Shailene Woodley covers the June issue of InStyle to promote The Fault in Our Stars. The woman on the cover looks beautiful, but it doesn’t looks like Shailene (who is also beautiful). There’s so much needless photoshop going on here. It’s as if they morphed her face with Natasha McElhone. There’s no excuse for airbrushing anyone into oblivion, let alone a 22-year-old.
The Dolce & Gabbana dress on the cover is gorgeous. The rest of the shoot is jungle-inspired with lush patterns and background decor, but the airbrushing continues. Shailene looks almost corpselike in some of the photos. That’s strange because she’s so animated in interviews and on camera, and the shoot leaves me cold. This interview is a little different from the usual nature-child stuff we expect from Shailene. Thank goodness she’s not talking about feminism again:
She lost weight for the role: “I look at pictures of me with long hair and I think, ‘Who is that person?’ Even my voice and the way I hold myself has changed. I’m in a place where I feel healthier than I’ve ever been, and my body is exactly where it wants to be. I feel like I’m a woman. My boobs shrank. No one tells you that when you lose weight. No bra, no problem!”
She doesn’t care what you think: “I’m done living for other people. I’m done being a people pleaser. I’m done thinking about what other people think about me.”
A bit of navel gazing: “The second you get out of your head and into your heart, you can be present for other people.
On playing a cancer patient: “It changed my whole life and put things in perspective. I realized I was good at being outwardly positive because that’s how I am by nature. But internally? I was so mean to myself. Realizing I needed to make a shift was a big moment for me. ‘F— you, insecurity. F— you, lack of confidence!’ When I finally realized I have to live life for myself and not for anyone else is when I started being more generous and kind and grateful, I was able to give back more.”
On her real-life scoliosis: “My friends and I named my brace Casey. I took it off to eat, to go on dates, and to shower. It was uncomfortable, but I thought, ‘I can complain, or I can embrace it, literally, and move on.'”
[From InStyle]
I didn’t even notice that Shailene had lost weight for this role. She’s always been slender, but it makes sense that she’d drop a few pounds to play a cancer patient. She’s really excited about going without a bra, and I don’t blame her. She’s lucky her skin bounced right back so she can go do that. A lot of women experience shrinking boobs when they lose weight. The problem is that that breast skin usually isn’t as elastic as the rest of the body, so a shrinking rack can appear deflated instead of perky. Shailene is one of the fortunate ones. Must be all that mountain spring water working in her favor. Ha.
I’ve included some photos of Shailene & Ansel Elgort at a Berlin fan event last week. This InStyle shoot hurts my eyes.
Photos courtesy of WENN
She makes me want to pat her head and tell her “Oh honey, stop talking”
Ha, exactly. So young, so much to learn… whether it’s about how most bodies work, or when to stop talking.
i know. she sounds like a sheltered 14-year old who just got off a hippie commune. it’s a definite “bless her heart, at least she’s pretty” situation.
Do they get coaching on what to say in interviews? All of them always speak of how insecure they were but now they are not, how body positive they are, yada yada yada. Like you just one day decide you’ll stop being insecure and BUM – the insecurity is gone. I think they’re either still insecure and just saying what people want to hear, or they weren’t insecure to begin with. I mean, I know she was insecure about her long legs anf thick hair ( aren’t we all?), how did she snap out of it so quickly?
Hollywood is a pool of vanity. I don’t buy the insecurity stischk with most of them.
Would it hurt them if someone just said: “I still don’t like the way I look”?
I feel this is the same as celebs claiming they are introverts and hate attention. Apart from Ellen Page I can’t think of a single one who actually hates the attention.
I do. There’s a lot involved with this business that would probably make almost any person insecure. The attention is part of their jobs, and they’re competing with a lot of other distractions (internet, reality TV, etc.) these days. They had better get used to it and pretend to be enjoying themselves on some level if they really want a career in this business.
Exactly. Look up “vapid” in the dictionary, and there she is!
She gets on EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. OF. MY. NERVES.
Vapid is what comes to mind for me.
Except… like everyone tells you that? There’s even a weight-loss product that has a commercial of a husband and wife losing weight and the husband loses a ton and the woman loses her boobs.
Yeah I thought it was well known that you lose your boobs when you lose weight. That’s my lame excuse to not exercise too often hahahaha.
God, yes, my reaction exactly. “Huh? EVERYBODY tells you that!”
Haha, I thought exactly that as well.
Very odd shoot – the inside photos look so strange and not like her at all. Her leg also looks pretty odd in the cover shoot.
And good on her for not caring what people think, she wouldn’t like herself much if she thought of herself the way I think about her.
The leg on the front cover is what stood out the most to me. They should have either used the dress to cover her leg and foot (her toes look weird) or just airbrushed the dress to cover the leg.
Seriously. The Foot! The Leg! Yuck.
@M.A.F. and @Apennyfeeather: The ick factor is coming from the fact that they airbrushed the HELL out of her naturally knarly, bony toes! (Not trying to be mean but if you see pics of her in open toed shoes…) Those are comically NOT her real feet on the cover which is largely contributing to why the whole leg & foot situation is so strange…It’s like they just cut & pasted a photo of a doll below the knee! 😂
What is the point of having a celeb in a photo shoot if it doesn’t even look like them ? Although Woodchuck sounds annoying as usual, the pics aren’t her fault. I wish they would get really whimsical and airbrush a fox sheltering under her bush and maybe a bird’s nest in her hair. Like a Cinderella of The Forest theme. “Oh, look-I shelter woodland creatures and don’t know how my boobs work”. Avaunt, woman!
Woodchuck! Haaaaa! I think of her as Sunshine Beaver….But I LOVE your whole comment!
+2 on Woodchuck.
I couldn’t even read the rest without jumping to the comments first.
The women in the cover or in the inside doesn’t even look human…much less it looks like Shailene.
Why do magazines think that making already pretty girls look like aliens is in any way appealing?!
That was the first thing I thought when I saw the cover. She looks beautiful but not human. She doesn’t look real but I can’t put my finger on it. Maybe just heavy photoshop makes her look less like an actual person. I guess that is the look now? lol
That is a terrible terrible cover. And it doesn’t surprise me that she never knew (behold!) breasts are mostly fat. The girl thinks feminism equals hating men.
There are times when I think “I’m not sure even an education can fix this.” … Although it wouldn’t hurt some of these women.
If I had just seen the inside pictures with no context and was asked to guess who it was, I would never have guessed it was Shailene. I’m still suspicious that you might have mixed up the shoot.
they seriously broke photoshop on this shoot.
Well, her boobs still look perky because she’s young and hasn’t had kids yet. Losing a bit of weight at 22 isn’t the same as losing weight in your 30’s or 40’s.
I recently lost 11 pounds. I was hoping to lose 15-20 but my body seems content here. Anyway, my boobs went from a 34DDD to a 34DD and my husband was whining. I was like, buddy I was 34B when we got married. Quit complaining.
*snort* Men do love big boobies. Congrats on your weight loss, Delta. It ain’t easy.
Why I’d always kept mine covered up in certain situations before I got married. I had no interested in men who wanted my boobs lol. I’d tell any whining baby of a man who made such a remark to be happy I was healthy and for our kids.
Thanks PunkyMomma. It’s been very difficult! I am in awe of people who lose more substantial amounts of weight. Losing 11 pounds was ridiculously hard for me lol
Oh dear, Shailene, please stop talking. It is very well known in the real world that when women lose weight, they usually need to get smaller bras and smaller shoes. Take some time, go to college, work for a month in a normal job, learn what life is like for the rest of us – and you might discover what feminism is too.
College? Did she even finish middle school?
lol… I wonder if she finish primary school……..
As we love to say in the South, Bless her heart! All her cute, silly, unique, hippy child vibes are gone.
She bores me to no end………….
She’s so self-absorbed, maybe she changes a little when she has kids. Or not, like Goopy…
Um no one has to tell you that, it’s just something you should be able to figure out.
She is so dumb.
I like her. She’s smart. She might be pointing out what other people know yet it’s refreshing. She makes me want to give my vajay some vitamin D. Lighten up on this kid.
Smart? No. Not even a little bit.
Well, you know she will be labeled a genius if she figures out that beaver poop increases the size of your boobs!
Aha, she hasn’t shown herself to be smart at all imo. Kooky, weird? Yes, but never smart.
Smart? You’re new here, aren’t you? She’s dumb as a box of rocks.
First of all she’s 23 years old, not a kid. And secondly anybody that says; I’m not a feminist, I like men!’ isn’t smart. At all.
