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.”

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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

Our friends over at The Skinny have been dutifully reporting on the ever-shrinking figures of 90210 actresses Jessica Stroup and Shenae Grimes. Both have lost a dramatic amount of weight in the last several months, presumably due to joining the show. They were each very slim to begin with, but along the lines of what Hollywood would probably define as a “healthy slim.” Now they’re both nearly skeletal, and Us Weekly claims that 90210 producers and the other actors are planning an intervention of sorts.

Beverly Hills, 90210 stars Jessica Stroup and Shenae Grimes are so thin that show producers and costars are poised to take action, Us Weekly reports in its latest issue, on newsstands now.

“They want the girls to gain weight,” a show source tells Us. “They are trying too hard to be skinny, and it’s started to wear on them. It’s just not healthy.” Stroup, 21, is 5-foot-8 but weighs 100 to 105 pounds while Grimes, 18, is 5-foot-3 and stands at a mere 90 pounds, Beverly Hills-based weight-management expert Dr. Joyce Peters estimates to Us.

“I’ve never seen Jessica or Shenae eat,” another show source tells Us. So shocking is the situation that their 90210 male costars are contemplating an intervention. “I heard some of the boys on the show are going to sit down with the girls and talk to them,” an additional show source tells Us. “The girls were all skinny when they started, but they’re definitely thinner now,” the source adds.

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Both of the actresses are bordering on scary skinny, and I would think now is the time to catch it. Actually a few months ago probably would have been better. The problem is that they both work in an industry that actively rewards and encourages disordered thinking about body weight. I’m so used to it just from seeing so many pictures of emaciated starlets everyday that I didn’t even bat an eye when I first checked out pictures of Stroup and Grimes. You really have to consciously smack yourself and remember how a healthy body is supposed to look after a while. And it isn’t like this.

Hopefully the show’s producers will bring in some kind of expert and help Jessica and Shenae. And also make sure they don’t have the kind of show that encourages this.

Here’s Shenae Grimes (in black) and Jessica Jessica Stroup (in orange) at the Teen Choice Awards on August 3rd. Images thanks to PR Photos.