I give up.
I give up. What’s holding the dress up, velcro?
(Keira Knightley)
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Everyone knows where her basoomas are. They’re in Katie Holmes’s dress!
I apologize. I know that was lame, but I was under the pressure of the first post. that was a reference to a comment on another LOL a week or two ago.
Death by Taco, you get an A for effort from me. At least the basoomas aren’t in Tom’s dress. Now I guess I should apologize…
No need to apologize, that may be true!
I’m tired of the Keira Knightly hating. She hasn’t been a translucent whore (Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Nicole Ritchie, or Christina Aguilera.) Or been an source of inflammatory crap in saying irrelevant drivel (Megan Fox.)
Her big flaw is being underweight..fine you got her there. I don’t see what the big deal is. If she still looks like that in another ten years, then you have a problem. If you wanna really make fun of her for something, ffs, go for her giraffe neck.
Honestly, being underweight like her is unbelievably unhealthy, even if she is so only for a few months. Since she is a celebrity, she is also a rolemodel for unfortunately way to many people, so fuck her and her personal problems with her outward appearance, but way to many girls are looking up to her and start becoming anorexic because of those rolemodels, so she has a responsibility here. This said, I’d appreciate it, if you wouldn’t marginalize such an eating disorder. Especially the “ten years” comment is bad.
I agree, she is a role model for MANY young girls in this country and the UK who watch her films.
As a 30 year old woman who has been dealing with eating disorders since the age of 12, I know better than most how much the media really hurts us.
I personally won’t watch her films anymore because of her weight. Besides looking just disgusting, (she USED to be very pretty) , the message she is sending to the public is that “ITS OKAY TO BE THIS UNHEALTHY”
Sad…
Keira has been quoted many times as wishing she was more curvy and spend most of her career fending off small breast jokes. While Hollywood probably isn’t helping, she admires a British punk star who weighs over 200 lbs and Keira frequently makes public her admiration. I have no issue with Keira’s weight and like her very much as an actress. Making small breast jokes, on the other hand, tends to be along the lines of projecting an unfair body image where a women must have breasts or be unattractive.
In the first place, I can’t quite understand the issue. Let’s say she’s underweight. Does that automatically make her less healthy? Most Americans are overweight, and that comes with lots of issues, typically. But if she simply is underweight and NOT having health complications (as would accompany eating disorders), then the only logical explanation for her being criticized so much is that people envy her physique, or mistakenly believe being underweight by any amount is unhealthy.
I am technically considered to be underweight and I don’t have any health issues. That’s a bullshit claim. Little impressionable anorexic girls might have health issues from eating 100 calories in a day, but people who eat healthy and just HAPPEN to be underweight are usually good to go. I think that’s a bullshit claim.
If she is a role model, it’s not like she CHOSE to be so. Maybe parents should teach their kids to look up to real heroes instead of people who ACT IN MOVIES. COME ON! And that’s no disrespect, I like Knightley. Enjoy her movies, pretty good actress.
Are you insane?! Of COURSE she CHOSE to be a role model! Every person in the entire world knows that if you are know by enough people you are looked up to by some. Common sense, toots.
And underweight IS unhealthy. and just like being overweight, the signs of it may not be evident now but years down the road you can start to develop heart arrhythmia and you can die. If you are underweight by a huge margin, such as Kiera Knightly, you should really look into taking some sort of weight gaining supplements. I’m not sure of names but they have them. Completely healthy to gain weight when you need to.
And I will admit, some women are born with smaller breasts than others, but all women that are healthy, have something on their chest. Even a girl defined as “flat-chested” will still have mounds. It’s anatomy. The breast if for giving nourishment to a child and all women are born with then and then tissue and glands used in their one and only job.
Studies are showing that being underweight will lengthen one’s lifespan. You have to undereat by like 30%, IIRC.
hOf course, you look like hell, but you live longer.
I’d buy that if she didn’t get into a nice cushy shape every time she does a movie and then shrink back to this ridiculous skeleton between films. And you would think that a woman with her class and nominal style would know better than to try to wear this style dress. She’s got *some* boobs, but this dress doesn’t work with her figure at all. Obviously.
We don’t actually know if that’s her normal weight during movies or if it’s just trickery being done on the film and by what she wears. Often, many of her skinny pictures that I’ve seen come from when she’s promoting the movies. Either she loses weight incredibly quickly, or she could just be a skinny person. I’ve even known someone who is skinny despite the junk that she eats and her lack of exercise (and no she’s not bulimic despite how that sounds…she actually has an incredibly quick metabolism) who gains weight every now and then but who also tends to lose the weight without trying. She tends to look like she should be in a clinic getting help, but she’s just naturally that way. It’s weird.
I’m sorry for the hard time you’re having with your mental health, but believe it or not, in this day and age some people are STILL naturally skinny. I eat like a boy and I’m technically borderline underweight (according to the American CDC’s BMI binning). Another woman I know is healthy, happy, and occasionally has to fend off people who think she’s anorexic.
