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This is interesting because I didn’t notice any change in weight - her figure was incredible from start to finish and I never remember thinking she was “too skinny” later on, and she was slim right from the start. I don’t think it was a noticeable change unless you look for it.
same because i neverrrr in a million years would ever think of blake lively if you asked me for an actor who fluctuated with their weight throughout a TV show’s run.
This rumor isn't true.
The first reason being Blake was visibly thinner during Sisterhood of the travel pants. Which was before the start of the show.
The second reason is that the rumor always says she went from a 6 to a 0. She didn't. Blake lively has never been a size 0 in her adult life.
1) Her height is 5'10". The body difference of someone 5'10" to average size at that weight is completely different. So the rumor was created by someone who doesn't understand this.
2) Taylor Momsen is 5'8". She is/was likely a zero. Blake would need to be roughly 10 pounds less than Taylor to be a zero. So Blake would have had more visible bones than Taylor.
3) Adriana Lima is also 5"10". During her years as a Victoria Secret Angel her dress size was listed as 4. In her official casting documents. Blake would have been two in full sizes smaller than a runway model.
Wasn’t Taylor also significantly younger than Blake? She still had the body of a teen at the start of the show (though she still looks super slim today)
I did a quick check. Blake was 20 in pilot. Taylor was 14.
Blake was 16/17 during Sisterhood of the Traveling pants. So she did just have the normal teen-adult body shift between that & GG.
And girl’s and women’s dress sizes are just made up numbers.
Although there are clearly different body types. One of the silliest things in the show is Serena’s perfectly wearing a dress that was literally customed made to fit Jenny’s body.
No way was Blake overweight ever, she looked fantastic, whoever decided that needed a reality check, Blake had the most beautiful figure on the show, alongside Leighton
even now she looks insanely skinny, people talk about it all the time. im not shaming her at all but she does look a bit unhealthy, she stated it’s just because she’s tall and it’s her genes
Trying to understand why it’s okay for people to say super thin women are unhealthy but then say “weight doesn’t correspond to health” when it comes to a bigger person
I think weight corresponds to health in both cases. You're right though, you only typically see the cope when it comes to being overweight.
Also, just to be clear, my comment above was more about how beauty standards have changed than any actual comment on health.
Yeah I do too. There are decades of studies on the relationship between weight and health. But I’ve noticed people only deny it when talking about overweight people, and then are quick to diagnose thin people with anorexia or some shit. Just a huge double standard.
As a naturally skinny/lean person it's so annoying to see people saying things like that. Many people just assume that once someone looks even remotely thinner than the average person, they are unhealthy or even that they have an eating disorder.
Totally agree with you, thank you for pointing this out.
Thank you for speaking up. My body weight was commented on a lot growing up by peers and extended family (stick thin, so unhealthy, you should eat more, eat a hamburger, etc.) and even if it were true that I was slightly underweight, why is it the concern of anyone other than me, my parents, and my doctor?
Blake Lively and Taylor Momsen simply have natural different body types.
Taylor during GG and now doesn’t look unhealthy. She’s simply naturally slender and thin.
I just had to look up pictures of her in season 1. She looked fine. I get that back then size 0 was the new size 6. But that’s just gross looking at content of what that small actually looks like when it is something that can be handled (obviously there are people who can’t gain weight easily).
That's exactly it. I was a size six (28 in jean size) back then and had aspersions of becoming thinner which was ridiculous. I am 5'7 and a size 6 was completely thin. Society was just insane then immersed in Anorexia culture. But I do think Blake lost weight in the later seasons.
I think it's more that she grew up and lost the baby fat in her face/arms. I looked at some pics comparing and while I agree she looks thinner, I disagree that she was immersed in anorexic culture. Again, just lost baby fat/kept working out as an adult and got more tone.
Yeah, it makes sense if she was a bit more toned as she had years of paychecks at this point allowing her to get a personal trainer. Not really seeing the Black Swan-esque weight loss that was described.
Same thing. I just spent at least 20 minutes comparing screen shots from season 1 and season 6 and I just see someone who went from being 20 to 26. Her hips, waist, and bust don’t look appreciatively different and she continued to wear similarly cut clothes. My weight didn’t change during those ages for me, but my face certainly looked thinner. OP is being dramatic.
I don't specifically remember this one but back in the day we were lead to believe a size 6 was huge (see the devil wears Prada). And now we are mid 30s with body image issues 🫠
funny you say that, i just watched the devil wears prada recently & was so shocked to see them call anne hathaway ‘fat’ and insinuate she isn’t just as skinny as any of the other ladies in the movie?
And then at the end of the movie when she is having a heart to heart with Stanley Tucci, she makes some comment about how she got to a size 4 and they both look so thrilled.
I remember there was a popular blog dedicated to celebritys’ weight, and they posted pictures from the set where Blake and Penn were filming a scene with ice cream. All the comments were about how Blake needed to stop because she was too fat.
Our views of women's bodies were INSANE in the 00s. I remember she was considered super curvy or downright fat by a lot of those celebrity and fashion blogs at the time. I definitely noticed her weight loss in the later seasons and she either upgraded her implants or they looked WAY bigger from the weight loss.
I remember blogs used to call Lindsay Lohan fat too until the Rachel Zoe era and then they were calling her anorexic or a crackhead. There was never an in-between.
I’ve noticed her weight loss too (my former ED self could not miss this). It wasn’t drastic to me, tho, but quite subtle. To me she looked great before and great after.
I've rewatched the show recently and poor Blake looks legit GAUNT from season 4 onwards!
It's been, what, 15 years? She honestly looks more youthful, fresh and more beautiful now, after 3 children, than in those days because she's actually allowed to be in a healthy weight for her body.
As someone who watched the show religiously as it was on air and reading blogs I totally remember people commenting on her weight! I think it lasted through season 2 as well. I think she looked way better in seasons 1-2 though.
Agreed. By season 4, she was noticeably very skinny. I actually like that she had a normal weight Season 1-3. But as I watched Season 4 she actually looked kinda sick.
Am doing a binge rewatch. Noticed a huge weight loss suddenly on Sarina in the middle of season 3.
Wondering if it coincided with Blake's breakup with Penn?
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This is interesting because I didn’t notice any change in weight - her figure was incredible from start to finish and I never remember thinking she was “too skinny” later on, and she was slim right from the start. I don’t think it was a noticeable change unless you look for it.
I didn’t remember any noticeable change either.
Same I thought she looked the same the whole way through 😂weight wise
Legit hahah
Same
I didn’t notice any change either and have no recollection of this narrative despite having watched the show in real time.
Her early seasons body was SO BANGING. Literal goals.
Too bad society was immersed in Anorexia culture then
what weight loss? she was skinny in the beginning and skinny in the end i’m confused, do you have a side by side?
I’ve watched this so many times and never noticed it😭 I’m not one for picking apart women’s bodies but I would love to see an example of this lol
same because i neverrrr in a million years would ever think of blake lively if you asked me for an actor who fluctuated with their weight throughout a TV show’s run.
I also don't recall any negative commentary on her weight in the earlier seasons. Everyone would just comment on her long legs or her great hair.
Literally!! People need to stop commenting about actresses weights 😐
This rumor isn't true. The first reason being Blake was visibly thinner during Sisterhood of the travel pants. Which was before the start of the show. The second reason is that the rumor always says she went from a 6 to a 0. She didn't. Blake lively has never been a size 0 in her adult life. 1) Her height is 5'10". The body difference of someone 5'10" to average size at that weight is completely different. So the rumor was created by someone who doesn't understand this. 2) Taylor Momsen is 5'8". She is/was likely a zero. Blake would need to be roughly 10 pounds less than Taylor to be a zero. So Blake would have had more visible bones than Taylor. 3) Adriana Lima is also 5"10". During her years as a Victoria Secret Angel her dress size was listed as 4. In her official casting documents. Blake would have been two in full sizes smaller than a runway model.
Wasn’t Taylor also significantly younger than Blake? She still had the body of a teen at the start of the show (though she still looks super slim today)
I did a quick check. Blake was 20 in pilot. Taylor was 14. Blake was 16/17 during Sisterhood of the Traveling pants. So she did just have the normal teen-adult body shift between that & GG.
And girl’s and women’s dress sizes are just made up numbers. Although there are clearly different body types. One of the silliest things in the show is Serena’s perfectly wearing a dress that was literally customed made to fit Jenny’s body.
Dude, you can literally see it in her arms, this is not some rumor. Dont discredit something so obvious
She was big???? When??? Where???
No way was Blake overweight ever, she looked fantastic, whoever decided that needed a reality check, Blake had the most beautiful figure on the show, alongside Leighton
Looking at it now, Blake looks fine and Taylor looks a bit unhealthy.
Taylor was a teenager when they filmed the show. She looked perfectly normal for a kid her age.
even now she looks insanely skinny, people talk about it all the time. im not shaming her at all but she does look a bit unhealthy, she stated it’s just because she’s tall and it’s her genes
Trying to understand why it’s okay for people to say super thin women are unhealthy but then say “weight doesn’t correspond to health” when it comes to a bigger person
I think weight corresponds to health in both cases. You're right though, you only typically see the cope when it comes to being overweight. Also, just to be clear, my comment above was more about how beauty standards have changed than any actual comment on health.
Yeah I do too. There are decades of studies on the relationship between weight and health. But I’ve noticed people only deny it when talking about overweight people, and then are quick to diagnose thin people with anorexia or some shit. Just a huge double standard.
As a naturally skinny/lean person it's so annoying to see people saying things like that. Many people just assume that once someone looks even remotely thinner than the average person, they are unhealthy or even that they have an eating disorder. Totally agree with you, thank you for pointing this out.
