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There are many celebrities who look very thin, sometimes even skeletal.
Stars who have been in the spotlight in recent times for their tiny frames include the likes of 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.
Role models
These women are slim, and are seen as role models by people who look up to them, especially impressionable young girls.
They have often been accused of promoting thinness and making it fashionable, thereby inspiring other people to look the same, but it is unfair to accuse them of promoting eating disorders.
Perhaps some of the stars mentioned above have eating disorders themselves, perhaps they don't. Some have even admitted to suffering from eating problems in the past, while others have felt it necessary to come out and say they do not have an eating disorder, as was recently the case with Keira Knightly.
Others are constantly fighting off accusations they have a problem with food and 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?
Healthy and happy?
There is no doubt some people are naturally very thin, 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. It's also possible they don't eat enough and workout to the extreme, in which case they risk doing damage to their health.
Many people do in fact believe that their lives would be better if only they could squeeze into those size 4 jeans. 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 a healthy body.
Trying desperately hard to be thin can help push people down the slippery slope to an eating disorder.
Thinness as a trend
The idea that body weight, shape and size can actually become a trend in the first place is somewhat bizarre. We are all different and nature has different ideas for all of us.
While extreme thinness appears to be a current trend among celebrities, this does not make it trendy. Copy their clothes, makeup, hair colours and haircuts, but don't try to be thinner than nature intended.