Kate and Orlando in July, 2006
Whenever I get vertigo it means I need to eat something, but I have blood sugar issues. I have to make sure to eat before I work out and bring snacks with me to the gym. That couldn’t be Kate Bosworth’s problem because she’s talking about the actual heartbreak she felt when Orlando Bloom broke up with her. She’s not getting confused about the fact that she forgot to eat for a few months, is she? Kate has a new interview with the London Times’ Sunday Style section in which she opens up about her split with Orly back in 2006. I guess she’s promoting Straw Dogs, which is out in the UK on November 4th. You can’t get online access to the Times Sunday Style unless you pay for a subscription, so I can’t read the full article because I’m cheap that way. It’s unclear to me why Bos brought up her five year old breakup and why she went on about it, unless she just wanted us to talk about her. Mission accomplished.
Breaking up with Orlando Bloom was really, really hard to do for Kate Bosworth.
After about four on-and-off years together, the Straw Dogs actress, 28, and the Hobbit star, 34, called it quits in 2006.
Bosworth (who broke up with Alexander Skarsgard earlier this year) is now dating director Michael Polish, and Bloom is happily married to model Miranda Kerr, with whom he has one son, Flynn, 10 months.
But Bosworth suffered mightily — even physically — in the aftermath of that 2006 breakup. “Oh, I definitely know the feeling of pain, that’s for sure,” she told England’s Sunday Times Style of the split.
“You know when you put all your chips into something, then it disappears?” she said of her relationship with the hunky Australian star. “[The break-up] sent me into such pain, I think I had actual vertigo. I was like, ‘Is this my new reality? Will anything be normal again?'”
“Then one day,” the Superman Returns beauty mused, “You wake up and you think, OK, I’ll never be the same, but I’ll survive and I’ll grow from it.”
Indeed, all seemed well between the exes during an unexpected reunion in L.A.’s Brentwood neighborhood in early July of this year. With Bloom astride his Ducati motorcycle, the former loves even shared a hug. “They looked cordial,” an observer told Us Weekly. “They were genuinely smiling to one another like friends, but didn’t linger very long.”
[From US Weekly]
That “unexpected reunion” between Kate and Orly just happened to be captured by the paparazzi, so I would venture that it was staged by Kate like so many of her other outings. So after she “dumped” Alex Skarsgard (her side of the story, and I doubt it’s true, he’s just too classy to put his version out) she promptly got another boyfriend and made sure that there were photos taken of the two of them out together. Look Alex and Orly, I’m fine!
Other outlets have more details of Kate’s interview. She denies that she diets and just calls herself “naturally slim.”
“Oh, I swear it’s stress. I wish I could stop it, it’s like a vibration you live in with your mind constantly, constantly going. [Being thin] is nothing to do with not eating. I’m like a whippet, I promise you,” she insisted in an in interview with the Sunday Times Style magazine.
Kate insists her diet is healthy. The blonde beauty’s petite figure is all natural, which she knows might annoy some women.
“Ask any of my boyfriends about my diet and they would tell you,” she added. “But I hate this, I can’t win in this situation, can I? I mean, when people hear that, they just want to go ‘Shut the f**k up,’ right?”
[From London Times]
Well at least she knows what people say about her. I get the “naturally slim” arguments, I have friends like that. When they’re stressed they don’t eat and overall they always eat smaller portions than I do. It doesn’t seem deliberate the way they do it, (like it is when I diet) but it’s the result of their habits and it’s not all due to genetics. I get that some people have higher metabolisms, but if you eat a lot of junk you’ll gain weight. It’s not just “natural” to be really thin, in my opinion, it’s a result of your habits.
Getting back to Kate’s breakup with Orlando Bloom, again why the hell is she still talking about it? Was she trying to say that she could relate to pain because she remembered how awful it was when they broke up? The dude is also famous, he has a famous wife and they have an adorable baby now. Kate should have come up with some other personal story to relate or just given a vague response to that question. It just seems in bad taste to bring up Orly now. I picture him rolling his eyes at this story and then giving his hot wife a wink.
