Rosario Dawson: “I Got Compliments For Looking Emaciated”
Yep – this site is primarily focused on weight loss. But weight loss, in and of itself, is not always “good.” Being lean and fit is one thing… trying to force your body to be unnaturally skinny is quite another. Yet for women, it’s the latter, rather than the former, that’s celebrated on magazine covers and other media.
As such, it’s good to see pushback from stars like Rosario Dawson…
Actress Rosario Dawson has some pointed words about expectations on women and their bodies.
“It’s a form of violence in the way that we look at women and the way we expect them to look and be for what sake? Not for health, survival, not for enjoyment of life, but just so you could look pretty,” Dawson told Shape Magazine.
Dawson who appears on the August cover discussed industry-wide pressures to maintain an ideal body type. After losing weight to play a drug addict dying of HIV/AIDS in the 2005 film “Rent,” she was stunned to hear compliments about her figure. “I remember everyone asking what did you do to get so thin? You looked great,” Dawson recalled. “I looked emaciated.”
The controversies surrounding the pressure to be too thin and constant airbrushing of photos are nothing new.
“I’m constantly telling girls all the time everything is airbrushed, everything is retouched to the point it’s not even asked,” she told the magazine. “None of us look like that.”
Her interview with Shape is below the fold:
