A few months ago I was reading about how Micheal Bay, the director of Transformers, ordered actress Meghan Fox to gain ten pounds "because he didn't like skinny stars... he wanted some meat on her bones." When I read those words, I was like "Yay!" Finialy someone who isn't doing the exact opposite and ordering stars to loose more weight for their roles.
Then just last week, I read another article about how he just made her gain from 99 pounds to 109 pounds and it hit me: "So.... is 109 pounds considered 'meaty'?" Because in reality, 109 pounds defintally isn't a lot of meat on a person!
Let's take Kim Kardashinan, for example. A girl who found fame because of her booty. Half the tabloids love her for her busty figure, the other half says she has a serious weight problem. In one fashion magazine, they used her as an example for a featured plus-size line. Seeing that, I was thinking: "She is considered plus-size? I think not!" If she is, then what does that make me? Because I know Kim isn't a bigger size then me---and I don't wear plus-size clothing! Bottom line: even sizes that aren't considered "big" in the real world are considered huge in Hollywood.
From there on, I can go ranting on and on about how sick I am of skinny stars and how everyone needs to gain weight and how it affects young fans on how they veiw themselves. Not just young fans, since my 25-year-old sister is obsessed how fast stars loose baby weight and how they don't have a single streach mark in sight when they show off their fabulous new bodies. I'm actually not sick of skinny stars. If I did write a blog on that, then I'd be insulting all of the natrually thin girls who read this. After all, there are some people out there who have trouble trying to put curves on just as much as other people have trying to take curves off.
Instead, I'm sick of stars that all have the same body type: skinny, skinnier, and skinniest. I find this getting awefully boring. Why can't Hollywood try doing something different for a change?
America needs to realize that everyone looks absoulutly fine with the way their bodies are natrually. Thin girls want to have curves, curvy girls want to be slimmer. Everyone is always trying to change their body shape and sizes and I'm getting very tired of that. Instead of focusing on getting another body type, they need to focus on leading a healthy and strong lifestyle. Starving yourself down to a size two or eating fatty junk foods all day long to get a bigger butt isn't healthy either way. Everyone needs to accept their bodies they way they natrually are.
So should Hollywood ban all thin starlets? No or else that will make all the "natrually thin" girls think they need to gain weight to be in. Instead, they need to focus on every body shape and size. Instead of making the hunky man's love interest in the latest romantic movie a size two, why not make her a normal and healthy size eight? Why can't they cast some "heavier" ladies as the lead roles that aren't about being overweight, ugly, or a misfit. Heavier ladies are just as fine and sexy as skinner ladies! They just need to embrace every size. Not just by saying they do, but they actually stepping up and showing it.
Let me know what you think! I'd love to hear your
opinons.
You know that excuse Hollywood uses: that they request their actresses and models to be a little bit underweight because the camera puts about 10 pounds on them? Well, try imgaining these models being ten pounds less then what these scary skinny pictures show!