Orly and Kate photos credit: Pacific Coast News. Photos of Kate alone are outside a nail salon on 9/27/11. Credit: Fame
she was a lot bigger in blue crush, where was the whippet then?
“It’s not just “natural” to be really thin, in my opinion, it’s a result of your habits.”
It really can be natural. My family is naturally very thin and we eat a lot. We just have super-fast metabolisms. We don’t work out either. That’s just the way our bodies work.
Now with that said, I think the Bos and other actresses like the Jolie are naturally thin but not emaciated and it is stress and habits that make them the extreme examples of thin that they are.
But beyond all that, some of us ladies really are just naturally thin and it sucks to be told we’re not “real women” by default because we don’t have “curves”. We women come in every damn shape and size and it’s all beautiful, at least to someone so let’s stop bitching at each other for not getting it right, shall we?
We’re all fabulous, gorgeous bitches.
Alright, I’m done.
my thoughts exactly aenflex!
@Eve, I get what you mean and maybe I should have phrased that differently. I think it’s a combination of both genetics and habits, like so many things. I’m biased because we’re not very thin in my family. Like I said I do have a few very thin friends. I notice that they eat less than I do and I’ve talked to them and none of them stress eat like I do. Never did I say that you thin bitches are not real women. 😉 You’re just lucky.
Why is Bos talking about a 5 year old heartbreak? rhetorical question…
Well said, Eve. I’m not thin that way, but my sister is, and it’s sick to hear people call a woman anorexic just because she’s thin. Men’s bodies run the whole gamut of sizes as well.
KB was gorgeous in Blue Crush – slim, athletic, fit and strong.
The super skinny version is from very strict eating/non eating habits as opposed to anything natural. You can tell from the deterioration/non existent muscle definition.
I doubt she can even lift a surfboard these days. So sad.
I read somewhere that she was on an exercise regime (for Blue Crush) and gained weight and muscle mass for it. The body she had in that movie was not how she normally is. That makes sense. Who would believe a rail thin surfer?
Maybe she’s talking about it five years after the fact because it’s no longer painful to talk about it? Sometimes it takes people a while to be able to look back at something as just a memory.
I saw this on Jez last night and I KNEW that it was goign to come up on here today.
What i find hysterical is that she also has another semi-famous ex who she has been papped with before but somehow never comes up in interviews and is conveniently left out of her personal information on Wiki and IMDb, Matt Czuchry. My guess is that hes just not famous enough to name drop.
I always liked those two together and had hoped that they would have worked things out.
Oh my, love Orly. M Kerr is one lucky lady.
Look at the way Bos is clinging to him in that photo, lol, who does that? Can you say oppressive?
Orlando isn’t Australian!
Amen Eve, and Celebitchy, well said and thanks!! 🙂 You’re the coolest ever!
Yeah, I think we may judge her more harshly b/c her first big role was Blue Crush, so we “knew” her as a kind of fit and muscular girl, but she did put on weight for that.
I do tend to get very thin and forget to eat and really have to eat every 3 hours and work out a ton to look the way I want. I also have a small appetite–I was on vacation these past 2 weeks and would not drink anything so that I could enjoy more food! I was full after soup! Pissed me off.
So I do tend to think perhaps she is being honest, however I have to believe that she prefers this look to the one in Blue Crush b/c she never seems to try to put on muscle and she’s always so Boho-waif.
Hah. He looks so annoyed in those pics
Maybe she brought up the Orlando Bloom thing because the interviewer asked her about it? From the excerpt, it didn’t seem out of context, just seemed like she was answering a question honestly. In Blue Crush she was thicker and when that movie came out she said she busted her ass trying to put muscle on. I don’t know why I always find myself defending her because honestly I’m indifferent to her-I guess I just don’t understand all the seemingly unwarranted hatred towards her. Is it because she’s skinny???? A lot of Hollywood actresses are and I con’t see people sh*tting on them nearly as people do on Bosworth….
Celebitchy, I agree with your observations regarding many people being skinny more due to their eating habits instead of high metabolism. I have personally never known a woman over 30 yrs old who was skinny due to a high metabolism. They usually think that they eat a lot, but they don’t. But this is not a criticism. I wish that I were “naturally” skinny, but I live on a diet.
