Ye Olde Double Standard
Sorry to devolve into TMZ territory for a minute, but I was just struck by this article about Leonardo DiCaprio being asked to lose weight for a role. Imagine for a second that the article is talking about a female starlet who happens to be 30 pounds heavier than a director wants her to be. I bet we wouldn't be hearing about how she's beautiful "at any weight" and how after the shoot she will hopefully gain back to a "healthy" weight. It would either be about how rightly ashamed she is that her body displeases someone or how she foolishly chooses to love her repugnant fat body as it is. Silly women, with their misguided self-love.
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Posted by CarrieP on August 28, 2009
Looking at his physique in his "bad" picture I have a hard time even seeing how he could be classified as "fat" or "doughy." And I do think 30 pounds is excessive; this whole "you need six inches of your thighs" schtick from agents and producers is disturbing, completely disconnected with how the human body works and it needs to stop because it's truly dangerous.
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