I haven’t seen a single one of her movies and I’m already sick of ‘this kid’.
No one except common sense.
Oh wait ….
It seems like she has been doing interviews foreveeeeeeeeer. I kind of like her but I agree with comments I’ve have read at other sites that say that she is not as likeabale and that big of a deal as they are trying to make her seem.
What the hell with that cover photo? Tibia and fibula plus giant foot. I can’t see anything else.
Annoying and IMO, homely. Tired of her talking too.
Shailene, come out of the bubble. This is a girl who apparently “knows” sunning your bits is “good” for it but doesn’t know losing weight effects the fatty lumps on your chest? Okay, then.
Haha I like when pretty celebrities have ugly feet. There are some things money can’t fix
I just wanted to step in and say how quick everyone was to jump on her about her feminism comments and how women are the first to tear each other down, but people have only turned and proven her right again and again.
It’s not “tearing women down” to care about feminism enough to dispel the misconception that feminism equals “man-hating” (as per Shailene’s definition).
On the contrary, it’s precisely because we care about women that we have an obligation to support and promote feminism (the TRUE definition).
Again, feminism is NOT automatically tolerating or indulging morons just because they happen to have a vagina.
…but I’m sure some men would love that—if we all just shook our heads and smiled every time a woman perpetuates the notion that feminism leads to angry, dangerous women who despise men, then we’d be doing all the legwork for the conservative right, with a much more palatable and marketable face (that of a “non-threatening” woman).
No. Sorry. We need to speak out.
Tough sh*t if women like Shailene get their feelings hurt. We’re just a bunch of “man-haters” to her anyway, right?
Doubt our opinion matters much to her at the end of the day.
Except people have gone beyond ‘educating’ her on feminism. In the past couple of days, I’ve seen this young women called everything but a child of God by femimists, simplt because she said spmething they didnt want to hear.(Also my comment was directed more towards the way people are completely treating her like a moron for the simple comment she made here.) This happens every single time someone criticizes the movement no matter how minutely, as if feminism were the end-all be-all to human rights, as if there aren’t perfectly legit reasons not to want to be associated with it, as though it were a movement without flaw and immune to criticism, as if movements like humanism, egalitarianism, or womanism don’t exist. And I have yet to see a feminist adress the issues within this group except for a NAFALT handwave ignoring that many don’t have a clear definition of what you *are* like.
She’s a moron because she thinks you absorb vitamin D trough specific body parts, negative and negative ISOTOPS bond or whaterver presudo scientific crap she said in interviews. If you do not know do not speak. It’s not just feminism. As most people in Hollywood, she’s way dumber than she thinks she is.
It wasn’t merely saying “something we didn’t want to hear”, it was saying something factually incorrect. The definition of feminism is not “women who hate men”, it’s defined by the belief that men and women are equal, end of story. It’s that simple– a three second Google search could have taught her that. She’s been granted a public platform from with to speak and with that comes a responsibility to have a basic understanding of what she’s speaking about.
No one needs to minimize feminism-we simply would not have what we have today without the feminist movement. The very idea that we have the luxury to debate what feminism means to each one of us is due to the fact that women bravely fought for our rights when we essentially had none. Recognize.
She does not strike me as an educated person and I have no problem saying so. All she has to do to avoid sounding like an idiot is to not speak about a topic she knows ZERO about. I’m not on this board commenting about nuclear physics because I’m out of my depth.
The truth is, this chick spouts a lot of BS about social awareness but has proven time and time again through her statements that she is very, very sheltered.
Amen @Side-Eye! Everything you’ve said is exactly the point I have been trying to make for years now: 1. Any time a woman makes an unflattering remark about feminism/feminists based on her own PERSONAL opinions or experiences she is immediately crucified by said feminists and labeled as being too stupid or “ignorant” to understand what they are about. (I mean, seriously??) 2. That much of the negative associations regarding feminism-aggression, closed minded-ness, mob mentality-are comimg from the behavior of women who identify as feminists themselves (see any comment section in blog posts on the subject). Yet for some reason they either A. Entirely refuse to acknowledge this fact or B. Instead chose to blame anything negative associated with their movement on the “propaganda” of other people. (“conservatives” seems to be a very popular one although I don’t think the people who do this are able see the hypocrisy of their gross generalizations of an entire group as a means of defending themselves against those very gross generalizations.)
