This Hollywood awards season, size 00 fits all.
The pendulum has swung from Kardashian curves and sculpted pilates physiques to pin-thin silhouettes, with celebrities like Emma Stone, Demi Moore and Jenna Ortega shocking viewers on the red carpets of the Actor Awards and Golden Globes.
No wonder actress Jameela Jamil, who has spoken openly about her own struggle with disordered eating, called out “scarily thin” women at last month’s BAFTAs, saying on Instagram: “Everyone looks like they could snap. It’s a specifically fragile type of thin.”
While the quest for thinness is nothing new in Hollywood and the fashion industry — see Kate Moss’s notorious “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels” quote — we have entered a new frontier.
Multiple sources told Page Six that even already-thin stars are now taking so-called microdoses, or “baby” doses of Ozempic or other weight-loss “jabs” that are smaller quantities than the FDA-approved therapeutic dosage. (Typically, patients start at 0.25ml injections for the first month and increase from there.)
“There’s a stigma now to having any weight,” one stylist and former Vogue editor told Page Six.
Added a top Hollywood dermatologist: “My female clients … have been microdosing GLP 1s for a long time now. Body positivity was over the minute GLPs started flooding the market. It costs less to microdose, it’s more tolerable on your body — and you still let yourself eat.”
Although, perhaps, not enough.
Celebrity nutritionist Jess Baker told Page Six she’s recently noticed “visible signs of muscle wasting in several celebrities where it wasn’t present before — hollowed temples, full clavicles showing, shoulder blades jutting out.
“In a clinical setting, these changes from baseline are cause for alarm. They can indicate malnutrition, meaning the body isn’t getting enough of what it needs to function,” Baker said.
One A-list stylist told Page Six that those who dress the stars are in an awkward position right now. They want their clients to look their best — but they also want them to be healthy. And they fear some celebs are blind to how painfully thin they are.
“You can’t tell these actresses they’re too skinny,” the A-list stylist said. “They’ll just say, but [another actress] is smaller than I am!”
Indeed, another celeb stylist said there’s real pressure too for stars to keep up with each other: “One actress sees another one get smaller, then another goes even smaller.”
But as much as actresses want to show off their prominent clavicles, some dressers are finding creative ways to cover them up.
“I would throw a jacket [on] to make it not so exposed, to compensate,” an in-house stylist for a major fashion designer told Page Six. “Sometimes we make a strapless dress — we layer it with a shirt underneath. We put a coat on or little jacket.”
Meanwhile, the owner of a Hollywood showroom that’s particularly popular at this time of year said seamstresses are busier than ever — because even the size 2 designer samples are too big for celebs.
“We actually brought in some great tailors and cutters we know, installed them in a back room and created an atelier to fit gowns coming from Europe right off the runway. They mostly all had to be taken in this awards season,” the showroom owner said.
Ultimately, it’s not just weight-loss drugs fueling the new super skinnytrend.
“They’re supplementing [weight loss] with face surgery,” the former Vogue editor told Page Six. “Even 20-somethings are getting [buccal] surgery,” which removes fat pads above the jawbones, “to hollow out their cheeks.”
Chrissy Teigen has copped to the having the procedure, while there are countless Reddit threads speculating on other celebs who may have had it.
But insiders warn that, as you get older, weight loss can create a problem of sagging excess skin.
“If you’re of a certain age, you have to worry about your skin. You’re not a rubber band [that bounces back],” Hoza Rodriguez, a stylist who has worked with SZA, Gwen Stefani and Becky G, said.
He points out that actresses aren’t just making their names — and fortunes — onscreen. Lucrative deals with fashion houses and beauty brands are highly coveted in Hollywood.
“When it comes to a brand deal — [designers] are very selective. There’s only so many types of Lizzos that people want to work with,” he said, noting that even Lizzo has lost 60 pounds. “They only give that [curvy] platform to one or two people at a time.
“Nobody wants to look like J. Lo anymore. No more big butt. It’s all about the fashion skinny from 2001,” Rodriguez said.
And the movie industry needs those brand deals, too, to keep their promotion and publicity machine running.
“… The reality is that brands are who hold the purse strings right now,” stylist Kate Young — who works with such major stars as Margot Robbie, Dakota Johnson and Rose Byrne — recently told Vanity Fair. “When I started doing this, movie companies paid. I would make money doing a press tour, and now I am paid less for the same work than I was 15 years ago. And production companies now really rely on movie stars having brand deals to subsidize this.”
Rodriguez, for one, believes the fashion world is thrilled that thin is in again after the recknoning of the body-positive, size-inclusive movement.
“Fashion houses are turning this around. People are so tired of this woke s—t,” he said. “They’re over it — it came to a point where it was too far too. [Fashion] houses are doing what they want.”
The former Vogue editor and stylist told Page Six they worry the blurred lines are running too thin.
“There’s a lot of pressure for them to be thin, where do you stop? When is thin too thin? In fashion and Hollywood, you’re always chasing, you’re too young, too old, too short, too tall, blonde — it breeds an environment of never being enough,” she said.
“Once you are thin, the chase doesn’t stop. You keep thinking what else can you improve?”
Additional reporting by Merle Ginsberg
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