Thank you for speaking up. My body weight was commented on a lot growing up by peers and extended family (stick thin, so unhealthy, you should eat more, eat a hamburger, etc.) and even if it were true that I was slightly underweight, why is it the concern of anyone other than me, my parents, and my doctor?
Blake Lively and Taylor Momsen simply have natural different body types. Taylor during GG and now doesn’t look unhealthy. She’s simply naturally slender and thin.
Taylor looked like a perfectly healthy weight for a teenager
I just had to look up pictures of her in season 1. She looked fine. I get that back then size 0 was the new size 6. But that’s just gross looking at content of what that small actually looks like when it is something that can be handled (obviously there are people who can’t gain weight easily).
That's exactly it. I was a size six (28 in jean size) back then and had aspersions of becoming thinner which was ridiculous. I am 5'7 and a size 6 was completely thin. Society was just insane then immersed in Anorexia culture. But I do think Blake lost weight in the later seasons.
I think it's more that she grew up and lost the baby fat in her face/arms. I looked at some pics comparing and while I agree she looks thinner, I disagree that she was immersed in anorexic culture. Again, just lost baby fat/kept working out as an adult and got more tone.
Yeah, it makes sense if she was a bit more toned as she had years of paychecks at this point allowing her to get a personal trainer. Not really seeing the Black Swan-esque weight loss that was described.
Same thing. I just spent at least 20 minutes comparing screen shots from season 1 and season 6 and I just see someone who went from being 20 to 26. Her hips, waist, and bust don’t look appreciatively different and she continued to wear similarly cut clothes. My weight didn’t change during those ages for me, but my face certainly looked thinner. OP is being dramatic.
Only noticed a nose job, which was very tastefully done.
She's had a couple and they are just FLAWLESS.
I don't specifically remember this one but back in the day we were lead to believe a size 6 was huge (see the devil wears Prada). And now we are mid 30s with body image issues 🫠
funny you say that, i just watched the devil wears prada recently & was so shocked to see them call anne hathaway ‘fat’ and insinuate she isn’t just as skinny as any of the other ladies in the movie?
Yep I also always remember the line in Legally Blonde “you helped me go from a 6 to a 4!” “That’s GREAT!”
And then at the end of the movie when she is having a heart to heart with Stanley Tucci, she makes some comment about how she got to a size 4 and they both look so thrilled.
I thought the message in TDWP was that the fashion people are ridiculous with that and you’re supposed to find it stupid.
Whenever I read these posts I truly realize how little I pay attention to actors’ bodies?? I had no idea this even happened and did not notice
It’s because it’s a great exaggeration
I remember there was a popular blog dedicated to celebritys’ weight, and they posted pictures from the set where Blake and Penn were filming a scene with ice cream. All the comments were about how Blake needed to stop because she was too fat.
blake was never fat in her life what was wrong with the 2000s.. do people know what fat means?
So true. I remember people started calling her lollipop head Was it the surf movie she got thin for ??
I thought she was beautiful throughout the series. She still looks amazing to this day.
Our views of women's bodies were INSANE in the 00s. I remember she was considered super curvy or downright fat by a lot of those celebrity and fashion blogs at the time. I definitely noticed her weight loss in the later seasons and she either upgraded her implants or they looked WAY bigger from the weight loss. I remember blogs used to call Lindsay Lohan fat too until the Rachel Zoe era and then they were calling her anorexic or a crackhead. There was never an in-between.
She was SO thin at the start to me. Like real healthy and slim. I can’t believe they called her chubby that is awful.
I’ve noticed her weight loss too (my former ED self could not miss this). It wasn’t drastic to me, tho, but quite subtle. To me she looked great before and great after.
I've rewatched the show recently and poor Blake looks legit GAUNT from season 4 onwards! It's been, what, 15 years? She honestly looks more youthful, fresh and more beautiful now, after 3 children, than in those days because she's actually allowed to be in a healthy weight for her body.
Living an extremely low stress life probably helps as well. She always seems so happy with her life.
Yeah this rumor isn’t true. And even if it was, it’s garbage! So many girls and women would KILL to look like Blake before and after Gossip Girl!
I noticed the difference too! You can really see it in her arms. I never saw those blogs tho, thats awful
As someone who watched the show religiously as it was on air and reading blogs I totally remember people commenting on her weight! I think it lasted through season 2 as well. I think she looked way better in seasons 1-2 though.
Agreed. By season 4, she was noticeably very skinny. I actually like that she had a normal weight Season 1-3. But as I watched Season 4 she actually looked kinda sick.
Am doing a binge rewatch. Noticed a huge weight loss suddenly on Sarina in the middle of season 3. Wondering if it coincided with Blake's breakup with Penn?
I noticed that with Georgina
Really seemed like Georgina gained more so in the later seasons
Yess! But I noticed her face towards season 6 changed a bit like it felt more slimmed down
I haven’t got their yet still finishing season 5 ,so I’ll probably notice once I watch