicole Richie, 25, are setting troubling new standards for thinness, while in the fashion world, frail-looking runway models drew gasps at New York City's Fashion Week. "In the past, some young models have had issues with eating disorders – but they were rapidly singled out and left with very little options other than to address their problem," says David Bonnouvrier, head of DNA Model Management. "The latest trend of skinny models, however, has allowed many of these young women to continue working, living in total denial." Adds Dr. Ira Sacker, a Manhattan-based eating disorder specialist and the coauthor of Dying to Be Thin: "I have a lot of A-list celebrities as clients, both actresses and models, and what they are telling me is that the pressure to be thin has never been greater. Why? Because whoever is thinner gets the job, and the competition is enormous."

 

To be sure, scrutiny of the thinnest stars is more intense than ever. On Sept. 25 Richie went so far as to issue a denial on her MySpace page after a false report surfaced that she'd checked herself into an eating disorder clinic: "I do not have an eating disorder, and I don't know how many times I have to say it. I've repeated myself so many times, I feel like a broken record. . . . I am happy, and healthy, and living my life."

 

In the wake of Madrid Fashion Week's controversial ban on underweight models, battle lines have been drawn in Hollywood and the fashion world. There are those like model Frederique van der Wal, 39, host of TLC's style show Cover Shot, who in her heyday walked for Ralph Lauren and Donna Karan but says, "This season, it seems they went too thin on the runway – I could have never been in the uniform of what you see today." Others, however, are crying foul at Spain's stance, which has drawn support in countries like India and Israel but was flatly rejected by major fashion capitals Paris and London. "I think it's not fair that people who can be naturally thin are getting attacked for it," says superstylist Rachel Zoe, 35, who has been criticized for her roster of skinny clients – including Richie, Lindsay Lohan and Mischa Barton – even as she transforms them into Gen-IM style icons. Has she ever suggested to any of her clients that they lose a few pounds in the name of fashion? "Not in a million years," says Zoe, "would I do that."

 

Then: In 1990, a curvy Cindy Crawford, then 24,

strutted her stuff in a Paris show. Now: Ukrainian

model Snejana Onopka, 19, worked the pin-thin look at

Miss Sixty in N.Y.C.

Photo by: REX USA; JAMIE MCCARTHY / WIREIMAGE

 

So who is responsible for the heightened pressure to get thin? Stylists and fashion-show bookers blame designers for creating clothes that barely fit a size 2. "Maybe back in the day a size 6 could slide through, but [recently] it really has been a 2/4 dress size," says casting director Drew Linehan, who booked models for 12 shows during New York's Fashion Week. Designers, meanwhile, blame the bookers for hiring young, barely pubescent models, and models blame their alien metabolisms for keeping them insanely thin. In the midst of all the finger-pointing, experts are sounding the alarm: A new poll of college students conducted by the National Eating Disorders Association found that a shocking 20 percent of respondents had at some point suffered from an eating disorder. Additionally, "I am seeing younger and younger girls being affected – as young as 8 years old," says Carolyn Costin, director of the Monte Nido Treatment Center in Malibu.

 

Compounding the persistent cultural emphasis on skinniness is the fact that actresses are increasingly replacing models as designer muses and spokesmodels (Bosworth, for example, represents Revlon) and are feeling heightened stakes when they turn up at awards shows. "When you're walking down [the red carpet], there are truly like 100 photographers, and you do want to look your best," says Curb Your Enthusiasm's Cheryl Hines.

 

The result can be a saturation of relentlessly thin images from movies to magazines. "Young girls see celebrities losing weight, and the more famous they are, the more weight they lose," says Costin. "It creates a climate that says it's unnatural to be a natural size."

 

In interviews with PEOPLE at malls across the country, most teenage girls rejected Richie's body as "nasty" and "too skinny" but acknowledged that she and other stars serve as style role models. "Nicole's body is gross because her skeleton shows," says Kailey Koepplin, 17, of Eden Prairie, Minn. Other teens said they admire healthier-looking stars like Jessica Simpson ("She has cute clothes and she doesn't show too much"), Beyoncé and Jessica Alba ("She's tiny, but she's not too tiny").