As @Side-Eye so brilliantly pointed out, Feminism is a movement, philosophy and school of thought just as is Humanism, Darwinism, Socialism and Fascism amongst countless others. The only difference seems to be that the practitioners of Feminism are of the inexplicable belief that there movement-unlike all the others-is somehow above all criticism or rather, that no “intelligent” mind would ever dare question or challenge anything about them. (And that is called Absolutism my friends!)
For the record: I am entirely for equality for all as pertains to race, gender, religion, ethnicity and a whole slew of other things. But neither I or anyone else have to be a Feminist in order to prove that we are pro-woman. I am pro PEOPLE.
P.J….That’s nice, but where have you found one instance, ONE where any group of feminists, anywhere, have said officially that they hate men, or don’t like/love men? If you can find one link and present that, I will zip it. Otherwise, what she said is akin to spouting that, “Darwinism doesn’t advocate the theory of natural selection, and that’s why I don’t believe in Darwinism”.
@PJ YES, thank you for encompassing what I said beautifully. Even the responses from people who consider themselves more intelligent than her aren’t really addressing what I said–they keep jumping to the idea that not being a feminist means that you’re for female subjugation which is simplifying the situation to an appalling agree.
@O-Kitt. It’s really easy to read off a dictionary definition of a movement and ignore the fact that many people in its modern day incarnation are simply not living up to the legacy and have shown exactly the kind of behavior Shailene was talking about, particularly in the responses to her. What matters is actions, not words and in my experience and interactions with many feminists today their actions don’t ring true to the kind of equality I’m seeking or the kind of equality the founders sought out–it’s why I identify as a womanist and egalitarian(google ’em) and I dislike that these movements aren’t recognized. And the fact that you’re simplifying the issue to the point where you seem to think that defending her means that I believe that women should be supported no matter what they do is ridiculous to me–I’ve been one of the main ones on this site arguing against that very same mentality. This is something I see feminists do continuously.
And pro-tip: Criticizing the movement and bringing to the fore issues one has with it isn’t the same as minimizing the impact the founders had. I’m *struggling* to see where you got this impression.
Exactly, Kiddo.
@PJ-Oh good lord…where was she sharing her personal experience? Where?
Ok, let’s try this AGAIN.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/kellyoakes/are-you-a-feminist
The issue isn’t about whether Shailene claims to be a feminist or not–of course, she has no obligation to be a feminist (still, it begs the question why she doesn’t believe that men and women are equal) but she shouldn’t be spreading misperceptions about what feminism is. THAT is what people have an issue with.
The truth is that she doesn’t know what feminism is and is scared of using the term because she doesn’t want to alienate her fanbase.
Additionally, being “pro-PEOPLE” is…just silly. Humans are inherently “pro-people”-it’s how the human race sustains itself. And no, sorry you are not “pro-woman” in any way, shape or form if you do not believe that men and women are equal. If you’re scared of the term “feminist” that’s fine but for God’s sake, OWN it. Don’t hide behind the tired ass “I’m not a feminist, I’m a humanist” refrain. It’s a cop-out on every level.
@side-eye-I’m well-aware of what the terms “womanist” and “egalitarian” mean.
I think your points are well-articulated and I respect your stance. That being said, it doesn’t change the fact that Shailene does NOT know what feminism means. Perhaps if she had articulated herself as thoughtfully as you have instead of equating feminism with “man-hating”, people wouldn’t have such an issue with her.
“I think the idea of ‘raise women to power,take the men away from the power is never going to work out because you need balance.”
The fact of the matter is that more men currently and historically hold/held most positions of power. In order for women to be equal and for there to be a ‘balance’, then statistically women would have to take over the reins of some of the male dominated power. To not do so is to subjugate oneself, for the sake of not taking the power away from men. Don’t you get that? We are not in a post-gender world where everything is equal and balanced. But because feminists would like to see more gender equality, suddenly that equates to not liking men?
But back to the topic, she clearly talks in circles, and has zero education about the movement historically. In fact what she said makes no sense at all.
@Kiddo, I’m actually guffawing at the idea that you’ve never seen a feminist that says she’s hate men. Type in ‘misandry’ on tumblr.