As a woman with small boobs all I have to say regarding an actress who refuses to conform to celebrity culture by getting implants is “GO KEIRA!” This ROFLcaption is pretty funny though…I see it as making fun of her sartorial choice more than her physique. Tube dresses aren’t the best look for us ironing-board girls.
Ahem, small boobs rock. That is all; you may resume normal conversation.
But I wanna talk about suckling small boobs!
I’d rather just do it.
She doesn’t have an eating disorder; she’s just naturally very thin. Go find a pic of Nicole Ritchie at her smallest and compare Nicole’s stringy beef-jerky arms to Keira’s and you’ll see what I mean: chicks who starve themselves have way more bone/tendon/muscle definition than this.
This is insufficiently described with the word underweight, too many people think something like that is attractive and leeds the severely impressionable to try and look the same(which is their own stupid fault, celebrities are not role models.) She Used to look good but has lost a way way too much weight. And if you look at that picture can you tell me what the hell is holding the dress up it isn’t her body. Basically she needs to gain weight, and the long neck does not bother me and did not seem so prominent before she became grossly underweight.
She’s underweight? No, my friend, you can’t choose to be underweight, you just are. KEIRA KNIGHTLY is anorexic, which isn’t even close to being underweight, because she CHOSE to starve herself for popularity.
*snrk*
Well *I* totally got it. Lol.
It’s called Titty Tape. No joke. Double-sided tape that sticks to your skin and your clothing, but likes to fall off when you need it most, say, at your wedding, classy party thrown by mother-in-law. Lots of fun to rip off. Also known as ‘Clear Duct Tape But Less Efficient’. Widely used under strapless dresses worn by 45 yr old mothers who nursed 20 kids, but seemingly not by women who have giant breasts that let thier dresses fall down all over. *which is fine by me, in most cases*
I should have just said: ‘the same thing that’s holding her career up: Magic!’ But I’m a woman, so I went on a boring tangent instead, with lots of useless information.
+90 points.
Ha! Magic! Good one! I was going to write “Willpower and a good agent.”
“Photoshop.”
Or bare rubber elastic, which naturally sticks to the skin without adhesive. My strapless bras have a line of it inside the band, which is the only thing that keeps my rather heavy breasts from pushing the bra right down.
I think that’s silicone you’re thinking of…clear or white stuff? It’s also used in hold-up/thigh-high/garterless stockings and non-slip hair bands.
Perhaps if a woman were to pair the Titty Tape with a Tiddy Bear titsaster could be averted. Bah Dum Tish!
*headdesk*
i give death by taco an a and hellhathnofury an a++++++ rofl
Wow… and all this time i thought it was the gravitational pull of that huge, jutting, under-bite looking chin…
Downvoted for making fun of small breasts.
There aren’t any breasts there, just nipples.
Dude, I’ve got bigger tits than her, and I’m a guy.
I probably shouldn’t have said that.
Probably not.
I guess no one should ever point out anything having to do with physical attributes, because someone will get all offended and need more therapy.
Pointing out is one thing, making fun is another. She doesn’t have giant implants. Is that bad?
The thing I’d like to point out is that large breasts do NOT hold a strapless dress up, and I’d love to ask the person who did the LOL why he or she thinks that is so . . . it’s completely illogical.
Speaking as a woman with large breasts, I’ve had to endure lots of women looking at me longingly, telling me how they wish they had something to hold their dresses up, and I told them how I was unable to even WEAR anything strapless. It usually went right over their heads, as if they didn’t even hear it. Men, too, seem to not get the concept—maybe their ego is telling them that their junk is holding up the towel they’ve wrapped around their hips?
A dress without straps will work its way downward through bodily movements . . . and the more curves that dress has to move with, the more slippage you’re going to have . . . unless you use, as HHNF suggested, double-sided tape, or as Chass suggested, silicone or rubber elastic strips. That’s it. Strapless dresses are damn stupid, if you ask me. Nothin’s classier than yanking up your dress all the time—especially at your wedding or reception!
Boobs = tops and dresses working their way down
Hips= skirts (and occasionally pants, depending on the fabric) working their way up
Conclusion: It is amazing I make it through the day still wearing any clothes at all. I manage via a complicated system of regular minor adjustments and pixies. Perhaps Miss Knightly has managed to acquire some pixies as well. Lol.
LOL
Wait, pixies? I thought they were mischievous … perhaps *they’re* putting your clothes in disarray!
Or are pixies those chicken-cutlet things?
+200 points. I liked the male junk analogy.
I concur..your boobs don’t hold your dress up–straps do!
I have extremely large breasts as well and those strapless bras with the rubber stuff don’t slide don, they effing flip over while I’m wearing them so I have to look totally goofy, pulling at my bra throughout what ever social event it may be!
My mom’s flat-chested and we make fun of it all the time. Fuck you if you can’t take a joke.
It’s a good thing your mom can “take” a joke.
She’s usually the one to start the joke.
-90 points. I giveth, and I taketh away.
Small breasts are fine, and so is frowning at this for being unabashedly mean-spirited. There seems to be a need in this country to malign people for physical attributes, especially anyone rich, famous, pretty, and god forbid it, slim. But seriousness aside, it IS a wonder how that stays on her.
I have small breasts, and I know it. 34B, kthx. I also have no intention of getting implants. How is this mean? If I had giant boobs and was showing them off, and loudly insulting small-breated women, that would just be viscious. and I explained how it stays on her up there.
im in the same boat, 32B. But this girl looks unhealthy. and i would never wear a garment that brings so much attention to that area.
34B isn’t small. Average is 36B.
A back measurement of 36 is AVERAGE?! I’m a bit overweight, and broad-shouldered, and I wear a back size of 32 in most bra manufacturers.
[Remember, the back measurement does not depend on the size of the breasts.]
I don’t know where you live, but I agree with cazzie that size 36 is average. In Europe at least, maybe not in Asia. I’m 172 cm (5′8”), 50 kg (110 lbs) and size 36.
I live in the center of the United States. Iowa, as a matter of fact, so we’re corn-fed!
Do me a favor? Get a tape measure, preferably cloth. Wrap it around you, underneath your breasts, hold it firmly, but not too tight, and tell me what it reads. Post it here. Kthnx.
my mother who is a size 0 is 32D, i am a size 36DD, and i am average in size, except for my actual breast size. so why don’t you measure YOUR back again, or accept that you are nowhere near overweight. or that you simply have a very very small ribcage.
i live right here in america just like you.
Interesting. I don’t see how I can have a small ribcage, since I have broad shoulders and a very definite V-shape from my waist up. I will say that I like my bras very firm-fitting. I absolutely hate slippage as I move. So, I could see someone that’s about the same body size as I might prefer to wear a 34.
You say you’re a “size 36DD”, but as I pointed out, “size” is not consistent, and many women are wearing a completely wrong size bra.
One of my favorite sites actually says, “throw away your tape measure”. There is some really good info here: http://www.bravissimo.com/perfectfit/getting-the-perfect-fit/default.aspx
That’s how the store, Intimacy, fits their clients, too.
This is interesting; real customers: http://www.bravissimo.com/perfectfit/getting-the-perfect-fit/real-experiences.aspx
Hi, Dutchie speaking here. I might be Captain Obvious here, but I think there’s some confusion going on. The above mentioned (US) *bra* sizes do NOT equal (European) *dress* sizes. A 34B US *bra* size is 75B in European size, which is indeed rather average – at least in the Netherlands.
By the way: a dress size of 36 (size 8 in US) is definitely NOT average here, 38 to 40 is, and that’s probably only if you count those under 35. Above that it’s more likely to be 40 to 42.
Thanks, Dutchie. I’m no good when it comes to European sizes but I’m REALLY familiar with British sizes for bras and undies ….
I tend to buy 2 sizes up from my American pants size when I buy British underwear.
LOL! Okay, okay, you win
At least I got the message across that the US and Europe use different measurement systems, but you’re right, there is no “European” size 
working at Victoria’s Secret, I have to say, purchases of 36B are probably the most common.
Also, you need to be aware that during measurements to obtain the #, you take your actual underbreast measurement and add either 5 or 6 inches. That is your #. That is why so many women wear ill-fitting bras – because they don’t know how to properly measure themselves.
Oh. EM. GEE. Victoria’s Secret is the most horrid example of sizing that exists in retail. Do NOT assume that the poorly fitted garments purchased in your store are at ALL examples of the correct sizing!
Do you know why so many women purchase larger band sizes? Their breasts are too large for the cups in the CORRECT band size. The cup size is not a static “volume”: it works with and changes according to the band size. One gets an increase in volume with an increase in band. The problem comes when you’ve got someone who’s not 36″ or 38″ around buying that size of a bra because they need to go up a cup size, and it’s not available. Why do you think you see so many women with bands riding up their backs? Bra is worn out? More likely, it’s because it was purchased in a size too large in the first place. It should be firm and horizontal across the back. American manufacturers are clueless. I wore the wrong size for YEARS, until I found British bra makers like Panache and Fantasie, who make back sizes down to 28, with cups up to J & K.
I have been to Intimacy in Chicago to be sized properly. You know, truly, how to size someone? You try different sizes and brands. That’s it. There is very little consistency amongst different companies, and even across one company’s range of styles. There is GREAT variation in fit and fabrics and construction.
*You* need to be aware that you take your underbust measurement and add some inches, true, but I was trying to make a point. I wanted the answer from that person, FIRST. If *I* add 5 inches, I get an odd number, so you’re correct: one can add another inch. If I do that in my favorite bra brand and style (and many others as well), they don’t fit firmly enough for me. So, I subtract an inch. That makes me a 32. I am very hourglass-shaped, even if I didn’t have large breasts, since I have broad shoulders and a small waist (years ago, I was implored by a trainer to let him train me to be a professional bodybuilder, because of my shape). I am the average height of the American female. Am I teeny tiny compared to most of the buying public? I don’t think so.
Lighten up a little… o.o”’
Wish I could, Allison, wish I could. I’d love to lose 20 pounds … not only am I going on a cruise in less than 2 months, I would lose 2 cup sizes (done it before), and I could fit into my smaller bras.
My scrumptious Aubade is sitting there in my lingerie drawer, waiting for me to put it back on. ::sniff::
. . . Oh, that’s not what you meant.
Sorry for the rant, I just get worked up on this subject. I spent 20 years wearing the wrong sizes, and it was very frustrating. One puts the right undergarments on, and one immediately looks better and feels better. You can shed 10 pounds and/or 10 years, depending on your physique and age!
I’ve also read online how large-breasted women have been treated in Victoria’s Secret, how salespeople try to squeeze women who are a 34G into a 38D bra, how ill-fitting it so obviously was, yet here they are trying to make a sale. Or, on the opposite end of the spectrum, the vacuous dumbasses I’ve run into (I still shop there on occasion, for underwear, scent, or lipgloss), who ask if they can help me. My reply, “You don’t have any bras that will fit me.” “Oh, I’m sure we do.” Me: “I dunno. Do you have anything in a 32H?” Large cow eyes stare back at me in disbelief.
Ha! The exact same thing happens when I go to most shoe stores: some clerk tries to show me stuff and won’t take no for an answer. Then I go “Okay, I could use a new pair of boots…what do you have in a women’s 12 wide?” Annnnnnnnnnnd cue the big dumb cow eyes.
Not very observant, are they?
They try to fit women with cup size G into a D cup because they don’t sell any higher than DD. If they were to turn those people away, then they wouldn’t have made a sale. Now, there are probably workers who don’t do this and are truthful to the costumer, but there’s always the worker who just wants their store to make money off of everyone. And they can often get away with it. I know people who are obviously F or G cups who gets bras from Walmart. Walmart doesn’t sell anything higher than a DD also. They just see that part of their breasts are covered, assume that the sagging is something they have to deal with, and then buy bras many cup sizes too small for them. I’ve even tried to convince one of these people that they are not a DD (I’m a DDD and they were many times larger than I am), but they told me that they weren’t because they could get the bra on. They decided to ignore that their boobs bounced around far too much (well, except when they were complaining about having to constantly adjust the bra so that their boobs didn’t pop out…)
Isn’t that sad? And then they complain that bras are uncomfortable, and can’t wait to get it off when they get home . . . I’m MORE comfortable in my bra than out of it.
The main problem I see is that too many retailers sell nothing larger than a DDD. Even some of the more expensive department stores don’t, and, when they do, they assume all women with breasts that size are also big around, and often they don’t have band sizes any smaller than 38.
It’s the opposite for me. I wear a 36C. I can’t wear anything smaller than 36; it’s too tight to the point that it hurts and I feel like I can’t breath. Additionally, every time I go into Victoria’s Secret and get “measured” they tell me I’m a 38DD. I am no where near that. Those bras hang off of me and the cups are way too big. Especially VS. I fit perfectly into a VS 36C and laugh at what a 388 DD looks like on me. So it would make sense that VS doesn’t measure properly given my experience with them many times. And I would consider myself a slender person, aside from the boobs.
I gave up on all that stuff a long time ago…I wear elastic bandeaus a lot, they’re comfy. Screw underwires. And I buy bras only when I go back to my home country in Southeast Asia. I’m pretty far off the “average American female” but quite average back home.
Double-A pride!
sheesh, that’s right i forgot, you were the be all end all of bras and sizes and measuring. and Victoria secret is the on;y palce where i can find 36DD without spending $200 bucks for a nice bra that is actually sexy and not designed for an 1800’s grandmother!!
that being said, i am the exact SAME measurement in EVERY shop i go to.
Average breast size is 36C. Look it up.
Average for whom? Whites, blacks? (definitely not east Asians…) And where? Europe, US, Latin America, Africa? People need to remember when they make comments about normative data that not everybody lives in the same place they do.
Anybody who thinks race is entirely a social construct must not have been bra shopping on different continents XD
You know what, I stand corrected. I just looked it up myself, and it does seem that there are different ideas of average. I just went by what I had read in different articles. That being said, I didn’t realize it had anything to do with race. Eh, live and learn. Guess I’ll look things up for myself from now on.
Yeah, how did they get this “figure”? Because as I said before, we might all refer to our “size” as if it were some universal measure, but it’s not. I wear different sizes even in the brand of bras I like the most. Am I supposed to be looking up a statistic that was recorded by the most commonly sold bra size? Where? The U.S.? The rest of the world? If someone has recorded this stat using the most commonly sold bra size, what about the fact that it’s estimated that 80-85% of women wear the *wrong size*? Huh?
There is NO universal standard of breast measurement. Look it up.
See my reply to Xenobiologista.
One thing, though. “Average” and “universal standard” aren’t the same thing. And I DID look that up.
Well, yes, I know, but that’s why I was asking: when you say, “average breast size”, if you’re referring to a “size” that corresponds to a statistical mean, you would have to have a standard of measurement that is consistent. One of my points above was that there is very little consistency.
