Seriously, do men find this sexy?

[LynneSin]

I'll be the first to admit that I could stand to skip a few meals, but this is ridiculous! Give this woman something to eat! And we wonder why teenage girls are starving themselves - they see pictures like this and think they have to be this thin in order to be "sexy".

:puke:

[TXlib]

1. Who the Hell is that?

Eat a burger, dammit!

[GOPisEvil]

4. Lara Flynn Boyle...

...and get some fries too. A milkshake wouldn't hurt either.

[GOPisEvil]

2. Thin is good...emaciated is not.

She looks emaciated to me; unattractive.

She needs more than a sandwich - she needs the whole damn deli.

[Rick Myers]

3. I normally like thin women

But that is skeletal!!!! Ew!!

Who is that???

[catmandu57]

5. Personnally no

she may be fine for some but I love my marshmallow woman.

[soleft]

6. I think we should give the poor woman a break

This is the same as posting a picture of a fat woman and saying she should eat lettuce.

[GOPisEvil]

8. I wouldn't do that...

...having been pretty damned fat myself.

I'm not implying she has a problem, just that she is unattractive to me. If she were to add a little weight, she'd be more attractive (IMHO). I think she's a very pretty woman, otherwise...

[TXlib]

10. There is a difference...

The fat woman isn't making lots of other women feel bad about their bodies.

This insane drive for the emaciated look in Hollywood and on the catwalk is contributing to many women being on Prozac.

[soleft]

25. This couldn't possibly make anyone feel bad about their bodies

If anything, Lara is a victim of lookism and striving to obtain an unobtainable ideal as much as someone like me who's on the other end of the spectrum. But we don't help anyone by pointing a finger at them and saying the way you look is unacceptable, whether they're 98 pounds or 255.

[amazona]

48. you are right and you are wrong

You are right that we shouldn't be pointing a finger, and I know I have been very guilty of this, so I do have to apologize. In fact, I just left a post called, "She has an illness," which on second thought, is probably a catty and unhelpful comment.

However, this picture could certainly make a vulnerable person feel fat. Have you ever visited the pro-ana sites? Usually a prominent feature is the section called, "Thinspiration," where they have pictures of such notables as Callista Flockhart (spelling?) and Kate Moss and the like.

I haven't visited that type of site lately, but I am willing to bet if I did, that Lara Flynn Boyle would be a new icon.

It is a difficult issue. It seems intuitively obvious to me that women should not be allowed to starve themselves to death or near-death, but pro-ana's feel that it is a matter of aesthetics and that if they are willing to risk death for their sport of being thin, how is this any different from any other death-defying sport like, say, mountain climbing?

My personal belief is that Boyle should seek medical care to see if she can recover a healthy weight. But on the other hand I am just going by...yep...judging her how she looks, so I can understand why I might be perceived as judgmental.

[KCDem]

14. I think she _must_ have an eating disorder.

No one gets that thin through exercise alone. And if she's not crazy, she'll realize that looks bad. So yeah, you're right, we shouldn't make fun.

But, at the same time... sheesh, I wish Hollywood would stop making emaciated women seem glamorous.

[GOPisEvil]

17. Is she still dating Jack Nicholson?

:shrug:

[Chicklet]

33. Is she still doing that bleaching thing?

[smirkymonkey]

28. Or a drug habit...

prescription or street, both are dangerous and used by more and more women every day to "slim down." This looks extreme, like she might have a heart attack at any moment...

[blondeatlast]

55. Many young female insulin-dependent diabetics

strive for a mild ketoacidosis because it helps them lose weight fast.
It's a very ugly secret but I have seen it in db support groups.

It's deadly; it can quickly lead to coma.

[LynneSin]

19. The difference is this is the standard that the media sets for beautiful

and girls are starving themselves to look like this. I don't see to many women gorging themselves because they want to be overweight like Camryn Manheim. (Lara Flynn Boyle's former co-worker on the practice and someone who I think is beautiful inside and out).

[soleft]

26. see my post above

I don't think anyone would say that Lara is the ideal. She certainly doesn't look glamrous. At what point will she garner sympathy, when she's in a coffin?

[Warpy]

32. Inside every thin woman

...lives a fat woman being squeezed to death.

[Chicklet]

64. Inside every fat woman...

Is a thin woman trying to get out. But she can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake.

;)

[underpants]

7. Can she still do that thing with the cherry stem?

No that isn't attractive.

[JohnKleeb]

9. ummm no way lynne too skinny for me

No I prefer fit not too fat not too skinny girls thats just me.

[Kellanved]

11. No

The poor girl looks like a hat stand IMHO. She may have redeeming qualities, but her looks aren't among them.

[MindPilot]

12. Ummm, no.

I like slender women, but she looks like something would break if I pushed too hard.

[Scout]

13. I'm not a man....

but ewwwwwwww, ick!

I'd be afraid to hug her, all those bony protusions could puncture an artery and you'd bleed to death!

really woman, eat something ... we aren't supposed to look like prepubescent boys or someone starving to death, women are supposed to have a few little curves here and there.

ick and double ick

[pmbryant]

15. OMG

That really does not look like a healthy person.

