Why are Most American Actresses Skeletal

[bellazella]

Its Anorexia, and it seems to effects older women

[RATTER15]

Because they always have to go just one step further!

[pastafreak]

Being deliberately thin or skinny is nowhere the same as having an eating disorder, and trivialises the suffering of those who do have anorexia.

[Mattk]

Examples?
I don't think they are 'skeletal' just slim. Unfortunately Hollywood will only cast slim, young women for most roles so they must conform to a specific body type and 'look' if they want to work.

[bellazella]

Examples Law and order special victims, my goodness one of the actresses was skeletal

[karloff]

Women here, especially actresses,feel they need to be super skinny. But men are alright being fat.

[Mosaic]

This has been driven and stoked by film / television and by the fashion industry. If you have ever been on camera you will notice that you look quite round ie fatter than you really are. The media industry seeks actors and presenters who look good on camera, and the fashion houses that clothe them like their garments to hang as if from a coathanger.
Look back at early films and you might feel the women especially look plump - this is a reflection on how we have been trained since the 1930s to expect very thin people on camera.
When you see these folk in the flesh they look very peculiar - it is not normal or healthy to be that thin.

[guythegorilla]

just a sign of the times fashion thing!

[RATTER15]

>>>Women here, especially actresses,feel they need to be super skinny. But men are alright being fat.<<< or maybe just dont have the same hang-ups? I dont actually see any more fat men than women.

[Mattk]

I guess a lot more overweight men are cast for certain roles where this body type lends itself to the character e.g. ageing policeman, bartender etc etc.
I'm not sure the same is true of women hence they must be slim.

[emmie]

because they won't get much work if they are fat, a nasty truth i am afraid.

[emmie]

look closely at the women and see if you can spot how much surgery they have had done, another reason i don't like much American TV, as the characters are so often not remotely true to life. Rather a somewhat overweight or shall we say normal woman in British TV and film than some of these scarecrows.

[emmie]

i don't believe it has anything to do with anorexia, that is an illness and needs long term treatment, these women do it because they know the score on getting on in TV and films, it doesn't pay to be overweight, unless you are a meryl streep type, but they are far and few between.