Have you seen the story of the 30 year-old Romanian model with the 20 inch waist? Reports have her at either 5’6″ or 5’7″ tall and just 84 pounds. When Radar first ran a photo of her people were quick to say that the image was Photoshopped, but a google image search reveals that this model really does have a waist you could fit your hands around. I just found a video of her, above, and it’s jaw-dropping. The photos don’t do her justice at all. She’s some kind of medical anomaly and what’s more is that she claims that she eats three meals of junk food a day, but concedes that her stomach is so small she can’t eat much. A nutritionist consulted by Radar says it’s not likely that she eats much and that she should be eating healthier of course. Here are some of model Ioana Spangenberg’s quotes on her “hourglass” figure as well as Radar’s story:

Romanian model Ioana Spangenberg has a freakish figure: She has a natural 20-inch waist in contrast to her 32-inch hips. At 84 pounds and with her wide hips and tiny waist, the 30-year- old model has been dubbed by the UK’s The Sun newspaper as “the human hourglass.”

Spangenberg said she eats three square meals daily but cannot gain weight in her mid area. She said when she was 13 years old her waist was around 15 inches wide.

“Someone could put their hands around it, their fingers would touch and they would still have extra room,” she told The Sun.

“No one seems to believe it, but every day I eat three big meals and I snack on chocolate and crisps all the time,” Spangenberg added. “I just have a small stomach. It’s a bit like having a natural gastric band – if I eat too much, I feel sick.”

Spangenberg told the paper that when she was in her 20s she struggled with her self-esteem.

“In Romania it is better to be overweight, because that means you are from a wealthy family…so while my friends were going out and dating, I was sitting at home with Mars bars wishing I could fatten up,” she said. – From IBTimes.com

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She may have a 20-inch waist but model Ioana Spangenberg could also have cellulite, digestive problems and risk the onset of early menopause, a Hollywood nutritionist tells RadarOnline.com exclusively.

Carolyn Scott-Hamilton has not treated the model, but has given her expert opinion on the Romanian’s claims she snacks on junk food daily.

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, despite 5ft 6 inch, 30-year-old Ioana only weighing 84 lbs, she insists she lives on a diet of chips, pizzas and kebabs.

“It’s definitely possible that she’s eating junk food every day but it depends how much,” Carolyn says. “It could be a small handful of chocolate and potato chips throughout the day.”

Even so, while Carolyn says the model could have a “super fast metabolism” eating a diet packed with junk food isn’t good, even if you’re skinny.

“If she’s eating all that salt and sugar she’s got to have cellulite,” the expert says. “She risks having problems with her reproductive system, her digestive track, as well as onset diabetes because she is eating so much sugar.”

Carolyn also says: “At 5ft 6 a healthy weight would be 130 lbs. But at 84 lbs that means she has very little to no muscle. It could mean she is so malnourished, starving even, that the muscles have atrophied causing the low weight.”

Although Carolyn says it is possible for someone to naturally have a fast metabolism she says it is less likely if you’re a 30-year-old woman.

“In order to be that thin, she would need to consume about 500 calories or less – about a quarter of a candy bar a day,” she says. “A high metabolism doesn’t work that well.”

Last week Ioana told The Sun, a UK newspaper: “No one seems to believe it, but every day I eat three big meals and I snack on chocolate and crisps all the time. I just have a small stomach.” – Radar Online

[From IBTimes.com and Radar Online]

Other sources claim her diet consists of “toast with jam or eggs for breakfast and has a snack of chocolate and crisps around 12pm. Lunch [is] sausage, chicken and potatoes, while later in the day she fills up on bread, meat and cheese sandwiches.” It’s hard to believe that anyone who weighs 84 pounds and looks emaciated could be eating like that and snacking on potato chips and chocolate. I tend to side with the nutritionist – the woman must be exaggerating how much she eats. Maybe she’s got a medical condition that makes it impossible for her to gain weight, though. It happens and it’s not like she looks healthy at all. That kind of waist requires some extreme corseting, doesn’t it? I don’t even want to look that up, but I will. It turns my stomach to think of reducing your waist like that, it just looks abnormal and it doesn’t seem like it can be achieved without a small waist to start with. It reminds me of Chinese foot binding.

