Protest For Body Sanity
Here’s a protest against insane definitions of “fat”, captured by photographer Jordan Matter:
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I had a meeting with a casting director from LA. Without a glance at my headshot or resume, and not even a decent introduction, this stranger looks at me, all 5 feet and 2 inches, 125 pounds of me and says, “You need to lose twenty or gain thirty because where you are right now, I can’t do anything with you.” A bit thrown, but not wanting to be rude, I ask, “Can you elaborate on that?” To which she replied, “Your face says ingenue but it wouldn’t quite work, and I can’t put you as fat best friend because you’re not *exactly* fat.” — Katy, Broadway
December 11th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
This girl is simply gorgeous; she has the perfect figure with a very pretty face on top of it. She’s not fat, although some (many) other girls are too skinny.
May 23rd, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Hmm, I agree. There are a lot of anorexic girls in hollywood, it’s such a shame that there is so much pressure for actors to be extremly thin and beautiful, and to enhance their figure with cosmetic sergury. Apart from the detrimental effects this has on society at large, obtaining a part should have nothing to do with looks anyway.
May 31st, 2008 at 8:31 am
This world is really screwed up…what´s wrong with that girl? She´s really good looking-unlike those so-called super models: nothing more than heads on poles (like Chupa Chups.) I don´t know who invented the modern ideals of female beauty but they were sick. Seriously, some girls in my school have arms and legs that look like toothpicks. Ay Ay Ay….
July 28th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Really twisted if a casting director would not get her work because of her figure…
She has a great look, a perfect body shape…
The key thing is can she act!
August 4th, 2008 at 11:54 am
If you look at history, you would see that in earlier times, the larger you were, size, weight, etc, in a woman’s case, the more you were looked at as a potential partner. It is only in very recent history that the ideals have changed in such a drastic way.
August 4th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
she’s lovely of course, but that’s not the point! no wonder hollywood makes such shitty movies when their criteria for selecting female actresses involves a bathroom scale.
bravo to her for telling people what happened.
March 22nd, 2009 at 3:52 pm
“If you look at history, you would see that in earlier times, the larger you were, size, weight, etc, in a woman’s case, the more you were looked at as a potential partner. It is only in very recent history that the ideals have changed in such a drastic way.”
That’s not exactly true. “Ideal” weight has always fluctuated (look at corsets for example, or greek goddesses or somesuch) - it just has never been as low as now.