"90210" Costars Plan Too-Thin Actress Intervention

Us:

Beverly Hills, 90210 stars Jessica Stroup and Shenae Grimes are so thin that show producers and costars are poised to take action, Us Weekly reports in its latest issue, on newsstands now.

"They want the girls to gain weight," a show source tells Us. "They are trying too hard to be skinny, and it's started to wear on them. It's just not healthy."

Stroup, 21, is 5-foot-8 but weighs 100 to 105 pounds while Grimes, 18, is 5-foot-3 and stands at a mere 90 pounds, Beverly Hills-based weight-management expert Dr. Joyce Peters estimates to Us.

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Comments

[mikebythesun]

They look gross, and are probably in denial about that.

[cruisepuppy7452a]

I think directors and producers as a whole need to stop encouraging anorexia. If you look at any of the teen angst shows, none of the actors have real bodies. If they throw in a token girl who is an actual real size they kill them off. If kids see this as the norm, it sets a bad example for other impressionable girls that age to be that skinny. I applaud Tyra Banks for going against the grain, and telling those directors, she isn't going to play along. Last season on America's Next Top Model, they chose a girl who was plus size and ya know what? That gal worked harder, more ernestly for it, looked fabulous and did for little girls what teen shows can't. The show needs to get strict, fire anyone who refuses to eat healthy, period. Until this happens a few times, those gals won't take it seriously. Clothes don't look good if they just hang off the body. I don't care wha tthe designer is.

[Swerinjer]

They look fat.

[ailbhe]

They look fine. Your metabolism is at it's highest in the late teens to early twenties. Your hormones have just settled down, your puppy fat disappears, you have huge energy levels and are always running around.

These girls bodies look no different to mine and that of my friends at that age. They will fill out a bit when they hit 25 as their social lives change swapping nightclubs for restaurants.

It is lifestyle that determines body size.

Adults need to grow up and stop obsessing over the bodies of young girls, it only encourages them to think body obsession is normal which can lead to eating disorders in some people.

[cruisepuppy7452a]

Hun, they look sickly. There is a serious difference between looking healthy and fit and unhealthy and anorexic. If I had a dollar for every girl I see whose legs look like toothpicks in a super short skirt, I would be a millionairess. Its not attractive. No faky tan, fake blonde hair, blue eyes can cover up for anorexia. Even men are starting to become grossed out by it. Men will hit on anything that moves with a pulse, and they are starting to tell these girls, eat a sandwhich, have a milkshake, put on more clothes. Seriously. The hoochy mama look is that, Hoochy. Not something you want to emmulate. Sexy isn't about how thin you are, or how short your skirt is, how much skin you show. Sexy is an attitude, its how you carry yourself, not how thin you look in a raunchy top and too short skirt. When you see modelling companies telling girls lose the hoochy look, you know it has gone too far. They sell sex, and if they are telling women to put on more clothes, dress like a lady, you know girls have been given the wrong message.

[dfinn]

ailbhe, your comments are ignorant and offensive. As a therapist who works exclusively with women with eating disorders, the sight of these women concerns me. If they were to be assessed, they would most likely be recommended for residential treatment to get their weight stable and monitor their physical health. Anorexia can be fatal.

[BethanylovesObama]

As a recovered anorexic, I can tell you, there's nothing healthy about a 5 foot 8 inch person weighing 100 pounds. NOTHING.

[BlackJAC]

The weight guideline for women I heard was 100 pounds for 5' tall and another 5 pounds for each inch of height above that, so Shenae could safely use another fifteen pounds and Jessica another thirty.

[DwH]

Does anyone think the producers hired these skeletons precisely because they're such great actresses? Nope, they were hired because they are rail-thin: the current ideal of beauty. Hypocritical to think they want to fatten them up now: it's likley a PR attempt.

Fortunately the backlash against this look in high fashion has begun.