You’re not supposed to comment on women’s bodies. It’s offensive, invasive – sometimes even sexist. After all, no-one is commenting on the size of Leonardo DiCaprio or Timothée Chalamet on the Oscars red carpet. But after watching Hollywood’s sparkliest stars on Sunday night, it’s clear that it’s time to push past our self-imposed gag order and say the unsayable: celebrity women are scarily thin.
And it’s not just one or two obvious cases – almost every single woman who walked that red carpet was rail thin. While the couture gowns and dazzling diamonds were supposed to be the centre of attention, my focus was pulled to the display of jagged shoulders, hollow cheeks and spiky elbows. Nicole Kidman, Demi Moore, Emma Stone, Maude Apatow and Emma Chamberlain were just a handful of the women I noticed were noticeably thinner than they were a few years ago, when they were already very slim.
Even actors whom we’re used to seeing at a more average weight – Barbie Ferreira, Kathy Bates, Lizzo, Melissa McCarthy – walked the carpet (either at the Oscars or the famous Vanity Fair after party) looking thinner than before.
It’s difficult not to draw a line between this new trend for thinness and the rise of weight loss drugs. Ozempic and other GLP-1 injections are the norm these days, and not just in Hollywood, accepted as a legitimate way to drop the pounds and live an apparently healthier lifestyle. But what started as a drug for people whose weight was affecting their health has become a quick fix for skinny people to get even skinnier.
Even stars we’re used to seeing at a normal weight – like Barbie Ferreira – are looking skinner than usual (Photo: Penske Media via Getty Images)Take one look at the Oscars red carpet and it’s hard not to see it as a competition – that the stars are competing against one another to be the thinnest. We’ve always congratulated one another on losing weight, a culture that only serves to lift up thinness as a goal, as a prize to be won – just like an Oscar.
But how celebs are getting thin isn’t necessarily the problem. If anything, it’s a distraction from the bigger picture. I grew up in the early Noughties era of size 0 models, of Heat magazine’s circle of shame and of those terrifying pictures of Nicole Richie on the beach. Those images seeped into my brain via osmosis and warped my sense of what a normal body looked like. I – and I’m sure many other women of my generation – have been dealing with some level of body dysmorphia ever since.
Today’s celebrities aren’t just the perpetrators of the worrying thinness trend; they’re also the victims, which makes it impossible to blame them for perpetuating the problem. Coupled with the culture of silence around discussing women’s bodies, we find ourselves in a disturbing, dangerous catch-22.
It’s impossible to deny celebrities are skinnier than ever, risking another generation of women’s mental health. Hollywood might seem a million miles away, but when Emma Stone’s rib cage and Nicole Kidman’s tibia bones are visible on the front pages of our papers and plastered all over our social media feeds, the dangers of celebrity thinness suddenly become very close to home.
There’s no simple answer to solve this all too familiar problem and perhaps one day the pendulum will start to swing the other way. But for now, I’m certain of one thing – we can no longer be scared to talk about it.
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