Here’s another article about the epidemic of “too thin” that has taken grip of hollywood’s leading ladies.+�-� This has bothered me for some time now and I have stated here several times that this extreme thin look is NOT BEAUTIFUL…it’s just not.+�-� I mean really, who are they kidding with skin and bones, who finds that beautiful, feminine or+�-�sexy?+�-� This is just plain fantasy…one that has been propogated by hollywood…I know not by whom, but clearly someone that doesn’t know what makes women beautiful.+�-�+�-�

Heads that are too big for their bodies, arms the size of noodles and ribs that literally appear to be jumping right out of the skin is just not attractive.+�-� Not beauitiful.+�-� period!+�-� These are signs of eating disorders and possible body dysmorphic disoder that prevents the afflicted from seeing themselves as they truly appear to others.+�-� Worse yet, it sends a very bad message to our pre-teen and teens that this is OK, that this is the fashion, that this is acceptable.+�-� It’s not of these but rather a serious health risk and I wish it would be recognized and discussed as such.+�-� Francis R Palmer, III

Extreme Measures
Drastic thinness has become the reigning beauty ideal from runways to the red carpet +�G��G�� and it’s having an alarming effect on girls everywhere

Thursday Sep 28, 2006 6:00am EST

In 2002, fresh off her Blue Crush breakthrough, the actress +�G��G�� a champion equestrian as a teen +�G��G�� appeared slender but fit. As a leading lady at a premiere in June, her face, bust, arms and waist were notably thinner in 2006.
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At a party for designer Zac Posen in New York City on Sept. 14, the scene was fashion meets young Hollywood. There was Kate Bosworth looking whisper-thin in a black dress, dancing to Justin Timberlake’s “SexyBack” and smoking cigarettes. There was the always minuscule Mary-Kate Olsen, who stopped by just long enough to puff a cigarette and pose for a few photos. At the center was Posen, 25, a current red-carpet favorite who has dressed a range of young actresses, from the plus-size Marissa Jaret Winokur to the sub-zero Bosworth. “I like women’s bodies +�G��G�� I emphasize them in my clothing,” Posen told PEOPLE on Sept. 21. “Healthy women are much sexier.”

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