OMG! Did she really say this, how pathetic. Maybe she would not experience vertigo if she would eat.
Maaaan… You know how you get dumped and you compare yourself to his next girl? How can anyone compare to Miranda? It would make me sooo insecure.
CB, I’ve seen the whole article, she is just fronting all over the place about her nerves, she’s like a whippet that’s why she’s thin (clavicles showing? that’s not naturally thin and Eve, I do appreciate that it is possible, my family is also high metabolism, but we don’t have our bones showing and her younger self was far more healthy in weight, look at Young Americans and Blue Crush era), she calls Michael Polish her “life partner” not some “crazy infatuation” (or quick prop to get Alex to be jealous, I guess). The whole thing makes her sound off as usual. It was hard to tell what she was trying to accomplish with what she discussed in this, given she has claimed elsewhere that she is not into talking about her private life.
I call BS on the “naturally slim”. I lose weight when I don’t (or barely) eat also.
As for the Orly thing? Duh! Promoting a movie in the UK, Orly is from the UK, no-brainer.
This bitch is evil. The man has a child and a wife. Stop talking about him you low life.
Maybe she brought up Bloom because his new film hits the US in a couple of days and since it’s doing well abroad it’s likely to do well in the US as well.
I just emailed, via LexisNexis, the Times article to the info@celebitchy address.
The article annoyed me because it was so ass-kissy.
Do I believe that she’s naturally slender and loses weight easily when stressed? Yes, but I do think that she controls her diet more than she probably realizes.
The only thing that really stuck out to me was the fact that the writer/interviewer of London Times’ Sunday Style said that Orlando was Australian. The man was born in Canterbury, Kent, England, FFS. Great reporting there, guys!
It does mix rather perfectly though, with her interview, that they’d botch that up. She is blathering on about a very old and worn topic just to get attention.
I remember hearing/reading a n interview with her that stated she melted and drank Ben and Jerry’s quarts 3 x day to gain weight for Blue Crush. That said she was super cute at that weight.
Do we know for sure she was talking about Orly? Or is it just implied; I don”t see his name mentioned anywhere.
Bone structure and good genes can take you far, but having a bony chest isn’t par for the course with “normal” eating habits. Naturally thin, that does exist, and she probably is to some extent (she is a gorgeous nordic specimen IMO, not quite my taste, but I won’t pretend to find flaws) but I’d bet dollars to donuts she eats very little and very healthy and or works out a ton.
Growing up I was very, very thin, probably because I’m 5″11 and during those adolescent years I simply couldn’t put weight on. And people made fun of me (ana rexic, skeletor, olive oil, ect.). I tend not to comment on people’s personal appearances in that regard, like if you have fillers and duck lips, clearly you did that to yourself and it’s game on, but genetics do dictate whether you’ll have cankles, or whatever. I have friends with natural muscle tone, i.e. they don’t life weights but are jacked – I’m talking women! The grass is always greener, you can change your genetic predisposition to some degree with hard work and or plastic surgery, but in the end we gotta love ourselves because we’re all hot bitches, like Eve said. Sorry to go on about this, I don’t have the problem with being to thin now, but I do have a fast metabolism and a small frame, so I’m neither over nor underweight. My long winded point was that it sucks to get made fun of no matter what the reason, whether you’re perceived as being too fat, thin, short, tall, purple with yellow spots. And she’s probably totes anorexic, like everyone in the industry because of the unrealistic standards imposed.
My best friend since pre-school is naturally SUPER thin. She grew up eating, and still does, nothing but restaurant food because her mother was too busy to cook for her and her sisters. She’s always had a very healthy appetite and she hates working out. She’s actually in pretty bad shape; a flight of stairs leaves her winded. Her sisters don’t share her super metabolism though. She doesn’t look sick at all either, just very thin.
morgfunk: she’s talking about Bloom:
Bosworth describes the film as “a chronicle of a nervous breakdown”, something she came near to suffering, as she makes very clear, when she broke up with Bloom.