Google Valerie Solenas. Look up what feminist did to the men’s shelter a pioneering feminist Eren Prizzey built for male victims of abuse. You people seem to be fond of using the phrase “google it”. How about you take your own advice?
So because there’s a handful of misandrists that identify themselves as feminists, then every feminist must automatically hate men? Every woman I KNOW calls herself a feminist–NONE hate men.
That’s like lumping Evangelical Christians and Muslim extremists in with Christianity and the Muslim religion.
Again-Valerie Solanas..like saying Eric Rudolph speaks for all Christians.
Instead of using extreme examples to justify your opinion of feminism, why don’t you look at the totality of feminists?
+10000
I missed her comments so I wasn’t even here to “tear her down,” but anyone who equates feminism with hating men or contributes to that antiquated, ignorant line of thought — male or female — deserves a schooling.
Ok, I was thinking abou not commenting, but then changed my mind…. There are some interesting articles written on the them FEMINISM and its perception by society nowadays. My comment will come afterwards. One of the articles:
http://www.apa.org/gradpsych/2006/09/feminism.aspx I really like this paragraph “To Cynthia de las Fuentes, PhD, past-president of APA’s Div. 35 (Society for the Psychology of Women), such negative perceptions derive from media distortion-not the movement’s mission of equality for the sexes at work and at home. What’s more, many young women–and men–don’t realize that equality has yet to be achieved, she says.”
On this one: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/prospectiveug/warwicksociologyjournal/wsj_1_final.pdf
“Why are people so reluctant to say they are feminists? Looking at articles from 1992 (Gibbs) up until now with Freeman 2013, there seems to be this reluctance to be termed a feminist. Gibbs wrote about a poll reporting that only 16 percent of college women “definitely” considered themselves to be feminists. Freeman took a different approach and looked at celebrities, with quotes from Beyoncé saying “That word can be very extreme … I do believe in equality … But I’m happily married. I love my husband” and Lady Gaga’s “I am not a feminist – I hail men, I love men. I celebrate [the] American male and beer and bars and muscle cars”.
Freeman interviewed actress Ellen Page, who highlights why there is this reluctance, “feminism always gets associated with being a radical movement” and goes on to talk about the severe sexism in Hollywood, and how “If you’re a girl and you don’t fit the very specific vision of what a girl should be, which is always from a man’s perspective, then you’re a little bit at a loss.”. The problem seems
to be entirely the term “feminism” as opposed to women’s rights, of which Gaga and Beyoncé are proponents; the fact is that the term is so associated with this idea of “the man-hating, hairy-legged lesbian” as talked about by Duz and Simic (2008), that people want to get as far away from the word as possible. ”
Another: http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/feminism.htm
“Liberal feminism focuses on equal rights; radical feminism focuses on the sex war and separatism (they see patriarchy as built into the structure of society); Marxist/socialists feminism focuses on the impact of capitalism while black feminists focus on racism and ethnicity.”
https://www.britannica.com/women/article-280086
This one in Britannica is extremely interesting…
Ok, from what I read in about half an hour, while reading your comments, on different articles, is that the concept of feminism has been distorted by both patriarchal movements (whether left or right-winged, depending on the countries) as well as different feminist movements such as the RADICAL FEMINISM one and also by the social media. This distortion is something I find really repulsive, because it made the fight for equality (original from the LIBERAL FEMINISM) redundant and inneffective to some point. Many people, women and men, believe there is already an equality (which is a lie); others believe feminists are synonymn for man-haters, especially, from what I could get, those under 30 years old and those from black race.
The term feminism is perceived as something evil and many women try to separate themselves from it. That is a shame, in my opinion, because patriarchal movements are actually getting what they wanted all along.
This distorted image of feminism is something we should all fight against; so many women fought, died, were persecuted to “give birth” to a movement that defended equality not just between genders, but also between races (check the articles I posted above) and we’re letting it die???? Because of fear of what people might think? If anyone asked me if I was a feminist, I’d say “yes, I’m a liberal feminist because I believe in equality between every single human being, that’s what TRUE feminism is all about.” Maybe if we all started saying this, instead of avoiding the concecpt, the word, there wouldn’t be so much distortion.
And we wouldn’t be reading comments like Shailene’s .. REALLY? I’m not a feminist because I like men??????? At least some don’t say yes or no, just say I believe in equality. BUT SAYING WHAT SHE SAYS MAKES ME FEEL SICK!!!!!!
