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May 2, 2007

The Gossip About Keira Knightley's Body Envy

Stick thin Pirates Of The Caribbean starlet Keria Knightley has joined the chorus of women praising the Gossip's Beth Ditto for her proud, full-figured flaunting. She told Metro (via BWE):

When she (Beth Ditto) was performing she started taking all her clothes off. I stood there watching her strip, thinking, ‘Oh my God, that woman is so sexy.’ She has the most amazing body.

I went to the doctor to be checked out and asked him what I could do to put on weight. He told me that for someone of my body type to get to a size 12, I would have to eat a lot of sh*t food, stop exercising and drink loads.

Reach for the stars, Keira. All you have to do is follow Beth's simple beauty tips: don't do drugs, and hang out with people that have healthy perceptions of beauty, like Kate Moss and Perez Hilton. If Keira's as desperate to stop doing movies and being famous as she says, that's your recipe for success. There's hope for you to bend it like Ditto yet, Keira. We're pulling for ya.

 

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Kate Winslet = "normal" body, very hot.
Beth Ditto = obese, gross.

WTF is Keira thinking?

Posted by: Bugs Meany at 05/02/07 12:16 PM | Reply
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is beth eating a cookie or something in that picture?

Posted by: andrew at 05/02/07 12:22 PM | Reply
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I think Keira just needs to get some breast implants. Those fix everything.

Posted by: Adam at 05/02/07 12:26 PM | Reply
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wow this comment thread is shaping up to look like the superficial. gross

Posted by: paper at 05/02/07 12:30 PM | Reply
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We're not superficial, paper, its just that we want eveyone to be good looking like us. For THEIR sake.

Posted by: plastic at 05/02/07 12:36 PM | Reply
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I'm just doing my part to stop the distortion of "normal" or "average" to mean "grossly overweight."

Not having Adriana Lima's body is one thing. Being huge and saying it's perfectly fine is another.

Posted by: Bugs Meany at 05/02/07 12:44 PM | Reply
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Did some publicist tell her to say that stuff in order to appease all those girls making "Keira Hate" websites?

Posted by: Jordan at 05/02/07 12:46 PM | Reply
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I wish that fat sow ditto would fuck off. Those photos of her sans clothes were absolutley fucking revolting.

Posted by: Fat Police at 05/02/07 12:52 PM | Reply
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Oh wait, so being that heavy comes from not living right? I thought women like that were supposed to embrace their size, but according to this "doctor" being that size comes from being severely unhealthy. Now I don't know what to think.

Posted by: Deano at 05/02/07 1:15 PM | Reply
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"stick thin"..... you mean she burns as many calories as she eats. if people had to actually catch and/or gather the food they eat, they'd all look like keira.

Posted by: tiger at 05/02/07 1:41 PM | Reply
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i love how the mere mention of beth ditto brings out all the ignorant fat-phobics - what do you people do, scour the internet for any mention of her so you can post about how disgusting she is? get a life.

Posted by: at at 05/02/07 1:47 PM | Reply
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Ignorant? What is it that we don't know? Edumacate us.

Posted by: Bugs Meany at 05/02/07 1:55 PM | Reply
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Ditto isn't horribly disgusting with clothes on... I just do NOT want to see her without. Quite frankly I don't think it's in Keira's metabolism to be that big. Thank goodness it's not in mine, either. And there's no way you're going to make me believe Keira actually wants to be that big.

http://homemademusicvideos.blogspot.com

Posted by: Rochelle Nikita at 05/02/07 1:55 PM | Reply
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ditto is eating a turd in that pic.

Posted by: franklin at 05/02/07 2:01 PM | Reply
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"...I would have to eat a lot of sh*t food, stop exercising and drink loads."

You mean you're not a lush already, Keira?

