Apart from the photos of Giuliana Rancic at the Golden Globes two weeks ago (above), all of these photos are from 2009 to 2011. Giuliana was thin back then, but she wasn’t as tiny as she is now. Of course in 2011 Giuliana found out that she had breast cancer and underwent a double mastectomy following an unsuccessful lumpectomy. Giuliana went through so much battling cancer, and she got right back to work at E! afterwards like a trooper. Then she and Bill welcomed a baby boy via gestational carrier in 2012 and she’s been full speed ever since.
My point is that Giuliana is an overachiever, a fighter and a hard worker and I have some sympathy for what she’s been through. I don’t always see eye to eye with her and I think she’s somewhat superficial (aren’t we all), but that doesn’t mean I’m on board with this narrative about how thin she is. I do see that she’s incredibly tiny, but it makes me uncomfortable when people just say “eat something.” It’s not always that simple, you know? Anyway, Star has a whole story about this, based largely around Internet comments. Here’s some of what they’re reporting, with more in this week’s print edition:
By the time Giuliana changed into a strapless pink Maria Lucia Hohan mermaid gown to interview celebrity arrivals, worried fans were blowing up her Instagram account. “Skin and bones skeleton in a night dress,” wrote one follower.
“People are concerned please take care of yourself!!” another alarmed fan wrote after Giuliana posted a shot of a row of diamond bracelets that were almost falling off her tiny wrist.
“Please eat. I love you but I feel really uncomfortable watching you.” It was a sentiment shared by many, as Giuliana, who’s [sic] thinning frame has long been a concern for friends and fans, now appears to have reached an all-time low.
Health and beauty consultant Alicia Hunter estimates Giuliana’s weight at 98 lbs – way below the 130 to 170 ons experts say a 5’9” woman should carry.
[From Star Magazine, print edition, February 2, 2015]
Some people don’t eat when they’re stressed out. I have the opposite problem, I will eat more, especially snack food. I have to exercise and put everything into MyFitnessPal or I will gain weight just dealing with normal life crap. I do have friends who forget to eat when they’re busy or depressed. They are rare, but they exist. Star points out later in the article that Giuliana used to have a fitness blog where she would write down what she ate. Her recommended diet didn’t even add up to 900 calories a day. A minimum of 1,200 calories is recommended for women. (I’m 5’8″ and will lose weight on 1,200 calories.) So she probably does need to eat more, and I think it’s only human nature to notice that she’s underweight. At what point does it go from concern to body shaming though? I’ll answer my own question, when people assume that she can just eat something and gain weight. We don’t know what’s going on with her.
I checked Giuliana’s twitter and Instagram and she’s shilling her wine and promoting her upcoming memoir. Right now she’s on vacation in Mexico. I just got reminded of when she tried to do a shot with Clooney at the Globes. Awkward.
Photo credit: FameFlynet and WENN.com
She looks so old and tired nowadays.
She looks ill to me.
When you’re that thin, you definitely shouldn’t tan.
That’s what I thought too. She’s about the same size but the tan makes the shadows and the angles more obvious.
Yeah, she’s looks healthier in some of the above photos, but in that last one, thinner maybe – but definitely “tanorexic” to me.
She looks ill. I think it’s a combination of what her body went through and her diet.
I agree, chemo and IVF were probably really hard on her body. I really hope shes consulting with a nutritionist and doctor about what she can do/eat/take to help repair and minimize the damage that was done 🙁 Poor thing, she really has been through a lot the past few years.
One thing about her… she has guts. She is the skinniest and ugliest person on TV
Agreed- not always that simple. A friend had a debilitating ED and only got better when she realized she had a problem and the decision came from within. Who knows what’s going on with G… But I hope she works through it and gets healthy soon. Agree w IG commenter- adore her and her bubbly personality but watching her makes me uncomfortable now
This may not be popular but she clearly has an eating disorder and this is way more than just not eating when stressed or being naturally thin. I know people get uncomfortable with talking about it but as someone who has suffered in the past sometimes you just refuse to see it. She has talked about her weight ( on one of her shows – years ago ) and how her doctor wanted her to gain weight and she just didn’t want to do it so she stopped at five pounds. She has stated that when you are on tv the executives want you to be thin- which I totally believe but she clearly has taken it too far. I hope she gets help and admits it if she has a problem. It could also help so many people who are also struggling.
I remember that. It was when she wanted to get pregnant, and he told her to gain 10 and she couldn’t do it. I agree she’s been told to be thin and she’s taken it too far. But think of people that are told hey you better work over time, or be ready to take phone calls after hours, etc. They (myself included) take that work home sometimes for better or for worse. Unfortunately for her you can visibly see this choice.
I remember that too. She wouldn’t stop working out and what she increased in her diet was of little caloric value.
And not all, but many who say they’re naturally thin or that they don’t eat when stressed are simply liars. It’s to cover up an ed. Or atleast this is very true and common with those I know.
And her walmart wine is terrible.
We had the same IVF doctor and clinic in Chicago before she went to Denver. The doctor, while he’s an asshat person is actually incredibly good at his job. We have sat in numerous consults and I was instructed to lose weight. With each 10lb loss I would get slightly better results but it never “happened” for us. After you see so many women time and time again all struggle to get pregnant it takes it’s toll. Most of us will do anything a doctor says to get better odds at getting pregnant and I simply can’t with her. She was going to gain 10lbs minimum with a pregnancy so it shouldn’t have been that big of a deal to put it on for a pregnancy. That clinic has holistic medicine, nutritionists, supplements – everything you need to get your body in the best shape possible for a pregnancy. Her vanity was her only excuse and frankly she must have an eating disorder if she was so blinded by vanity to not even give serious stock to a doctors advice while going through IVF.
@Chicagogurl, if she indeed has an ED, it’s not vanity that’s keeping her from gaining weight, it’s control.
I hope she gets some help.
What really bothers me is- she was told she needed to gain weight and take better care of herself in order to have the baby she wanted -she chose not to do that and instead went to the press with a sob story about not being able to conceive. She’s obviously got an eating disorder. I truly hope they don’t have a little girl because there’s a good chance she would be affected by her mother’s disordered thinking.