 

In 2001, Taylor, then known for playing Marcia Brady

on the big screen, flaunted her curves. Now 35 and a

mom of two (with husband Ben Stiller), she has said

her kids keep her active.

Photo by: JEFF VESPA / WIREIMAGE; DEBBIE VANSTORY / IPHOTO / NEWSCOM

 

Of course, the ongoing thin-thinner-thinnest sweepstakes is as much a part of certain fashion and showbiz circles as coffee and cigarettes. But beyond those perennial appetite suppressants, experts and industry insiders alike say that some Hollywood starlets – in an attempt to out-thin their runway counterparts and each other – are adopting drastic ways of slimming down. "There are a lot of girls taking horse tranquilizers, which are so incredibly dangerous," says former View cohost Debbie Matenopoulos, 31, who now cohosts Daily 10 on E! Adds Sara Albert, 23, a finalist on last season's America's Next Top Model who has been working steadily since then: "There's a huge drug scene. You have to have energy to model, but if you're not eating . . . So yeah, people turn to different methods of staying skinny."

 

Such talk is an open secret in Hollywood, says one source who has worked closely with a number of young celebrities. "If you're in these circles, people aren't quiet about it," says the source, who says the prescription ADHD drug Adderall XR has become a weight-loss favorite. "To them, taking a diet pill is like drinking a beer. It has simply become an acceptable part of the young Hollywood culture."

 

In an era when even healthy-looking stars like Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Lopez provoke pregnancy chatter at the slightest appearance of a less-than-taut tummy, stars say the pressure to be hyperthin is out of control. And with television stars like Jaime Pressly and Portia de Rossi opening up about their struggles to conform to Hollywood standards of slimness, the question of how far TV pushes actresses has taken on new urgency. "Does [TV] put pressure on [actresses] to become anorexic? No," says Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman, 43, who has talked of battling bulimia and anorexia in her teens and early 20s. "Does it put pressure on them to become excruciatingly thin? Yes."

 

The look: Models at the Rosa Chá Spring 2007 show in

N.Y.C. Sept. 10. "It's never good to go to extremes,"

says designer Giorgio Armani, whose Milan show

nonetheless featured rib-baring models. "Beyond thin

is too much."

Photo by: JEMAL COUNTESS / WIREIMAGE

 

Like many actresses who hit it big on television or in film, Huffman herself appears noticeably slimmer since she started on Housewives three years ago. "You get so nervous about the way you look [on TV] that you just get skinnier and skinnier – it's happened to me a bunch of times," says actress Lea Thompson, 45. "Any stomach shows."

 

If that kind of extreme pressure is unlikely to change anytime soon, some stars are hoping that by bringing it out into the open, progress will come slowly – even if it means acknowledging their own insecurities. At the Emmys this year, Matenopoulos says she was three pounds heavier than she'd recently been. "I tried my hardest to look in the mirror and say, 'You know what? Nobody's gonna be able to tell you've gained three pounds,' " she says. "And nobody noticed – except for me, in my ridiculous little head."

 

• By Michelle Tauber and Ashley Williams. Alexis Chiu, Vicki Sheff-Cahan, Julie Jordan Jenny Sundel, Jed Dreben, Nicholas White and Jessica Herndon in L.A., Jeffrey Slonim, Steve Erwin, Nina Burleigh, Kelly Carter, Kristen Mascia and Lesley Messer in New York City, Courtney Rubin in Milan, Monique Jessen and Pete Norman in London and Sheree Curry in Minneapolis

Edited September 29, 2006 by Cutielb99

[fykeylicious 1,099]

What follows is a loose and probably not-so-great translation of an editorial published today in La Presse, a newspaper here in Montreal. Sorry if there are mistakes of any sort, English is my second language and it's not always easy to translate... I hope you get the gist of it. Enjoy.

 

Elizabeth Hurley said, during an interview with an American magazine, in 2000, that she would commit suicide if one day she was as "fat" as Marilyn Monroe.

 

At the time this created some controversy, and the ex-girlfriend of Hugh Grant didn't make friends with many advocates of normal weight on that day. And the situation didn't get better when, in june 2005, she declared to the London Times that she was sick of seeing fat getting out of too tight clothes worn by bodies far from perfect.