And if you go by most commonly sold bra size: 1) again, no consistency; 2) most women wear the wrong size.
So how would one even argue about an “average size” when there’s no means of determining it? I’m guilty, too. I retract my “argument” that the average band size being smaller than mentioned above, because none of us has a useful means of making this determination.
(I gotta say I see a lot of ill-fitting bras out there. It doesn’t help when Vikki’s Secret models are [purposely, I'm sure] modeling bras that are too small for them.)
Ha, I know. “Look at me, I’m a model with implants pushed up to my chin to sell underwear. Oooh, I’m sexy.” Phooey. I hate VS anyway because they don’t really carry anything for plus size women. And when I did find bras that I could wear, after only about a month the underwire snapped in them. Junk. Definitely not worth what you pay.
Believe it or not, the best bra I ever found, I got at Wal Mart. I know everyone’s different, though. I see a lot of ill fitting ones, too. I hate those ones that make them look like torpedoes.
I didn’t know 36 was average! I’m overweight too and I’m a 36DD
Viscious?
I’m not saying anyone was being vicious (or viscous, if that’s what you meant), but this is mean-spirited, whatever your size is, kthxbai.
My kindergarten teacher had to get that one through my head: saying derisively negative things about a person is mean-spirited. Even if she had all sorts of dietary issues, this wouldn’t change. I believe it’s unbecoming to do so. There used to be more people like me, but modernity happened.
I’m going to be a first grader next month.
What are you even doing on this website then? The whole POINT of this site is to deride (mostly) celebrities.
try “nearly a”…. i have to don a safari hat and a back pack to go journey for a new one every few months…small booby cons aside, i find it awesome that i can sleep on my tummy!
Hey, I can, too!
I’m just on a slant the whole time . . .
Since when is a B-cup “small”? Pretty sure that’s average-ish.
Again, I will repeat the information: A “B-cup” is not a static measurement. A 32B is smaller in volume (not just band-size) than a 38B. A 34B in a Chantelle bra will be different than a 34B in a Panache bra, and a 34B in a Playtex bra, and a 34B in a Bali bra, Warner’s, Olga, Aubade, and on and on . . .
There is no universality when it comes to measuring breasts and their volume. None. Nada. Zip. Zilch.
Someone is welcome to come up with one, though, and submit it to … that place in France (isn’t it?), which keeps the metric system units of measurement.
Oh, and ’slim’ and ‘unhealthily skinny with no muscle tone from starving yourself of nutritious food’ does NOT=healthy
I agree that she’s too thin, but the caption is pretty much all about boobs, not about the rest of her skinniness (I think I made up a new word!)
Ok, there is small breasted, and then there is anorexic borderlining on walking skeleton… if I didn’t know this was her audition shot for the “Curse of the Black Pearl”, only she was going for the role of the skele-pirate.
In her case, its a zip tie thats holding that dress on her.
She’s not “slim”, she’s skinny. Slim is, “Oh, she looks fit.” Skinny is, “Quick, get her a sammich!”
Disgusting… her shoulder blades stick out more than her bewbs do. *gags*
-30 points. Shoulder blades are seen from behind. Your finding makes no sense.
You’re right… this is the only picture of her in existence, how could I possibly know she has shoulder blades.
+90 points. Point Giver, jacks now has 60 points.
Actually, those seem to have been 2 different “Jacks.” I’ll give them both 90 points if you want, but the shoulder blades comparison is bizarre at best.
She really needs a stylist who can make her skinny body an asset not a cruel joke.
My husband: She must be a very painful shag.
that’s why they call it ‘boning’
+300 points for having a kind (at least to you) husband.
*sighs* Not this again.
I’ve got skeeter bites bigger than those things.
+200 points for “skeeter.”
there goes my appetite
This pic looks to me to be photo shopped a bit. Yes she IS skinny, but this just looks fake to me. There are many more pics of her showing more breastess than this.
The problem with this particular dress, Capt Toz, is that it has so much material in the top part of the bodice and then is not the least bit form fitting below it that you would need to have at least c-cup breasts to have them look well-developed.
Bad job on the part of her stylist.
She may have picked it out herself. I think some celebrities do that. If she did, it’s a fail on her part, as well. And a fail on others’ part for not saying something.
Yeah, but most of those are from movies, where they pad her to the max. They actually CGed her chest in at least three movies. Nebraska has more topography than her.
Why CG? Wouldn’t it be easier and cheaper to just stuff her bra? You can get a pair of sweat socks for about a buck and a half.
I read that they painted cleavage onto her in some of her films.
There’s only so much one can push up. You can’t make an A-cup look like a C or larger with just padding. Especially if the outfits are low cut.
Thats why i avoid wearing dresses like that & why i wear bra’s :/
^ That’s why I don’t use apostrophes to show plurals. You shouldn’t, either.
good for you =P
Wow, I’m not even sure how one would respond to that. You should thank me. I’m trying to help you. I’m correcting your grammar so you don’t look stupid.
One of my first post here and my tiny grammar mistake gets pointed out. I felt attacked, but still I was j/k, hence tung out face. My bad! imsrry.
