Natalie Portman Is Engaged and Pregnant!

[Liberty Belle]

I'm not sure, which religion pushes barbiturates?

The whole waiting until marriage thing is so outdated. If that is your thing good for you but unless you are Amish (which if you think about is is pretty much outdated too) a lot has changed in the last 60 years. The black folks even get to use our restrooms and drinking fountains now.**

I think Natalie Portman looks good in all the press I've seen for Black Swan, not emaciated.

**That was meant sarcastically for the rhetorical device disabled.

She lost 20 pounds off her already thin frame and said she was "really, really tiny." I don't know how much she weighed, but Mila Kunis is reported to have weighed 95 lbs during the filming of Black Swan. Definitely underweight.

 

[GoodFairies]

Lots of women have babies and due to different circumstances, raise them on their own. What you're basically saying is poor people shouldn't have children.

Back to Ms. Portman and her fiancee, haven't they been dating for almost a year? Plenty of time to decide whether they want to be together or not. Nothing "whammo" about it.

Bingo. It sounds like most of the critics on this thread really believe that the pregnancy of a 29-year old educated millionaire female who's been dating someone for a year was a big OOPS. Um, don't think so. Just because she didn't do it in the order deemed proper by some, doesn't mean it was an accident.

 

[Imzadi]

The irony is: Natalie Portman's father is an Ob-Gyn/Infertility Specialist. I guess he didn't have much of a talk with her about preventing pregnancy, if this was accidental. (I really don't care.) Oops!

 

[bicker]

I think Natalie Portman looks good in all the press I've seen for Black Swan, not emaciated.

The press knows that it makes a lot of their readers feel better about themselves to label women (especially) who are at a healthy weight as "emaciated".

 

[bicker]

She lost 20 pounds off her already thin frame and said she was "really, really tiny." I don't know how much she weighed, but Mila Kunis is reported to have weighed 95 lbs during the filming of Black Swan. Definitely underweight.

Physical conditioning reduces body fat, leaving a higher percentage of muscle-mass. A 5'3" woman in superior physical condition, as one would be after the rigorous physical training leading up to the filming of such a physically taxing role, would not necessarily be significantly underweight at 95 pounds, even if that number is to be believed.

I don't know much about Kunis, but health is a major priority for Portman. The suggestion that she'd do anything that she didn't have a very high confidence was safe for her is preposterous.

 

[SaraJayne]

The press knows that it makes a lot of their readers feel better about themselves to label women (especially) who are at a healthy weight as "emaciated".

Bicker,I don't care who you are, 95 lbs IS emaciated and underweight! Don't perpetuate the typical woman stereotype that women have to be 95 lbs to be attractive.

In the ads for the movie, Portman looks awful.

 

[Heidict]

The press knows that it makes a lot of their readers feel better about themselves to label women (especially) who are at a healthy weight as "emaciated".

Oh bull. The press would call a woman at a healthy weight one thing, big. They would perpetrate the myth that she was overweight and losing out on rolls because of it. Then when she half starved herself to death and got back to a skeleton they would do a 2 page spread on her and how she lost all that weight.

 

[Liberty Belle]

Physical conditioning reduces body fat, leaving a higher percentage of muscle-mass. A 5'3" woman in superior physical condition, as one would be after the rigorous physical training leading up to the filming of such a physically taxing role, would not necessarily be significantly underweight at 95 pounds, even if that number is to be believed.

I don't know much about Kunis, but health is a major priority for Portman. The suggestion that she'd do anything that she didn't have a very high confidence was safe for her is preposterous.

From what I read, she did seek advice from a nutritionist, but said she ate very few calories and made sure what she did eat would burn off quickly. She ate to lose a lot of weight quickly.

The suggestion? Where did I suggest that?

 

[Liberty Belle]

Physical conditioning reduces body fat, leaving a higher percentage of muscle-mass. A 5'3" woman in superior physical condition, as one would be after the rigorous physical training leading up to the filming of such a physically taxing role, would not necessarily be significantly underweight at 95 pounds, even if that number is to be believed.

I don't know much about Kunis, but health is a major priority for Portman. The suggestion that she'd do anything that she didn't have a very high confidence was safe for her is preposterous.

I just looked at several weight charts online. None say that would be anything but underweight and several took into account frame and activity level.

 

[Liberty Belle]

The press knows that it makes a lot of their readers feel better about themselves to label women (especially) who are at a healthy weight as "emaciated".

What?! The same press who calls women who wear a size 6 fat?

 

[bicker]

I don't care who you are, 95 lbs IS emaciated and underweight!

Then I fear you need to learn more about the physiology of athletes. Regardless, the 95 number is not corroborated by any reliable source.

My generalization stands: The press knows that it makes a lot of their readers feel better about themselves to label women (especially) who are at a healthy weight as "emaciated", and that's why you seem them throwing such things around. It has very little to do with reality or actuality; the truth never gets in the way of the tabloids quoting unnamed sources, etc.

