Am I the only one who didn't think she was fat?! I actually thought she was more of an average weight and that today is portrayed as fat in the media. She's not skinny however, but thats what makes her all the more likeable because people just feel bad about themselves if they watch skinny girls all the time. I really think it's just Renee's rounder face and not her actual body. Anyone agree?
shareyeh i agree she is not fat at all in the movie
sharei didnt think she was fat either, shes a size 14 which is less than the average in britain today. IMO Renee looks better as bridget than when shes ultra thin.
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"IMO Renee looks better as bridget than when shes ultra thin."
I agree. As Bridget, Renee had a lucious body! At her usual ultra-low weight, she's got the build of a 14-year-old boy, ick.
But I suppose the weight worked for the character - it wasn't that she was fat, but she doesn't have a fashionably skinny figure. You could see why a basically insecure, self-doubting, and out-of-touch-with-reality person wouldn't feel comfortable with that figure.
she isn't really fat, she's at most slightly chubby.
In the movie, her weight is around 132~142 lbs, which is only 20 lbs over the american average for women (120.)
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The American average woman doesn't way 120 lbs, more like 140 or more and that is just the "average" woman. The average dress size is 14 and no way someone who wears a 14 is 120 lbs.
I didn't think Bridget was fat at all. She was just out of shape with a little chub on her, that's all. She looked pretty good actually....but that body is not the "Hollywood" type so Renee is forced to be ultra thin in real life.
a size 14 at 9 1/2 stone?! I don't think so...
shareI think she looked heavier than she was in the bunny costume because it was a couple of sizes too small but generally she looked great, especially in the black dress for the book launch. and that was no heavy girl running down the street in her underwear!!
Sizes are different in different regions. Size 14 sounds about right in American terms.
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I would never call her fat either. She was average. But most average looking women consider themselves "fat" so....
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I absolutely agree. I just watched this movie for the first time today...remembering how Zellweger supposedly had to "gain all that weight for the role". She did not look fat at all. She looked healthy and attractive. The whole idea that she was a "fat spinster" is so inaccurate that it's insulting. Way to go, Hollywood...way to promote more eating disorders.
sharePerhaps it depends on your definition of 'fat'. I thought she was overweight (as she was meant to be) but not obese by any means. But clearly she could do with losing a little weight.
For me, the ideal weight woud be somewhere between Bridget and Renee Z in real life. Renee in real life is too lean for my liking.
I fail to see how Hollywood is promoting more eating disorders with this film.
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Well, the fact that you thought she was overweight is a sign that they're promoting an unhealthy ideal, because she wasn't. If she weighed between 9.5 and ten stone, then she was in the healthy weight range for her height (she's 5ft4, so this gives her a BMI of between 23-24), and you can see in scenes where she's in her underwear (or running around in her bunny outfit) that she's actually got a nice slim figure. The fact that someone would think "she could do with losing some weight" just because she's doesn't look like American Stick Insect is a clear sign that Hollywood is proting an unhealthy ideal.
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136lbs at 5'4" is considered overweight in many countries outside the West. Western people tend to be heavier than other people but she would definitely have been considered fat in the Golden days of Heywood when Western people were thinner.
sharenor skinny nor fat.
She got a lot heavier for the sequel though.
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I guess in the movie she just seemed to be kinda "fat" because finally we got to see a real woman with curves and "wobbly bits" and not a stick with legs as we're used to see on the silver screen. That's why it looks different even if in real life we'd never consider someone with Bridget's weight fat.
IMHO Renée Zellweger looked a lot better with her Bridget weight, because it matched her round face a lot better than what she usually looks like. She looked fresh and pink and healthy in Bridget Jones's Diary. Now ultra-thin she looks kind of old and boney (is that word?).
I think Renee Zelweger looks better with a little more weight on her. She also has more curves, when she is as as skinny as she was in Chicago, she looked washed out.
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Amen! I agree with everyone else on this thread that says Renee looks better as Bridget than she does being really thin. I dont understand why society has to tell women that thin (read: skinny/skeletal) is in. The 'heroin chic' look is not attractive in the least, and it is not at all healthy to try to achieve that look.
shareI dont think she was fat either. She looked to be a size 12 or 14 (keeping in mind, we're talking about a UK 12-14 which would be a size 8-10 in the US). Her face was a bit chubby but thats what happens if you pick up too much weight too fast as she did.
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What agrivates me about the whole movie, is that it proclaims British women as being over-weight and as being promiscuous and easy.
And the whole movie was so unrealistic, as if two men in their right mind would be fighting over such an ugly, drab and boring fat old fart of a woman (if you can even call her a woman that is).
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She's fat for a 14-year old maybe. Which is all everyone sees on tha TEEvee and mistakes for reality. Excuse me, 18.
sharewhoever mentioned the part about the BMI, that's exactly what I was going to say. She has a healthy weight and there is no way that 9 and 1/2 stone is a size 14... at a push it's a 12. To me she wasn't overweight.
Like what the majority of you have said, she looked so much better with the Bridget Jones image... she's just too too skinny now!
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