She was told that 10 lbs would help her to conceive through IVF and she got as far as 5 lbs. That’s when I realized that regardless of her words to the contrary, she valued her thinness over everything else.
So true, OG Mia. That’s when it was clear that what she has is an ED. Anyone who does not have an illness regarding her body perception or control would have gladly gained 10lbs if it would make the odds of successful IVF higher.
She does—and I’m generally vehemently opposed to people accusing others of having an ED without any knowledge–but as someone who has struggled with my own ED, I’m usually a pro at spotting fellow sufferers.
I feel very sad for her and I hope she gets help. I also feel for Bill because much like addicts, ED sufferers tend to punish those that love them in an attempt to isolate themselves–so they can continue their habits uninterrupted.
After viewing their show, Bill genuinely comes off with the patience of a saint. I liked the show, for all its issues because I do think it showed two people who genuinely love each other, and G’s infertility struggles brought up serious real emotions in them.
But I disliked the show in that I think she often used it as a cover to hide the disordered eating. She used to make big shows of eating a couple mouthfuls of pasta on camera – when you can probably guess that she probably didn’t eat the rest of the day to balance that out, or hit the gym more the day after. So watching the show got really uncomfortable for me after the realized that stuff.
I think it’s not just how she looks, but her words and actions, that show she has an ED. Eating disorders are very serious and very sad. I feel sad for her and her family.
I remember an article she wrote a few years ago in Star listing her daily eating habits and workout routine. She had capitalized phrases like “no butter on anything” “no fried food ever” “only green tea before working out”and was extremely strict. She had such a sad way of describing her food and how important her daily routine was it was clearly obsessive. For me, that screamed ED.
Kitten
I agree we shouldn’t go pointing fingers. This case seems extremely obvious though. Even as Jedi said the way she talks about food is obsessive. And how she was in her show during her IVF was hard to watch.
This is sad.
The thing I noticed was an extreme competitive nature concerning thinness with her, concerning the weight of other’s around her, mainly other reporters or new young staff.
It wasn’t spoken of, but it was like that show Alley McBeal where all the actresses suddenly started getting really thin, to the point of Portia showing up on the redcarpet looking scary thin at one point. Even though Calista Lockhart was naturally petite and thin. All the actresses got into this weird unspoken competition of who could be the thinness.
This is a very competitive woman we are talking about. Very. No one in the room can be thinner than her.
OK…That’s all I’m saying, I feel guilty talking about it, because she’s a very nice woman really.
Zip…..
@someonestolemynameb Calista Flockhart admitted to having had an eating disorder during her Ally McBeal days. It was a long time coming, but at least she finally confessed up to it.
http://www.tv.com/people/calista-flockhart/
http://www.hollywood.com/news/celebrities/3489597/calista-flockhart-admits-eating-disorder
Pinky that’s interesting about Calista Flockhart. glad she finally told the truth.
The best thing to happen to her would be for E to not put her on the air because of how she looks. Obviously she thinks she looks good. I am a recovering anorexic myself – always have that nagging little voice telling me not to eat – and what I saw in the mirror (and still see) doesn’t match what other people see. It is a mental disorder as well as a physical ailment. That being said, the big wake up for me was when I was removed from the cheerleading squad in college because I was too thin and didn’t look good. I was shocked. Didn’t look good! Because I was too thin? If they had said I was too fat, I would have believed them. I am 5’9 (her height) and weighed 92 lbs. Now, I weigh 135. I feel so much better but when I look in the mirror I still see a fat girl. It isn’t simple but it also isn’t body shaming. And you know what? Sometimes body shaming works.
interesting… Do u see other skinny people as fat, when u r anorexic? Like, if 2 skinny girls look in the mirror, and one is anorexic, she will see herself fat, but not the other girl? Or on the picure? and so on
I guess it depends on the person, but a lot of times seeing another skinny person will just make them think THEY are fat. They might do nothing but compare themselves to the other woman in the mirror and think how fat they look compared to them. One of my best friends is a licensed clinical therapist in an eating disorder clinic, and she said treatment is very hard because breaking that state of mind is difficult. The patient has to want to get help, and gaining weight in a healthy way is also a struggle. It’s a sad disease that can be deadly.
@ Sarah thank you for sharing and for the insights! It certainly gives it a different perspective to hear someone who has gone through what she’s probably going through right now.
TheOnlyDee is right. At my worst, I think I saw everyone else as thin and beautiful. I don’t recall looking at my sorority sisters, for example, and thinking they were fat. I would typically wish I looked more like them and then would diet and exercise to try to get myself there. Even though what I probably needed to do was “eat a sandwich” or two or six and put on a few pounds to fill out my curves. I remember going back to my 10 year reunion and being told repeatedly how good I looked. At that point I weighed 30 lbs more than I did in college. My therapist at the time asked if I recalled anyone during college ever telling me that I looked pretty. No. I couldn’t recall a single time. They would say I had a pretty dress or cute shoes or a nice sweater or whatever. But nothing about me.
Telling someone with an Eating Disorder to “Eat A Sandwich” is pointless and insulting. There is so much more going on, and ultimately an ED isn’t just about food.
Agreed
Yes it is. Thank you for this comment.
Right! It’s so much deeper than food.
Yep. It’s about as helpful as telling someone with depression to just cheer up.
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Right, silence is so much better. It may be the wrong thing to say but no one knows the right thing to say and silence justs lets ED’s destroy lives. Better to drag this issues into the light, sorry for the trampled feelings and insensitive words but if one young woman thinks twice before starving herself to death, rudeness is better than silence.
I use to work with her. She is such a nice woman, but was always overly concerned about her weight. She’d run down to the gym after every lunch and workout for an hour. Every day she did this and she had a slim but still healthy figure then.
She’s a nice lady, it’s sad to see what she’s done to herself. I really liked working with her. Despite how she’s portrayed, she’s very educated. I believe she graduated from Georgetown University and worked in Washington D.C. press corps. before coming to L.A.
When I see her on TV now, she does cause concern, it does not look like a natural weight loss. She looks scary thin, sickly. I hope she’s ok.
