The Trend of Skinny Celebrities
Some of the celebrities who have been in the spotlight for their tiny frames include Lara Flynn Boyle, Calista Flockhart, Mary Kate Olsen, Kate Bosworth, Hilary Duff, Lindsay Lohan, Keira Knightly, Teri Hatcher, Renee Zellweger and Nicole Kidman, while Victoria Beckham and Nicole Ritchie seem to be permanent fixtures on the front covers of magazines.
Celebrities as Role Models
Slim women celebrities are seen as role models by people who look up to them, especially impressionable young girls.
Celebrities have often been accused of promoting thinness and making it fashionable, and inspiring other people to look the same.
Perhaps some of the stars mentioned above have had eating disorders, and perhaps they haven't. Some have felt it necessary to make statements to confirm they do not have an eating disorder, such as Keira Knightly.
Some slim celebrities are constantly fighting off accusations they have a problem with food. They deny they ever work out, while insisting they 'eat like a horse' and that this is 'just their natural weight'. Perhaps this is true, but how many people can really say this and mean it?
Are Thin Celebrities Healthy and Happy?
There is no doubt some people are naturally very slim, but it is also very possible that people in the public eye are adopting any and every strategy they can to avoid food cravings and stay slim. Maybe they don't eat enough food and they workout to the extreme, in which case they risk doing damage to their health.
Many people believe their lives would be better if only they could squeeze into a pair of size four jeans. Unfortunately the truth is that skeletal frames, skinny arms, protruding collarbones, flat chests and twig-like legs do not make people happy, and do not make for healthy bodies.
Trying desperately hard to be thin can help push a person down the slippery slope to an eating disorder.
The Trend of Thinness
The idea that body weight, shape and size can actually become a trend in the first place is somewhat bizarre. People have different body types, and nature has different ideas for each individual person.
For many people, the lack of food and amount of exercise required in order to become 'thin' will be extremely damaging to their health.