Don't perpetuate the typical woman stereotype that women have to be 95 lbs to be attractive.

Who's talking about "attractive"? We were talking about health, not appearance.

In the ads for the movie, Portman looks awful.

Because advertising executives know that they can attract the most amount of viewers to their movies by presenting awful looking actors in their ads? That's ridiculous.

 

[SaraJayne]

Then I fear you need to learn more about the physiology of athletes. Regardless, the 95 number is not corroborated by any reliable source.

My generalization stands: The press knows that it makes a lot of their readers feel better about themselves to label women (especially) who are at a healthy weight as "emaciated", and that's why you seem them throwing such things around. It has very little to do with reality or actuality; the truth never gets in the way of the tabloids quoting unnamed sources, etc.

Who's talking about "attractive"? We were talking about health, not appearance.

Because advertising executives know that they can attract the most amount of viewers to their movies by presenting awful looking actors in their ads? That's ridiculous.

I know plenty, but thank you for the condescending tone.

Unless you are four feet tall, 95 lbs is underweight. And Natalie Portman (regardless of the actual number) was definitely underweight for her role in Black Swan.

 

[Liberty Belle]

Regarding Mila Kunis' weight: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/23/mila-kunis-on-weighing-95_n_787403.html

 

[Imzadi]

Oh bull. The press would call a woman at a healthy weight one thing, big.

What?! The same press who calls women who wear a size 6 fat?

I saw Donny & Marie Osmond on Broadway last week. Even after being a spokesperson for Jenny Craig or Nutrasystem, (???) and Marie really does look fabulous, I noticed that she is a healthy size 14.

It was actually wonderfully refreshing to see her and her backup dancers a healthy weight and age. No barely 18 year olds for back up dancers, (like their careers will be over by 20.) They were all around 30. Proving older dancers still have it in them and getting hired.

 

[Liberty Belle]

And here are some words Portman had about her role:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/...an-i-thought-i-was-going-to-die_n_802383.html

I don't think it's clear exactly why she thought she was "going to die."

 

[FireDancer]

Do we know what Portman weighed during filming? I could care less about Mila Kunis. Even if Portman was slightly underweight it is not emaciated. Emaciated is what you see in allied films while they were liberating concentration camps, not needing to put on 5 or 10 pounds.

Personally what I find attractive are athletic body types like Emma Snowsill (5'3" and 108), Kara Goucher (5'7" and 120), or Miranda Carfrae (5'3.5" and 115). They aren't size 14's but they also aren't emaciated. If Portman who is about 5'3" was under 100lbs she probably was a little underweight but I still wouldn't call it emaciated.

I also find it funny that everyone tries to make an actress losing weight out to be some sort of commentary on societal norms but when Adrian Brody did it for the Pianist it was just an actor losing a lot of weight for a part. Odd.

 

[doxdogy]

Bicker,I don't care who you are, 95 lbs IS emaciated and underweight! Don't perpetuate the typical woman stereotype that women have to be 95 lbs to be attractive.

In the ads for the movie, Portman looks awful.

I agree with you. I am 5' 2" and small framed. At one time I weighed 98 lbs and looked emaciated.

 

[phorsenuf]

I agree with you. I am 5' 2" and small framed. At one time I weighed 98 lbs and looked emaciated.

Then you obviously weren't very physically fit.

 

[moon]

Well you claimed that just because she went to Harvard the kid would be fine. You stated that silly argument. Going to Harvard doesn't mean squat. I am sure there are idiots that went to Harvard.

The Harvard comment was in response to someone who said "I heard Natalie Portman in interviews and was not impressed.. she apparently buys into soundbites and shot off her mouth about politics without any facts."

Well, as a Harvard graduate she's obviously an educated, well-read woman. Trying to paint her as ignorant by saying she "apparently buys into soundbytes" just because of a differing political POV is an undeserved and baseless cheap shot towards someone who obviously worked hard to get an education.

BTW, the only "idiots" who get into ivy league schools are those from "legacy" families. Portman doesn't belong to such elite

 

[Liberty Belle]

Do we know what Portman weighed during filming? I could care less about Mila Kunis. Even if Portman was slightly underweight it is not emaciated. Emaciated is what you see in allied films while they were liberating concentration camps, not needing to put on 5 or 10 pounds.

Personally what I find attractive are athletic body types like Emma Snowsill (5'3" and 108), Kara Goucher (5'7" and 120), or Miranda Carfrae (5'3.5" and 115). They aren't size 14's but they also aren't emaciated. If Portman who is about 5'3" was under 100lbs she probably was a little underweight but I still wouldn't call it emaciated.

I also find it funny that everyone tries to make an actress losing weight out to be some sort of commentary on societal norms but when Adrian Brody did it for the Pianist it was just an actor losing a lot of weight for a part. Odd.

No, I think the comments were in response to you saying she did not look too thin, she looked good and Bicker's comments about her weight actually being healthy but made to sound unhealthy by the media. No one said anything negative, that I remember, about her losing weight for her role.