Photo credit: BARM and Facebook

Angelina Week is going full-force! And now we even have some tabloid reports to go along with all of our new photos and interviews. Us Weekly has a bizarre (or on-target?) report about Angelina’s thinness, which… I’m kind of tired of people discussing Jolie’s thinness. She doesn’t really look any heavier or thinner since last year or the year before. She lost a lot of weight after her mom died, and then slowly come back to the figure she has now, which I think it probably close to her natural state. Would I love for Angelina to put on 20 pounds? Of course. I think she would look great with some additional weight on her bones. But to me, she doesn’t look scary-skinny like too many of the girls who bulimia their way to slender figures.

Unlike some of her peers, Angelina Jolie’s pin thin frame has nothing to do with vanity.

The U.N. goodwill ambassador, 36, who travels the globe meeting the poor, “puts herself on fasts to make statements for the children she visits,” a Jolie source tells the new issue of Us Weekly (on stands Friday).

“She says, ‘If they can’t eat, I can’t eat,’” the source adds. The busy mother of six “does different cleanses from around the world. It’s very dramatic, but that’s how she gets.”

If she does eat a burger and fries, says the source, “she feels guilty about it.”

The actress — currently promoting her directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey — has partner Brad Pitt, 47, worrying about her health, says a second insider.

“He’s worried about her and has made her see a zillion doctors, but they keep telling her she’s fine.”

[From Us Weekly]

Yeah, I don’t believe this. I think Jolie – or anyone who works in famine-ravaged areas of the world – has moments of guilt at being from a country of plenty, but she’s been doing UNHCR work for more than a decade. I just don’t buy that this is her thought process.

Meanwhile, Page Six had this story about Angelina this morning:

Angelina Jolie is asking politicians for their opinions on her movie, “In the Land of Blood and Honey,” set during the Bosnian war. At a Hearst Tower screening Tuesday night, director Jolie told Marie Claire editor Joanna Coles that she’s discussed the film with Bill Clinton, who “has [it], but has not watched it.”

She also said she was “nervous” for the reaction of former NATO commander Gen. Wesley Clark, a consultant on the film. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright also has a copy. As for the current administration, Jolie said, “We’d hope to send it to anyone who is willing to sit down and watch it.”

[From Page Six]

Well, considering that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s elbow is Team Aniston, I’m guessing Angie won’t be sending it to Hills. But I’m sure Bubba enjoys Angelina, although she’s too skinny for his tastes. Maybe Robert Gates wants to see it? I’m surprised Jolie didn’t send it to Colin Powell – you know that she’s tight with him, right?

Photos courtesy of WENN & Fame.

About a month ago, skinny twits LeAnn Rimes and Giuliana Rancic were involved in a minor feud over LeAnn’s thinness that each of them predictably exploited for headlines. E! reporter Giuliana was asked by the Huffington Post, “What celebrity would you like to feed who you think is really skinny right now?” She answered Leann Rimes, explaining “She lost a lot of weight from all the stress in her life. She seems a little thin right now and I think she looks great when she’s a bit curvier.”

LeAnn of course was all over that, tweeting to Giuliana that they should go to dinner and then workout together, presumably to burn off any calories they might have consumed. (Really she did tweet that they should go to dinner, then workout in that order.)

Giuliana later backtracked , clarifying that she didn’t say Leann was “ugly skinny or that she needs to gain weight,” which isn’t exactly accurate, but whatever.

Well LeAnn and Giuliana went out for drinks together on Tuesday night, to Nobu in West Hollywood. Nobu is known for great Japanese food, which is generally very healthy and low calorie, but of course they skipped the meal and just had some liquids. They must not be at the stage yet where they’re ready to take turns holding each other’s hair back in the bathroom. (I know it’s terrible to joke about eating disorders, sorry.) LeAnn of course papped the occasion and then tweeted about it. LeAnn’s tweets about their night out sound kind of creepy stalkerish (she calls Giuliana “my sweets” twice) while Giuliana’s tweet back is normal-sounding.

LeAnnRimes: @GiulianaRancic My sweets….so amazing to talk to you over drinks. I adore you! You are beautiful and we were meant to meet for a reason
5 Oct

GiulianaRancic: @leannrimes Couldn’t have said it better myself:). Had such a great time. See u soon…..
10 hours ago

LeAnn’s producer Darrell Brown: @GiulianaRancic I heard From @leannrimes you two had a great time no fair when I am away from los angeles LeLe.