 

Ms Hurley, representing Estée Lauder, was in Montreal this week for a fundraising campaign against breast cancer. Since I was allowed only one minute to talk to her, I asked her only ONE question: what does she think of the controversy surrounding too thin models? I was sure that now that she's a mother in her forties, the actress-model would be open to the diversity of body shapes, and would be caring about the ill-looking thinness of young models. Especially since the interview - which lasted over 15 minutes, in fact - was taking place with Evelyn Lauder, the inspiring woman behind the fundraising over at Estée Lauder.

 

But I was wrong. Elizabeth Hurley persists and signs: "I don't think models bring young women to develop eating disorders" she stated without hesitation. Still, a 22-year-old model from Uruguay died in August of heart failure after 3 months eating only green salad and drinking Diet Coke in an effort to lose the pounds that, supposedly, kept her from an international modeling career.

 

According to Ms Hurley, it's normal that teenagers in the middle of their growth are thin. Furthermore, eating disorders are more about personal and control issues. "It's rarely about being able to wear jeans one size smaller." In short, these girls are making themselves puke because of their personal problems, not because they want to look like Kate Bosworth or Sienna Miller.

 

The woman I'd like to hear about those issues, now, is the one who, on Tuesday night, was treated with the Hurley special. The actress was on the stage at Holt Renfrew and she wanted someone from the crowd wearing one of the pink shirts from the anticancer campaign to come on stage with her. "Me?" asked the lady, when she saw the actress look in her direction. "No", she answered, while pointing to a much younger and much thinner girl standing up right besides her.

 

ohnotheydidn't

[Freckles 79]

You know, I realize that a lot of my fellow Chit-Chatters do not love Lainey. But, one of the things that I adore about the girl is her resolute refusal to knock women who added a few pounds, and her (lone?) voice stating that many of the "heavier" chicks in Hollywood look better than most of the Scrawnies.

 

I wish that more media pundits would praise curves and abhor skeletal bodies.

 

(On that note... did you know that Anna Wintour will not even hire heavy women to be receptionists at Vogue? If you're not skinny, you're not allowed to work there. Period.)

[BobbyD 2]

Not Her Path

 

October 7, 2006 -- COUNTRY star Wynonna Judd says she was "one week away" from gastrointestinal surgery to banish her fat before she changed her mind. "I had arranged to do it anonymously and pay with cash, so no one would know it was me. But at that point God just said: 'This is not your path,' " she tells November's Ladies' Home Journal. Instead, she entered Shades of Hope, an all-addiction treatment center, earlier this year: "I'm healing and recovering from food addiction. I don't have normal behavior with food. I'd rather eat than do a lot of other things, and that's just not normal."

[Cutielb99 0]

Notes from all over

By Jeannette Walls, MSNBC

Updated: 1:39 a.m. CT Oct 17, 2006

 

Meatloaf has some serious body-image issues. “My real name is Marvin, and Levi’s had a commercial on the radio that said, ‘Poor fat Marvin can’t wear Levi’s.’ And I was fat. It nearly destroyed me. I’m still not over it,” the rocker told Blender magazine. “If we had lawyers growing up, I would own that company….I’ve always been the poor fat Marvin that can’t wear Levi’s. The closest I’ve come to skinny was on 'South Park.' I told them the only way they could use me was if they drew me skinny. So they did.”

[BobbyD 2]

Osbourne Plans to Remove Gastric Band

AP

 

 

Sharon Osbourne says she plans to remove a gastric band that helped her lose 125 pounds and instead rely on psychotherapy to cope with her weight issues.

 

"I have to figure out why I do what I do to myself," the 54-year-old wife/manager of rocker Ozzy Osbourne says in an interview in People magazine's Oct. 30 issue. "I think I have some sort of self-destruction button."

 

Osbourne, who has written a memoir, "Sharon Osbourne Extreme," had surgery in 1999 to have the gastric band put inside her, but intends to shed it in December (when she returns to the U.S. from Britain). Though the band is designed to limit food intake by squeezing down the stomach's capacity, she packed on 15 pounds this year, she says, "from overeating."

