Stylist to the stars Rachel Zoe was photographed in St. Barts this month looking like death warmed over in an expensive bikini. But when asked about her ever-decreasing frame, she said only that she’s not the one to blame for promoting skinniness:
“We’ve had Audrey Hepburn, we’ve had Twiggy, we’ve had Veruschka, we’ve had Kate Moss,” she said. “I’m trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.
“Truthfully, I’ve never seen myself as being too thin,” she added. “Sometimes I’ll look at photos and be like, ‘Oh, that’s not a good look.’ But generally speaking, I’m not too thin.”
Hmm. Nicole Richie would beg to differ about assigning the blame. (And I think everyone differs with the “not too thin” part.)
Richie, a former client, and the stylist locked horns in 2006 amid rumors that Zoe was encouraging her clients — dubbed the “Zoe-bots” — to diet down to unsustainably low weights. We’re talking Lindsay Lohan, Keira Knightley, and Kate Bosworth during her “hey guys check out my sternum” phase. After firing Zoe, Richie posted this blind item on her MySpace blog:
BLIND ITEM:
What 35 year old raisin face whispers her order of 3 peices of asparagus for dinner at Chateau everynight, and hides her deathly disorder by pointing the finger at me, and used her last paycheck I wrote her to pay for a publisist instead of a nutritionist?
Who knew Richie had a clever bone in her body? Loving the snark.
But anyway, the point being: If Zoe wants to know why she’s the one to blame, maybe she should ask Hollywood’s pin-thin cabal. She helped make it what it is.
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That’s supposed to be a HEALTHY look? I think she’d break if someone hugged her.
Is it against the law for women to wear make up to the beach? I mean COME ON!
Wow, if that is healthy, then she really needs a reality check. And society is really in trouble. I have to say, now that Richie has 2 kids and wised up, she is looking fit and fabulous. Good for her!
I don’t mind if these people all fade away….
Note to Zoe: The human chest only looks like a xylophone when said human is grievously malnourished. (Viz. Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, Ethiopian refugees.) Not healthy, not good, not normal.
What we HAVEN’T had, apparently, is a cheeseburger.
Pasta, there’s not enough make-up in the world that would help skeletor.
Audrey, Twiggy and even Kate never looked like that. Well, maybe Audrey did after going hungry in Europe during WWII. Googled Veruschka, she didn’t look like that either. Those women also had waists, something Zoe seems to be lacking despite her attempts at starvation.
I have stood 6 inches away from this woman. She is skeletal.
You know how they say the camera adds ten pounds? Doesn’t seem possible for her to look any skinnier!
On this past season of her reality show “The Rachel Zoe” project, she was sick and weak most of the time. The show tried to spin it as “stress” and doing too much, but the 65 lb. elephant in the room was that Rachel DOESN’T EAT. She seems to subsist only off of tea; supposedly she has bad ulcers and can’t even tolerate coffee anymore. In one episode, she was trying on a bunch of outfits to go to some event and was looking for advice from her crack team of gay men. When she paraded out in a low-cut dress that exposed her concentration-camp-thin rib cage/sternum, the fellas were all, “Noooooo, don’t wear that.”
I know skinny; I’ve had many skinny friends in my lifetime. This woman has an eating disorder. The funny thing is my mom saw Rachel on QVC some months ago and she thought Rachel was in her 50s.
She’s 38.
Man, that photo needs some Sarah McLachlan keening in the background.
I’d donate.
Criminy, the last time I saw that many visible bones on a living person, it was in a UNICEF ad for famine relief. I bet that poor kid would have eaten bugs if he’d had any, he looked miserable. I’ve seen people stage interventions for women who weighed more than this. Her heart could collapse. Please get help, Ms. Zoe, I don’t care for your attitude but I would hate to see you die.
To be fair, Twiggy was popular at least in part because many Brits had spent WWII and the lean years of rebuilding as malnourished children, so her very thin figure made sense. For a kid, even a short period of malnutrition can alter one’s physical development for life. But to paraphrase That Guy, I’m defending the policy, not the chick.