History Main / HollywoodThin

* Esmeralda of ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' is the opposite case, where she has a very curvy body and is quite voluptuous for someone who lives on the streets and has to dance for change.

* Sophia from ''VisialNovel/{{Melody}}'' is extraordinarily petite.

* ''Series/AllyMcBeal'' was this trope at its extreme. Portia [=DeRossi=] has recently come out about her anorexia issues stemming from the show. Callista Flockhart was no fatty either...

* ''Series/V2009'' series. Justified for the Visitors. For the humans, not so much.

* The rigid "thin" standard took its toll on young actresses on other shows, as well. Two notable examples: Tracey Gold had a well-publicized battle with anorexia after media outlets commented on her weight while she appeared on ''Series/GrowingPains.'' During the run of the show, she was a healthy, attractive teenager. Likewise, Creator/ChristinaApplegate has said in interviews that she spent an unhealthy amount of time dieting and working out to wear the tight outfits required of her as Kelly on ''Series/MarriedWithChildren.''

* Wrestling/MichelleMcCool faced ''massive'' insults from fans while she was getting pushed. She had a massive Hatedom that called her "Skeletor" because of her thin body type. On the flip side, Bryan Alvarez accused her of having an eating disorder, stating it was the reason she had been hospitalized sometime prior to ''Wrestlemania 23''. Michelle denied the eating disorder story plenty of times, even in a shoot interview on her website (where she had no problem discussing other issues). For the record, Michelle is 5 ft 10 and was billed at 128 lbs.

* Wrestling/AJLee has faced similar comments, though not to the same extent. She is naturally very petite and again looks much thinner than she actually is in comparison to the more voluptuous Divas on the roster. For added effect, her Wrestling/ChickBusters partner {{Wrestling/Kaitlyn}} is a former body builder. So of course AJ is going to look anorexic next to her. AJ is even known to crack jokes about frequently being mistaken as OlderThanTheyLook.

* In the ''VampireAcademy'' series, the Moroi vampires are naturally tall and svelte. Lead character Rose notes that while Moroi have a body humans idolize, in turn most Moroi women covet the more curvaceous figures that humans and dhampirs have.

* April Hunter stopped eating when she arrived to Japan on her first trip to Chiba to do a Toyota commercial, leading her host/employer to worry she'd get too skinny, something no one had apparently hassled her about before. She then realized Japan where many athletes follow a sumo diet, including the ladies, she realized she came off as fairly small for her size, where she was used to being bigger than most peers at home.[[/folder]]

* The rigid "thin" standard took its toll on young actresses on other shows, as well. Two notable examples: Tracey Gold had a well-publicized battle with anorexia after media outlets commented on her weight while she appeared on ''Series/GrowingPains.'' As you can see [[http://www.hard-to-find-actresses.com/content/pics/tr057.jpg in this photo]], she was a healthy, attractive teenager. Likewise, Creator/ChristinaApplegate has said in interviews that she spent an unhealthy amount of time dieting and working out to wear the tight outfits required of her as Kelly on ''Series/MarriedWithChildren.''

If you were to take these people and compare them with a random selection of people, it would become obvious that many of them are ''much'' thinner than average. Often they will have an extremely small waist, very shallow ribcage and ''extremely'' narrow shoulders that very few women in the real world can possess.

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[[caption-width-right:226: Mischa Barton hasn't worked much since ''Series/TheOC'' Casting directors probably think she needs to lose a few.]]

[[caption-width-right:226: Micsha Barton is at a perfectly normal weight, even though six-year-old boys are heavier than her. - Hollywood Dieting Board]]

[[caption-width-right:226:Mischa Barton hasn't worked much since ''Series/TheOC'' Casting directors probably think she needs to lose a few.]]

* The 2009 ''[[Series/{{V2009}} V]]'' series. Justified for the Visitors. For the humans, not so much.
* ''[[Series/AmericasNextTopModel America's Next Top Model]]''. ''All'' of them. Even the contestants portrayed as [[HollywoodPudgy "big" or "full figured"]] are [[CurvesInAllTheRightPlaces fantastically curvy]] but nowhere near fat.

* Creator/SquareEnix: In the later years had started to develop several characters that can be considered unhealthily thin, around the time of the PS3 era, with [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII Lightning]] starting the trend of characters being really skinny for their line of work, unless the character had a more developed figure in canon, most characters had a very thin physique. Women were the most affected characters, but men were also hit by this.

* Averted on ''Series/MikeAndMolly.'' Molly's sister, who is portrayed as the hottie, looks to be about a size 12 (US).

* Wrestling/AprilHunter stopped eating when she arrived to Japan on her first trip to Chiba to do a Toyota commercial, leading her host/employer to worry she'd get too skinny, something no one had apparently hassled her about before. She then realized Japan where many athletes follow a sumo diet, including the ladies, she realized she came off as fairly small for her size, where she was used to being bigger than most peers at home.[[/folder]]

* Actually subverted in the makeover show ''Series/TheSwan'', of all places. Contestant Kelly Becker from season 1 was the only girl who had to put on weight during her training as the judges felt she was dangerously underweight. She put on some muscle and looked much healthier by the end.

* Wrestling/CMPunk was later on the receiving end himself in WWE, where he was called a "Skinny Fat Ass" by Wrestling/KevinNash. In the wake of the Wrestling/ChrisBenoit paterfamilicide, US news media put a spotlight on WWE and it's drug issues. In a preemptive bypass to the buffer StraightEdge Punk's presence would have been to the inevitable criticism, reporters made sure to emphasize Punk was "half the size" of the other wrestlers in WWE.

* Subverted with Wrestling/AlexaBliss, who started training at WWE right after some time as a body builder. She was dangerously underweight as a result and was told she had to gain ten pounds before she could train.

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* Along with the Twiggy example above, Creator/AudreyHepburn (unintentionally) set a standard in the early 1960s for HollywoodThin. She suffered starvation during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands when she was a teenager, which damaged her body's metabolism and led to a relatively early death at 63, after a lifetime of health problems.