 

"I keep trying to eat more and more ... I'm a pig," says Osbourne, who has indulged in "chocolate, French fries and junk food" instead of sticking to the nutritious diet required of gastric-band patients.

 

What happens when she eats too much? "You throw up...then you eat more," she says.

 

Osbourne, who starred with her bizarre-yet-loving clan in MTV's "The Osbournes," is being cheered on by her three children: Aimee, 23, Kelly, 21, and Jack, 20.

 

"My kids, their whole life, have seen me struggle with weight," she says. "They say, `Now you need to spend time on your head.'"

[Freckles 79]

On one hand, I think "shar-babe, that's way too much information." On the other hand, I am glad that she's talking frankly about this stuff; too many people seem to think that gastric bypass surgery just magically solves everything. Her descriptions are rather gross but she certainly leaves no room for doubts about what she means...

[Cutielb99 0]

Kirstie Alley Gets Bikini-Ready for Oprah

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 02, 2006 10:15AM EST

By Stephen M. Silverman

 

Kirstie Alley is due to pose in her bikini on Monday's Oprah Winfrey Show, almost a year to the day after she first promised Winfrey she would.

 

On Nov. 7, 2005, the former Fat Actress star and Jenny Craig spokeswoman told Winfrey about losing 55 pounds and, inspired by a guest who'd lost 70 pounds to become Miss Bikini America, said, "You know how I said every 15 pounds I have to challenge myself? … I'm thinking this would be a really good challenge. If I don't make it, I'm really sorry. You can all come over to my house and see me in a bikini. But I think that would be a grand challenge."

 

Why take on such a challenge in the first place? "I'd like to prove to myself and maybe other women my age that there can still be good years ahead of us," Alley told PEOPLE in June. "Maybe even the best."

 

Still, she admitted it was a bold move. "At my age, can you really turn your body into a bikini body without having surgery?" she wondered. "This is an experiment!"

 

One that she wouldn't have agreed to if not for the support of her children, son True, 14, and daughter Lillie, 12. "I said to my kids, 'Can I do this? Will I embarrass you?'" she recalls. "They were laughing about it."

 

In her blog on the Jenny Craig Web site, Alley writes that she wanted to get back in bikini shape because she was once a competitive swimmer and "spent most of my life either in a Speedo (yikes) or later in a bikini," and because "my kids are always in the pool or the ocean or some lake beckoning me to come in," and she was afraid paparazzi would snap an unflattering shot of her.

 

"The most important reason I want to wear a bikini on Oprah, however, is because if I, a 55-year-old woman, can look even halfway decent, imagine how all of you could look in a bikini," she continues. "Hell, I'll never look like Giselle, I never did! But maybe close to Bridget Jones or a Dove girl or something that is just fine and healthy and happy, with no surgery, no lipo and no drugs – that's saying something!"

 

She also writes that she's been working hard to get in shape for her bikini debut. "I'm walking vigorously (hiking) every morning for one hour on these big ole hills by my house. Then I try to get in an afternoon workout of weights, circuit, palates or yoga. The a.m. thing is like clockwork, the afternoons are hit and miss. But that's my goal this week: two times a day for five days a week until I do the show."

 

How did Alley put on the weight to begin with? She told Winfrey a year ago, "I made some good decisions simultaneously with some bad decisions. The good part of it was, 'I'm going to spend more time with my kids I'm going to cook.'

 

"The bad decision was – and this is the dumbest decision I've ever made in my life – it went like this: If a man really loves me, he will not have to love me for my body. He will really love me just for me. … When did I decide I was a big, fat girl?"

[Cutielb99 0]

Kate Winslet: I Was Teased About My Weight

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 02, 2006 08:40AM EST

By Stephen M. Silverman

 

As an overweight teen in England, Kate Winslet says, "I was shy. I was vulnerable."

 

The other kids called her "blubber," she tells Parade in its upcoming issue. "Other girls teased me terribly. I was bullied, I would just put my head down and get on with it. This was my means of survival."

 

But when she was 15, she reveals for the first time, she met her first love: 28-year-old television actor and writer Stephen Tredre.

