Fatten up a random female celebrity

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As some people are naturally skinny and telling someone to "fatten up" is offensive. Not to mention how discussions like these are biased since no one would make a thread like "put a celebrity on a diet" as OneStepBeyond said. Weight is nobody else's business but the person whom the weight belongs to.

I don't know who the "her" is that you're referring to, but there is such a thing as bulimia.

Loads of half-starved celebs deliberately carry hamburgers around and allow themselves to be snapped tucking into French fries to try and "prove" that they don't have issues with food - but who's to say they're not then going away and vomiting them back up?



To all the people who are taking offence: this thread doesn't appear to be an attack nor a criticism against naturally skinny people. Naturally skinny people generally have that nice healthy glow about them, and there's just something about them. You can tell they're meant to be that slim, and they look good that way. This is in contrast to the people who are NOT naturally skinny, but who are either anorexic or bullimic (or both). There's just something about them, too. They have an unhealthy glow. No matter how much they get their agents to deny it, they're ill. Very very ill.

I'd like to see Angelina Jolie back somewhere near a healthy weight, for one!

It's offensive ESPECIALLY if they have an eating disorder. Telling someone to eat a burger won't solve it. In the same way an overweight person won't magically become skinny if you tell them to stop eating cake.

Now this is just bitchy CR, no need to take your weight insecurities out on other people.

I am not "telling someone to eat a burger." Those are your words, so please do not put words into others' mouths that they have never spoken.

All I said was:



How she accomplishes it would be entirely up to her, but I see nothing "offensive" in wishing for an undernourished woman to become more nourished.

I don't need anyone to talk down to me and explain eating disorders to me - I have a sibling who is bulimic and a lost friend who was anorexic, so I am not stupid enough to think that Angelina is going to read this thread and have a lighbulb moment. My wish for her to gain more weight is entirely hypothetical. But, yes, the simple solution for anorexic people is to eat more, not less. It's how to make them see that before they end up killing themselves that's the problem.

I know you didn't say that but this is what the whole thread is about and I object to that, not to what you said. I'm glad you know that there are no "simple" solutions when weight is concerned. I just happen to think that someone's weight is something that shouldn't really be discussed in the first place, as a lot of people have issues with it.

I'm sorry about your sibling and your friend, I am a (recovering) bulimic myself so I know how hard that must be

For the first time ever (it feels like) I find this thread very offensive. (I don't think it was CR's intent)

If no one spoke up about this, I would have kept my mouth shut fearing I would make myself look stupid because I am aware there are people out there who are too skinny because they're underweight. Eating disorders anyone but I still would find this offensive because some people are just naturally skinny and don't have an eating disorder.

I'm glad to hear you are in recovery.

Perhaps you object to people's impatient, simplistic view of what they perceive to be the solution "(just eat a burger already!") because you know that there's more behind it, but try and remember that not everyone has first-hand experience of eating disorders. I'm sure their motivation for saying it is good (they want happy, healthy role models) even if what they're saying comes across as ignorant.

You may not want a certain thing to be discussed because people have an issue with it, but if we all applied that rule to everything, then for every single thread started on this forum, someone would come storming in screeching "stop! This topic offends me!" For everything out there, there will be someone who has a trauma or a phobia or a sore spot about it. Rather than demanding that everyone else be censored just to please them, surely they should just go away and read a different thread?

I have a phobia that is unique that stems from something awful that happened to me in my childhood. Does this phobia mean I should storm into any future threads on this forum concerning my phobia and demand that they be locked? No. That would be unreasonable.

This thread is obviously meant to be a light-hearted, tongue-in-cheek dig at semi-starving celebrities, not an in-depth discussion of eating disorders, so let's get it back on topic again by declaring that Angelina Jolie is far too skinny for her own good!

I don't think the intent behind this thread was light-hearted and my objection is not because it offends me due to my own experiences, but because of the double standard in weight-related discussions. It's alright to tell someone to "fatten up" but it isn't alright to tell someone to lose weight because they're fat.

Yes, some people are naturally skinny. And what ticks me off the most is that that's the excuse the anorexic celebs all try to pull out of the bag and command their agents to issue as a statement to the press: "X does not have an eating disorder. X has always been naturally skinny."

That's even when we have been monitoring their gradual decline in weight and any old Google search will pull up pics of their younger self looking far more healthy. It ticks me off, because it makes the people who are genuinely naturally skinny come under suspicion of being anorexic when they're not.

I wish the blooming celebs would just all stop lying. We're not daft. We have eyes. It's a lot like when they spend years denying they use Botox, and then finally admit that - shock, horror - they've been doing it for years.

No! Really?

So you did have anorexia and you did use Botox and those bags of silocone planted into your skeletal frame weren't really real after all?

Well, blow me.

It's obvious that the OP's intentions were not malicious but due to the controversy and hurt feelings it created I'm locking this one.