Posted by: Amy Winehouse at 05/02/07 2:04 PM | Reply
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There's nothing good about being overweight, and I say that as someone who IS overweight. (I'm not quite Ditto, but still...) While overweight people need to learn to be confident and secure, it's dumb-as-shit to just lean back and accept your unhealthy body and say that it's okay. That's just disgusting. Mankind is not designed to be blubbery. Of course, it's probably not designed to be Kate Mossy, either. Balance, people. Let's aim for a balance.

Posted by: Matthew at 05/02/07 2:06 PM | Reply
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Matthew, you said it, dude.

Posted by: jed2 at 05/02/07 2:10 PM | Reply
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this is such lies!
she has starved herself so she went from looking like this:
http://www.keiraknightleyworld.com/keira-knightley-gallery/keira-knightley-00.jpg

to this:
http://www.egotastic.com/image?path=0701/keira-knightley-bikini-1-01.jpg&info=Keira%20Nightley%20nipple%20slip...%20almost

yet she pretends she wants to be bigger.

bs!

she is so pretty, but she looks icky starved.

Posted by: Sara at 05/02/07 2:12 PM | Reply
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sara, those pictures are completely different views. the one from the front just shows how in shape her abs are....but if you look at the legs, they look about the same size as in the picture from the back. not so much starved looking i think, though.

Posted by: sarah in reply to Sara's comment at 08/26/08 3:44 PM | Reply
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matthew is spot on.

Posted by: annie onymous at 05/02/07 2:31 PM | Reply
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"normal" looks at both of these girls, and oh how it laughs.

Posted by: jt at 05/02/07 3:01 PM | Reply
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oh man that picture you guys keep posting of beth is soooo bad :)

Posted by: Mat at 05/02/07 3:45 PM | Reply
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uh i think kiera knightley said what she did sarcastically. which i think is a pretty shitty thing to do.
i think she sees alot of people praising beth ditto for her confidence. sees her singing with all sorts of influential people. hears that, yeah, guys and girls find beth ditto sexy. confidence is an aphrodesiac. kk has been dogged by the press for being too thin. well thats her fucking problem. she needn't shit on someone else doing what they do and being who they are and being happy about that. green eyed monster.

Posted by: frankie at 05/02/07 4:54 PM | Reply
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I'm looking at the overall picture...both people are shit dressers. Keira that top looks like you're bandaging whatever chest you have...and it still looks like even though you're quite thin YOU ARE STILL SUCKING IN YOUR STOMACH?

As for Beth...it works and yet at the same time, it's so wrong.

Posted by: fashionista! at 05/02/07 5:21 PM | Reply
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Fashionista: I'm definitely with you on that bandage thing across Keira's chest. At least she's skinny enough to wear it, but she can't breathe because she's sucking in her stomach so tight. The bandage is like a fat tourniquet: "Maybe if I wear it tight enough no fat will sink to my abs!"

http://homemademusicvideos.blogspot.com

Posted by: Rochelle Nikita at 05/02/07 5:43 PM | Reply
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I can see where Keira's coming from. Beth's body type is more feminine, and I think that's why Keira's jealous. Obviously Beth could spare to lose some pounds, but if these women were the same weight and had the same amount of body fat, Beth would probably look better. It's in the proportions. I feel sorry for Keira because she can't really do much about that--boob jobs don't fix everything. I don't think it's very fair to hate on Beth just because of her weight. A skinny woman can be just as immodest without catching much flack. You shouldn't treat her "confidence" as a personal insult.

Posted by: Why so angry? at 05/02/07 5:52 PM | Reply
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The pro-fat people are a bunch of dumb assholes. Yes, it is unhealthy to starve yourself down to next to nothing and the pressure that inspires women to do so is a horrible thing, but being overweight is far from healthy. Every hear of adult on-set diabetes you ignorant fucks? What about the strain it puts on your heart?

There's something in the middle people. Ditto is a disgusting person, through and through. She's overweight and everything that comes out of her mouth is a contrived plea for attention. It doesn't help that the Gossip is a shitty band. Oh, and getting photographed nude WHILE YOU'RE ON THE MOTHERFUCKING RAG? Not sexy.