 

"Stephen made me feel secure and embraced," says the Little Children actress, 31, who now lives in Manhattan with her husband, director Sam Mendes, 41, and kids Mia, 6, and Joe, 2.

 

"Stephen was very inspiring," Winslet says. "He had this extraordinary zest for life. My life revolved around him."

 

By 16, Winslet had dropped out of high school and was working in a deli when she landed her first film role: the lead in 1994's Peter Jackson-directed Heavenly Creatures.

 

But shortly before Winslet began filming 1995's Sense and Sensibility, Tredre was diagnosed with bone cancer.

 

"There was no point to his suffering. No rhyme or reason to it," she says. "When Stephen had gotten better and his cancer was in remission, we broke up. I don't know why. I was so young, when I look back on it. Only 19. How could I have left a person who was so unwell? I thought Stephen was going to be all right."

 

After their split, "He got ill again. Stephen and I talked every day. This was not somebody I'd turn my back on."

 

Tredre died in 1997, the week Titanic opened. Winslet missed the movie's Los Angeles premiere to be at his funeral.

 

"Looking back," she says, "I see what I was dealing with when Titanic came out. I had a lot of pain, and I was confused about who I was."

[pitt-lover 0]

Kirstie Alley Gets Bikini-Ready for Oprah

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 02, 2006 10:15AM EST

By Stephen M. Silverman

 

Kirstie Alley is due to pose in her bikini on Monday's Oprah Winfrey Show, almost a year to the day after she first promised Winfrey she would.

 

On Nov. 7, 2005, the former Fat Actress star and Jenny Craig spokeswoman told Winfrey about losing 55 pounds and, inspired by a guest who'd lost 70 pounds to become Miss Bikini America, said, "You know how I said every 15 pounds I have to challenge myself? … I'm thinking this would be a really good challenge. If I don't make it, I'm really sorry. You can all come over to my house and see me in a bikini. But I think that would be a grand challenge."

 

Why take on such a challenge in the first place? "I'd like to prove to myself and maybe other women my age that there can still be good years ahead of us," Alley told PEOPLE in June. "Maybe even the best."

 

Still, she admitted it was a bold move. "At my age, can you really turn your body into a bikini body without having surgery?" she wondered. "This is an experiment!"

 

One that she wouldn't have agreed to if not for the support of her children, son True, 14, and daughter Lillie, 12. "I said to my kids, 'Can I do this? Will I embarrass you?'" she recalls. "They were laughing about it."

 

In her blog on the Jenny Craig Web site, Alley writes that she wanted to get back in bikini shape because she was once a competitive swimmer and "spent most of my life either in a Speedo (yikes) or later in a bikini," and because "my kids are always in the pool or the ocean or some lake beckoning me to come in," and she was afraid paparazzi would snap an unflattering shot of her.

 

"The most important reason I want to wear a bikini on Oprah, however, is because if I, a 55-year-old woman, can look even halfway decent, imagine how all of you could look in a bikini," she continues. "Hell, I'll never look like Giselle, I never did! But maybe close to Bridget Jones or a Dove girl or something that is just fine and healthy and happy, with no surgery, no lipo and no drugs – that's saying something!"

 

She also writes that she's been working hard to get in shape for her bikini debut. "I'm walking vigorously (hiking) every morning for one hour on these big ole hills by my house. Then I try to get in an afternoon workout of weights, circuit, palates or yoga. The a.m. thing is like clockwork, the afternoons are hit and miss. But that's my goal this week: two times a day for five days a week until I do the show."

 

How did Alley put on the weight to begin with? She told Winfrey a year ago, "I made some good decisions simultaneously with some bad decisions. The good part of it was, 'I'm going to spend more time with my kids I'm going to cook.'

 

"The bad decision was – and this is the dumbest decision I've ever made in my life – it went like this: If a man really loves me, he will not have to love me for my body. He will really love me just for me. … When did I decide I was a big, fat girl?"

I give her a month after the appearance before her weight starts to creep up again....

[Trizzie 0]

Inside Nicole Richie's Weight Crisis

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 03, 2006 07:45AM EST

 

 

Nicole Richie

 

Photo by: Donato Sardella / WireImage

 

In recent weeks, Nicole Richie's weight had dropped to around 90 lbs. – making her extremely thin, even at 5'2". So when she announced her decision to seek treatment for her weight issues, those close to her were relieved.

