Everyone else in Hollywood is getting surgery to look like the 2004 model.
Posted on 01/04/2006 1:48:06 PM PST by Perdogg
Tinseltown teen queen Lindsay Lohan has finally 'fessed up to doing drugs — and becoming so bulimic that she couldn't stand the sight of her own skeletal figure.
In an explosive new magazine interview, the freckled "Freaky Friday" star blames her train-wreck teen years on an emotionally destructive dad, killer stress from the cutthroat Hollywood biz, and her heartbreaking bust-up with hunky first-love actor Wilmer Valderrama.
"I was sick ... I had people sit me down and say, 'You're going to die if you don't take care of yourself,' " the star admits in the latest issue of Vanity Fair, which hits newsstands today.
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Star of a lot of Disney movies including remake of The Parent Trap, Herbie-Fully Loaded, Freaky Friday, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, and Mean Girls. Generally good wholesome movies fit for children and adults alike.
Not really. Bulimia and it's evil sister, anorexia, are often psychological disorders in an attempt by a person who feels that their life is totally out of control to control SOMETHING. She needs medical and psychological help.
Nobody looks good that skinny.
I have no desire snuggle up to a skinny woman. It would like trying to hug a potato sack full of scrap metal.
Believe me, I've been there, when I was a ripped 117# freaking out that I had gained 18# from my boney 99#. I was constantly on the scales, crying my eyes out because I thought my thighs & my 36 inch hips were huge. I was a perfect size 8 then, but I hated the way I looked...you see, I really believed I was fat.
I remember when eating disorders and anorexia first came into the healthcare scene. I remember my first patient who was 1 step away from death and freaking out because we were serving her food with too much fat in it. I guess that was my wake-up call. Oh, maybe it was my own stint in the hospital. But that's another story.
Anyhow, check out every (I mean just about EVERY) woman's magazine out there.....
Seems we all are extremely flawed....our butts are too big, we're overweight, we're out of shape, our abs aren't flat enough, our boobs aren't big enough, our thighs cause thunder etc. We are constantly told we need fixing. Mostly, to be smaller....the smaller, the better
Add to that the strong reinforcement that only a size 10,
no, make that a size 8,
Oops!
This year it's a size 2!
That is the ideal woman's size.
Anything larger is ugly. Period.
No forgiveness allowed.
No matter how healthy, in shape, toned etc.
If you're larger than a 10, you're ugly.
Lastly,
Check out the threads here where severely underweight women are called hot and sexy and normal to slightly overweight women are called fat, or worse pigs. It would be nice to see a bit of balance, but I see FR like a portal into the real world. It's a rough place for anyone outside of the ideal. Which makes about 92% of us.
Ya know, we all strive to be strong and reach deep inside ourselves for self-worth and character. But if there is nothing but negative input around you, you do buy into the myth. I have, I still do at times. It's a horrendous struggle and often, you just have to walk away and isolate yourself.
I do feel for Lohan. Sadly, she lives and works in a profession that will only foster her self-loathing and destructive habits. I hope she can make some kind of escape, or have some kind of epiphany of self-worth that makes her long term health have more value that the short term rewards of being a skinny sex goddess (sarcasm intended).
The issue being that what used to be an acceptable weight for a woman (ie, a 65" woman weighing anywhere from 113 to 138 pounds) the high end is now considered 'fat' by the media....Oh, wrong, by many normal folks who have bought into the myth.
When in a nursing home, if I have a 65" patient lose down to 113#, I'm writing orders for an appetite stimulants, supplements etc. Because she's at high risk for impending complications, even death.
HOWEVER, if a 65" woman is a model, movie star etc and weighs 113#, she's still considered 'fat'.
The irony hits me every time.
That is why many overseas nightclubs that cater to US tourists are now hiring 14 year old girls with stick figures to dance....badly. Seems they see it as a form of western pedophilia, so they put out little girls because Americans don't know what a woman looks like. I don't know, I just think it's twisted.
Okay. But, I still don't know who she is because I have seen none of those. I don't go to movie theaters any more. Not worth it. We just get DVD's of old movies. We have very few of the new things out. We rent any that we think we might like, then buy a copy if we want to keep it for the future. Of our DVD collection, 99% of it is probably old stuff. Lots of John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, old war, westerns, chick flicks my wife loves, 40, 50, 60, 70s stuff.
Personally, I prefer curvey women.
If you check most of the threads, they're mostly called pigs because of what is hatched in their brain and comes out of their mouths.
If Ann Coulter did an Arianna Huffington, she would be a fat pig and be dead to me. Until then, she's cute and could use a burger.
Dittos for Catherine Zeta-Jones (she may be a big lefty but I haven't heard anything), Patricia Heaton, et al.
The threads I'm referring to are simply those commenting on pictures of women. Girls in a fashion show called 'pigs' because they were heavier than the girl standing next to them. Women in a beauty contest called pudgy because they were normal weights etc.
Most, if not all of the fat pig comments I remembered were directed at pictures, often no one even knew the name of the female being slammed.
Petra Nemcova
Even she has more meat on here bones than the skinny Lohan.
Ok I have to agree with that... when you get skinnier than a supermodel your WAY to thin! :D
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