And Libby, I think he was pointing out the fact that I didn’t use an apostrophe for “thats” and then did use one for “bra’s”
I doubled checked that one, probably still a mistake in there somewhere!!
The people on this site will TEAR YOU APART, MAN!!
oh noes!!! 0_0
To be fair, you could allow that the word “bra” is a shortened form of “brassiere”, so an apostrophe could indicate missing letters or a pluralized abbreviation, which would be correct usage.
[But "bra's" still looks wrong to me!
]
But bra is short for brassiere so “bra’s” is technically accurate.
::blushes::
Oops, didn’t read far enough. Sorrweee.
@Death by Taco
We can’t all be like you. You are too awesome.
Aw, thank you! I get that a lot, actually…
Thanks for pointing out the apostrophe. Some will be annoyed but I can’t stand superfluous apostrophes. Not aimed at anyone above or below, but you do NOT use an apostrophe to indicate a plural! Sorry, stepping off my soap box now.
“but you do NOT use an apostrophe to indicate a plural!”
Ya-huh. You can. Example below.
Which is correct:
CDs / CD’s
Both are correct.
“I grew up in the 70’s.”
(That’s correct. The apostrophe, that is …. ok, for the most part, the statement is true, too.)
fuck it, no more apostrophes… EVER!!!!!!
Teh interwebs say so, and by interwebs I mean Death by Taco.
NO…MORE…APOSTROPHES…
EVERRRR!!!!
You are wrong. Repeatedly.
You most certainly would not use “70’s” to mean “1970s” because the apostrophe would be BEFORE the 70, as in ’70s.
Arrgh. You’ve got me there (I could’ve sworn I’d already replied to this–huh. That’s funny). About the initial apostrophe, I mean. But I stick by my first assertion.
Perhaps it’s not being taught this way anymore, but I was taught one could pluralize an acronym using an apostrophe. Plus, if you’re talking about all of the s’s in Mississippi, that’s correct, too. However, I looked it up in a couple of different online sites, and unless it creates any ambiguity, they suggest not using it, so in numbers (1970s), it’s usually unnecessary.
Funny thing is, I was just making a point. I don’t often use “apostrophe-s” even in most acronyms anymore, because the style manual I use considers them, as Rohvannyn said, superfluous.
(I still should go get my “Little, Brown Handbook” or my “Writing A to Z” to check my memory against those texts.
)
Something tells me a bra with that dress would not help.
Is Keira Knightley’s mouth EVER CLOSED?
She’s smiling for a picture, why would you want her to NOT smile?
(As an aside, I’ve seen her in movies smile with her lips together and it looks like a smug smirk more than a smile.)
She could do that creepy Mona Lisa thing.
Every time I see the Mona Lisa, she strikes me as evil-looking. I can’t help it, that grin makes her look like she’s plotting my death!
its the eyes they follow u where ever u go!
Like my mother-in-law, forevere smiling and plotting my untimely demise
Oh, the joys of holy matrimony!
i think if it wasn’t JUUUUUUUST above where her nips should be it wouldn’t look like she was so sickly skinny. i think this dress was an overall bad call
Ugh, fx me what an unpleasantly thin woman. Why the hell do they do it? They should know by now that men don’t want women so thin they look like they were raised by tiny insects. I spit on the celebrity culture that forces this look. Srsly.
What does it have to do with men anyhow…?
Why are you assuming that she is this skinny on purpose?
As someone pointed out earlier, they alter her image in films and can use clothing to trick us into thinking that she’s larger than she is.
I actually know someone who is extremely skinny. She looks like she has an eating disorder, but she doesn’t. She just can’t gain weight and keep it on. She has had periods where she looks more of a normal weight, but the weight didn’t stay on. And she didn’t exercise at that point and ate more than I do (I am obese because of how I eat) so she shouldn’t have lost the weight. Some people just can’t control how they look.
That will *never* be accepted, Rafi!
How one looks is COMPLETELY under one’s control. Didn’t you know? It’s also morally connected . . . if one is overweight, it comes with the traits of: laziness, lack of discipline, gluttony, and others. If one is underweight, one must be mentally unstable, rigid, vain, & obsessed with control (ironically). Don’t you know you *can’t* make people think *anything* is out of anyone’s control? Humans have to put people in little boxes, have someone to blame, and have pat answers to everything! [/sarcasm]
I should have put [/sarcasm] before the last sentence, since I meant every word of that one.
haha i just think its cold in there
clothing aside, this pose of her… E.Ts upperbody, a giraffes neck and kermit the frogs head anyone? eh?
yeah and some Bill Kaulitz hair , and you got yourself the perfect …errm …something,i guess 1
Really? I think she has the upper body of a fourteen year-old boy. But that’s just me…
What about a Colonel Sanders ’stache? O_o
I only have one son for reference. When he hit puberty, his shoulders and arms grew visible muscles. Even at ten, his upper body had more apparent muscle tone than she has now.
To me, she looks to me like she has the upper body of a chronically ill ten year-old boy.
