Defamer
With Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End just hours away from swallowing America's multiplexes like a tentacled leviathan, star Keira Knightley has emerged victorious in a legal battle against British tabloid The Daily Mail for having suggested her bony frame was providing unnecessary thinspiration for fanorexic teens. Reuters reports:
British actress Keira Knightley, star of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" film trilogy, won £3,000 ($5,965) in libel damages on Thursday over a newspaper slur that she was excessively thin. [...]The Daily Mail had run a story with a picture of her in a bikini, headlined: "If Pictures Like This One of Keira Carried a Health Warning, My Darling Daughter Might Have Lived".
Smith told the judge, Justice David Eady, that Knightley accepted that she had undergone weight training for roles in action films and that this had involved muscle toning which did alter physical appearance.
While a $6000 ruling isn't much, this was nevertheless a major victory for Knightley on principal alone: Few could appreciate the physical and emotional demands involved in starring in an epic adventure trilogy like Pirates, whose exasperated actors, set adrift upon an endless sea of meaningless action sequences and confusing plot threads, have been clinically proven to burn twice as many calories per hour as their counterparts who have some clue as to what the hell is going on in their big summer popcorn movie.
- Knightley wins anorexia libel case [Reuters]
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Sounds like someone's getting a £3,000 shipment of Trimspa, diet coke, and Marlboro Lights.
@VictorWard: Or an afternoon's worth of cocaine.
Hopefully the $6K will be used to purchase some trans fats. That sternum could double as a gravy boat. Next time Lil' Keira is preparing for a role she should take a healthy jog into a Popeye's chicken. Those are the only bones that should be in her vicinity.
Seriously, I wrote an article on anorixia and guess which big pirate-movie star we used to illustrate it with?
What I want to know is, how does she stay so skinny and still drink so much?
@raincoaster: Excess alcohol consumption has been known to enduce vomiting. Get your drink on and keep that rail-thin figure. All right!
Yeah, Tyrannosaurus Rexy up there could at least stand to put on a t-shirt, or something else that will cover up the fact that you can see her RIBS through her BOOBS.
I thought you could only see the pirates' skeletons in moonlight?
About 6k American dollars. Hmm...what is that, like two minutes of profit for the company? I'd take that slap any day of the week if I were them.
@Xenu: Plus, she has a built-in bottle opener. Look at that chest!
You can't tone a toothpick...
What a fucking joke - bitch should just shut the fuck up - and eat a Trump steak (she can afford them now...)
$6000? Why, after the lawyers take their share, that should leave her with a cool negative $44K.
@Everybody Likes Pandas: hee hee!
Oops. How did I misspell "anorexia"? I hadn't started drinking at that point.
What a great story to start the MemDay weekend--a leaner rack o'ribs I've never seen! Fire up the barb...
I'm such a fan of hers from Pride and Prejudice...I really, really want to believe her. Maybe she is the ONE person with the naturally skinny frame in Hollywood?
I afraid to post this, but here it goes...
@Scout: I tend to agree with you on that one. But I do wish she'd STFU about it already.
@Scout: I'm sure she is naturally skinny, but in some of these pictures... she's gone beyond that.
When you can see ribs through your boobs... you've kind of crossed that "naturally devastatingly thin" boundary right into "probably pukes up everything she eats" territory.
@Scout: I think her problem is that she is bottom heavy. (I have seen pictures of her in a bathing suit when her legs look bigish/squat, yet she was still skinny on top w/no boobs.)
I put forth that she dislikes her legs and diets too much, but then her torso tapers away to nothing because she is already naturally skinny up there.
(Yes, I have spent a lot of time pondering this conundrum.)
MissKate: I do recall her saying in an interview (with esquire?) that she hated her legs but loves her stomach.
Still, you don't have to wear a dress that flaunts your freak body issues.
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