^^^THIS
Those links were very interesting BTW. Thanks for posting.
@O-Kitt. *rubs temples* Until you can respond to something I say without oversimplifying my points I honestly don’t know why I should continue this conversation at all. I never said feminism itself that hated men- I was making the point that there’s enough riff raff in the movement that it’s perfectly understandable why someone wouldn’t want to be associated with it. And how insulting and ethnocentric that you dismiss other perfectly legitimate movements because it doesn’t fall in line with what you believe in. Are we only allowed to have a single movement that encompasses the need for equality. If feminism addressed all issues og imtersectionality, rights for BOTH genders and transgenders the way so many of you claim it does there wouldn’t be reasons for movements like womanism, egalitarianism and humanism to have kicked off at all. And surprise! Those reasons don’t always come from women being ‘scared of men/patriarchy’. They don’t always come from the mother hen concern trolling reasons you have for them. Sometimes people research/look into a movement and have things they disagree with.
*bangs head repeatedly against desk*
Where did I dismiss another movement? Please quote. I said NOTHING about any other movement here except feminism, as that is the topic at hand. To be clear, “humanism” is not a movement, it is a philosophical stance that emphasizes the value of human beings. By the way, feminism predates humanism, but truthfully the two shouldn’t be compared in any context. The former is a philosophy, a way of viewing life, the latter is a movement that’s had a deeply impactful effect on social history and modern-day society.
You’re taking one facet of a perversion of feminism and using it to describe feminism as a whole–it’s very dismissive (speaking of) and limiting.
Since we keep getting ordered to Google. From Wiki: “Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, cultural, and social rights for women. This includes seeking to establish equal opportunities for women in education and employment. A feminist advocates or supports the rights and equality of women.”
Just because you’ve found things about feminism that you dislike doesn’t mean that you get to magically change the definition of it nor do you get to reinvent the historical implications.
We don’t need to agree and I don’t need you to be a feminist, but don’t try to tell me that your perception of feminism is truth.
YOUR truth maybe, but not mine and not the truth of so many women that I know.
Now, I’ m the one rubbing my temples.. What we are criticizing here (speak for myself) is not the fact that she isn’t feminist; it’s the stupid reason she states right after that: “BECAUSE I LIKE MEN”.
That’s the problem, for all I care, she can be womanist, egalistist, humanist, sexist, racist or any other word ending in -IST, but her saying she’s not a feminist because she likes men is BS!!! That’s showing total ignorance!!!!!!!!!! And promoting the misconception of the ideology behind feminism…. are we clear, please??????????????
All she had to do was say” I’m not a feminist, I identify myself more with humanism” or whatever -ist,… and we wouln’t be having this conversation…
So, if a woman says something that is factually incorrect, we should all just ignore it? Is your definition of feminism a free pass, no matter how much it might hurt other women? You think comments like “women tear other women down” isn’t really sexist? That there is no counter opinion based on reason and logic, we are all just jealous haters not in control of emotions and reactions? Okay then. Men can criticize statements of other men, and they are never defined as a threat to their gender, “tearing other men down”. Of course not, they aren’t petty.
Wait a second…what about Garrett Hedlund?
He’s pretty.
I bet he’s a feminist too.
Whut? I’m missing the connection, but yes, pretty.
It’s the Taylor Swift version of feminism. There’s a special place in hell for each and every one of us 😉
Wow, Kiddo. You want to point out where I said any of that from atop your high horse.? Because I didn’t. I wasn’t even referencing her remarks about feminism with that particular line but the reactions she’s gotten–“she’s an idiot, she’s a bitch, she’s a cunt” for having an opinion that isn’t the same as yours, is certainly more harming to women in my opinion than anything she’s said. You really seem to pulling things from out of the air implying that I think you’re all jealous, which reeks more of projection than anything. I don’t recall saying men get a free pass on this other, but please, continue with this half-formed attack. And I’m sorry, I *don’t* think the phrase “tear other women down” is sexist(an ironic accusation considering you just said criticizing other women isn’t sexist), because it’s not exactly this mythological concept. All you have to do is look at any thread where a female celebrity isn’t exactly popular on this website alone and you’ll see attacks on that woman’s character for anything and everything regardless of how slight the offense was. You think women all sit around singing Kumbaya to each other and that women don’t do the things she’s talking about, when I’ve seen women threaten violence against this person for speaking about her own personal experiences and her disinterest in a movement because of that? You think there’s no reason that people might question a movement that works itself into a frenzy over a minor celebrity’s criticism or opinion on it? You think people won’t side-eye a movement that says it’s about empowering women and making them feel independent when a remark they find offensive is suddenly seem as “harmful” to women, even though it’s coming from someone who likely has no impact on their personal lives whatsoever? Yeah, ok Kiddo. Please continue with the assumptions too.