The real thing here is why is she wearing a dress that is so unflattering?
She’s definitely a fan of titty tape. http://chicstories.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/keiraknightley.jpg
“The collective will of everyone in this room!”
Name the quote!
The Simpsons!
Win!
Wasn’t she the leading female in the Pirates of the Carribean movies? She was sexy…what happened?
They CGI’d her basoomas.
um…not familiar with “CGI” *confused*
Special effects, dear. *facepalm*
They used the magic of special effects to make her look like she had a bigger chest.
CGI = Computer Generated Imagery
Or, the fact that a corset can make nearly nothing look like cleavage — a corset can ANYBODY look bosomy.
definitively a corset! As an animator I know CGI can only do so much.
Look at The Blobs boobs in Wolverine!!
Nuh-uhhh!! She was a good 20 pounds heavier during the filming of the movies. And still didn’t have much bustline. Still a pretty girl anyways.
That poor girl simply needs a few home cooked meals and a society that doesn’t make her feel that she needs to be stick figure thin to be attractive. She is beautiful but that beauty diminishes the thinner she gets.
it’s not about the size, it’s about teh nutritions… we calls it anorexia.
Despite the anorexia, she does not have implants. This is interesting.
Maybe that’s because she’s NOT anorexic, idiots.
I’m repeating myself, but some people are naturally skinny, incredible as it may seem in this day and age of epidemic obesity on the one hand and dieting/eating disorders on the other. My upper body pretty much looks like Knightley’s too, and I eat whatever and whenever I like, and don’t exercise aside from bicycle commuting. All the women on my dad’s side of the family are very lean, so I’m sure it’s genetic.
Gee, no; as I said above: one’s body is utterly under one’s control. The old excuse of “It’s my metabolism!” wasn’t accepted from the fatties, and don’t expect it to be accepted from the skinnies!
(Sad to think that, to many people, it’s only about what one chooses or chooses not to eat. If it were that simple, would so *many* people have difficulty having the body type they desire so much?)
EAT SOMETHING
The dress really IS a bad choice for Keira, but I’m sick of people who won’t accept that not everyone who’s thin is an anorexic. My mother and I have about the same chest size as Keira… We don’t starve ourselves – quite the opposite -, but we don’t gain weight in that area. Can’t fight genes!
+600 points. Bonus if you’re an American. (Give yourself +400 extra.)
And if it was just her chest, maybe I’d agree. But you can see her clavicles, and her arms are very thin… And the thing is, I don’t think she’s always looked like this, so the “she can’t gain weight” thing doesn’t really make sense.
Yes, she’s always looked like this, but costume and makeup trickery in movies has hidden it. Go look at the premier pictures for POTC, the ones where she’s wearing jeans and the white shirt. You could see her clavicles and thin arms there. She’s got thighs and an ass while her upper half is nonexistent. If she was anorexic, she’d be nonexistent everywhere.
@lena: Amen sister!
Eating disorders get WAY too much play in the media. I think they make girls/women who are already considering starving themselves think that it’s more normal if a lot of them are doing it (the copycat phenomenon). And it makes people in general be super judgemental of anyone who’s skinny.
@fish eye no miko: How do you know she just doesn’t put on weight on her upper body? Maybe she’s got a well-padded backside. People don’t all store fat in the same place.
I have a friend who loves chocolate, eating and looks like her.
Besides, good strapless dresses rest on your waist, with a reinforced top.
That would be a corset.
I was going to say the same thing. One of my best friends ate ALL the time, and not always rabbit food: chocolate, potato chips. I mean, that girl was alway RAVENOUS. She was 5′8″ and weighed like 107 pounds, when we were in high school. Her arms were super skinny, and her hipbones protruded. But she could never gain weight. She was NOT anorexic or bulimic.
Unfortunately, now that we’ve aged, she’s getting a little tummy: the distribution of the weight has been unkind. Still, she goes out walking, purely for health reasons, people give her crap about it, as if she’s nuts. It’s too bad.
Diabetes is in her family, and she’s borderline now, and trying to ward it off by eating healthy and exercising—and I should say that’s not a recent development–she’s been very aware of her eating habits for years, trying to stave off diabetes.
Same here. I’m fourteen and I eat when I’m bored. I hate healthy food. I’m 6’something, I weigh 101 pounds, you can see my ribs when I suck in my breath, and I have very skinny arms. I do NOT starve myself, nor do I regurgitate my food.
“regurgitate”… Props for having a better vocabulary than the average 14-year-old =)
“Throw-up” just sounds so…common.
The friend I mentioned mailed me a few weeks ago. She was proud cos she gained some pounds…
A corset is a TIGHT reinforced bodice. LOL.
Someone has put her head on an 8 year old boys body, it’s disgusting
How charming.
It’s the force that is holding this dress up!
At least she uses it for good and not evil.
She’s a little on the skinny side but how can one just assume she’s anorexic from this picture?
By looking at other pictures of her.
By assuming that all people suffering from eating disorders look the same or by assuming that all people who are extremely skinny suffer from an eating disorder of some sort.
