Buy Walking VideosThe Dress That Sparked The Rumor
Keira Knightly has been fighting the tabloids. They have been writing articles about her body assuming that she has anorexia and she has even sued a few of them. Then she showed up to the premier of Pirate of the Caribbean in this dress and the rumors sparked again. One can understand why. She looks painfully thin in this dress.
A photograph is just one moment in time
The truth of the matter is, a photograph is just one moment in time. There have been times when I weighed less, but my photographs still made me look fat. There have been times when I weighed more and I looked fantastic. This photo of Keira Knightly is just one moment in time. She happened to be thin at the time and the dress revealed that. Was she thin the previous day? Yeah, but no one posted the photos of her schlepping around in a t-shirt and jeans that she probably wore that day because they weren’t controversial enough.
It’s really the dress, not her body that was so interesting
Because the dress was so revealing, the press jumped on it. If she had worn a different dress, she wouldn’t have received so much attention. Anorexia is a very complicated disease and you cannot tell if someone has it just by their body type, just like you can’t tell whether someone has bingeing problems just because they are fat. In fact, it’s possible to be rather skinny and STILL have trouble with bingeing. Just calling someone anorexic because they are thin is just as discriminatory and hateful as calling someone lazy because they are fat.
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May 5th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
I agree. There are people over 400 lbs. who are anorexic and there are thin people that consume 3,000 calories a day. Assumptions are dangerous. Very good blog. Thank you.
May 7th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Sorry, but no 400 lb person is anorexic. thats not even possible. to be anorexic is to have at least a BMI under 18.5 and there are many other qualifications. any 400 lb person has a BMI of AT LEAST 20 therefore not putting them anywhere near the realm of anorexia. if a morbidly obese person starves themselves then they have ED-NOS not anorexia.
May 9th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Tara, to be anorexic is to have a certain relationship with food and a certain way of viewing the body. It is NOT BMI-dependent:
To be diagnosed as having anorexia nervosa, according to the DSM-IV-TR, a person must display:
May 11th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Yeah! Thin acceptance! I like it. I hate the narrow, narrow range that women in the media are expected to (literally) fit into. Get “too” fat, get ridiculed, get “too” thin, ridiculed. (Can we call this the “Goldylocks syndrome?”)
I myself am curvy, but I hate when people refer to curvy women as “real women.” All women are real women. There are many kinds of bodies and I suspect the call of “anorexia!” Is just the same old health-as-an-excuse-to-be-mean thing that is going on when people feel compelled to point out that someone is fat.