Keira Knighley, has said that she was devastated when images of her appeared in magazine articles about skinny celebrities. She felt terrible when all that came up.
“It appeared that I were promoting something when I absolutely was not. I am thin because that’s what I am, and I was thinner at that point because of the work I do. Nothing else.”
Knightly said that the photos were taken just after she finished filming the final installment of Pirates of the Caribbean.
“I had lost weight,” she says. “We were filming in searing temperatures and shooting fight scenes in which you were wearing a wetsuit underneath a load of corsets, fighting with heavy weights in the water. Can you imagine a more advanced cardio workout than that done hour after hour?”
She’s denied eating disorders for years. “Whatever people say about my weight they are all wrong.” She’s even visited her doctor to ask about how to put on weight.
“He told me that for someone of my body type to get to a [European] size 12, I would have to eat a lot of sh– food, stop exercising and drink loads,” she says. “But I don’t want to have to go ’round eating crap and being really unhealthy in order for people to stop having a go at me.”
Keira has even stated that she might quite acting at some point “I can see myself in five years or whatever just giving the whole thing up. I made a decision recently that I want a life instead.”
I think it’s interesting that she already equates the acting life with not having a life. That’s a pretty wise statement for a young celebrity. Good for her for being able to see the difference.