:scared:

--Peter

[Gringo]

16. No, only women and the gay men who dress them do

Sorry if that sounds homophobic, so be it. I have hardly ever heard of a man that would prefer this over say, Sandra Bullock or J-Lo (probably the ideal but even bigger women like Kirstie Alley are still very attractive)

[David__77]

36. no offense, as a gay man, but...

I don't think her weight is ideal. I think she's looked better in the past when she had more meat on her. She was in Poltergeist 3, I believe, in her late teens, and looked a lot better in that department. That said, I wouldn't pin in it on gay men as a group. "Fashion gay men" are but a small group.

[Gringo]

38. Point taken,

and I remember whn Lara Flynn Boyle used to be very pretty. She's gone completely overboard.

[short bus president]

18. It's all a matter of taste

I think Calista Flockhart wears the ultra-skinny look well, for instance. Just like I think Margaret Cho wears the not-skinny look well.

Like I said, the important part is how they taste.

[lazarus]

20. what makes it worse

Is that the camera really does add ten pounds.

I prefer a woman with curves. This is ridiculous.

[Blue_Chill]

21. I had one of those in the back of my Bio Class

We never put a fancy dress on it though.

[JohnKleeb]

22. blue chill lmao thats a good one man

[GOPisEvil]

23. *snarf* (nt)

[Cheswick2.0]

42. you are such a smart ass

I hate to admit you made me laugh

[blondeatlast]

56. Dammit--me too!

nm

[Hell Hath No Fury]

24. I saw her interviewed live...

during that press walk and MAN, if she looked that bad on televison you have to know she looks even WORSE in person.

She's been trying to fend off rumors about her weight by claiming she has always been skinny and that being the the BCP added weight on her for awhile.

I hate it when stars forget that they have appeared butt-naked in many, many films that allow us to remember what they looked like before. I remember when that gal had healthy JUGS for gosh sakes.

Clearly she's walked down the eating disorder/drug use path. I hope she gets some help, whatever it is she's dealing with.

[LynneSin]

27. Always been skinny - she didn't look emancipated during "Twin Peaks"

[samsingh]

29. she's too skinny

that is not attractive.

[ProudGerman]

30. Its the head

Her melon is huge! Totally out of proportion.

Ya know, my cousin is naturally that thin. Maybe a little more meat on the arms, but not much. Ya know what else? Crack-whore thin comments hurt her feelings just as much as beached whale comments hurt bigger gals. I've tried to get her to hit the weights with me, but she's afraid that she'll end up looking like a teenage boy.

But yeah, my cousin's neck and shoulders look quite a bit like that when she wears a dress like that.

[LynneSin]

31. But Lara wasn't always emancipated looking

Seriously, look at her when she was in Twin Peaks and she was thin, but healthy looking. That's the reason why I'm not buying the "I was always thin" because she wasn't always as thin as she is now.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

39. You are right....

She appeared nude in both "Threesome" and "The Road to Wellville" and she looked like a normal, healthy woman with a c-cup breast size -- just as she has looked for most of the films I have ever seen her in.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

41. Sorry, I have the giggles...

"Emancipated"???

I personally LOVE looking emancipated! ;)

[BiggJawn]

34. Not really....

She's got nice-looking legs that might feel nice wrapped around my neck, but that's it.

I wouldn't let her touch me with those bony talons, and those "Biafra Boobs" are a HUGE turn-off.

Did somebody say Sandra Bullock or Kirstie Ally?
YUM!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

35. In all fairness...

The angle of the pic, the gawd-awful dress, and the way it clashes with the red carpet do nothing to make this woman look good.

As far as her figure's concerned, it seems like TV cameras make women look larger than real life; thus many prefer to emaciate themselves rather than risk losing their jobs. Facts are facts...a woman's acting ability is of secondary importance to her appearance by today's entertainment standards.

[slackmaster]

37. Not my type, not even close

She doesn't do it for me in the least.

[44wax]

40. Not really into drag queens

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

43. not really. needs some substance up top & sides

no curves

no nothing 'there'.

[kathee]

44. It makes

women look much OLDER when they lose too much fat. I dont know how old she is, but she looks as old as Sophia Loren, who btw, looks remarkable for HER age.

[JohnKleeb]

46. you know I kinda thought the same

I think shes in her thirties look like she could be in her 50's to me.

[Kazak]

45. In a word...

No.

[amazona]

47. she has an illness

I hate to see pix of her any more. It doesn't seem she was that painful to look at in Twin Peaks. I do like skinny girls and guys, but this is ridiculous.

[mitchum]

49. She looks fine to me (but I have divergent tastes)

Isn't it bigotry to mock the underweight? Since the majority of Americans are overweight, the underweight are actually a minority. Just food for thought...

[HEyHEY]

50. Nah, I like curves

I don't know how curves became unpopular?!!

[ScreamingMeemie]

51. And the sad part is, is that she denies looking any different or changing

her eating habits. Kind of reminds me of Calista Flockheart before she admitted a problem. There is an absolute horrid, skeletal picture of Lara in last weeks People. It almost made me ill.

