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Kat is becoming too thin


Update: Look at this brand new picture she just posted from the 2 Broke Girls set, with Dennis Quaid. It's starting to show in her face as well as her body. If this is because of Thor 2 (I know pressure is always put on actresses to lose weight for Hollywood epics), I really hope she gains it back again. Here's the latest picture:

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My original post: Before Kat became famous, she would often state in interviews that she had made a conscious decision to never cave in to Hollywood pressures. Agents and casting directors had long told her to lose weight and do several other things which would make her like every other famous actress.

There has long been a tradition in Hollywood which dictates that, when an actress becomes famous, she begins to starve herself and give in to the pressures that constantly surround her. We have seen it happen to countless others, Jennifer Connelly, Angelina Jolie, Christina Ricci, the list is endless. What were once beautiful women with feminine curves and healthy bodies became stick-thin, unhealthy-looking and lost most of their appeal. Some of them developed eating disorders (like Ricci). It's a fact that most men are attracted to women who look like women, not young boys.

Worst of all, the message this sends to young women is, of course, a damaging one, and one of the reasons that eating disorders are so prevalent and such an issue in our society today. The days of positive female role models and body types are gone, and the beautiful pin-up girls of the '40's and '50's no longer exist.

Kat was one of the last hold-outs, and I truly believed that she, as she had promised in interviews, would not cave in to these pressures. However, if you have been watching 2 Broke Girls, you will have noticed the change which has just begun. In addition, a few months ago, she made a sudden decision to eat only healthy foods, and cut out anything she deemed as unhealthy from her diet. She has mentioned this a few times on Twitter even going so far as to call foods that she previously enjoyed, such as fish and chips, "junk food" now. On Instagram, she sometimes takes pictures of her current meals, which always consist of a few vegatables (small portions of peas, carrots and the like) and little else, save for "health food bars", health drinks and the like.

The signs are there. Whether this change was triggered by the success of her TV show, or the fact that her role was vastly expanded in Thor 2 such that she may be on the verge of becoming a famous movie star (she is filming Thor 2 currently), I don't know. However, I thought that Kat was stronger than this. We are about to lose another one of our most beautiful actresses to peer pressure, and she could also become stick-thin and lose the uniqueness and yes, sex appeal, which has attracted so many of us to her.

On a side note, she also recently began drinking, after being steadfastly against it for her entire life. She wouldn't touch a drop previously, and now, as she relates on her Twitter, drinks ale virtually every weekend with her boyfriend. I've seen this very thing happen to a family member, to the point where they had become addicted to substances (likely because their bodies had gone without it for so many years, starting to drink later in life is never a good thing). I would not mention this except for the fact that she said herself, that she was very against drinking, and it provides evidence of another change in her life decisions which seem to detailing she is caving in to pressures from all fronts.

Yes, her life is her life and she can do as she likes, but it's never a good sign when people start giving in to things they had fought their whole lives against. I just hate to see her fall into the same trap as most other actresses have. We all love her because she's been unique, beautiful and different from the rest. The change hasn't yet become too pronounced, and hopefully this message can bring awareness and prevent it from going too far.

Hopefully I'm over-reacting and will be proven wrong!

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I'm not sure that "eating healthy" should be considered caving in to pressure. Wanting to be healthy by putting healthy fuel into your body is a good thing, regardless of whether you're slender or curvy. If switching from Big Macs to grilled chicken and spinach salad also results in losing some weight, that's a side-effect of a healthier lifestyle.

I say this as a woman who is not thin, and would rather eat a Big Mac than a spinach salad. And who thinks Ms Dennings was gorgeous at her most curvaceous.

The alcohol isn't a big deal, necessarily, either. As a wise man once said, "The dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink."

Ms Dennings is young. It's easy to make proclamations about "never" and "always" in your teens and early twenties. Let's give her a chance.

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Maybe Kat did all that because of Thor 2.
But I believe she's a fan of her curves and doesn't want to be come a skinny girl.
Or at least I hope.

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I changed the title of my thread so that it reflects what this discussion is really about, Kat becoming too thin, in my opinion. Also, I updated my original post at the top to link to the picture I've also provided here, so people can see what I'm talking about. She really does look thinner in each episode of 2 Broke Girls lately (with the exclusion of the Christmas episode next week which may have been shot earlier). Also, if you follow her on Instagram, you can see how thin she's become in the latest photos she's posted, such as the following:
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Thanks for the tip, I have now made the link clickable in the original posts!

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Just copy/paste and stop whining. Please, be sure that your hand will never fall off because of it. Why are some people so lazy they can´t even move a finger?

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I'm not sure that "eating healthy" should be considered caving in to pressure.

I do because you rarely hear men saying this unless they've had a health scare or are selling something. If women could eat whatever they wanted and not gain weight or didn't have to worry about people criticizing their bodies then they would.

Look up Melissa McCarthy and you'll hear plenty of people talking about her weight. It doesn't matter that she's funny and talented just the way she is, people are going to knock her for being overweight.

Sure, being overweight isn't healthy, but no one cares if it's a dude. Do you think producers pressured James Gandolfini into losing weight? And even if they did, would he have done something about it? I doubt it, because he's a man and men don't let anyone pressure them into not eating what they want to eat.

So yeah, if a woman who previously ate whatever she wanted to and was round and curvy suddenly loses a lot of weight and goes on a diet binge it's because she just found out she has a history of heart disease in her family or someone is telling her she is a fatty and needs to lose weight. My guess is the latter.

Don't try to cash in love, that check will always bounce.

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Actually, I do care if it's a dude. Kevin James has no appeal for me. John Goodman is o-k but I don't really like him. Candy, Farley, some of those guys just never appealed to me. I don't like when men use their weight as part of their appeal. Kenan Thompson?
So I really don't like MelMc She's just an unattractive fat chick acting stupid. I'm sorry but that's my take

I'm not a woman much less Deanna Durbin, but the old-time glam-shot appeals to me.

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