Sometimes, from the bits and pieces of things I’ve caught over the years (I don’t watch her reality show) she strikes me as someone that derives a lot of validation from being a part of the celebrity world and that she doesn’t necessarily have a strong sense of self outside of that. Because she does have an education, and isn’t she also a producer of E News? But sometimes she says things that truly make me wonder. For example, when she was genuinely shocked that she had difficulties getting pregnant in her late 30s, because all of the celebrity women that get pregnant around age 40. She seems like a perfectly nice lady, but there is clearly something going wrong.
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Yes she has a very good education. Georgetown I think and worked in Washington before being hired in LA. She also is a producer and writes, even can edit her packages if need be.
But totally caught up in LA Celebrity life.
I found your comment to be extremely interesting. I got the impression that she was a genuinely nice person so it’s nice to hear it’s true. No matter what the core health issue is here, hopefully, moves into a healthier place.
She is well educated but she actually studied journalism at the University of Maryland and then worked in local news in DC area. She has always struck me as very nice and very hardworking. I do think she has an eating disorder and I think it stems from a need for control. I’m speaking from experience.
I’m concerned about her Dark Maroon Coloring, she looks like 9 out of 5 Boehners
The worst is that the way she comes off she is :
A) Loving this attention for “being Thin” giddy they are writing about her
B) that this cray Bitch THINKS she looks So Fabulous
“9 out of 5 Boehners”
Hahahahaha…awesome!
I giggled throughout the state of the union solely because of your Boehner scale, QQ. My husband thought I had lost my mind.
Orange is not a good look.
yeah, I don’t want to comment on her thinness, but for dog’s sake, put the bronzer down!
…especially when the camera adds 10 lbs. Yikes!!
she does have a naturally thin frame, I think, but…
…that top picture is a little worrying. the more pronounced cheek bones and jawline (compared to the other pics- she looks lovely in the blue top)…if I were a friend, I’d be worried, and I wouldn’t phrase it as “eat a cheeseburger”.
but I would express my concern to her to see if she was OK.
Yes there’s a definite difference between the old and more recent photos. She looks utterly gaunt and sickly. Her eyes look sort of dead to me, too. And I agree that simply encouraging her to eat a burger is absolutely the wrong way to go. Sad.
Maybe if someone suggested to her that her thinness takes away beauty from her pretty face, which looks a bit gaunt and all the wrinkles downgrade the lines that are not filled out with fat, so that she looks unhealthy. Maybe she could do the filler stuff. (just kidding). I wonder how her husband view the situation – I believe he loves her, she seems to care very much about her beauty. I’m sure that he is on top of this issue – her need for accomplishment seems to wear her out.
I was in a hospital with a young woman with an eating disorder. You could only see her bones thru her skin; her kidneys were shutting down, and she was near death. She was such a nice girl – but some sort of stubborn ideas about being in control, stopped her short – she believed in her thinness even as she was dying… Like I said, she was such a lovely girl.
I heard a radio interview years ago where the host actually complimented her and said she looked SO MUCH BETTER with a few extra pounds on her… and all she heard was that she gained weight. The next time she was on she actually thanked him for the wakeup call and said she hit the diet and gym harder than ever!
“I heard a radio interview years ago where the host actually complimented her and said she looked SO MUCH BETTER with a few extra pounds on her… and all she heard was that she gained weight.”
THIS. Classic eating disorder stuff.
Kitten – Clearly. This stuff goes back much further than her cancer diagnosis, and it’s clearly not a case of someone who doesn’t eat when she gets stressed. After all, this is a woman who was traumatized to be told that she had to gain weight in order to hope to get pregnant.
@Bridget… and THAT is why I never compliment anyone about recent weight loss or weight gain. Even if they DO look better and healthier, you never why they changed their appearance, or what your words could trigger. Not to mention… it could make them wonder if everyone secretly criticized them at their previous weight.
Instead, when I notice that a friend or co-worker has a new and better look, I try to compliment their clothes or hair or skin… and if they look genuinely happier because they worked hard to overcome an eating disorder or lose excess pounds, then I tell them how much happier they seem lately.
I always try to say they are glowing or something that says they look good without bringing weight into it.
It’s what a lot don’t get. ED’s and Body Dysmorphia can be hand in hand. She gets a compliment when she has more weight it’s a fixation. When she looks in the mirror she likely doesn’t see how thin she looks.
@bridget,
YES. I don’t comment on weight loss either. This is a very tricky subject. We’ve seen others in the limelight who diet excessively and it reeks havoc on the body. It can be very aging. (read: Duchess of Cambridge)
Good point here. After 40, either don´t put much on or if you do, go slowly in the weight loss, trying to tone and tighten skin as I agree when one loses really quickly, the effect can be smaller but haggard looking and aging…
Having been 20 lbs underweight because of severe lung disease, I can tell you it is wearing and very frustrating to have people tell you to “just eat something”. I ate all the time, but I was burning more calories than I could take in just trying to breathe and cough. Now that I have had a double lung transplant, it’s better. But I am still on the thin side. I hate the skinny girl hate. I’d trade many things to have some curves and a little extra weight for when I get sick. And even if I had an eating disorder, tell me to “just eat soemthing” wouldn’t be helpful then either!
Looking at G in that top picture reminds me of how tired I was all the time. I feel for her, whether she’s fighting an eating disorder or some other health condition.
im glad you are doing better, and I wish you continued wellness. 🙂
Thank you! I am doing awesome.
So sorry for your health issues – it sounds brutal. My first thought when I saw her was that she was sick. My Uncle looked very much like this when he was battling lung cancer. But I don’t think most people are hating her because she is thin. I think people are genuinely worried. It is very true, though, that none of us knows what is really happening with her, or anyone for that matter, and we owe it to each other to understand that folks fight private battles all the time, battles that often show up in their weight, overall appearance, etc..
She really does look ill. I hope that her cancer isn’t back or causing peripheral issues. I hope she gets well. It’s miserable being chronically ill and having to function like it’s all perfectly fine!! so glad that part of my life is behind me!
There is WAY too much skinny girl hate! There’s just way too much any size hate. Why do we pick people apart and evaluate how they got like that and what they should do to fix it? Its ridiculous. I hope you continue to feel better and lead a long life! Remember that you are perfect the way you are and beauty comes in all kinds. It sounds cliche but its true.
What’s up with her husband? If there’s anybody who could intervene, it would most likely be him.
