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Shenae Grimes is fast learning that fame and fortune (for her in the form of the 90210 remake) come at a price. For her, it’s tabloid rumors. Somehow, while not knowing who this girl is as 90210 got dropped after 3 episodes here in Australia, I still know she’s really skinny, a diva on set and likes to party. Actually, she kind of sounds like any teenager. Unfortunately, her fake life is more interesting then her real life.
“Meet me in person, and you can’t say anything. No bones sticking out,” Grimes, who has been thin all her life, tells People. “Just because people are calling you skinny doesn’t mean I’m like, ‘Yay!’ No! You’re telling me I don’t look right. This is me, this is my body – I have accepted it.”
As for being a diva at work and a party girl at night, Grimes shrugs it off. “The hours I work I definitely can’t,” says the self-described homebody who likes to watch DVDs and hang out with friends.
“These are stories that have been written about everybody,” says the star. “Of course we’re the new girls on a hit show so we’re plopped into these little boxes. And people buy it. It makes me totally second guess anything I’ve ever read about anybody.”
It was nice to hear that Shenae says she’s just thin. As a skinny person myself I know you can sometimes just be genetically blessed. Not that my mother ever thought it was a blessing, having been told regularly by strangers on the bus to feed her kid. I also like that she doesn’t claim other celebrity weght loss regimens like a love of going to the gym, or that she’s lost weight from running around after a baby. Partly because she doesn’t have a baby, partly because babies don’t run.
As far as second guessing anything Shenae ever heard, isn’t this something we learn in high school? I thought we all looked at celebrity gossip as a form of entertainment, and followed the old adage of ‘believe half of what you see and none of what you hear’.
Shenae Grimes is shown out going to a tanning salon on 11/13/08 (green shirt), at a Vanity Fair exhibition on 10/21/08 (white shirt), and at a Nylon party on 9/4/08 (snake print dress). Credit: Bauergriffin
Written by Helen
Posted in Body image, Shenae Grimes
13 Responses to “Shenae Grimes says she’s naturally thin; not partying as reported”
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My heart weeps for all of you.
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Codzilla - you forgot to include your
icon after that remark…(Thanks for making me laugh out loud btw on that other thread. If it helps, I sometimes turn that colour when I’m about to puke so you’d still have gotten your ‘disgusted’ message across (at least to me).
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I always find it funny when celebs say this and you always see them eating fruit. Every naturally thin person I ever met was always eating and it was always full fat stuff.
If you’re naturally thin you don’t have to watch what you eat. That’s why it’s… natural.
I swear, in Hollywood nobody knows what natural is anyway.
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i know people who are naturally a little skeletal, and yeah, if you’re ridiculing someone for being gangly skinny in a way that is natural an they are perhaps even sensitive about, that’s not ok.
but the truth is that it’s desirable to be thin in our culture. pretty much all media sources tell large women day in and day out that they are gross and need to lose weight. naturally thin women are generally at an advantage. so i think it’s viewed as more acceptable to poke fun at them since it’s not happening day in and day out every time they open a magazine and turn on the tv.
not that i’m condoning mocking anyone for their figure. don’t get me wrong.
but in any case, i think the main problem is that ALL of the girls on 90210 are uncomfortably tiny in a way that leans more towards the malnourished side of the fence. there’s no other representations to balance it out. shanae grimes was in fact thin when she was on degrassi, so i believe that she’s probably naturally quite thin, but i still doubt she’s sitting on her ass and eating the never ending pasta bowl from olive garden every day. i’m sure she works on her body as well. the other girl on that show though has clearly gone skeletal since joining up since we’ve seen her looking healthy before.
it’s important for young tweens who watch that show to be aware that it’s unrealistic and likely detrimental to your health to push yourself to be that thin.
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If anyone had seen Degrassi:the next generation, they would see that Shanae was very small on that show too, so it wasn’t like she just got skinny, she just got more famous.
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I never got that “naturally thin” line.
Keira Nightly also used it.
If I eat more- I gain weight naturally and if I eat less- I lose weight naturally.
So the “nature” part has nothing to do with being malnourished as many actresses are.
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So ff, nobody eats fruit just because they like it? I get what you’re saying, that if they were naturally thin they wouldn’t have to watch what they eat. But just because someone is eating fruit or vegetables doesn’t inherently mean that they are watching what they eat. They might just actually LIKE healthy food (as I do too) and perhaps therefore have a better metabolism.
Thin people get it coming and going. If I eat an apple then people literally say to me, “God look at you eating so healthy! That’s so annoying! You could eat a doughnut if you wanted to, why are you eating an apple!?!?”
But then if I eat a bagel and cream cheese at work, I get “OMG, You can just eat whatever you want can’t you!?!? That’s so annoying! Do you work out like crazy? You’re not going to go throw that up are you?”I kid you not. I have heard all of those lines. I think our society has grown overly acustomed (sp) to overloading not only our portions, but our flavor with excessive salt, sugar, ranch, cream cheese, sauce, dressing, etc. So now hardly anyone enjoys the real flavors of a delicious salad or slice of bread. These foods have wonderful flavors without all the excessive add-ins. I love eating my bagel (and enjoying the flavor of the bread) with hardly more than a table-spoon of cream cheese. Which, might I add, is the serving size on the container (of cream cheese), and therefore a very accurate indication of how much should be consumed in a sitting. It was not meant to be eaten by the cup. Maybe that’s why some are thin?
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geronimo:
Glad my meaning wasn’t lost on everyone.
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@ codzilla - I don’t need your heart to weep for me, and neither do other naturally skinny people. Bitter?
And I second what mollination said. Thank you. -
dora: Wow, man. It’s like you’re looking right through that computer and into my soul.
It was a joke, honey. Get a grip.
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It’s not funny. And don’t call me honey.
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mollination: Not all fat people are gluttons, just fyi.
I eat no more than 1600 calories a day and go to water physical therapy numerous times a week. (Have to make myself eat, usually, as I have an eating disorder.) I only drink plain water as a staple, and sometimes orange juice or Muscle Milk after a harder workout. Recently, I started drinking decaffeinated green tea, too, but I don’t drink soda or anything with caffeine or carbonation in it. I try to avoid high fructose corn syrup, eat organically whenever possible, and never touch artificial sweeteners.
You sound just like the doctors I was once assigned - she’s obese, so she must be a lazy glutton. Nope and nope. Before my thyroid and parathyroids went haywire, I was “naturally thin,” too. Skinny as a child and could eat anything I wanted; my nickname was “bottomless pit” back then. But as soon as my thyroid started going whacky, things changed and I gained 100 pounds that I’m still trying to lose. Perhaps if the judgements were left at the door, people would see behind the fat or skinniness, and would like others just as they are.
… I do agree with what you said to ff about the fruit eating. I adore all kinds of fresh fruit, and love eating raw cauliflower as is.
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I’m naturally thin as well. I eat properly and never count calories, but I just can’t gain weight. It’s not funny when people think they can rag on your size because you’re not heavy. Why is it ok to harass a thin person but if someone were to tell a fat person to lose weight, it’s really insensitive? People should mind their own business and worry more about their own lives. You would not believe the incredibly rude things I’ve had people say to me. Jealousy doesn’t become anyone. I’ve begged my doctor for advice in the past on how to gain weight, and all he could say was “eat more”. Um…ok, and when that doesn’t work, then what? In the end you learn to accept your body how it is and try to ignore other people’s ignorant comments. Of course it’s natural to worry when someone looks really ill and yes, I’m aware that anorexia is a big problem. Perhaps obesity has become so common that any type of thinness is seen as sickness.
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