LeAnn: @darrellbrown @giulianarancic lol we did and she’s a doll
8 hours ago

Then LeAnn tweeted to some guy whose page doesn’t exist anymore: @itsdavidslut @giulianarancic there was Bo making up to do. It was just some much needed girl time.

[From Twitter, LeAnn's and Giuliana's accounts]

Well good for them I guess. They both have stuff to promote and this outing earned some headlines without destroying any property that we know of. LeAnn will probably continue to bug Giuliana to hang out with her, Giuliana will be “busy” for weeks and it will take some time before LeAnn gets the message and backs off. LeAnn will have more to occupy her at home at least, since her TV actor husband is now unemployed again.

These photos of Giuliana are from April. We’ve seen enough of LeAnn.

Photo credit: Fame

We called it when guessing that “Pan Am” was probably like “Mad Men” but with stewardesses, since the show was promoted as a depiction of the social and sexual mores of the 1960s. Sunday night’s premiere was relatively well received by critics and audiences alike, but I personally found the show a bit hollow in terms of the human element. Indeed, the International Business Times agrees that “It’s bubblegum. It’s a glossy, well researched, and fairly well-executed piece of nostalgic candy” but that “an emotional core is needed if the show hopes to have any staying power.” The NY Times also (accurately) declares the show inferior to “Mad Men” but also distinguishes “Pan Am” as “tak[ing] a more forgiving look at the 1960s” and stops just short of describing the pilot episode as “Sex and the Cockpit.”

Still, it’s a rare pleasure to see Christina Ricci on television, and here are some candid shots of her while shooting “Pan Am” on location in New York City in August. Ricci’s character, Maggie, stands out from the other three primary stewardess characters in that she refuses to wear a girdle and often gets in trouble for her so-called “rebellious” nature. It’s a fitting role for Ricci, and she’s still doing the press rounds to promote the show, including this interview with the Huffington Post:

On The Glamour of “Pan Am”: It certainly does look glamorous and fun and beautiful, but it also reminds me about the clothes and having to have my makeup done like that every day. My mother told me it took her two hours every day to get ready during those times. It reminds me that getting dressed today — the way we get dressed — is also a luxury.

On Sexism In The 1960s: Yeah, there is that as well. You can’t show this period of time without acknowledging that it was a misogynistic period of time for women. There were certainly not just double standards but blatant rules that excluded women and were very hurtful to women.

I think they were having a good time. One thing I have to say about stewardesses — they were very much in charge of their own lives and sexuality. It was a job where they could sleep with who they wanted to and travel around and not be married. Actually, they couldn’t have the job if they were married. While certainly flirting with passengers was encouraged, sleeping with passengers was not encouraged and that is something we deal with in the show.

On Her “Pan Am” Character: I flout authority. My character, Maggie, uses the plane as her own personal runway. When she’s out and about, she’s the glamour queen and gets into fights and fights for everyone else’s rights. She has her nose in everything.

On Watching Her Old Movies: I look at it and think it’s funny because I look like such a kid. I think when you know yourself, you can recognize your little kid acting voice or the way I read a line. I’m more like, “Oh, look I was 12,” or, “Look what I looked like when I was 10.”

On Her Food Temptations: I have to say my favorite forbidden food is Cheetos and any kind of McDonalds. I once ate McDonalds three times in one day.

[From HuffPo]

We’ve already discussed how Ricci has some lingering body image issues from her teens and young adulthood that are evidenced by her recent statement that she doesn’t look as good as the “average person” in a bikini. She usually comes across as quite honest and frank in interviews, so I’m wondering what to make of this admission that she often eats McDonalds. Is it possible to do so and still maintain such a lithe figure without delving into eating disorder territory? Whatever the case, Christina must be doing something right, for she is positively glowing in these set photos.