I don’t know if it’s body shaming to say she doesn’t look good in her case. Isn’t she some kind of fashion commentator who critiques other people? — it’s hard not to notice when the commentator herself isn’t looking good.
I don’t trust that husband, sorry. I think he’d do or say anything to stay in the limelight.
He may be trying to help, but she might be too strong for him. There is only so much a spouse can do or say.
I think she looks sick. Really sick. I hope she is getting help for whatever is going on with her.
That’s what I was thinking, it’s not fair to blame him for not intervening. There really is only so much a spouse/partner can do if the other is unwilling to acknowledge the problem or seek help.
I think it’s quite possible she doesn’t listen to him, and there’s probably only so much he can do, but they appear to manage themselves as a brand I could not care less about and had some reality show (which I did not watch, because…uh, why would I?) so I was curious about his opinion on her thinness.
You’d think, wouldn’t you? I know someone else who was in a crippling depression though, for a long time, and her husband did nothing. It took a person outside of their family to encourage her to get help.
The thing is, there was always a dynamic to the relationship, no matter what she tries to portray on that G&B tv show, it is Giuliani who is the boss. I doubt she’d listen to much advice. This is a woman determined to remain thin. I got the feeling that for her thinness represented youth and job security. It’s sad to see what she’s become.
That’s true, and I don’t watch their show or know much about their relationship, so I shouldn’t say anything specific about that.
But in general, there are relationships out there where one person isn’t as proactive or supportive as they should be when the other is struggling with something.
I had a friend in a similar situation. Though she didn’t know it at the time, during the period of time she was battling with crippling depression her husband was busy having an affair! UGGG!
I don’t trust him to say anything, I remember her telling the story of how she lied to him about her age when they first met because he wouldn’t date a woman over 30, that says a lot about his true character.
I remember being at work when she first met him, she came in all giddy about some guy she had just interviewed. This was a woman desperate to get this guy. I never understood the attraction, but to each their own.
I got the feeling, that she wanted desperately to be perceived as young, so she took a few years off her age.
She truly does equate thinness with youth and another thing, she is very competitive. In a room full of women working around her, she HAS TO be the thinness. That’s how it felt anyway.
@ someonestolemyname – most of us have been giddy after meeting a guy we really like, it’s normal.
It wasn’t so much the giddy-ness in itself, but the age lies and unrelenting effort she put forth to try and snag him. He was the prize for HER. It was just surprising, seeing this rather smart woman(and she is smart, educated, a real go -getter) change so much and think she had to play giddy-young-co-ed to get him.
It was bordering on desperation.
Many of us just didn’t understand why this educated grown woman was acting the way she was at the time and chasing this guy. But like I said, to each his own, she obviously dug something about him and him about her and it’s working for them. So.
@someonestolemyname – I see your point now. I have to admit, I’m also guilty of having acted like I was less educated then I was in the past. It’s completely stupid. I don’t know of many men who change their personality or downgrade their intellectual capabilities in order to win a woman’s attention!
@someonestolemyname: she seemed like she felt pretty burned by Jerry O’Connell, who I think was her relationship prior to Bill (I have no idea how I remember this stuff) and then he went on to quickly marry Rebecca Romjin. That had to sting.
That crazy spray tan and bronzer don’t help in those pics with the pink dress but she looks a lot better in the other ones. Even though she’s always been pin thin these recent pictures are worrisome and I’m a fan but who knows, I feel like her weight kind of always fluctuates from thin to really thin. Didn’t this topic come up a few years ago when she was going through IVF and everyone was saying that she needs to gain weight?
such a balanced way to approach this discussion. It’s obvious that she is very thin (just as it was obvious that Renee tweaked her face). I believe that given her cancer/health struggles, she takes her health seriously, but I also think she probably has a slightly skewed idea of what a “healthy weight” is given her job and interaction with celebrities. It’s tough to judge it without really knowing her personally, you know?
I hope she reaches and maintains a healthy weight (whatever that is for her) for the sake of her family and to enable her to do years of awkward red carpet interviews in the future
I believe it is possible to be naturally thin and bursting with health, and its possible to be plump and bursting with health. We all differ in height, body type, bone structure, etc. and there is beauty in all. You can see well being in a brightness of eye, in an overall easy air about the person in question. She doesn’t look well, there is a strain about her.
She looks healthy but thin in the older pictures. She is dangerously thin in the most recent I’d say under 80 pounds frail. She looks about the same as my sister did when she was hospitalized for eating disorder.
I don’t like body shaming, but I think that tiptoeing around the fact the she’s scarily thin now is the “polite”, insincere thing to do. But it’s not necessarily the right thing to do. In the end, we don’t know how many women are watching, reading, thinking “I want to look like that!” They have to realize that NO. This is not a positive role model. This is not what she used to look like at all. She was already naturally thin. This is cause for concern. Eating disorders kill people. It’s a very serious disease that can lead to heart failure, kidney failure, and many other problems such as fertility problems.
I wish her the best. It’s damn near impossible to recover from an eating disorder and let go of those problematic thoughts. They keep crawling back. And doctors still don’t quite know how to treat this disease.
We need to stop worrying about being politically correct when there is obviously something wrong with someone. Not being concerned because of body shaming is ridiculous.
I say this as someone who has had health problems in the past where my weight dropped down to scary levels. I would look in the mirror and scare myself because my hips and shoulders were jutting out (not quite as bad as her in the pink picture — that’s how you know it’s not just natural thinness). It took me a while to gain the weight back. But I could tell when people saw me they looked concerned, and a lot of them would ask how I was doing/feeling. It was very lifting. To know that people noticed and cared enough to comment. And then I could let them know what was going on.
Concern for your fellow human beings is never a bad thing. Worrying that we’re going to offend everyone all the time takes all the compassion out of us.
@**sighs – yes to all you said and I’m glad you’re doing well.
Word!
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Excellent comment, and yes political correctness needs to stop on many levels.
You all make very good points. I think pretending someone isn’t suffering from an ED, is being an enabler. And just like drugs and alcohol, you can enable an ED sufferer into the grave.
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THIS.
Yes. So weird because this site usually doesn’t have ANY problem calling celebs out for even the most insignificant things.
As for GR, she looks sick to the point of needing to be hospitalized. I hope she gets the help she so clearly needs.