THE “Oh, I definitely know the feeling of pain, that’s for sure,” she says. “You know when you put all your chips into something, then it disappears? It sent me into such pain, I think I had actual vertigo. I was, like, ‘Is this my new reality? Will anything be normal again?’ Then one day you wake up and you think, okay, I’ll never be the same, but I’ll survive and I’ll grow from it.”
Need Lainey to deliver the “Bitch, SIT DOWN”
I don’t disagree with anyone who has been vocal here about how its not always easy to put on weight. Do I suspect there is a lot more to it for Bosworth? If you look at her skin, her hair, her hands in some of those photos, you can see the effects of something other than high metabolism. It’s clearly not hard for her to stay thin but she’s beyond boney in some shots in the past year (and certainly at the time she and OB broke up, which was her worst). It’s not just that she’s thin, it’s also that she’s often revered by the thinspo set and held up as their ideal to aspire to and that’s not healthy at all. My other objection is also what’s been put here many times – she has no regard for anyone else but her own visibility. Dragging her boyfriends into her pap-o-rama, name-dropping when it suits her, dredging up a five year old break-up, that’s all fine with her if it gets her press. This new guy should be wary but he’s probably amazed at how fabulous it is that Blue Crush girl likes him.
Err, this was five years ago. Who cares?
LittleDeadGrrl: obviously she does.
To be honest, I don’t see why anyone would ever find either of these two attractive. They are not ugly but just average looking to me.
Okay, my mom left my dad & it really blindsided him. My dad went through such emotional trauma that he DID actually suffer from vertigo. I remember him having to go for an MRI, missing work and taking medication when the doctors figured out that it was from psych stress and not a brain tumor or something.
Stress, depression and sadness can do all sorts of physical stuff to your body.
I know you all hate Bosworth, but it really can happen. I saw it first hand with my dad.
sarajane: For me, it’s not whether or not it did happen, I believe that it did happen to her (it can be an version of grieving, in this case for the end of her relationship). The question is, why, after 5 years, is she bringing it up? If it was a direct question, which I can’t tell from reading the article (it’s not well written) she could have just not answered it.
@ celebitchy
You and Kaiser are the best! I know what you were saying and I appreciate that you don’t make the blanket statement that without more weight on your frame you’re not a “real woman”. I just see that conclusion thrown around so flippantly and so often when thin, naturally or otherwise are discussed and it’s ridiculous.
@morgfunk
Amen!
And to the few who mentioned that prominent bones in your chest are unnatural– I can assure you that when you are indeed naturally very thin and have smaller breasts, your sternum will show through depending on your bone structure and body shape. My clavicles and chest have always been extremely bony and I just finished wolfing a burrito from Chipotle so…
Being thin isn’t always a result of ones habits. Some people really are naturally thin, and their habits don’t have anything to do with it.
Some people just can’t and don’t gain weight, even if they try to.
FFS this trick. GTFO already. I’d take Kardashian news over this ho.
This bitch needs to stop. Her relationship with Orlando was 3 men ago. And prior to her new “life partner”, those were multi-year relationships. She’s using Orly again to gain some press.
@Eve,
“We’re all fabulous, gorgeous bitches” is going to be my new mantra. 😉
when your chest looks like a toast rack in a wet paper bag you know it’s time to just stop
I don’t doubt for a minute that she’s natually thin but that ain’t the same as being gaunt and looking ten years older without your make up on
Orly and Alex dodged a bullet there!
KBos is becoming a cross between GOOPY and Aniston. So we should call her GOOPiston from now on. That interview was a huge eyeroll from start to finish. Ugh.
I agree that some people are naturally thin. I do agree that society and other women get jealous of naturally thin women, and bash them about breast size and lack of curves…that is awful! There are so many different definitions of a “beautiful woman” means!
However, with Kate, I have a very hard time believing it. She wasn’t skinny to the point of her bones showing when she was younger. There are some serious rumors about her and drug use, and I think the details in her body support that.