Photos courtesy of WENN

In yesterday’s post about Ben Affleck and his 1970s wiglet, I also threw in some photos of Jennifer Garner from her daily paparazzi-friendly jaunts. I mentioned the weirdness of Garner’s pregnancy style – when she’s not pregnant, she wears really baggy, unflattering clothes that make her look pregnant, and now that we know she is knocked up, all of sudden she’s wearing fitted clothes and she looks slender. It’s the strangest thing. In Touch Weekly might have an explanation for it, though – according to Jennifer’s unnamed friend, Garner has been working out four to five times a week with a personal trainer so that she doesn’t put on as much weight as she put on with her second pregnancy:

Some people may see pregnancy as an excuse to let themselves go, but Jennifer Garner is clearly not that girl! A friend says the star – who’s in her second trimester – has been working out four to five times a week with her personal trainer.

The pal says Jen, 39, is trying to keep her workouts up so she can give in to her cravings without all the guilt.

“Jen’s pregnancy cravings are cookies and cheese puffs,” the friend reveals. “She knows those calories add up.”

[From In Touch Weekly, print edition]

Cookies? Cheese puffs? I wouldn’t think Jennifer would even keep that stuff in stock at her house. She seems like the all-organic-everything type. As for the whole exercising while pregnant thing – I don’t really have an opinion. Don’t most doctors say that women can exercise while pregnant, just not anything really high-impact or super-aerobic? I think Jennifer is just worried about gaining so much weight again.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

After writing that title I keep picturing LeAnn Rimes and Giuliana Rancic in a slap war flailing their arms around at each other and then getting tired from the effort. In reality they’re probably both tough as beef jerky and scrappy bitches, but they look like they would barely be able to land a punch. (My money would be on Rimes, though.)

So Giuliana, who has some very well documented body image issues and the disordered eating that goes along with that, recently told the Huffington Post that LeAnn Rimes had lost weight recently and looked better with some extra meat on her bones, basically. Giuliana should totally know better than to say that to a fellow starver. We’ve seen Giuliana get all worked up on several different occasions when people have publicly told her to gain weight. So predictably, LeAnn took to Twitter to tell Giuliana that she does eat and that they should share a meal together they could later exercise off. Really, that’s almost exactly what she Tweeted.

Giuliana Rancic and LeAnn Rimes might be headed for a showdown — and there won’t need to be a weigh-in for this one!

The heat stems from Rancic’s recent comments about Rimes’ slight physique, after the 35-year-old E! host told The Huffington Post she thinks the bikini-loving singer needs to put some meat on her bones.

“She lost a lot of weight from all the stress in her life,” Rancic told the website. “She seems a little thin right now and I think she looks great when she’s a bit curvier.”

Rimes was none too happy, calling out Rancic on Twitter quicker than you can say “Brandi Glanville.”

She wrote, “@GiulianaRancic hey, we should go to dinner sometime. You get criticized all the time for how small you are. You can see just HOW much I eat and maybe put a stop to this crazy ‘shrinking’ once and for all.

“Then we should workout together! Good luck with your restaurant!!!!”

When one of Rimes’ followers asked the singer to clarify her comments, Rimes softened her stance, tweeting: “I just don’t appreciate her comments, so I really would love for her to hang with me, see who I am.

“I am a person you know.”

[From Radar Online]

These two need to hang out. They have so much in common, namely a warped body image, a very unhealthy singular focus on eating and exercise, the need to get as much attention as possible and the ability to get incredibly offended at even the slightest perceived insult. They could be best friends if they were capable of anything other than extreme narcissism.

Photo credit: WENN and Fame

Demi Lovato recently took to Twitter to address some comments after the VMAs that she had gained weight recently. She wrote “I’ve gained weight. Get over it. That’s what happens when you get out of treatment for AN EATING DISORDER.” Then she deleted that (after #DemiLovato became a trending topic) and added another tweet that didn’t sound as defensive. She wrote “Guess what, I’m healthy and happy, and if you’re hating on my weight you obviously aren’t. #UNBROKEN” It must be frustrating to have people comment on your weight as a celebrity, but she could have ignored it. As it is, it sounded like it bothered her quite a bit. She told Seventeen in April that she doesn’t “let anyone’s insecurities, emotions, or opinions bother me.” She’s admitted that she struggles with bulimia and with cutting.

