The Internet Movie Database has the latest dispatch from the War on Realistic Body Types:
Buxom screen star Liv Tyler is risking her Hollywood career - by refusing to lose weight. The 26-year-old has been told by movie bosses she risks missing out on top film roles unless she reduces the size of her shapely figure. But Liv - who trimmed to a svelte 57 kilograms for her part as heroine Arwen in the "Lord Of The Rings" trilogy, before piling 13 kilograms back on after shooting wrapped - insists she is happy with her weight and doesn't want to diet.
I'm all for Ms. Tyler's stance, especially if it kills any chance for a follow-up to "Armageddon."
70 kg = 154 lbs. Tyler's 5' 10" tall. That someone with those dimensions should feel pressured to diet or can be referred to as "buxom" says more about Hollywood's idiotic standards than anything I'd be capable of writing.
In the meantime, keep your eyes peeled for Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Connelly, and Lara Flynn Boyle in "Charlies Angels 3: Back to Bergen-Belsen."
Body fat is there for a reason. And a woman with no ass gets no play in my ride; never has, never will. Big picture, so as long as a woman is healthy and happy with her self, nothing else should matter.
The key word there is "healthy," however. Because on the otherside of the spectrum obesity is neither healthy, nor attractive. (Well, not in my opinion at least). While I am all in favor of allowing a more "classical" (i.e., realisitic without requiring cosmetic surgery) definition of female beauty to permiate Western film and television, America (and Houston especially) is too damned fat. (Pete has blogged on this subject before, in connection with the lawsuits against fast food companies). Woman (and men) shouldn't feel bad if they refuse to conform to the media's misguided notion of beauty. But on the other hand, that should be carte blanche to let ourselves go, either.
My whole feeling on this is colored by the fact that when I was at my skinniest and getting the most compliments from people, I was also ill and throwing up regularly. Kind of like bulimia, but without the intentional part. I got down to about an equivalent weight for my height as the skinny weight for Liv Tyler.
I know the camera adds 10 lbs, but isn't that what Photoshop and computer modeling are for?
Wait....when did 'buxom' become a bad thing to be?
*ding, ding, ding*
I find normal-sized women much sexier than the concentration camp variety. Boy, is Liv Tyler hot.