Meryl Davis: Is it the Make-up?

[Anonymous]

She looks. like. a. !DINO!

[Anonymous]

A really vicious one at that.

[Anonymous]

She is starving herself to death and looks horrible. Her appearance screams untreated mental health issues! Resembles Karen Carpenter right before she dropped dead of organ failure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She is starving herself to death and looks horrible. Her appearance screams untreated mental health issues! Resembles Karen Carpenter right before she dropped dead of organ failure.

Seriously?

[Anonymous]

Yes, she needs treatment for her eating disorder.

[Anonymous]

The both seem like nice people but appear goofy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She is starving herself to death and looks horrible. Her appearance screams untreated mental health issues! Resembles Karen Carpenter right before she dropped dead of organ failure.

Now you're just being ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Many of these posts are a bit extreme. I posted much earlier, wondering about the make-up, too. (I think she is attractive and athletic, but her make-up at the Olympics just seemed strange.)

Anyway, I just saw her on Dancing with the Stars. When she met her partner, her make-up looked awful again. So overdone. For the actual performance her make-up looked fine. My thought is - does she do her own make-up for ice dancing performances? Presumably she did it herself to meet her dance partner for the show. But when a professional does it, she looks great. Suffice to say, I am wondering if this experience on the show will make her realize how to apply make-up properly....or at least what NOT to do.

[Anonymous]

I just spotted a recent interview from Ellen with both Charlie and Meryl, and they are fun to watch and listen to, and both look nice:

[Anonymous]

She's an Olympic athlete. I'm sure she eats, come on

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many of these posts are a bit extreme. I posted much earlier, wondering about the make-up, too. (I think she is attractive and athletic, but her make-up at the Olympics just seemed strange.)

Anyway, I just saw her on Dancing with the Stars. When she met her partner, her make-up looked awful again. So overdone. For the actual performance her make-up looked fine. My thought is - does she do her own make-up for ice dancing performances? Presumably she did it herself to meet her dance partner for the show. But when a professional does it, she looks great. Suffice to say, I am wondering if this experience on the show will make her realize how to apply make-up properly....or at least what NOT to do.

I think it's the makeup. She should ditch the pink and purple eye shadow. It doesn't work for her.

[Anonymous]

One can see through her bones. There is no doubt that she has some kind of eating disorder. She is quite emaciated.

[Anonymous]

She probably had to keep her weight down for the sport, like gymnasts. She has that look about her, like her development was stunted because she was underweight.

[Anonymous]

I think she's a tremendous athlete, very well-spoken and clearly, highly driven. I too thought she wasn't underweight at all -- it's a very lean and toned physique.

Then I saw her last night on DWTS. I could see her sternum, clear as day. It hurt to look at. That's underweight. And it's also not "that's just how her body is."

I still think she's really pretty and exceptional in her field, but seeing her sternum was disturbing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would not be surprised that down the road you hear that she checks into a rehab for some type of eating disorder

If you knew anything about skating, you'd know that it is highly unlikely that she could skate with the power she does while nursing an eating disorder on the side.

You know, that's what I always thought, but several elite skaters have admitted disordered eating during their competitive careers. Tanith Belbin, a former ice dancer, had a lot of issues until a new coach encouraged her to get help and gain weight (I don't have a source to link offhand but you can Google it). Meryl looks healthy to me and stronger than Tanith ever did, but you just never know.