She looks great figure-wise and to me the issue is that her dress was too short and revealing and that her makeup was overdone. Her tatas were pushed up and hanging out and that dress was just fug. She’s looked cuter recently at other events. (See below) There’s something really smug about her look at the VMAs, but sometimes she looks much happier and relaxed on the red carpet.

The issue for Demi may have been that her ex Joe Jonas was there that night and she could have been anxious about it. Before Demi had her rehab stint for emotional issues she was dating Joe Jonas and touring with him and his band. Then they broke up, Joe started dating Ashley Greene and Demi was still touring with Joe and the guys. Demi freaked out and punched a backup dancer for some slight last December and got pulled off the tour and sent to rehab. She’s admitted that she was out of line and that she had a nervous breakdown, but she doesn’t blame Joe for it or anything. She told Elle last month “I wouldn’t credit my meltdown to a guy. There was so much other stuff in my life.”

If Demi was nervous about seeing Joe though she didn’t seem to show it. She posed for photos with him at the VMAs and as Just Jared points out that wasn’t the first time they’ve run into each other at an industry function recently. So she seems to be handling it all pretty well. Except when she feels the need to defend herself. I get it, but the best way to deal is to ignore it, if possible. When I grew up we didn’t have twitter or cell phones though. Now it’s all about the chatter while some of us are still playing by the old rules. Do they even still apply? Not if you’re looking for press coverage or twitter feedback I guess.

All these photos are from July and August this year except for the last one, in the white dress with the side tail thing. That’s from August, 2010. I don’t see that much of a difference and she looks great now.

August, 2010

These are some new photos of Jessica Simpson and her fiancé Eric Johnson at last night’s Adele concert at the Greek Theater in LA. Lots of celebrities came out for Adele – Christina Aguilera, the Glee kids and SPARKLES! I love that Sparkles loves Adele. I love that Jessica Simpson loves Adele. Everyone loves Adele! Yay! As for Jessica, at first I thought she had chopped off her hair and dyed the back hot pink… but these are just really fug earrings. Disappointing, I know. For some reason, I kind of think Jessica would look cute with hot pink hair, and I generally hate that look on adult women. For Jess, I’ll make an exception, though.

By the way, you can’t see much of Jessica’s body in these photos, but to me, she actually looks slimmer than she has in the past, which means that she’s actually following The Tracy Anderson Method effectively (unlike Kim Kardashian, who is gaining weight with The Method). Still, in last week’s In Touch Weekly, sources claimed that Jessica was considering pushing back her (alleged) November wedding because she hadn’t lost as much weight as she was expecting:

“Instead of losing weight, Jessica has gained it,” reveals a friend. The problem is that between planning the perfect wedding and running her $1 billion fashion empire, Jessica’s been running herself ragged.

“She works so much that she doesn’t have the time to spend with Tracy Anderson,” explains the friend. Jessica has been so busy, she’s also neglected her diet, and the weight’s crept on.

“She’s always eating on the go,” adds the friend. “She gave herself one year to get in perfect shape, but now the wedding is just a few months away – and she’s panicking,” reveals the friend.

Jessica is so distraught about her failed attempts to say no to tasty treats, she’s even considering pushing her big day back.

“She was rethinking her plans because she fears that she won’t look good in a wedding dress,” the friend reveals.

Jessica was planning a wedding for November 11, 2011, but with three months to go, she’s having serious doubts that she would be ready. “She wants to postpone,” confirms the friend.

Which is a problem – since Jessica and Eric have already block-booked rooms at the ritzy St. Regis Princeville Resort in Kauai, Hawaii, and charters a private jet to fly out their guests. So instead of giving up, “Jessica is going to put everything on hold until she sees if she can lose the weight and get her body in perfect shape for her wedding day.”

[From In Touch Weekly, print edition]

Eh. I really hope Jessica isn’t as worked up about her weight as the tabloids are. Even when she’s heavy, she’s still prettier than most girls, and I think, shock of shocks, Jessica actually found a guy who doesn’t care what her dress size is. Eric loves her and her bank account, just the way it is. That being said, I do wonder if Jessica is actually going to get married in November. Does anyone else think that Farty might be rethinking the whole thing for non-weight-related issues? I don’t know, it feels like it.

Look how good her legs look – Farty is working the program! And this guy photo-bombing Jessica and Eric is ridiculous.

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.