The dress is held up by pity. That’s the answer.
Reminds me of grandfather Simpson at Mrs Skinner “How is holding your dress?” and someone replies “Just by the strong will of us all”
Ok so let me get this straight:
Normal girls (non fat) without implants get crap for lacking boobs
Normal girls (non fat) with implants get crap for being stupid/fake
Chubby celebritys get away with being chubby.
Fat people get away with being fat
Immensly obese people get crap for being immensly obese.
Such sad creatures the fat women / men with fat girlfriends are. Spewing on normal people to make the public think they’re not normal ergo making themselfs normal.
It’s 2009 and we don’t need bodyfat anymore. We don’t need it to survive a harsh winter or keep an even temperature since we can adjust all that with food / clothes and heated housing.
1% of people with Anorexia die prematurely (not underweight! Anorectic) but 20% of all obese (80% of USA) die prematurely from conditions that follow overweight. Now tell me wich one of these is a bigger problem?
Male models don’t have bodyfat. Just bones, muscle and skin. Noone complains about them being unhealthy. That’s because we men don’t care much about how other men look. We got a thing called self confidence. I realize many men share the fat womens view of this whole issue but that’s just because taking their side ensures you getting to have sex with her.
Normal people unite!!
Ms. Knightley’s body-type is not “normal” as you put it, Hollywood normal, yes, real normal no. She’s underweight, as for the matter of her health, that’s between her and her doctor, you can’t tell that by looking at a person.
That said, people need a certain percentage of body fat to remain healthy, male models have a LOW body fat percentage, but they have body fat. (2%-4% is the essential amount of fat for a man.) Women need between 10%-12% body fat to remain healthy. That’s absolute minimum for healthy bodily function. Contrary to pop science, we NEED a certain amount of body fat to survive, our organ function depends on it.
Keira knightly USED to be a “normal looking” skinny.
google some pics of her from before the Pirates movies, she looks GREAT.
Poor thing fell victim to Hollywood….
DaniFae: TY for mentioning those body fat percentages. I wanted to do it myself, earlier, but didn’t have a chance.
She looks to be related to Jack Skellington…
*Hit* that? I’m afraid something would break if I looked at it funny. O.o
Nipple rings…
Whoa – that’s damn creepy. There is such a thing as being *too* skinny. And if your body type looks like that naturally, congratulations – you get to eat more than most people do!!! Don’t make excuses for people who look like skeletons…. -.- They are too thin and they know it.
And they’re not always happy about it . . .
Being ‘naturally skinny’ or ‘naturally fat’ is a load of cr*p. How much fat you carry depends on how much you eat/exercise. She might be of a slim build, but she’s also just too skinny cos she obv doesnt eat enough.
Obviously, you don’t know anyone who eats like a—let’s be honest, here—a freakin’ pig, and still stays skinny, no matter what. It might be less common, but I know at least two of them. I also know some people who do NOT eat like that, exercise regularly, and still stay overweight.
But I knew that there would be responses like yours.
Even with other examples, posted above, you’re going to stick to what you believe to be true.
Well, to answer the question:
Probably double-sided tape. . .
Answered above … but, I believe it was referred to as, “titty tape”.
*sigh* so she has small boobs, give it a rest. It still looks better than her shoving 50 pounds of silicon under her skin.
Its so goddamn pathetic that all people can do is bitch about celebritys for altering their looks, but when even one person doesnt, regardless of how beautiful she is you all run out with torches trying to prosecute her.
LEAVE. KEIRA. ALONE ! Ok, that doesn’t fit here xD
But anyways, I agree to one of the first posters here. She never did anything wrong. Unlike the other ever-hated victims that truly deserver their punishment. So just making her an object of ridicule for having a disorder… meh, fine with me but don’t think anyone thinks you’re cool :/
Well, her arms look fine, & her face isn’t sunken in. From this pic, I can see that she hasn’t reached stick-level yet…I’m of regular weight but I have really bony shoulder blades, so w/e bone might be showing prolly isn’t a sign of anorexia. I love Keira Knightley, though– she’s an awesome actress. At least I don’t hear about her doing drugs, sleeping around, or partying like a Lohan. Knightley might stand to gain a few pounds, but she looks pretty healthy to me.
Then again, I can’t see her spine…the spine is usually the give-away.
Yes, she could put on a bit of weight but she doesn’t look sick or unhappy, and she’s beautiful and extremely talented, indeed is sorry if she doesn’t have gigantic silicone boobs, isn’t it?. She’s thin. Get over it!
EXACTLY! people make such a fuss over making fun of overweight people but its perfecly alright to make fun of someone who is undeweight.
You know why that is? Because girls like us are actually sick. I’m in recovery right now, and I was ridiculed, but not in the way you think.
Most times when it is obviously known that someone has an eating disorder, people, cruel creatures that they are, make fun calling that person FAT. Its hard to explain.
I actually admire the fact that she hasn’t gotten implants and is basically flat. At least she’s got self-confidence (and boobs or no, she’s still pretty damn hot).
Washboard with a face…