Katie Holmes: You Can Never Be Too Thin?


How thin is thin enough in Hollywood? I ask because this is the cover of this week’s “Life & Style”:

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Questions: I haz dem.

First of all, HOW in god’s name is Katie Holmes not already considered WORRYINGLY skinny? How? Here’s a photo of her from a few months ago (from back in early May, when, one supposes, she considered herself to be NOT skinny and in need of dropping a couple of pounds):

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Voice of John McEnroe: YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS.

A confused: Now I haz dat, too.

According to Life&Style, Katie Holmes is acting out by way of weight loss, because Lord Xenu/Tom Cruise has so wholly subjugated her that food is the only means by which she has to gain any meager measure of control in her life. Her thinking (if you can call it that), a L&S source claims, is that “Tom may have taken over every aspect of her life, but only she has control over her body.” And I guess “control” means, what? Diet Coke and laxatives? That’s not control, Katie, that’s DEHYDRATION. THERE’S A VERY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE.

I’m not even going to pretend to understand the epic, area-wide body dysmorphic disorder afflicting Hollywood. There is no sense to be made of that. Instead, I’ll just let these photos of Katie released today speak for themselves.

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Do you see ANY noticeable difference between this and the photo above? Am I high?

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Listen, Katie, it’s okay. You got this. And you look great in those jeans. SO HAVE A SAMMICH ALREADY, FOR CRISSAKES. GAH.

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  • Anonymous

    That photo in the left on the cover seems to me to be a combo of bad angles, photoshopping and sucking in of the stomach. I saw other photos of her from that day, in that swimsuit, and while she was thin, she didn’t look anorexic.

    • Naomi Winebrenner

      I agree. She looks fine in all these photos, except the one in the suit. And in that one, it just looks like she’s doing that thing where you’re cold and sucking your stomach in weirdly. My toddlers do that at the pool, and they’re definitely not lacking in body fat.

  • Anonymous

    I think she looks fine. :/

  • http://twitter.com/ladyphlogiston Caitlyn

    she looks fine.  It wouldn’t surprise me if she *also* was struggling with some form of eating issue, but she’s not skeletal or anything.

  • http://twitter.com/clearlydemented ClearlyDemented

    I think the real problem here is basing an article on an obviously photoshopped picture on the cover of a magazine that’s barely a step up from the National Enquirer.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002382265066 Bogna Wojciechowska

    KatieBot should really eat a sandwich or two. I agree that the cover is heavily photoshopped, but still she has been looking unhealthy skinny for some time.