She is ill. I object to body-shaming but this woman is sick, be it due to an ED or something else.
Just one thing about the recommended calorie intake: It depends on one’s gender, age, height, weight and activity level. Very short people with a normal weight can have a recommended minimum calorie intake of less than 1200 (around 1000 calories even).
Obviously, 900 calories are way too few for her frame and I think she looks sick. 🙁
My coworker eats 1000 calories or less a day in order to stay super thin and she is very unhealthy looking. I’ve seen pictures when she was 20 lbs heavier (her normal weight for her height, she is in the underweight range atm) and she looked so much better. She is obsessed that no one will like her not even her boyfriend if she gains even a pound. She complains she is fat or feels full after eating 3/4 of a small meal. It disturbs me to no end because she clearly has body dysmorphia. I feel the only help for her is a counselor at this point since her boyfriend seems to be no help either(he’s overweight and she’s always nagging on him to eat healthy).
This woman clearly needs help to me, in patient 90 day treatment at the very least. It saddens me that this woman has children, since she will be a terrible eating role model.
People have been lobbing around the term “body dismorphia” a lot. I know you’re sincerely concerned, but what you’re talking about goes far deeper than her thinking that she looks fat. The things you’re talking about hint at some pretty serious emotional problems – being so profoundly insecure and unhappy with herself that she worries that she’s not worthy of love if she gains even a pound. Those issues go so far beyond what someone thinks they see in the mirror.
Just personally speaking, I’m very tiny. 5’1, just over a hundred lbs. I still need something in the neighborhood of 1300 calories to not lose weight. I don’t think 1000 calories is sustainable for 99.5% of the population.
“I don’t think 1000 calories is sustainable for 99.5% of the population.”
That’s not what I said. 😉 I was talking about very short people, anything under 4’11” or so. It also depends on your AGE and ACTIVITY LEVEL (and yes, metabolism). I’m not 20 anymore, at a normal weight and barely 5 foot, and anything above 1200 cals makes me put on weight. Granted, not everyone is like this, but there are exeptions.
I was just giving a personal anecdote. I totally get the tiny person thing. :). I still think *most* people need at least 1200 calories or so to maintain a healthy weight.
She is so much more likeable now than she has been the entire tenure of her E! GIG. She looks better with lighter hair. The weight is concerning, always has been. I wonder if she realizes that they make these same clothes in a size 2.
She does not appear to be healthy, and it’s gotten progressively worse over the past few years. I suspect her chosen career has a lot to do with it, and she probably has a very skewed idea of what is healthy and what she looks like. I don’t particularly like her as a reporter, but I hope she has support and does her best to be truly healthy.
Yikes, it’s really hard to look at her. 98lbs at 5’9″? Can’t bill intervene and get her help?
The photos don’t lie. Seeing her on TV at the Golden Globes red carpet didn’t either. There is cause to worry here, and hopefully someone will help her. I hope this doesn’t end up the way Karen Carpenter did…..
I know. She looks like she is dying. Very, very concerning.
I never got the impression that she was naturally thin
There is so much PC these days thin/fat/ shaming etc BUT there is a difference between plus size and morbidly obese . there is difference between naturally thin and skeletal none of the latter instances are healthy
She has always looked very unhealthy to me and a clear sign that Hollywood and the images that they are sending are completely bonkers
I wouldn’t be surprised if she had Bulimia and Anorexia.
She looks sickly and gaunt – her hair does not appear to be healthy and it is usually a good indicator of some health issue. Hope her cancer hasn’t returned. The first picture is so skeletal. If it is an eating disorder then someone needs to guide her to help. Too bad the “industry” drives women to be stick-thin and call it attractive.
I noticed her hair as well. That was one of the things that made me believe right off the bat that she is ill, whether it be an ED or a return of some form of CA, she is not healthy.
i had a “healthy” roommate who got so thin in college that when reaching up to get something out of the cupboard, her sweatpants and underwear fell down. do you have any idea how thin you have to be for a pair of underwear to fall off? she couldn’t see it. she was just “healthy” and “particular” about food. she was brilliant but had to study 3x more than everyone to get the same grades because she was so malnourished her brain was fried. she stopped speaking to us for weeks when we asked her if she was feeling ok or gently brought it up.
it took an in-patient program to get her back to a weight that wasn’t terrifying and she is still painfully thin – but that is her recovery weight. it turns out she had trauma from witnessing her grandfather be killed while saving her brother from being hit by a car when they were children and it manifested in ED. just eating more is never the solution for an eating disorder.
I’m so glad your former roommate was able to get help and address the issue at hand (her traumatic experience not just lack of eating). And props to you for bringing up recovery to her, even though you knew she wouldn’t be open to it. Fighting an ED is forever and hard, I wish her the best of luck.
I haven’t watched E! in years but I do remember when she first started reporting and I thought she was pretty then but she started getting too thin and it sort of washes away the pretty when that happens. She is just too thin and it can’t be healthy. But this is the woman who could have a baby of her own by just gaining ten pounds but she wouldn’t do it so I lost a ton of respect for her then. She just looks like she would be really weak. Oh well it is her life.
I never would have guessed she’s 5’9, because she looks so tiny. I hope she gets help before her body starts shutting down.
I’m sure many will not agree with my opinion. I don’t have anything against her personally, (she is probably a very nice person), but as she is a television personality, I believe E has a responsibility to refuse to allow her to appear on air sporting skin and bones. If she wants to do this to herself, cover up. She and they are responsible for the images they are presenting to young, impressionable girls that DO emulate what they see in the media. I am tired of watching girls and women starve themselves.
I’ve got to agree with you on that. The network might have the power to influence her thinking, if her career and success are that foremost in her mind. But in the end, it’s an emotional/mental issue and to think anyone can control that in any way is futile. It’s not unlike watching Amanda Bynes spiral out. Rancic is just successful right now.
But the thing is E! News gives her “sample sizes” for her outfits. What she is wearing is considered “sample size”. I remember her doc told her to gain weight if she wanted better chances of getting pregnant and her response was “then I won’t be able to fit into my work clothes”.
She’s a producer on her show (and has veen for a long, long time), so if she wanted bigger clothes it would happen. Look at Kelly Osborne on Fashion Police – they’re not sending her out naked.
