Skinny VS Curvy

Sharon Stone nearly ‘killed herself’ making ‘Casino’.

The actress didn’t eat for a week before filming a crucial scene because she was so desperate to impress director Martin Scorsese by looking ’skinny and out of it’.

Recalling her preparation for the role – which saw her nominated for the 1995 Best Actress Academy Award – Sharon said: ‘I nearly actually physically killed myself making ‘Casino’

‘We did the death scene on the last day because Scorsese knew I wanted to get just so completely skinny and out of it.

‘In the final week I didn’t eat, I didn’t do anything, I just made myself a complete wreck so that I could get skinny, skinny, skinny, skinny and down to nothing. I lost so much weight.’

Since she entered her 50s, Sharon is far more relaxed about her body and thinks she is getting sexier with every year.

The 51-year-old blonde star explained to Prestige magazine: ‘You should just be confident and comfortable and at ease and OK to be sexy in middle age as a woman. It’s fun. And not a big deal.

‘We should be able to appreciate that sensuality and sexuality go along with this motto of wisdom and intelligence and dignity and elegance as a goal.’

Source: MSN Entertainment

Ladies’ Home Journal has a piece on Valerie Beritnelli’s weight loss… and it goes like this:

Only two years ago, around the time she and rocker Eddie Van Halen divorced, 5-foot-4 Bertinelli weighed 172 pounds. She had a wardrobe heavy on puffy sleeves, elastic waistbands, and what she and her boyfriend, Tom Vitale, called “granny panties.” Now she’s a rock-solid 128 pounds with no plans to return to “dressing in drapes,” as she puts it. “The weight is off for good,” Bertinelli declares, shutting the closet behind her. “My stick-to-it number is 132 pounds. But if I hit 130 on the scale, it’s time to lay off the mozzarella and get my butt out for a serious run.” The highlight, though, is Bertinelli’s scramble to get into bikini shape for the whole country to see.

“There was no hiding behind Spanx for that one,” Bertinelli says of the swimsuit reveal for Jenny Craig last spring. “I was hesitant, but I was working out so friggin’ hard.” Her trainer had her walking up to 20,000 steps a day and she monitored every morsel on her way to a remarkable 123 pounds. Why a bikini? “I thought, ‘Why not show this body off?’” Bertinelli says. “I’m almost 50 and I haven’t felt this good about myself since I was 16.” The image of Bertinelli in a green two-piece that appeared on the cover of People last April was so jaw-dropping that bloggers tried to prove her head was secretly Photoshopped onto the body of a younger model. It was not.

Bertinelli heads downstairs and into a living room replete with stunning views up and down the coast. “There are a lot of ways to eat. If you use food for comfort, that’s not okay,” she says, curling up on an oversize sofa. “I’m Italian and food is love, food is family. But food also makes you a real fatty if you’re not careful.” She’s quick to admit she has no answers — only strategies — for what works for her: Stop eating when you’re full. Eat what you want (within reason) but in small portions. Don’t leave tempting foods lying around. “It’s a constant challenge,” she says. Asked what she has learned by watching the former Jenny Craig spokesperson Kirstie Alley gain back her weight, Bertinelli says, “I understand it. What woman doesn’t? I told her to come work out with me. You need support. Otherwise it’s ‘I’ll start tomorrow, then tomorrow,’ and tomorrow never comes.” “I’ve realized I’m more important than food is. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It’s about saying you deserve to be healthy. In no way have I perfected this eating thing and I don’t know that I ever will,” she says. “But life is about making progress. It’s not about perfection.”

So what do you guys think?

“It’s kind of great to be able to … harness my power as a sexual being I guess and to be able to be seen as a sexy person and not have to compromise who I am and what I stand for,” she said. “And being able to be considered sexy even though I wear a floor length lab coat in every episode, showing very little skin and spewing out medical terms all day.”

Olivia Wilde on her hotness.

Baywatch babe Nicole Eggert (37) has put on some weight since her lifeguard days. And since, just like any other Hollywood celeb, she received a lot of “fat” bombs from critics, Nicole decided to make a Funny or Die video on her weight gain.

Watch first and then we’ll talk!

First of all, Nicole is:

1. In a bikini that is 2 sizes too small and makes her look much heavier than she actually is.

2. Filmed from unflattering angles… while running… in a bikini. 3 big “oh oh’s”. And her legs are not jelly-like and covered in cellulite and lumps. They are thicker than they were 15 year ago, but in good shape.