Keira doesn't look unhealthy. She has a small frame and she's in crazy good shape. She's taking care of her body and that is far more admirable than being overweight like Ditto. Not everyone can be as thin as Keira and they shouldn't try to be, but Ditto is far from a role model. She's more of an excuse for the insecure lard asses of the world to pick up the can of Pringles instead of going to the gym, all under the guise of embracing the bodies they're treating like shit.

Posted by: captain ahab at 05/02/07 5:57 PM | Reply
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*snicker* drink loads *snicker*

Posted by: Mando at 05/02/07 6:34 PM | Reply
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it's genes, can't fight nature; I'm knock out drop dead gorgeous; but it's nothing I ever did, thanks mom and dad

is that the real amy winehouse?

Posted by: flappppppppa at 05/02/07 10:10 PM | Reply
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I think a lot of us are in agreement here.

Personally, I don't find Keira Knight terribly pretty-mostly because she's too skinny.

A lot of Beth Ditto's fame comes from her schtick of being a big girl who's proud of it and does "outrageous" things and blah blah blah. When that runs out, people are going to have to face the fact that her band ain't that good.

And that it's niether natural or beautiful to be as think as Knightly or as big as Ditto.

Posted by: joj at 05/03/07 10:31 AM | Reply
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Yeah I think to a large extent you're stuck with your body type/metabolism.

I'm borderline underweight (if you believe all that BMI stuff) and my doctor's (not entirely serious) advice was "eat more mars bars."

Keira's weight gain plan might give her diabetes, liver failure, tooth decay, heart disease, and generally make her look rough as hell but I'd be very surprised if she put on much weight.

Posted by: Joe at 05/07/07 11:53 AM | Reply
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Everyone has his or her own right to live, have different aesthetic perception.
Actual they are all right. No amtter how you dislike it, there is somebody liking them.

For me, I love Keira, but like Beth :)

Posted by: linken at 05/11/07 12:20 PM | Reply
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how can you say this?! Keira is thé most beautiful person I've ever seen in my whole life! she has everything that someone could possibly ask for, "she should get breast implants"? yeah, whatever! but for your information; she's just being natural, not FAKE!

Posted by: Marlon at 07/20/07 4:54 PM | Reply
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i like her... hmmm yummy... crispy

Posted by: yudisa at 07/23/07 3:06 AM | Reply
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Ok well 1st of all kiera is beautiful god made her with hardly no boobs? So what people? Get real and im not only saying this cus shes famous its the truth.

Posted by: Alexandra at 07/27/07 7:02 PM | Reply
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Posted by: gelma at 09/15/07 4:35 PM | Reply
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ı'm you beautiful,perfect ı'm soory english very much good not.but your actress many superb goodbye to see each other

Posted by: aysun at 03/04/08 8:07 PM | Reply
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I love sandwiches!

Posted by: Sandwiches at 03/25/08 3:37 AM | Reply
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ahahaha i think its soo funny how all the fat fucks are complaining about the ever so gorgeous kiera, jealous people give her so much shit for being natrually thin the way they go on is not right and i can garuantee that every single person who complains about her weight is fat, oh sorry "normal" sized.

Posted by: Beth at 09/05/08 2:31 PM | Reply
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Personally, I don't think it's a case of 'who is better' or 'who looks better'. Everybody is completely different and therefore has a completely different body shape. Telling Keira to put on weight is like telling Beth to lose it. It is just as dangerous to live overweight than it is to live underweight, BUT if both girls are living healthily (eating properly, exercising, reduced alcohol/tobacco intake etc etc) then they should both stay exactly as they are, because it's their natural figure. Although I do find it difficult to believe that Beth Ditto is at her peak of physical fitness!!

Posted by: Kate at 09/23/08 10:34 AM | Reply
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This isn't true. Here's the real storyhttp://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20037486,00.html

Posted by: KH at 10/05/08 1:57 PM | Reply
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Hi, i am a iranian men, please send for me your new pictures,
I LOVE YOU 'KEIRA'

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