@ Bridget
Yeah I know. That’s why her excuse just doesn’t make sense to me. They can get her a bigger size if she does gain weight. To be honest, even if she gained 20 pounds she’d still be able to fit into “sample sizes” as I’m guessing those sample sizes are big on her right now.
But the truth is She can request ANY size dress she wants. It’s HER own decision to fit into size 0 or whatever size she wears and she is tall, she’s definately at least 5’9″.
She is very competitive. That is one thing I picked up, she is competitive with women about weight, for some reason it felt like She had to make herself the thinnest is the room.
I think she has an eating disorder, she couldn’t even gain 10 lbs to possibly help her get pregnant. I understand the business she’s in puts a lot of pressure on her to be thin but she’s out of control. Her face suddenly looks 10 years older and wrinkly, she looks so pretty in that picture with the blue shirt, I hope she can get back to a healthy weight, she has a child she needs to be here for:(
Cancer can cause all kinds of side effects with weight loss don’t bully her guys, she probably can’t help it.
You know this stuff pre-dates her cancer, right? By years?
But the cancer may have really made her issues even deeper. A lot of cancer treatments leads to a lack of appetite, even years afterwards. So the stress, lack of appetite has probably, made her disorder much worse.
That I don’t dispute at all. My point was that this can’t just be written off as ‘she had cancer guys, she can’t help being thin, don’t bully her’ when in all likelihood we’re looking at someone exhibiting really a really serious disorder.
I barely know who she is, but that picture makes me feel very sad for her. I’ve always loved my curves…
I’m inclined to think she is overdoing it only because I can still remember that “diet” she put out in some magazine several years ago. It was SO strict – NO butter, NO oil, NO pasta – it was intense. She was clearly a very weight-focused person then, so its very easy to believe that she might be back into those habits.
However, can I just say that I hate people who, when confronted with a person who might have disordered eating and is very thin, their first instinct is to say, “You need to eat something.” Oh, yeah, because that’s totally going to help her, guys. If GR does in fact have eating issues, haranguing her on Twitter is not going to help. I don’t get why people do such a thing.
People really lack sensitivity, in the Twitter-verse especially. Telling her to eat something is akin to telling a depressed person to “snap out of it.” So much education still needed on mental illness.
She’s beautiful. Although that spray tan is not doing her any favours. I don’t know if was the lights or whatever but she just appears dirty or something. It is creating all kinds of weird shadows that is definitely not helping her to look less skeletal.
I do think she’s noticeably thin in that weird way that makes you look at a person funny, but I wonder if she’d look slightly better with out all that bronzer in the photo and reverted to her normal complexion. That’s making her look even worse. (Although I wonder if she’s using bronzer to make herself look even thinner — I learned from Kardashian commercial that apparently a tan can make you look slimmer — thank you, Kim, Khloe, and Courtney).
I didn’t really notice until compared with those older pictures. Man she was so beautiful, she looks a lot older now.
Yes, it’s not as simple as “please just eat something”. And this is not body-shaming. She clearly has an ED or she is ill with something else-I hope not, but something is wrong. As someone who has gone through this, I am almost certain she is suffering from an eating disorder. I hope she gets help and gets better. It is hard, but it can be done. I wish her well.
she looks so over processed
Wow. I hope she’s okay. And if she is not, then I hope she can get the help she needs.
Honestly, seeing her like this makes me feel terrible. As someone who has been underweight and sick, I don’t know how she keeps working. When I was at my most disordered, I didn’t want to do anything, because I felt so terrible and literally like I was going to die all the time. She must feel so run down.
It makes one wonder if something else isn’t going on and the weight issue is just a symptom – such as drugs. It wouldn’t surprise me. When you work that much and in the spotlight, it’s easier to turn to a “boost.”
Weight loss pills? She’s got a problem with food, and I say that without a hint of speculation. She’s been pretty open about the way she eats, and it isn’t healthy. It’s not even so much about how she eats, but how she talks about food and weight. But it wouldn’t be surprising if she had some help from Mother’s Little Helper.
I watch her on E! News all the time. She is very very skinny but she is also very energetic and seems mentally healthy. I don’t think she’s sick in any way. I know she was born with some health issues and has an iron rod in her back. Perhaps she has pain and believes being underweight helps her back out? I don’t know but she’s an adult and she is able to take care of herself.
Iron rod?
Metal rod…sorry that was a typo. She was born with scoliosis and has complained about her back many times. She had many surgeries as a child to help correct the problem including having a metal rod put into her back. I worked with someone who had scoliosis and he was very skinny as well though he ate normally. He was gearing up for surgery and was in a lot of pain. Our boss was nice enough to get him a special chair to help ease the pain.
I have scoliosis, I have a 42 degree curve in my lower back and a 25 degree curve in my upper back. I’m not skinny! I’m average, maybe carrying an extra few kilos. It’s ridiculous to say that scoliosis means someone is skinny. The only time I was considered ‘skinny’ was when I wore a back brace through my teen years – and bear in mind, I wasn’t skin and bone, just at the lower end of the healthy BMI. That was because the brace was tight across my tummy, I physically couldn’t eat too much or I would feel really uncomfortable. The metal rod in the spine is just the same as getting one in your leg or arm – it won’t make you skinny.
There is nothing wrong with discussing a celebrity’s obviously unhealthy weight. It is not shaming. If anything, young people need to know that’s not normal and that’s not healthy. It isn’t natural either. She is starving herself one way or another and young girls thinking that’s okay isn’t cool. Young girls thinking that skinny to the point of looking malnourished – isn’t cool.
I’m sure Rancic is basically a nice person, but she has a problem. When you openly proclaim your passionate desire to have a baby but refuse to get healthy enough to do so, is wrong. Those are warped priorities. I still feel she made those claims about not being fertile for sympathy. How do you feel sorry for somebody who doesn’t REALLY want to get pregnant if it means they have to gain 5-10 pounds? She knows she isn’t well and now she found a way to have a child w/out having to get healthy and if she continues with her habits, her child will see it and possible follow in suit or think it’s normal. I don’t like it.
