Too thin? At what point to friends intervene. Nicole Kidman allegedly is “too thin “

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Anonymous wrote:NK looks slender and healthy, this discussion is ridiculous.
10 days ago:

I'm just going to keep reposting this photo (I did not post it the first time) after every single nasty critical concern troll post about NK's weight.

She is nothing but healthy and you ladies have mental health issues.

I have to agree. She looks fine. I see a lot of old pictures from the 1920+ on my Fb newsfeed and women used to be thin. This was how average 20-30 something women looked. Granted, at 50 they weren’t quite as thin, but still WAY thinner than anything I see in public now.

Women her age in the 1920s

Female life expectancy in 1925 was 60yrs, no wonder they looked like this. Amazing how far we've come in just 100 years. NK is a naturally slim person, the amount of jealousy disguised as concern on this thread is amusing.

Nah. Her knobby knees are amusing!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NK looks slender and healthy, this discussion is ridiculous.
10 days ago:

I'm just going to keep reposting this photo (I did not post it the first time) after every single nasty critical concern troll post about NK's weight.

She is nothing but healthy and you ladies have mental health issues.

I have to agree. She looks fine. I see a lot of old pictures from the 1920+ on my Fb newsfeed and women used to be thin. This was how average 20-30 something women looked. Granted, at 50 they weren’t quite as thin, but still WAY thinner than anything I see in public now.

Women her age in the 1920s

They probably have 6 kids each. This is now the size of high school girls and women in their 20s

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I hate what Nicole has done to her face, I don't think it is an improvement on what natural aging would have done especially since she is so fair and stays out of the sun. She would have done better to choose the path of Helen Mirren and Judi Dench, et al.

As to her weight in those photos - it's insane that anyone is calling her too thin or anorectic. She has plenty of muscle and fat pad over it in those photos.

Her body looks like mine did from my teens until my late 20s, before I allowed myself to surrender to stress and emotional eating and gained a ton like so many American women do today. If I still had the same body shape I did in my 20s now in my 50s, I would look and feel fantastic - just as Nicole does.

The bitter truth is that this board is full of overweight and obese women (and men) who hate what they've allowed to happen to their bodies through their own poor choices, and feel compelled to attack someone who put the effort in to stay in the healthy weight range for her height even as she aged into her middle 50s.

The only ugly and derangement going on here is from those posters, not Nicole Kidman.

And for the record - I've worked with eating disordered people for years. I know what anorexia looks like. Kidman is not that.

Just to add - the healthy approach would be to look at Kidman (or Aniston, or JLo, et al.) and say, clearly it is physiologically possible to stay lean and fit well into middle age and beyond, so I need to either accept wholeheartedly that I am choosing to be fat, or get off my ass, shut off the streaming service and the doom and judgment scrolling and get myself out for walks, weight training, and learning to eat a healthy nourishing diet while I nourish my mental crap with something other than food and alcohol.

Honestly shut up. Just stuff it.

First of all, these women were already better looking and thinner than the average person when they were young. They are starting out having won the genetic lottery in that regard. Talk about starting on third base. In addition, these women are *wealthy* and their JOB is *all about their appearance*. They have the money and help and time to spend on it that women with regular families and jobs simply do not have. Please do NOT put these women up as aspirational models for regular middle-aged women. Regular middle-aged women could be exercising in the way they need to for HEALTH and eating a balanced, healthful diet and still not have a chance to look like these women due to genetics, time, money etc etc.

And you know what? That is just fine.

Not to mention what most of them are doing to their faces. JLo must have the best surgeon, because with her aside, so many of these women are starting to look like aliens. I don't want those types of faces to become normalized. Women should be allowed to age normally. It's just the next chapter in the beauty industry trying to suck women dry of as much money as possible by continuing to feed us products and procedures we don't need in pursuit of "endless youth" that is not attainable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I hate what Nicole has done to her face, I don't think it is an improvement on what natural aging would have done especially since she is so fair and stays out of the sun. She would have done better to choose the path of Helen Mirren and Judi Dench, et al.

As to her weight in those photos - it's insane that anyone is calling her too thin or anorectic. She has plenty of muscle and fat pad over it in those photos.