3. Probably at a healthy weight.

4. A mom.

5. A beauty – and the fact that those guys would actually say “no, thank you / pass” is not very plausible.

6. Very brave for laughing off critics and making this movie.

So what do you guys think?

… even though she’s a size 6.

Life & Style reports:

Even though reality star Khloé Kardashian recently shed 25 pounds, bloggers were calling her a “monster beast,” “Kong,” “Bigfoot” and a “fat skunk” after she walked down the aisle in her fairy-tale Vera Wang wedding gown and tied the knot with Lamar Odom on Sept. 27.

And fellow reality stars added to the unfair ridicule. Supermodel Janice Dickinson attacked the star saying, “There’s no way she would become a fashion icon. Khloé looks like a heifer.” And Spencer Pratt recently said, “Khloé still needs to work out more. I recommend she go to theheidimontagworkout.com so she can get fantastic curves like my wife’s.”

But the feisty newlywed, who dropped from a size 10 to a 6, isn’t taking the comments laying down. “Everyone criticizes me about my weight all the time,” Khloé tells Life & Style. “It’s easy for me to be like some other girls in Hollywood — not eat and become anorexic — but thank goodness I am strong-willed and secure with myself.”

Self-confidence didn’t always come easy for the Kourtney & Khloé Take Miami star.

“When I was a chunky little 8-year-old and I had these two beautiful sisters, I’d wonder, why don’t I look like that?” Khloé remembers. “Now I hate it when people compare me to my sisters. Kourtney’s 5 feet, I’m 5-foot-10 and Kim is 5-foot-2. I will never look like them. No matter how skinny I am, that body will never be mine.”

Still, the attacks continue. “Khloé should be put out to pasture,” Janice Dickinson says. “She should be kept in the stables along with the rest of that family. I think she’s a little pig. The whole family is piglike.”

Comments like that once would have left Khloé in tears. But these days, she’s brimming with confidence thanks to her new healthy diet and fitness plan.

“Khloé’s in the best shape of her life, and millions of people would kill to look like her,” Kim told Life & Style as she was leaving STK restaurant in LA on Oct. 2. So even though Khloé was unfairly ridiculed on what was supposed to be the happiest day of her life, in the end she’s getting the last laugh: She has the perfect body and the perfect man.

“Way before, I was a size 10. Then I went to an 8, and now I’m a 6,” Khloé tells Life & Style. “I don’t think with my bone structure I could get much smaller than a 6. This is my body — and I love it.”

Whoa, those comments coming from Janice are pretty mean. And Spencer is funny, let’s all laugh, haha.

I’m no fan and I dislike the fact that these sisters talk so much about their weight (and pose oh-so-oftenly in bikinis), but being called “heifer” as much as Khloe does can’t be pleasant.

Serena Williams Gets Naked on the Cover of ESPN Magazine… and brings the quote(s) of the day:

‘My thighs… I think they’re too big,’ she has said. ‘And also my arms. I think they’re too muscular. They’re too thick.

‘Sometimes I look at myself in the mirror and am, like, I want to lose my inner thigh. I’ve got to do an hour of cardio today, or whatever. I try not to do it, but the insecurity comes back sometimes.

‘I want women to know that it’s okay. You can be whatever size you are, and you can be beautiful both inside and out.’

So we’re looking at a voluptuous, athletic and not-so-photoshopped woman on the cover of a magazine… wow, all these at once – it doesn’t happen very often.

For more body talk featuring Serena, click here!

Colombian pop star Shakira has laughed off reports that she recently went under the knife for a nose job.

The singer sparked surgery rumours after admitting that she visited a surgeon because she was unhappy with the size of her nose.

‘So many things going on in the world and yet some invent stories about me getting a nose job! Why would a she wolf (apparently the title of her new album) want a smaller nose?’ she posted on her Twitter.com homepage.

Source: Yahoo News

This is not the first time Shakira has talked about plastic surgery – here’s what she said a while back:

“A few years ago, I considered (plastic) surgery, breast augmentation, and all kinds of things. Maybe my eyebrows should be higher. Maybe my lips should be bigger. It was really making me bitter. I’d think I’m not going to look good for my fans! But eventually I said, “forget it” and I started accepting myself the way I am and realized that I’m just not perfect.”

