CW Network Is Trying To Bring The Hyper Skinny Model Back?
Come on! Enough of this! How many more complexes can we pass onto our children?
Entertainment Weekly is doing an expose on networks and their casting agendas for Fall programing. AND guess who gets a big FAIL? Rumer has it the CW network is enouraging the promotion of super skinny models in its latest line up.
One casting agent who works frequently with The CW turns a critical eye on the network itself. “I know in discussions at ABC and CBS that ‘too skinny’ is no good. They talk about it as a minus point,” says the agent.
“But at The CW it’s a different story. They’re trying to pull in the Gossip Girl audience and that’s the image: hyper-skinny models.”
On the new 90210, it is being reported that no one weighs more than 110 pounds and a memo even went around to ensure it stood that way. (This is being denied by reps by the way)
What do you think? Are actresses on today's teen dramas too skinny? Should something be done about it? Or it is just... Hollywood.
Most shows on CW are okay. Gossip Girl isn't too bad. Supernatural and Smallville are pretty good. I think most of the actresses look healthy, I can't see their bones poking out. But 90210 is rediculous.
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that girl in the red is FREAKING ME OUT.
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well then, if this is true they need to dump Shannen D, Jennie Garth and not let Tori on. I have only seen about 10 minutes of the show, and it's awful. it's a sad representation of what it used to be. and the spoiled rich girl chick with the curly hair - fug
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Teen viewers think that being skinny is a plus because their TV shows all have characters with lives they envy while having a teeny tiny frame. Maybe if all the "cool, popular, beautiful" characters started to look like healthy teenagers instead of over starved 30 year olds, body perception would change. If I was 15 and watching a show like Gossip Girls, and the main character was a rich, beautiful, popular girl that all the guys wanted to be with, but she looked like she was healthy, I would still want to be like her. Teenagers want characters either with lives they can fantasize about, or with situations they can identify with. If we try to turn their idolized characters into healthy bodies without taking away the glamor, maybe we can get through to them that thin isn't everything.
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actually the girls from gossip girl are pretty healthy looking. blake lively and leighton meester both are gorgeous, but not "model thin."
Sorry to say but 80% of Americans are OVERWEIGHT. People need to watch what they eat and we are the only country that criticize anyone that is skinny. Look at Europe they eat healthy and EXERCISE to stay fit. I'm not saying you need to look anorexic but stay in shape and be healthy not over weight and FAT. Its gross and we have so many health issues its not funny. People that say that diets dont work for them they are different. BS they can lose the weight if they eat right but once they lose the weight they go back to their eating habits and gain it all back and think why is that??? DUHHHHHHHH If you have surgery you CANNOT cheat and over eat and WOW people lose weight. American's need to wake up and start getting healthy and learn to cook instead of eating out ALL the time its F gross.
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Ummm yea really. You should get your facts straight before posting bs like that.
Those are the facts. Have you not heard how many Americans are overweight because they eat out all the time and are too lazy to work out!
"A new survey by the NPD Group, a leading market research firm based in Rosemont, Ill., shows that about 62% of adults and 34% of children are overweight or obese, a percentage that has been virtually the same since 2001, says NPD vice president Harry Balzer"
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Uhh. We're NOT the only country calling people too skinny. Do some research, sweetheart. We're ALSO not the fattest country. Again, do some research. Europe's got p-l-e-n-t-y of fat people.
The only girls I notice that are too thin are on 90210. Oh and the little sister, I think her name is Jen, on Gossip Girl. She's too thin.
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The girls on Gossip are thin but not super thin as the girls on 90210.
All the girls are extremely thin. Even the one that plays the mother role (the one in the red) is really thin.
The only ones close to looking healthy on the show is Lori Loughlin & Shannon Dorothy.
i love when people use the anonymous tag to say ridiculous things. these girls happen to look like a tape worm away from death.
We are the fattest country I did research. Look at kids that are not even 10 years old and they are over weight. ITS F GROSS and disturbing. AGAIN I'm NOT saying you have to be rail THIN just HEALTHY and NOT OVER WEIGHT. Everyone's body is different and their bones are different. So people that are SKINNY and get Sh*t for it are from people that cant get over the fact they look the way they do they automatically think they starve or do whatever else. SWEETHEART give me a F break........
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http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2008/06/20/Australia_now_fattest_country_study_says/UPI-23231213998709/
Australia is the fattest. Sweetheart.
well still "sweetheart" our country does have ALOT of OBESITY and fat asses who just eat mcdonalds all day and dont work out! so f off you loser!
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woohoo who whizzed on your parade? calm down sweetheart. and learn to spell. oh and it's not only fat girls eating at mcdonald's and not working out. loser.
I am calm "sweetheart!" Learn to begin each sentence with a capital letter, then maybe just maybe you can talk! You only get ONE body, treat it right. Work out, eat HEALTHY!!!
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Oh yeah, here's another one. We're #9.
http://www.forbes.com/forbeslife/2007/02/07/worlds-fattest-countries-forbeslife-cx_ls_0208worldfat_2.html
you know what? some people are just slender and i'm sick and tired of all the weight-watcher mudslingers.
i find it distasteful that it is okay to get on the case of a slim person and make comments about their weight, but it is not okay to get on the case of larger person and make comments about their weight. it is unthinkable to go to someone who is large and say, "damn! do you just eat everything?!!"
but it is quite okay to go to a slender person and say, "good grief, eat a sandwich already!"
or... "look at you! you're so skinny!"
don't do that. DONT. its rude.
the debate is old. old. old.
people can be big and healthy. people can be slim and healthy. not all slim people are unhealthy! and slim can be just as beautiful as big. no one is better than the other.
the entertainment industry is a nasty business with something to sell, that is all. are we all still so stupid that we're going to let an industry ruin our own self-esteem? come on.
are we not being encouraging towards our children to teach them that what they see in the regurgitated media is not real?