All too often, I only concentrate on Kirstie Alley’s delusions. I should stop for a moment and acknowledge some of the positive. Even though she’s not really a size eight, or a size six, or a size four, Kirstie looks pretty good. She’s 60 years old, and she could easily pass for a woman in her 40s. By the way, that’s what some weight does to many women – it makes you look younger! That’s why Hollywood women starve themselves into oblivion and then get “fillers” in their face, it’s because a fuller face looks younger.

Anyway, here’s something else I have to compliment Kirstie on: her boobs still look great! Look at her boobs in this purple dress, which Kirstie wore to appear on The Late Show with David Letterman. Are those the boobs of a 60 year old woman? Did she get them “done”? I don’t know. Last week, Star Magazine had a piece about Kirstie wanting to get some stuff nipped and tucked, but her rep tells Rumor Fix that Star is full of it:

Kirstie Alley has lost 90 pounds at a rapid fire pace making some gossip magazines wonder if she’s got saggy skin and if plastic surgery is next.

In fact, Star claims she’s got “droopy flesh on her upper arms, saggy jowls and dimpled thighs.”

The magazine goes on to claim, “She definitely wants to get the creases on her face filled in and she’d like to get some of the saggy skin around her midsection tightened up and take care of her jiggly thighs and upper arms.”

Kirstie’s rep tells RumorFix, “She is totally fine the way she is.”

He says the plastic surgery rumors started a year ago after the Dancing with the Stars finalist appeared on Rachel Ray joking about doing plastic surgery on each other. “And now the tabloids use that as a quote that Kirstie considers plastic surgery, but she was joking with Rachel Ray. She’s like, ‘I wouldn’t want a facelift, I’d only want a quarter inch facelift,” but come on, she was completely joking and it was really funny.”

The rep does give the tabloids credit for creativity.

[From Rumor Fix]

Yeah, I think somewhere deep inside, Kirstie knows that her yo-yo dieting and weight problems haven’t ended, so why get a bunch of plastic surgery when six months from now, she’s going to be back to her old “size 10”? Ha. I think she looks like she’s putting on some weight (not much), and I do applaud her for doing so well for so many months. I thought it was going to be a catastrophe for Kirstie just as soon as Dancing With the Stars ended, but she seems to still be working some kind of weight loss program and she’s doing a half-decent job.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame & Pacific Coast News.

I’ve always thought that Jessica Simpson is one of those women who gains and loses weight with a great deal of ease. By most accounts, Jess is very petite, and so an extra ten pounds is really noticeable on her, BUT she can also take it off pretty quickly. That’s just my theory – Jess’s weight seems to fluctuate so much because she’s so small, you notice, and because her diet is constantly in flux. Well, Jess just turned 31 years old – and she gave her boyfriend her credit card and demanded that he give her a fug Birkin for her birthday. Guess what else she got for her b-day? A wonky metabolism! Welcome to your 30s, Jess. You can’t take the weight off as easily as you used to! That’s what Star is claiming this week – that even though Jessica has been working with fraud trainer Tracy Anderson since the spring, Jess is gaining weight back!

She’s not a kid anymore, and now that Jessica Simpson has turned 31, preparing her November wedding to Eric Johnson has made her downright miserable. The problem? Staying in shape is harder than ever, and she’s worried how she’ll look in the wedding gown she’s designing herself.

“Jess is freaking out over her figure. She dropped 20 lbs, this spring but gained 10 back,” a friend tells Star. “Since the beginning of June, she’s been working out two hours a day, six days a week. She’s constantly in a bad mood, nearly starving on a 1,500-calorie-a-day diet, and even admits she’s absolutely miserable instead of filled with happiness and excitement.”

Adds the source, “Poor Jessica, she should be basking in the glow of pre-wedding joy. Instead, she’s stressed to the max.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition]

I think it’s probably a combination of things – slower metabolism in your 30s, plus Jessica could be working out so much she actually gaining weight in muscle. Also: I bet Jessica is still drinking quite a bit, because the girl loves her liquor. That will put on weight and keep it on for a while. That’s one of the reasons I’ve stopped drinking for the past… oh, four months or so. I wanted to see if the liquor was really making a difference in my weight. It was!

Photos courtesy of PCN, Fame & WENN.