OK, I’ll tell you what I think. I don’t know about the nose job, but she changed her hairstyle, make-up, eye-brows and lost some weight and these all changed her face.

However, I think that her nose is quite photoshopped in magazine spreads and on album covers (it’s shorter and narrower) and this might be the reason why the rumors started in the first place. Here’s an example:

… and another photoshopped one:

What do you think?

As you know, Jessica Simpson is working on a new reality show called The Price of Beauty – she went to Uganda, then came back and her father says that she is looking heavier (is she? I don’t see it) because they had to live in a “fattening hut”. Here’s the news from Us Weekly:

As she travels around the world filming her upcoming reality show The Price of Beauty, Jessica Simpson – who underwent criticism for her weight earlier this year – is learning that “beauty starts within,” her father Joe tells Usmagazine.com.

“She’s always scrutinized by the world and [it's great] to watch her go to other countries and see women talk about what is beautiful there,” he told Us Friday at a gala in Beverly Hills for the international charity Operation Smile. “We were just in Uganda, and a beauty ambassador [there] knew Jessica’s total story about her weight and blah, blah, blah. [She said] to Jessica that it’s about who you are inside, which is the message of our show.”

Asked if he has given his daughter, 29, any advice on how to handle the weight issue, Joe told Us, “I don’t have to tell her anything anymore. She’s wise.”

What can viewers expect?

Jessica “becomes a Geisha in Japan,” Joe told Us. “In Uganda, we sat in a fattening hut because, in Uganda … fat is beautiful. So the bigger you are, the more beautiful you are. She was with a girl who had been in a hut preparing for her wedding for two months and 25 days on a 5,000 calorie-a-day diet.”

Since we saw Scarlett yesterday and some of you were saying that she has gained some weight (back), this quote of her from Glamour Magazine is quite interesting – Here’s the whole body-related part:

Scarlett Johansson is over endless speculation about her weight.

“There was this rumor mill cranking out stories that I had lost 14 pounds — I could never lose 14 pounds,” the actress, 25, tells the November issue of Glamour. “I hate seeing these ridiculous articles where [tabloids] guess someone’s weight.

“I can’t look at somebody who is 6 feet tall and 120 pounds and say, I’m going to get that body. That’s just never going to happen,” she admits.

Johansson — who slimmed down to wear a lycra catsuit as the Black Widow in the Iron Man 2 sequel (out next spring) — has accepted her body, she says.

“You have to work with what you’ve got,” she says. But despite coming to terms with her figure, working the red carpet still makes her freak out. I have a tumultuous relationship with it because I love to get ready for the red carpet, but being on it is very uncomfortable. It’s so freakish and weird,” Johansson says. “I get flop sweats, dry mouth, heart palpitations, allover panic!”

More Scarlett in Glamour after the jump!

Source: Glamour Magazine

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OK, so first of all, here’s another photoshopped cover from Shape Magazine (at least Jennifer’s curves didn’t vanish in the process). And here’s what she says in People Magazine:

Nearly two years after was she was criticized for showing off some cellulite while at the beach in Hawaii, Jennifer Love Hewitt is savoring the best revenge of all – baring a new, toned body ready for a bikini.

But she admits that she still has insecurities about her figure.

“I’m a girl, after all!” the actress, 30, tells the October issue of Shape, out this week. “For the most part, yeah, I’m happy with my body, but there are days when I’m like, ‘Ugh! Really? Why is it so hard to fit into my jeans?’ That’s when I say to myself, ‘I look this way because I’m supposed to. If we all looked the same, we’d be boring.’ ”

Hewitt also thanks boyfriend Jamie Kennedy, whom she’s been dating for seven months, for her slimmer and healthier lifestyle

“He’s inspired me to improve my diet,” she says. “He has a salad with every meal, plus lots of fruit, fish, and vegetables.”

And she’s also been a good influence on him.

“Last summer we were in Monaco. Every morning we ran for 40 minutes through the streets of Monte Carlo,” she says. “It was an amazing way to see the city. Now when we travel, we try to explore the places by running.”

But there’s no beating the power of positive thinking.

“I fall asleep feeling beautiful,” she says. “Then, in the morning, before I leave the house, I say five things I love about myself, like ‘You have really pretty eyes.’ That way I can go out into the world with that little bit of extra confidence. It’s a feel-good protein shake in my back pocket in case someone messes with me that day.”

Remember when her boyfriend called her “pear ass”?

Source: People Magazine