Her body looks like mine did from my teens until my late 20s, before I allowed myself to surrender to stress and emotional eating and gained a ton like so many American women do today. If I still had the same body shape I did in my 20s now in my 50s, I would look and feel fantastic - just as Nicole does.

The bitter truth is that this board is full of overweight and obese women (and men) who hate what they've allowed to happen to their bodies through their own poor choices, and feel compelled to attack someone who put the effort in to stay in the healthy weight range for her height even as she aged into her middle 50s.

The only ugly and derangement going on here is from those posters, not Nicole Kidman.

And for the record - I've worked with eating disordered people for years. I know what anorexia looks like. Kidman is not that.

Just to add - the healthy approach would be to look at Kidman (or Aniston, or JLo, et al.) and say, clearly it is physiologically possible to stay lean and fit well into middle age and beyond, so I need to either accept wholeheartedly that I am choosing to be fat, or get off my ass, shut off the streaming service and the doom and judgment scrolling and get myself out for walks, weight training, and learning to eat a healthy nourishing diet while I nourish my mental crap with something other than food and alcohol.

Honestly shut up. Just stuff it.

First of all, these women were already better looking and thinner than the average person when they were young. They are starting out having won the genetic lottery in that regard. Talk about starting on third base. In addition, these women are *wealthy* and their JOB is *all about their appearance*. They have the money and help and time to spend on it that women with regular families and jobs simply do not have. Please do NOT put these women up as aspirational models for regular middle-aged women. Regular middle-aged women could be exercising in the way they need to for HEALTH and eating a balanced, healthful diet and still not have a chance to look like these women due to genetics, time, money etc etc.

And you know what? That is just fine.

Not to mention what most of them are doing to their faces. JLo must have the best surgeon, because with her aside, so many of these women are starting to look like aliens. I don't want those types of faces to become normalized. Women should be allowed to age normally. It's just the next chapter in the beauty industry trying to suck women dry of as much money as possible by continuing to feed us products and procedures we don't need in pursuit of "endless youth" that is not attainable.

They already are

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NK looks slender and healthy, this discussion is ridiculous.
10 days ago:

I'm just going to keep reposting this photo (I did not post it the first time) after every single nasty critical concern troll post about NK's weight.

She is nothing but healthy and you ladies have mental health issues.

I have to agree. She looks fine. I see a lot of old pictures from the 1920+ on my Fb newsfeed and women used to be thin. This was how average 20-30 something women looked. Granted, at 50 they weren’t quite as thin, but still WAY thinner than anything I see in public now.

Women her age in the 1920s

Female life expectancy in 1925 was 60yrs, no wonder they looked like this. Amazing how far we've come in just 100 years. NK is a naturally slim person, the amount of jealousy disguised as concern on this thread is amusing.

Nah. Her knobby knees are amusing!

Better than elephant knees, that's for sure!

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Anonymous wrote:The amount of weight and body shaming on this 6 pages long thread is disgusting. I dare someone to post a thread shaming an overweight actress/singer/performer. It would be taken down immediately.

+1, and it's amazing to me how the body shaming takes the exact same form as it would if the person in question was overweight. It's the concern trolling "oh I'm just worried about her health" BS. No you are not. You hate her body because it provokes some kind of shame response in YOU.

I don't know how Hollywood actress of any size deal with this amount of scrutiny and criticism. I've been body shamed before (what woman hasn't) but the relentlessness of this is so disturbing. I don't even care about Nicole Kidman really! But it's so gross to encounter so many people (likely mostly women) scrutinizing another woman's body in this detail and with such nasty, critical tone.

It really does not have to be a nasty critical tone though. She's a high profile person and chooses to be, so she becomes a visible figure in the culture and therefore people notice and share impressions. Some are harsher than others. Some people love her, some find her over-rated. Some find her gorgeous, some find her emaciated. That's part of the price of celebrity.