I think common sense can tell you when someone is too thin- whether it is from an eating disorder, illness, whatever. Someone who is skeletal looking is, well, skeletal looking. And this is coming from someone who loses their appetite when stressed. When that scale starts plummeting, and my jeans start hanging off my hips, I force myself to eat. At 5’3”, the lowest weight I have been is 105, and I could see my ribs. 5’8″ and 98 pounds? Way too thin. Common sense. It’s not body shaming. Someone who is obese is obese, someone who is scary thin, is scary thin.
THANK YOU.
Obviously a major problem there. E! needs to take her off the air until she gets some help. Save her job but gentle nudges won’t help- she needs a ‘come to Jesus’ meeting/ intervention.
I agree, she clearly has an ED and she shouldn’t be on tv like this. By employing her as a presenter, E! tacitly approves of her weight/ED. It’s just a really bad, unhealthy image.
It sounds harsh, but I also really hope she gets better. It’s very sad.
I agree! E should be ashamed for allowing her to continue on live TV . This is not a role model for anyone.. She clearly is sick!. I was there many years ago and one day I found pictures of myself during that time of my life and I destroyed them because even though I thought I looked great at that time, I realized years later when running across those pictures how very sick I was to let myself get to that point. I watched Karen Carpenter die of her illness. I was myself on that road before I got some help and got healthy. I pray she will wake up and realize she is destroying herself from the inside out, if in fact this is an eating disorder as I suspect it is. Years later she will pay for what she is doing to her body by starving it as it appears. I’m sorry, but I have to turn the tv station when she is on because it just creeps me out to see her now. If by chance this is not an eating disorder then I pray what ever is wrong with her is something she can recover from.
I hope she does too. She has a baby and a husband to think of. She needs to get herself healthy so she can be there for her family, but mostly for herself.
I agree. I think it will occur soon.
They hired Maria Menunos for a reason.
Oh, I didn’t know they’d hired Maria.
Most of them are competing to be the thinnest in show business, sadly she is one of them.
She has a bit of a vapid appearance so based on that alone I find it hard to think of her as beautiful, regardless of what weight she is. Maybe seeing celebrities up close has affected her, but I don’t think of her as being in the same vein as a movie star or even Oprah, so if she’s competing with someone, I wonder with who because I don’t think she and her husband are even on the D-list of celebrity-dom. I have issues with Gwyneth Paltrow, but stick her next to Guilana Rancic, and my eyes will move to Gwyneth just by virtue of her being an actress who has been employed at times. Doesn’t matter who the thinner or prettier one is – it’s just that I know who Gwyneth is and what she does for a living whereas Guiana’s job is to present them, or, er critique them, I guess.
Maria Menounos is quite pretty and has an amazing figure, but, again, stick her next to Kate Winslet and my eyes will move to Kate Winslet since she’s established in my mind as the accomplished actress who Leo thinks is “the best” at what she does.
I would say she looked like a damn crunchy cheese doodle, so damn orangey, but then again crunchy doodles has curves.
Isn’t she almost 50? Yes an extra 10lbs usually make you look a bit younger, but give the poor girl a break.
That being said, “bless her heart, is she okay?”
And I have to add I once had a friend tell my husband he was with a girl so skinny her hip bones bruised him. Apparently it was not enjoyable.
I think she’s 39 or 40.
She was born in 1974. Kinda makes the point if you think she’s almost 50 Queenbee. I like her and she looks ill.
Having suffered through my sister’s anorexia, bulimia, alcoholism and eventual death, I know that this isn’t about just being model thin, it’s a deep-rooted self-esteem issue and for some reason she doesn’t like something about herself. She’s transferred this subconscious dislike into something she can control with nobody else’s input or approval – her weight.
I wouldn’t wish anyone to go through what I, my family and my sister’s husband went through because she refused all help and therapy, just stuck her head in the sand and told us all to b*gger off.
She has to be taken off the air as A) she’s a reinforcing example to all the young women out there watching her who suffer from anorexia, and B) she needs therapy, lots of it. She’ll be facing heart problems, osteoporosis, digestive issues, dental problems, a whole host of health side-effects from eating disorders if she doesn’t get help.
jaded, very sorry about your sister. That experience sounds horrific.
I agree with you, E! needs to remove her from broadcast until she can regain her health. I doubt anything will happen until there is that sort of intervention. Right after the Golden Globes, I wrote to E! and stated just that. Of course, never heard back from them.
Quite honestly, I think there would be no way she would ever get pregnant. Not only due to her weight issues, but also her body issues. From the sound of it, she is obsessed with her thinness, and that signals potential anorexia or bulimia, imo.
so sorry – what happened at the end, was it the alcohol?
bulimia and alcoholism seems so very complex.
how would one even go about trying to get help for that – so hard.
really heartbreaking. 🙁
hate hearing these stories.
Without a doubt this woman is dying. Let’s get real here. She needs help asap. Or maybe we can all just carefully tread around this issue until she drops dead. She is on that path. Look, look, look at that picture. She is sick as she can be.
She definitely looks skinnier than normal. Almost frail. My mom noticed too. She said, “I wonder what’s bothering this woman, because she doesn’t look well.” Not sure if the pressure is from the E network or more from interviewing skinny models and stars day in and day out. Most of the hosts–Maria, Cat, Ali…–have great figures and curves. So, it seems like she started losing weight and it spiraled out of control. Hubbie and home life might be to blame. Her and Bill always seem so awkward when they co-host. She’s always looking at him and he has closed off body language (like the closed palm pic above). Last time they hosted she went on and on about how Bill says he likes Cat all the time. Really awkward! Kudos to her stylist for regularly putting her in high neck outfits so it covers her collarbone. Hope she gets better soon.
I just saw more pictures of her from the golden globes and her back bones were protruding like crazy, this a very sick woman, it makes me so sad and I hope she gets help.
I’m one of those freaks who forgets to eat when I get stressed, and I’m also 5’9″ and the lowest I’ve been was 115 lbs after my daughter was born, she had colic and I was in school full time, and that was scary skinny for me, I can’t imagine being 98 lbs. I feel bad for talking about her body because I know how hurtful certain comments can be, and people accused me of having an eating disorder and said I looked gross, but I really think she has something going on.
