Body Image

[thessalian]

Jennifer Connelly: Mulholland Falls era.

Jennifer Connelly: now.

...WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED? In 1996 ... I mean, I'd hit that. But now look at her! What happened to her boobs? She was ... I believe the term I've seen used once was 'racktacular'. Not too much, but enough to be ogle-worthy. Now she looks like a freakin' praying mantis! The only people I can really see wanting to hit that are seriously hardcore necrophiliacs.

(Edit: Apparently she had a double mastectomy six years ago, so smaller cup size owing to reconstruction, although Google nets me nothing about this, though there is a rumour about breast reduction surgery. Whatever the case, this in no way invalidates anything else I'm saying here - look at her arms! Look at her legs! Hell, look at her face!!! You can see the shape of her skull in her face!)

So ... anorexia? Hard-core drug habit? Cancer? WHAT? I mean, am I wrong in thinking that that's not just unattractive, but horrifying?

My mother used to obsess about my weight when I was younger, and my relationship with food used to be a bit weird. This is the sort of thing that makes me glad I never had it worse, and that I stuck to my guns with the "I'd rather be fat than miserable, thank you" line. Because seriously, I'd rather be my roly-poly Bogganish self than look like that.

Comments

Jennifer Connelly

[navytron89.livejournal.com]

She had a kid and then a double mascetomy back in 2002 like Christina Applegate. They rebuilt her and she went to a smaller chest size.

Re: Jennifer Connelly

[thessalian.livejournal.com]

I don't know if having had a kid would have been a detriment to her breast size, but fair enough as far as the mastectomy goes. Doesn't change the fact that she looks like a freakin' skeleton. It's not just the chest; it's everything. The legs and arms are particularly horrifying, but you can see the shape of her skull, damnit, and she used to have such a nice, soft face.

Re: Jennifer Connelly

[lokean.livejournal.com]

2002, you say?

this is her in 2005...

I assume that's after mastectomy and reconstruction, so I don't think they're anything to do with the utterly flat chest and horrible pronounced tendons...

According to the IMBD's photo galleries, she seems to fluctuated between a normal figure and various degrees of scrawny between 2003 and now, but even in 2007 she looked mammalian, if a bit unhealthy.

She was pretty scrawny in 2001 and some news source quoted her:

"I was really stressed. I didn't completely realize how I looked until I saw photographs, and thought, Oh shit, I look quite thin in that picture. I had been traveling a lot, and I felt very uncomfortable with the whole process. A lot of moving around. I was running a lot and not feeling well. Just anxiety and stress. And that is where I wound up: tired, and dazed and skinny. It's not where I want to be, and I don't intend to be there again."

So I'm betting on classic anorexia due to stress, rather than anorexia nervosa, but still, I hope it's just a phase...

[the-blonde-one.livejournal.com]

Oh...well then I won't make an ass of myself with my response.

But I agree with pretty much everything Thess said.

And jedishadowolf cracked up when I read the word 'racktacular' out loud.

[tolshak.livejournal.com]

Maybe she's trying to method-act her way into a role as the Crypt Keeper in a revival of Tales From The Crypt?

[aberrantangels]

Or Jareth in a Labyrinth remake? (I started to say "sequel", then I remembered it's The Dark Crystal that's supposedly getting the sequel.)

[munanna.livejournal.com]

Argh. Argh argh argh.

*thud*

[notorious-oit.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHA Praying Mantis...

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

Quite right, us Boggans need to stick together! *hugs* :)