Skinny VS Curvy

Left: Girls Aloud’s Nadine Coyle in 2003 (then aged 18), right after joining the group.

Right: Nadine these days (now 24).

It’s pretty hard to tell it’s the same girl, especially since she her face’s lost its roundness. Nadine’s been getting a lot of press these days – and the main point of focus are her very thin legs. A while back, she had this to share about her long limbs:

‘I’d look at them sometimes and want to throw up. They’re like tooth picks. ‘I don’t have the same hang-ups about them now. But I still don’t think they’re great.’

Attempting to put an end to the ED-related rumors, Nadine’s manager had this to say:

‘She’s probably in the best shape she’s ever been in spiritually, mentally, physically. She’s never been better.’

Hmm… Remember that story that said that Nadine is weighing her food on a scale (and sending half of it back) when dining out at restaurants? Click here to read it!

Then see some more recent shots after the jump!

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OK, the title needs a little explanation. First, I meant to say “photoshopped until a skeletal, inhuman level”. More exactly, a few weeks ago, this Ralph Lauren ad popped online:

The model in the picture, Filippa Hamilton, does not look like that, she looks like in the first picture. No one looks like that. I tried and tried and failed to figure out what possessed the photoshopper to go till this extreme thinspiration-poster-child level.  The online response was clear: Ralph Lauren was wrong, the image was all wrong and the brand itself accepted that it was a “mistake” and apologized:

“After further investigation, we have learned that we are responsible for the poor imaging and retouching that resulted in a very distorted image of a woman’s body,” Polo Ralph Lauren admitted.

But the story goes on. Guess what? Filippa was just fired… for being “overweight” (even though her BMI is technically underweight). New York Daily News reports:

Ralph Lauren’s clothing company fired the model whose body looked emaciated in a touched-up ad because she weighed too much, the woman told the Daily News Tuesday.

Filippa Hamilton – whose hips appeared slimmer than her head in the recent altered ad – said her contract was terminated in April because she was too heavy.

“They fired me because they said I was overweight and I couldn’t fit in their clothes anymore,” she said.

The 5-foot-10, 120-pound stunner was amazed to see her body digitally distorted for Ralph Lauren Blue Label.

“I was shocked to see that super skinny girl with my face,” she told the Daily News. “It’s very sad, I think, that Ralph Lauren could do something like that.”

Hamilton, 23, worked for Ralph Lauren since about 2002 and considered the company like a second family – until she was bounced.

Then out of nowhere last week, the altered ad – which appeared only in Japan – caused a sensation and drew the ire of critics who thought it appeared sickly and unrealistic.

Polo Ralph Lauren said in a statement Tuesday night that Filippa is a “beautiful and healthy” woman but their relationship ended “as a result of her inability to meet the obligations under her contract with us.”

Hamilton’s lawyer, Geoffrey Menin, said the image is “gross distortion of how she really looks and which we fear will be extremely damaging to her.”

“I think they owe American women an apology, a big apology,” she said. “I’m very proud of what I look like, and I think a role model should look healthy.”

So what do you think about all this?

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Courtney Love has promised to put on weight after she was pictured looking frighteningly thin and gaunt in New York last week. The former Hole lead singer, who covered up her skeletal frame in a black and white coat during an outing in the city yesterday, says she has been ordered to start eating by her doctor who diagnosed her with malnutrition.

‘I know I’ve got too skinny,’ she says in a new interview. ‘I know I need to sort it out. I am going to put on 15lbs in one month… I do not have body dysmorphia. Seriously, I want to get fatter. You know, when I was 192lbs [13st 5lbs], I thought I looked hot!… [My doctor] gave me a massive shot of vitamins and told me to start eating,’ she revealed in the current issue of Grazia.

The 44-year-old yo-yo dieter is more than two stone below the recommend healthy weight for her height. Even she was taken aback by the scales after she stepped on to weigh herself during an interview with the magazine.

‘S***, I though I was like 130lbs [9st 2lbs], but I’m 118lbs [8st 4lbs] and I’m 5ft 10ins, that’s not good for someone my height,’ she told the reporter. She continued: ‘I need to start working out again. It’s the stress – you have no idea what it has been like these last few months. I need to get to the bottom of this fraud, I need answers.’

Source: The Daily Mail

… Or at least, that’s what the director of the Miss Australia peagant says. Right.

Radar Online Reports:

An Australian Miss Universe finalist, whose rail-thin appearance caused a stir as she pranced down the catwalk in a bikini, tells Good Morning America, she was singled out and victimized for her skinny appearance in the contest.

“I’ve never been anorexic or bulimic, I’ve never been malnourished or underfed,” Stephanie Naumoska said. “I live a healthy, active lifestyle.”

Critics, citing the model’s visible bones and ribcage, said Naumoska’s emaciated look was a danger to herself and those looking to emulate the her. A judge in the competition remarked he would have “wanted to go and feed her straightaway” if he was her daughter.

The 19-year-old brunette is at 5 feet, 10 inches tall and weighs 105 ponds with a body-mass index score, at 15.8, less than the 18 score she would need to be considered malnourished.

Naumoska said she wasn’t malnourished; she said that if she was, her hair and skin wouldn’t look as healthy as it does, and she wouldn’t have the energy to prepare for the grueling contests.

The director of the Miss Australia pageant said Naumoska’s Macedonian heritage was the reason for her appearance.

“The women do have long, lithe bodies and small bones,” Deborah Miller told UK Daily Mail last week. “It’s their body type, just as Asian girls tend to be rather small. She doesn’t have an eating disorder or anything like that. There’s nothing wrong with her.”

Here’s a beauty queen for you all: Miss Universe Australia Rachael Finch!

Brief description: Her arms look really thin (and really long, her legs are long as well), but she she also appears to be very toned.

How do you find Miss Australia?

And another detail: One of the contestants at Miss Australia was labeled as “malnourished” and “too bony” by specialists – her name is Stephanie Naumoska (19, pictured below), who weighs 108 lbs at 5′11” (49 kg, 1.80 m). The current Miss Australia, Rachael Finch, defended Stephanie, saying that she is “naturally thin”.

Here’s Stephanie (she really is extremely thin):

3 more pics of Miss Universe Australia Rachael Finch after the jump!

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