[leftofthedial]

52. bulemia

makes me want to puke

[Mr. McD]

53. Not just no but

Hell no!!:shrug:

[LynneSin]

54. An apology to women who are naturally thin

heck, I use to be 5'10 and weigh 125 back when I was in college and I drank and ate like you wouldn't believe.

THere are some women who are just naturally thin.

This person and even people like Calista Flockhart and Rene Zellwinger have been normally weighted people and suddenly they show up ultra-skinny. (yes, I know Renee gained weight for the first bridget jones, but that was 25lbs. After the movie she had to have lose about 40lb because she was way too skinny from even her Jerry Maguire days).

It's just frustrating that this is what gets attention on the red carpet and are made to be 'beautiful' when there are so many other women out there that are not only beautiful, they didn't starve themselves through whatever means to get that way.

If you are naturally thin - God Bless you for being so and I wish I had my old metabolism back (but after college I became less active and kept eating the same - ugh). But seriously, anyone who feels they have to stick their fingers down their throat or take drugs or do whatever to get THAT thin like in my first post, please get help.

Beauty comes from within your heart and your soul and radiates out. That's what counts the most!

[The Lone Liberal]

57. Give her a break, can't you see the crosses.

She evidently is having a bad time with Dracula.

[Shakeydave]

58. Gimme a lady of substance..........................

or no lady at all! :loveya:

[arwalden]

59. Two Words: Karen Carpenter

The woman in the photo needs help.

-- Allen

[IDUDOYOU]

60. One word: toothpick

Men would only find this sexy if they have something stuck in their teeth.

Or they were really drunk and horny.

[Armstead]

61. Yep

I'm a sucker for skinny women.

But since I'm skinny, it's probably more a matter of physical compatability more than anything else.

And I've had a couple of SO's who were the opposite of skinny. One joked that we looked like Mutt and Jeff. So who's to say. I guess that means it more in the mind than anything else.

[SOteric]

63. Thank Goodness!!

A big kiss & a hug to Armstead for being the first person on this thread who didn't make me feel bad about being chronically and unwillingly scrawny.

[yellowdog]

62. Good grief, no!

No way could I stand to touch that woman.

[stanwyck]

65. The dress is not flattering

She's looked better. My 19-year old daughter lost too much weight this past spring, not intentionally. She was studying at college, working, and competing with crew. She was also a little depressed after a relationship ended. I think that affected her appetite. She didn't look healthy; she lost her curves. She's put some of the weight back and looks much better. Weight is also tricky as you get older. My mother lost 20 pounds when she was in her 40's. Her figure looked great but her face caved in (our cheekbones are rather prominent) and she actually looked older.

[ForrestGump]

66. Nope, but

part of that's because she basically looks sick - some have said that she is sick, so it's not her fault that she looks so severely depleted. Not that other kinds of weight-reducing afflictions - drugs or eating disorders - are necessarily the 'fault' of the afflicted in at least one sense. Based on what she used to look like, I'd guess that she's lost probably an unhealthy amount of weight, maybe including a fair bit of muscle mass.

On the other hand, perhaps that dress and angle conspire to make her look far more fragile than she is. Well, somewhat, anyway.

And, yes, the Hollywood machine is terribly destructive in terms of imposing unhealthy body image and mercilessly punishing those who don't conform to the ideal du jour. For her sake, I hope that she can get on top of whatever's caused her to drop that amount of weight.

[Zech Marquis]

67. who--no, what in the hell is that?!

Where did they dig up the zombie in a drss from/ Geez, nothing there for me to admire, if I look hard enough she might float off into the breeze :evilgrin:

[ornotna]

68. She looks a little thin

But I would definitely bump ugies with her. :b

[ReadTomPaine]

69. I had no idea...

...that humans could survive without flesh!

[Ilsa]

70. So, I wonder if she thinks she looks good? n/t

[davsand]

71. Healthy is sexy... be it round or skinny.

My college roommate was Bulimic. It used to amaze hell outta me to go somewhere with her and she'd be looking like a concentration camp survivor and without fail some woman would come up and trill, "Oh my Gawd! You are so thin, you look FABULOUS!!!" She had that same caved in look and dull skin that Lara has in the picture, BTW.

I took that roommate to the hospital a couple times when she'd get her electrolyte balance outta whack and her heart would start to race. I watched her live on nothing except V8 for days at a time then she'd eat everything in sight and take massive doses of laxatives. She'd hide the empty boxes so nobody knew how much she took...

There is a lot that makes a woman/girl develop an eating disorder. It is impossible to say exactly what point a healthy body image becomes skewed to the point that you end up looking like she does. But I will hazard a guess that she's not a healthy woman both emotionally and physically.

Slender is great, and I envy all the women who have never had to worry about how much they weigh. But Lara has gone beyond "slender" or "skinny" or any of the normal metabolic differences that we ALL deal with when it comes to body image.

The girl is sick. I hope she gets help.

Laura

[Pepperbelly]

72. hell, no!

Not me.