LONDON - Oscar-nominated actress
Keira Knightley disclosed a family history of anorexia Tuesday but said that she doesn't suffer from an eating disorder.
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The slender 21-year-old, in London to promote "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," rejected suggestions that she suffers from an eating disorder, which surfaced after she appeared at the film's premiere in a revealing gold Gucci gown.
"I've got a lot of experience with anorexia ? my grandmother and great-grandmother suffered from it, and I had a lot of friends at school who suffered from it," Knightley said. "I know it's not something to be taken lightly and I don't."
She said she was surprised by any suggestion that she had an eating disorder.
"(The press) said to me yesterday `How does it feel to be called anorexic?' and I had no idea that I was," Knightley said. "I'm not saying there aren't people in the film industry that suffer from it, because I am sure that there are. But I'm quite sure I don't have it."
Knightley, who was nominated for best-actress for her role in "Pride and Prejudice", said she welcomed discussion about the illness.
"In a way it's good that it's out there and that people are talking about it," she said.
Originally posted by: Mermaidman
Great role model for all the lil' girls at Disney.
BTW, who was Bloom's girlfriend to which the article referred?
Originally posted by: Mermaidman
Great role model for all the lil' girls at Disney.
BTW, who was Bloom's girlfriend to which the article referred?
I said the same thing to my gf this morning. Seems she's always been that skinny...doesn't mean she's not anorexic, but she's not the Nicole Ritchie "I'm famous so I gotta get skinny right now" type.Originally posted by: Queasy
She's always been that skinny though, hasn't she? She really hasn't changed much since I first saw her in Bend it like Beckham.
Originally posted by: EKKC
if you see the scene of her in Domino, its like the guy was making out with a skeleton.
Originally posted by: loup garou
I said the same thing to my gf this morning. Seems she's always been that skinny...doesn't mean she's not anorexic, but she's not the Nicole Ritchie "I'm famous so I gotta get skinny right now" type.Originally posted by: Queasy
She's always been that skinny though, hasn't she? She really hasn't changed much since I first saw her in Bend it like Beckham.
Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: EKKC
if you see the scene of her in Domino, its like the guy was making out with a skeleton.
The mental image produced by that comment just made me hurl
Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
Do people in Hollywood eat?
Originally posted by: DaShen
Originally posted by: loup garou
I said the same thing to my gf this morning. Seems she's always been that skinny...doesn't mean she's not anorexic, but she's not the Nicole Ritchie "I'm famous so I gotta get skinny right now" type.Originally posted by: Queasy
She's always been that skinny though, hasn't she? She really hasn't changed much since I first saw her in Bend it like Beckham.
I was told by my friend that a good way to tell if a girl was fat and became anorexic is if the boobs overly sag afterwards. If this is the case, Keira has always been skinny because she wasn't sagging in The Jacket.