I dunno…after seeing people like Demi and Angelina who look like skeletons with skin…Kate looks okay. *shrugs*
Talking about her break up with Orly 5 years later is a bit weird…especially now that he is married with child. She should just stfu about that stuff.
@cr: Oh, I totally get what you’re saying. But, I first read about this last night on another site and it seems like some people are doubting that such emotional stress can cause something like vertigo. Just like how stress/grief/depression can cause hair loss.
But I agree completely. Bringing it up so many years later seems odd. But I don’t place all of the blame squarely on Bosworth herself for talking about it now. We all know that MANY interviews are edited (sometimes heavily to create provocative sound bites that will just stir up sh*t) and the media seems to love rehashing old crap to do the same: stir the pot, create feuds out of nothing or to keep feuds alive when there is no dead horse left to beat. And I think a lot of celebrities could avoid rehashing the past (and making themselves look bad in the process) by just not answering a question, it’s not like they are on trial or under oath.
But yeah, my post was just a general “yeah, this can really happen”, more than anything else. That’s all I was really saying. 🙂
sarajane: I don’t like KB, but I can totally see her reacting to the final break up in a form of grieving. That and it coincided with her mostly awful reviews for Superman Returns, so not a good summer for her.
As for who first mentioned OB in the Times interview, I actually can’t tell, it’s not a very well done interview, it seems rather choppy, among its other problems. But even if she were asked directly, she could have just shrugged it off. Perhaps she was in a chatty mood.
Who is she again?
“It’s unclear to me why Bos brought up her five year old breakup and why she went on about it”
We’ve already seen examples of careers basing on that.
Worked for one person, maybe it’s gonna work for another.
@aenflex I don’t think it’s fair to compare her current physique to her “Blue Crush” physique for which she had to gain weight and muscle for. Looking at her pics of her before that movie, before she gained significant fame/recognition, she’s definitely naturally petite. her current weight is probably pretty close to her natural weight. She probably is a bit thinner because she seems to be mostly doing modeling gigs nowadays.
@taksi I don’t know – it’s hard to compare her appearances throughout the years. Pre-Blue Crush, she was still a teenager (Young Americans)- definitely softer and rounder, slim but not bony (no clavicle or visible chest bones). Blue Crush, she turned a lot of that into muscle and it does take a lot to gain that muscle, especially if you didn’t have it there to begin with. Being thin vs. being lean are two very different things. After Blue Crush though, she got very small, especially during OB and after in an almost unnatural kind of way because she doesn’t look healthy a lot of the time. She’s never gotten fully healthy after her super-skinny days.
It’s not surprising though she’s still talking about OB – it’s what she does. She’s known for her bad acting, Blue Crush, dating OB, and her weight. Never changes. If it doesn’t work with Polish (who knows, it might), she’ll still talk about OB even while she’s with another dude. Sometimes I wonder if she was given the gag order to not talk about ASkars from their shared publicist. But, OB’s her money ticket. What else would they talk to her about?
oh i know that feeling. breakups suck. the only good part is the weight loss.
She had Orli when he was still hot hot hot.
I know this is about heartbreak and weight issues but did anyone else notice the back hair on the guy in the first pic? Nice.
I just wanted to send some commentator love to everyone. This is the only blog where I genuinely enjoy reading all the comments! Keep being clever, insightful, and hilarious, everyone. And CB is marvelous, Kaiser too!
posh-toes: I’ve been staring it all evening, it’s quite fascinating in its own way. That pic is from 2006, I wonder if it’s long enough now for him to style it.
am: “But, OB’s her money ticket. What else would they talk to her about?”
Her amazing fashion sense? Her successful movies?
“Sometimes I wonder if she was given the gag order to not talk about ASkars from their shared publicist.” I wouldn’t be surprised if that were the case, that she was asked not to say anything specific about the relationship, at least not now.
@cr – for someone who obviously dislikes this woman so much, you seem to spend a lot of time thinking about her.
@cr: oh, she could talk about her fashion sense. they’d be better off getting Cher in there since she styles her for jaunts to get her mail….five feet from her front door. I could see the gag order, but then again it’s a little bit of a jab at him to talk about how OB broke her and how her current guy is her “life partner”. Such an ouch when they’ve only been together since (publicly) July.
ulli: And yet you’ve spent time noticing that I comment about her. Pot, meet kettle?
