Why is it ok...

I put this in Health & Fitness too...

Why is it ok to say that people are too skinny and should put some weight on, but not to say they are looky a little heavy and should consider going on a diet?

The pendulum seems to have swung right back again now, and slim people are almost being demonised. How often do you see articles in magazines like Heat, about how skinny certain celebs are looking? You hardly ever see the same when they are on the podgy side, they're celebrated for their 'fuller' figures which is great, but it doesn't mean slim is bad.

It's all very well celebrating different body shapes, but it should be just that - different body shapes, not harping on about how awful it is that people who are overweight are made to feel bad, then bitchy about slimmer girls.

hmph.

Its all rubbish

its always in the mags and papers about celebs , being either too fat or too thin , look at kirsty alley she pilled loads of weight on and the papers and mags had a feild day , she lost weight then that was that , stars loose weight , there slagged off for it , they put weight on then there called fat , you cant win , you really cant.
now no one has the right to go round saying any one is too fat or too thin , what is ideal any way theres no such thing really as we all class ideal as somthink diffrent , theres too much pressure on men and woman to be "ideal " i say we should be ourselves , stuff the trends of being size zero thats stupidity , live life , theres more to it than how fat or thin we are we could be dead tomorrow . xxxxxxxxxx

Hi lennylover1

I don't think that making anyone feel bad is ok. I think that most people that talk about celebrities that are too skinny are just worried that they may have an eating disorder. Like Nicole Richie and lindsay Lohan, they have both lost so much weight recently. If they look that thin on TV (where they don't look healthy, like just skin and bones), and TV ads about 10 to 20 lbs. on you, they would look even more unhealthy in person. I just think people are worried that they are going to make themselves ill.

Hmm

I guess........that we should just try to be healthy and avrage size (weight). That is what I think... But I'm not sure......
~Biscuit

Exactly, biscuit!

No-one should be made to feel crap because they look a certain way, but unfortunately that's the way of the world.
Skinny-baiting stems from jealousy anyway, but thet doesn't make it a compliment.

Yes, but

... not everytone wants to look like Kate Moss! (and while we're ont the subject, what is she doing with that junkie man?)

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No but not everyone wants to look like a lard-arse either! It doesn't matter what you want to look like, it still shouldn't be fair game for skinny people. If the tables were turned, we'd never hear the end of it.

What????????????

The tables have been turned for years........it's only recently that mags have started slating thin people,big people have had a rough ride for ages.....it's never been "socially acceptable" to be fat & it's always the big ones that get stereotyped in films etc,Shallow Hal is a perfect example & anyway as for "never hearing the end of it" no we won't,we have to accept that they're gonna keep switching between thin/fat debates for the simple reason that it's the easiest thing to pick on seeing as it isn't PC to pick on anything else,we don't have to like it,we don't have to agree with it but we do have to accept that it's life n s**t happens! & anyway BB6 has started now so heat will be full of that for the next 11wks!!!!!!!!then it'll be "the best & worst of the beach bodies" & all the skinny ones will get top marks for looking fab & the big ones will get picked on for having cellulite so the tables will be turned again.

Shallow hal

I was really surprised to see Gwyneth Paltrow in Shallow Hal, it didn't look like her sort of film at all.

Bigger people do get a rough ride, but that doesn't mean that skinny people should too!

In general

...people shouldn't feel they have the right to make comments about other people'e shape, whether they're fat or thin!
I agree with lennylover that skinny people have come into the firing line recently, it seems to be a bit of a backlash against all the waif-like heroin chic types, but 'big is beautiful' isn't necessarily right either. In celebrating 'different body shapes' ie, saying it's all right to be big (which it is, ple,ty of people can't help it) the health issues associated with being overweight seem to have been overlooked.
I think health and wellbeing should be more important than superficial beauty, but unfortunately looks and body shape will always be important.

Lol

re kate moss and pete doherty, don't know what she's thinking - I should imaging having him tuck her daughter into bed every night would give her nightmares!

I think everyone has the right to be whatever size they want without being commented on. I do aggree that the 'big is beautiful' brigade are not necessarily promoting a healthy image, but then neither were the heroin chic models of the late nineties - but these girls shuldn't be slagged off for being naturally skinny. I think you're right and that jealousy does come into it.

So glad to see this!

I am so glad to see some people out there have a heart. I have become sick of people blasting on waif thin women or men for being so. Not all of us are anorexic or have an eating disorder. I myself am 5'10 and weigh 102 lbs. I eat all day long and do not gain. Not only do I not have an eating disorder but it is also frustrating. Not everyone who is waif thin likes being this way. I get rude comments about being anorexic and have even had people to have the nerve and come up to me while I am with my children and ask me how I could care about them and starve myself to the point I have! Saying those things without taking into consideration that I may spend everyday chugging disgusting protein drinks and eating twinkies till i feel sick to pack on a simple pound. When someone walks up to a person overweight and makes those comments it's considered outright rude..why cant it be seen just as rude to people who are just born with a high metabolism. I can't imagine anyone being jealous of any kind of weight problem.

It' s really interesting

that you notice a discussion about thin people in the U.K. - because its the same at the moment in Germany. I think the discussion started with Germany's next top model - a show where Heidi Klum is searching for the "next top model". All the girls were thin but there was one that wasn't that thin. She was not fat but not sooo thin like a model normally is. Heidi told her and the next day there started a big discussion in the newspapers and on TV about this - the show was called Germany' s next top anorexic in the newspapers, etc. And you see pictures of celebrities who lost weight during the last years in the papers and on TV and it is discussed if they look better or not - and you get the impression that it is a kind of political correctness to say that they look worse now. Of corse - if you are fat, life isn' t easy but if you are thin, it isn't as well. I think people (especially women) are jealous of people being thin (and maybe they condemn other women for being fat).
About thin women I often hear from other women/girls "This isn' t healthy and to be honest I don't think it looks good - just bones and skin - etc."
I am not fat but I am not thin as well and maybe I am a bit jealus about thin women- especially if they can eat everything they want without putting on weight (a friend of mine eats twice as much as I do and has a wounderful shape) but I think its unfair to affront them in the way it happens at the moment and I am shocked about zsazsa's story!