People also intuitively experience natural body changes as they age. When someone like kidman portrays both little change over time in the body or alternately, significant facial changes that are often shifting, people notice. Both are extremes and she becomes an outlier. She wants to stand out evidenced by her numerous product campaigns So sometimes it's received well and sometimes it's not We are scanning each other all the time, it's inherent in being human.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NK looks slender and healthy, this discussion is ridiculous.
10 days ago:

I'm just going to keep reposting this photo (I did not post it the first time) after every single nasty critical concern troll post about NK's weight.

She is nothing but healthy and you ladies have mental health issues.

I have to agree. She looks fine. I see a lot of old pictures from the 1920+ on my Fb newsfeed and women used to be thin. This was how average 20-30 something women looked. Granted, at 50 they weren’t quite as thin, but still WAY thinner than anything I see in public now.

Women her age in the 1920s

Female life expectancy in 1925 was 60yrs, no wonder they looked like this. Amazing how far we've come in just 100 years. NK is a naturally slim person, the amount of jealousy disguised as concern on this thread is amusing.

No, we're just tired of the "everyone was thin throughout history" bs.
I have a whole album full of family photos from the 1900s to the present which state otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NK looks slender and healthy, this discussion is ridiculous.
10 days ago:

I'm just going to keep reposting this photo (I did not post it the first time) after every single nasty critical concern troll post about NK's weight.

She is nothing but healthy and you ladies have mental health issues.

I have to agree. She looks fine. I see a lot of old pictures from the 1920+ on my Fb newsfeed and women used to be thin. This was how average 20-30 something women looked. Granted, at 50 they weren’t quite as thin, but still WAY thinner than anything I see in public now.

Women her age in the 1920s

Female life expectancy in 1925 was 60yrs, no wonder they looked like this. Amazing how far we've come in just 100 years. NK is a naturally slim person, the amount of jealousy disguised as concern on this thread is amusing.

No, we're just tired of the "everyone was thin throughout history" bs.
I have a whole album full of family photos from the 1900s to the present which state otherwise.

She’s also extremely tall which makes her look very thin. I think she has a 24 inch waist and that looks very small on a 6 foot woman.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Very strange looking

It’s the filler in the cheeks. It never helps.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Mostly she looks skinny, but healthy, but I have to admit she looks like a bobble head doll in the photo where she’s wearing a tie-dye t-shirt.

She looks anorexic in that picture.

Thin-shaming.

She's much healthier than overweight people.

It's not true. When it comes to surviving illnesses/cancer etc it is disadvantageous to be thin. Go read. Slightly overweight people actually fare better.

Fact. It’s called the “obesity paradox.” Especially as you age, a person who is somewhat overweight has a greater life expectancy than a normal weight or thin person.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10096985/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Very strange looking

It’s the filler in the cheeks. It never helps.

Filler should be illegal, especially in the cheeks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Very strange looking

It’s the filler in the cheeks. It never helps.

Filler should be illegal, especially in the cheeks.

She looks much more natural and Healthy in her new show "Ex Pats"

[Anonymous]

There is such thing as too thin and there is a such thing as too heavy. So, by saying, she is too thin it is not body shaming anyone. Just as you may say, someone is overweight and it’s not healthy. It’s obvious she’s underweight, but that’s for her to be concerned about. And a size 10 may be normal for some people. It depends on how you built and how tall you are everyone does not have the same frame, but a size 30 it’s not no and a size 0 for someone almost 6 feet is not normal.

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A lot of women after 50 have legs skinnier than they need to be, mostly due to menopause and osteopenia. Judging by her muscle distribution, she does more upper body workout. Her legs are way too skinny to be called slender and she does exibit signs of post-menopausal lack of musculature in her extremities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mostly she looks skinny, but healthy, but I have to admit she looks like a bobble head doll in the photo where she’s wearing a tie-dye t-shirt.

She looks anorexic in that picture.

Thin-shaming.

She's much healthier than overweight people.

It's not true. When it comes to surviving illnesses/cancer etc it is disadvantageous to be thin. Go read. Slightly overweight people actually fare better.

Fact. It’s called the “obesity paradox.” Especially as you age, a person who is somewhat overweight has a greater life expectancy than a normal weight or thin person.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10096985/

I for one am not interesting in living longer if I look like a land whale.