She’s a diversion from the real world out there, the stuff I normally read about: climate change, the crappy economy, genocidal nationalism, the usually happy and uplifting stuff.
The site’s called Celebitchy, not ‘ass kiss a celebrity’
Omgosh I’m glad someone mentioned Young Americans. She looks normal then. Very slim with tiny bones…but her chest in the pictures above looks alarming.
I loved Jake and Hamilton!
@Eve: Well said.
I think it’s “natural” to be thin and being fat is “unnatural” as it is often due to too many calories/carbs/sedentary lifestyle.
I hate when we see thin girls now and people automaticly get on the “she’s anorexic” train.
That said, Kate could use a few extra pounds. But she is naturally thin. I watched Blue Crush recently and she was tiny. Not the stick she is today, but girl was always little.
Bosworth is a beautiful woman.
Indeed she has some eating/ weight issues, but why the hate?
I completely believe her she was heart-broken and was so in-love with Orlando.
He moved on and she felt broken-hearted.
That was a meaningful event in her life, and I don’t get why people are criticizing or mocking her for being real, open and shareing her feelings.
I am one of those skinny ones and I have tried to figure out why I am that way (because people always bitch at me about it ;-)).
I do come from a family of thin and tall people, but I also think that’s just part of it. I am also one of those people who just can’t eat when they’re stressed. I feel like there’s a huge lump in my stomach. Otherwise I think I eat the same as other people. I can’t really tell if it’s less because you are never around other people all the time. What IS different though is that I am moving alot. I watched myself over a day, and I tend to wiggle my foot when seated, I always jump up and get this and get that and can’t sit still very well. I guess that accounts for quite a number of burned calories, since I don’t work out and am too lazy to go running.
riri: I believe that she was broken hearted, hence the weight loss. But it was just a couple of weeks from the announcement of the final breakup to when she was seen out with James Rousseau (sp?). So, she moved on too.
I don’t hate her, but I don’t like her. And it’s not because she’s skinny. It’s because she’s a fairly talentless famewhore with ‘issues’.
If she had anything else about her, that was interesting to talk about, then I could look past her too-thin look and her almost always talking about the men in her life. She hasn’t though. Her carrer is tanking and has been for a long time. She’s not a succes as an actress and the whole fashion-it-girl-wannabee is dull. Just as it’s dull and boring and desperate that she’s always hanging onto some guy – is she ever single?
Just because he dated another guy, doesn’t mean she was over the guy who moved on and wasn’t broken hearted.
I really think she was crushed, and don’t like it when people point- Orly must be rolling his eyes, has a famous wife…
I can totally relate to the girl who felt like it shook her world and was such a terrible event.
YES, EVEN 5 YEARS LATER.
I don’t think she is the most gifted actress, but they are all fame-wh-ores.
From Angelina to Scarlett, they are all seeking media attention and would do a lot to get it.
I do think she is beautiful and therefore has more legitimate claim to fame than Lohan et al.
riri: “I do think she is beautiful and therefore has more legitimate claim to fame than Lohan et al.”
So it’s only her beauty that should give her a claim to fame? I’ll give her this, I think she has issues, but they’re nowhere near as bad as Lohan’s. But maybe her claim to fame should be based somewhat on her actual talent, not just her ability to date famous men and sort of be a fashionista (who is styled to within an inch of her life).
She’s not a great actress, but perhaps she could work on it, and get better? That sort of thing?
RIBCAGE.
OMG, is Kate Bosworth the new Jennifer Aniston? Because that’s the vibe I get from some of the comments above.
Sure, break ups hurt, sure often you’re crushed so badly that you can barely breathe. We’ve all been there, no one’s denying the pain.
But do you *really really* have to talk about it to the press 5 years later? Especially as your very ex boyfriend just started a family? What’s wrong in sharing stuff with friends and family but *not* mourning your past relationships in public?
Original Chloe – completely agree.