Welcome to Oscars 2026, where everyone is very, very thin, and we’re not here to talk about it. But can we just talk about it, please?
I don’t believe in talking about a woman’s body or weight under normal circumstances, but the skin disease that has overtaken Hollywood is impossible to ignore.
It’s not just a celebrity who’s losing weight: It’s a condition that 90 percent of female celebrities have lost — and made an Oscar red carpet appearance.
Every year, my best friend and I text about Oscar fashion.
During the three-hour awards show, we text back and forth, arguing about who looks good and who looks terrible (while I’m dressed badly for a nurse), but this year, everyone’s thinness worries us.
The first message he sent me today wasn’t his usual, “God, Nicole Kidman can pull off a shade of blush,” but instead, “Have you seen how freaking skinny (insert actress name here) looks?”
Instead of debating how we feel about a certain figure’s figure, we were debating whether a celebrity had become so thin that she was now unrecognizable.
It really made me long for the days when our biggest red carpet scandal was whether Keith Urban was wearing heels in his dress shoes.
The ultra-thin trend has taken attention away from fashion.
Celebrity after celebrity hit the Oscars red carpet, and they all had the same alarming thing in common – they lost weight.
It seems that many women have lost weight dramatically because you have to eat enough to show up in photos.
Emma Stone, Gracie Abrams, Demi Moore, Nicole Kidman, and Barbie Ferrera are just a few of the beautiful women, in beautiful dresses, who look ridiculously small.
I know this is hard to talk about. The bottom line is, women are so judgmental about their weight, and there is endless social pressure on women to lose weight.
If I point out that all famous women are getting even thinner, am I just part of the problem?
But by not saying it, I worry that we condone it, normalize it, and make other women think it’s all normal.
Celebrities set the standards of beauty, and if it all gets lost on us (literally), it filters how everyday women feel. have to look
I can already see the effect in real time. Suddenly, the phrase “skinny goals” is being bandied about again on social media.
Gen Z calls the body of someone they admire, “body tea,” and throughout X, young women are re-sharing photos of dangerously thin women and claiming that their bodies are “tea” and desirable.
The goal is to go from fitting into a certain size pair of jeans that you want to look so thin that your jeans are hanging on you.
There are threads on the internet where women praise famous women for the fact that their clothes look like they’re wearing them off.
I was obviously scared.
I’m sad to report that we haven’t progressed since the 90s body image “nothing tastes as good as feeling thin” bull***.
We have simply changed tactics and now only play lip service to body acceptance and act as if we are not talking about it, so everything is fine.
Celebrities certainly don’t share the extreme measures as they get, but their rail thin bodies do all the talking.
There was a brief moment where we celebrated body diversity, and plus-size singer Lizo reigned supreme; Those days are over
She is now on a weight loss journey, and celebrities are hitting the red carpet looking cool instead of glamorous.
It’s all very scary; It is not normal for adult women to look like a brats doll, because their bodies have become so small, and now their heads look so big.
I don’t want to write about women’s weight, but I can’t for a second look at anyone on the red carpet today and think that these are the kinds of bodies we should strive to achieve.
Everyone’s getting thinner… but that means you should too.
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