Side-Eye, I have not used the phrase “google it”. I have never called her a bitch and I have never called anyone, in my entire life, the C word. People who are imbalanced post threats if the wind blows the wrong way. I don’t think women sit around chanting to the power of the goddess of women, I never said that. But it is sexist to assume that being critical of another person, male or female, is a gender specific thing and that men don’t criticize men in the same manner, but the women ‘tearing down women’ notion gets an awful lot of traction. And someone sitting on their own high-horse, chastising “women for tearing down women” should be careful about taking a swing, lest they might fall off their own pony.
Ooooohh pony!
*claps hands excitedly*
But yes, kiddo, you and I are in agreement here.
Let me get this right: The woman who just last year was carrying on and on in the media about how Hollywood is too thin obsessed and was pushing the who “real women have curves” campaign *massive eye roll* lost enough weight off of her already slim frame to convincingly play a TERNINALLY ILL cancer patient, decided to keep it off and this is her response: “I’m in a place where I feel healthier than I’ve ever been, and my body is exactly where it wants to be.” Um. OK.
Also, this is a weird little point to make but since Shailene is sooooo “anti Photoshop” and all about being “authentic” at all times: They’ve airbrushed the HELL out of her foot on the cover! Strange to notice I know, but still true. Shailene has some of the most gangly, bony, knobby toes I’ve ever seen (she’s even confessed as much) and that foot on the cover just does not belong to her! Lol. So much for total authenticity 😂 (I’m sure it wasn’t her decision to do it but I still think it’s funny that of all things to spend money in the studio on “fixing”…)
I’m sure it wasn’t her decision, but she could have spoken out against it like Winslet and others have. I mean, if she’s so “authentic” and all.
Her leg and foot (on the cover) look completely fake. wtf
Something nice, I do like how she shared that anecdote about her brace. My sister has double scoliosis and she and Shailene have the same brace name, Casey lol.
Oh really? That’s new flash to her I guess.
To me it’s my life.
I’m pear-shaped so it’s a definite given for my chest to get smaller with weight loss. Infact it’s the first place I lose weight from including my face and tummy. And the bummer is there isn’t much up there. #Sighs.
Typo- *news flash
I want to like this chick but I can’t. She’s so stupid.
The movie looks sweet. I saw the promos this weekend. It looks like a tearjerker. I’ve had my fill of crying watching a movie after this weekend, though. I was watching Philomena. Philomena made me cry. Judi Dench was superb, as usual. I think I will have to watch it again. The movie was so good. I didn’t realize it was based on a true story until the end, which made me tear up even more.
Yes, Philomena was a great film.
I always find it weird when actresses discuss their breasts in any way. She’s definitely in the oversharing department.
I’ve often wondered if InStyle gets back at celebs they secretly hate by making them look AWFUL in photo shoots. There was a shoot of Halle Berry last year in which she was airbrushed to death, but they left a deep furrow in her brow, so she looked angry. It was about the time she was in the news for the dustup between her fiancé and her baby daddy. There was also a spread on Julianne Moore late last year that was the absolute worst I’ve ever seen her look.
Maybe they’re getting back at the wood nymph by making her look like she escaped from Middle Earth.
I’m already tired of this girl, and I haven’t seen any of her work.
I love the clothes. I hate the hair extensions!
Doesn’t EVERYONE talk about that?
Yes, Shailene, people do tell you that when you lose weight your boobs shrink. This is common knowledge. Wow. Everything she says is painful. She’s just so incredibly ignorant, sheltered, incurious, and just plain dumb. She’s only 22, but if she doesn’t get her butt out of Hollywood and into college or something like the Peace Corps very soon, she’s going to be Goop 2.0.
Is this chick for real? She’s so vapid and straight-up dumb yet fronts like she’s a wise old soul. Enough already.