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its horrible! i am a grown woman & it depresses me. i should know better than to fall victim to the i am so fat & gross & ugly dialogue because i dont look like a 100lb perfect celeb, but its challenging in this day & age. its not so much that so many of us are overweight, its that these hollywood types are so underweight & the media makes people feel ugly or weak or insignificant for not looking like them. there are photos of some hollywood skinny minnies out there at higher weights, so lots of them are NOT naturally pin thin like many would like to believe.
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OMG Anonymous!! fat people get dogged on ALL the time!! in reality, on blogs, in hollywood, everywhere. its not right to make fun of anyone & too fat is unhealthy just like too skinny is unhealthy, but i dont buy for a second that universally it seems okay for people to get on the case of thin people to eat a sandwich, but it not okay to tell a fat person to lay off the treats. fat people are mocked all the time.
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okay. i see your point and appreciate your reminder that there are two sides to the very same coin. perhaps there is no real way to tell who gets flamed more - but the fact that people can be so blatantly rude (whether you're slim or not) is not acceptable.
no one should comment to anyone on their weight, unless it's a doctor trying to advise you about your health. how's that?
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i think that is a perfect reply, actually. there are two sides to everything. I am one that thinks someone can never be too thin. I think thin is attractive. But for any of my friends i don't see weight on them. I notice it more on my tv and in movies. It's weird, i never judge "real" people. I always seem to judge the ones pushed at me.
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Way too skinny. There are SOME girls who are just naturally twig-thin. But not THIS many. Watch old episodes of Melrose Place, Beverly Hills 90210, Saved By the Bell, etc..the girls were not skin & bones like this. They were just healthy and normal most of the time. It's so gross nowadays.
I'm so sick of hearing people ridicule skinny girls. Too skinny for what? Your taste? Who cares what your taste is...that has nothing to do with anything. And no one cares about their health...this is just another reason to pick apart young women who aren't living up to the new standard.
All you shouting how disgusting fat people are are probably fat yourselves. I for one don't watch t.v. and my girls don't have any superficial make believe characters as role models. It's ridiculous that you people think there shouldn't be any skinny or fat or whatever's on t.v. Why don't you be a parent instead of letting the t.v. do it for you?
First of all, anyone who posts here with a "name" is just as anonymous as the next person (after all, you're probably not using your real name, and we don't know anything about you), so don't go there. Second, America is a VERY fat country, deny it all you want, but it's true. And why get so defensive about it? Just go to any mall, amusement park, etc and do some people-watching. You'll see very few thin people. I agree that it's ok to bash skinny girls, but no one better even utter the word "overweight" around here. Something else interesting: we(society) never really analyze men the way we do women. Men can be fat, skinny, whatever, and we don't even comment on it. Weird.
its NOT ok to bash skinny girls...wtf. people come in all shapes and sizes! foolish baboon!
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I find it really sad that 'skinny' is considered to be the ideal. I mean, some girls are naturally very thin, and thats fine, but there are all sorts of shapes and sizes, and thats normal. This should also be fine. I know its a cliche to say that as long as the person is happy, but its true. I'm tired of this whole hollywood propaganda of 'must be skinny', why not 'must be healthy'???
Don't by into it girls, it BS.
no one is forcing anyone to be skinny or fat. its your own choice! there are always going to be people that are extremely well groomed and watch their weight. i will never ever allow myself to be fat. im sorry thats the truth. why would i want to be fat???? i certainly dont starve myslef. i put healthy and good for you foods into my body. i dont want to comtaninate my body with coloestral and bad fats. you have your body for the rest of your life...treat it right!!!
Every body is different and I know I've ALWAYS been thin. Both parents are thin and my dad eats like a horse and has always been thin. I'm 5'6 and the MOST I ever weighed was 110. My body frame is tiny and my bone structure is very small, I couldnt imagine putting on 10 or 15 more pounds I wouldnt look right. I cant change the fact that I'm 5'6 but I'm healthy and its in my genes. I'm 30 years old and I'm waiting for my body to start adding more pounds but no matter what I do and eat its a struggle. So yes, some people look way unhealthy but it my be genetics or they may have medical issues or food allergies but we judge skinny people more then we do over weight people and that is wrong. No one will look at someone over weight and tell them "hey maybe you shouldnt be eating that" but skinny people get comments all the time. Fair? I dont think so. Eat healthy and organic and maybe you will see results.
some people are naturally thin. some people are naturally not. in fact, 97% of the world is naturally NOT stick thin. what you fail to realize is that some people do eat right and exercise. perhaps their medicine causes them to gain way. maybe if it were safer in my area people would go outside and walk more. some people have slow metabolisms. you're skinny...so what? i don't care. now excuse me while i go eat lunch.
I personally think they look good. Ok, so they're skinny - But not like anorexic skinny.
too skinny! love that dress tho .. looks like one of kIra Plastinina's ... check her site, new stuff up .. www.KiraPlastinina.us
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