I had a serious thyroid problem that went undiagnosed for about 3 years and was extremely thin like this. She may have a similar medical issue going on that she’s not being open about (or know about). She does seem obsessed with weight though, so who knows. Medical and mental issues could both be at work here.
Let’s all stop talking about her eating disorder and focus on the fact that she is unwell. Having mental health issues is a very serious disease and should be treated in the same way as other illnesses. You don’t say to people fighting cancer – will your self better. Comments like “Grab a sandwiches” are very hurtful that said, I wish she’d take time off work to focus on her health. She looks really unwell.
I watched my sister slowly die from anorexia/bulimia. It took nearly 15 years. The woman needs help, she’s ill, and treatment is notoriously difficult. Believe what you will about their “will” to get well, it’s simply untrue past a certain point. They lose complete control of their ability to eat and by the end they are often desperate to get well but can’t. Please get help.
This.
yes.
this is frightening.
+10
She is neither slender, slim or thin. She is skeletal skinny – and it does NOT look good. AT ALL.
Did anyone else notice that she now wears her wedding ring on her middle finger, I’m guessing because she’s lost so much weight. I hope her health is okay :-/
Her health is NOT Ok, unfortunately. Her employer needs to step up to the plate because obviously neither she or her family can do it.
I think behinds the scenes there’s a lot of manuvering going on.
I agree,she needs to go rest for awhile, see to her health professionally.
JMO
If shes wearing her wedding ring on her middle finger, my guess its a “eff you” to somebody. Why? Cause shes got money to resize it, or buy one that fits her ring finger. Maybe shes thin from stress in her marriage.
I remember on her reality show
She was eating breakfast one morning – it was a 1/2 cereal, 1/2 cup of both skim milk and water.
you know, b/c skim milk is soo fattening she said,
she is really looking terrible – the thing is, she thinks she looks great and that’s what is so sad. the distortion of what she sees when she looks in the mirror.
I don’t know what her problems are or why she is so skinny but she doesn’t look healthy. If she is going through some difficulty, I hope she is getting some help already.
My heart goes out to her. She needs help.E! Needs to take her off the air until she does. Bad, bad message to send. I’ve been there at 5 ’10 and 100 pounds. Thank GOD not any more. (a PROUD 135 now!)
She needs help….and fast.
It’s NOT body shaming in this case.
ABSOLUTELY.
Glad to hear you’ve recovered, this is a serious situation and more common than we’d like to believe.
She looks unwell.
She (and her Frankenstein husband) have always had unfortunate looks, but she is way beyond subjective aesthetics and into seriously unwell territory.
I’ve never understood how someone with such skewed self-awareness holds a job on TV as a presenter, let alone as a fashion critic of others. Her currency is no good with me.
I will continue to avoid any show she is on, but I wish her well.
She behaves as a hypocrit and I hold no harbor for people who get in their own way and refuse to help themselves. I wish the people around her cared enough to intervene.
She is adorable and thin by nature. Some people are lucky enough to not have to worry about weight. She is happy, healthy and thank God, has beaten the cancer.
Haters gonna hate.
No, just no. Just take a look at some of her older pictures where she is thin and healthy looking. Now she eother has an ED or she is ill.
Ugh soo sick. This is not healthy my friend.
Count me as one of those people who doesn’t eat much when they get stressed out or super busy. I’ve went through periods of my life when I was overwhelmed with work stress and lost weight without intending to. I also think skinny shaming is just as terrible as fat shaming. All that said though, I do think something is up with how skinny Gulianna has become. She’s always been thin but she looks dangerously so now. I’m not saying it’s an eating disorder, but whether she’s doing it on purpose or not she cannot possibly be healthy at the weight she’s at. I really think she would benefit from a break to take care of herself. She’s fortunate enough to have the money to do so and she’s popular enough on E! that even if she took some time off I’m sure they’d welcome her back after a leave of absence. Her husband also seems like a smart guy, so if it is ED I would hope at some point him and her family would at least try to intervene if they aren’t already.
I would feel concern for her if she hadn’t acted like such an idiot when her fertility doctor told her she needed to gain 5-10 lbs in order to get pregnant. She absolutely refused, saying her weight was just fine. Delusional.
She resembles Karen Carpenter in that first pic.
+1. Much nicer than my first reflexive thought, which was:
She looks like a starving Ethiopian child.
(I’m sorry, I don’t mean to be unkind)
You hit the nail on the head – she is completely skeletal at this point – she does not look good!
She has always had “Concentration Camp Face” but that top picture is seriously awful. She needs to gain weight.
That header photo is very disturbing. And she is aging and will only look more gaunt and sickly. They are going to take her off the air if she doesn’t get well, no one wants to be distracted by such obvious illness, both the viewers, the celebrities she interviews and her colleagues, there must be a lot of closed door meetings over at E!. And that would be devastating for her. I’m not going to speculate on where one’s head is at when one has an ED, control/vanity, etc. But she needs to get healthy for herself and her family. Her career isn’t worthy dying over.
It is very sad to see some commenters who ‘think’ she looks the same size in the pink dress as she did in 2009 or 2011. She is at least 15 – 20 pounds lighter. Look at her chin and the side of her face in the pink dress – she is skeletal! She is very ill and she is in denial if she says anything else, E! is in denial if they make a statement otherwise, and any fans who think she looks ‘healthy’ is in denial. Even this post, that kind of makes excuses for her by saying maybe she isn’t eating because she is busy working is really sad – and I call pure BS – because an ED is nothing for anyone to discuss lightly. Either talk about it straight face and with all the essence of reality – or please don’t discuss it all because of what is at stake for the young women who read and watch.
She looks skeletal and I noticed it the night of the GG. I never considered her remotely attractive to begin with but the tanning atop the skin and bones…is not a healthy look for her.
Poor girl…hope she’s doing okay.
She’s not much thinner than Angelina Jolie, whose arms are as thin as a child’s. I think most actresses have some kind of food issues. They are all very thin.
I hope she gets the help she needs. You can see how far back her hairline is now, probably due to her hair falling out due to malnutrition. Anorexia is an insidious disease, and I hope that she receives the appropriate treatment if that’s what is going on with her. She is reminding me too much of Karen Carpenter when she was struggling prior to her death.
I had no idea she was that tall.
She needs help and E needs to take some responsibility.