 

"She's gonna be fine," dad Lionel Richie, who had urged his daughter to seek help, tells PEOPLE in its new issue. "She's worrying me to death, but she's gonna be okay."

 

Her rep told PEOPLE on Oct. 26 that Richie had decided "to undergo diagnostic treatment to determine why she's not been putting on any weight," but stressed, "this is not a treatment for an eating disorder."

 

Indeed, Richie, 25, has for two years steadfastly denied that she has an eating disorder. "She's tired of everyone saying, 'You don't eat,' because she does," says a source close to her.

 

As part of her new treatment, her rep says she is "working with a team of doctors and specialists whose focus is nutrition." She has sought similar help before, telling Vanity Fair in June that she was consulting a nutritionist and a doctor about her weight.

 

Her program is not in-patient: Only two days after her announcement, Richie was spotted out at the L.A. hot spot Hyde Lounge and on Oct. 30 lunched with a friend at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

 

Even so, producers of her reality series, The Simple Life, which was scheduled to resume production Nov. 6, have agreed to delay shooting until she is fit for duty. (Richie now tells PEOPLE, "I'm ready to go back to work," though the studio has not decided whether to stick to the original schedule.)

 

And she has plenty of other work to look forward to. In addition to The Simple Life, Richie has a deal with 20th Century Fox TV to star in a sitcom inspired by her life. "She's got great charisma," says Fox TV studio president Dana Walden. "Everyone is always rooting for her."

 

But one thing is most important, Richie tells PEOPLE: "I'm focusing on my health right now, and getting the help I need, like anybody else would."

[taco 0]

Anna Kournikova

 

 

http://gabsmash.blogspot.com/2006/11/bony-mcbone.html

 

So when did Portia de Rossi start playing tennis? Anna Kounikova at the 17th Annual Chris Evert/Raymond James Pro-Celebrity Tennis Classic in Florida

[pitt-lover 0]

Anna Kournikova

 

 

http://gabsmash.blogspot.com/2006/11/bony-mcbone.html

 

So when did Portia de Rossi start playing tennis? Anna Kounikova at the 17th Annual Chris Evert/Raymond James Pro-Celebrity Tennis Classic in Florida

This is really sad. She had an AMAZING body, so fit and toned and very slim. Now she looks like a skeleton.

[bittermuch? 0]

It deeply disturbs me that Anna's (very slim) arms look bigger than her legs!!!!

[BobbyD 2]

Hunger Pangs

 

NO wonder Katie Holmes had to take a break from her new best friend, Victoria Beckham - she was starving. The super-skinny soccer wife had been helping Holmes lose her baby weight, but it seems Beckham's dietary rules were too much. A spy said, "Victoria maintains her tiny frame because she only permits herself to snack - not eat - on edamame, pretzels and occasionally sushi." Beckham also is a Diet Coke fanatic and told pals she hasn't drunk water in years because she "hates the taste."

[purpleiris 0]

I don't understand how someone can hate the taste of water. Have you ever heard of this?

[branchop 319]

I don't understand how someone can hate the taste of water. Have you ever heard of this?

 

Understand this is the same woman who has never read a book in her life....I think she thinks it makes her fascinating or iconic, when really it makes her look stupid

Edited November 13, 2006 by branchop

[sanlee 49]

I don't understand how someone can hate the taste of water. Have you ever heard of this?

Hate the taste of water, but loves the taste of Alcohol! wow

[Serendipity 12]

Hunger Pangs

 

NO wonder Katie Holmes had to take a break from her new best friend, Victoria Beckham - she was starving. The super-skinny soccer wife had been helping Holmes lose her baby weight, but it seems Beckham's dietary rules were too much. A spy said, "Victoria maintains her tiny frame because she only permits herself to snack - not eat - on edamame, pretzels and occasionally sushi." Beckham also is a Diet Coke fanatic and told pals she hasn't drunk water in years because she "hates the taste."

No wonder she's so skinny! Her insides have packed up and moved away!