14 DAY TRIAL // Emma Stone is finally speaking out on all those rumors about her weight and how she might be starving herself to be “more Hollywood.” She doesn’t really mind such negativity, but she’s not ok with the idea that girls she hopes to inspire to have body-confidence might read these things and assume they’re true.
So, she’s speaking out.
It’s been a couple of years now that these reports about a possible eating disorder have started making the rounds in relation to Emma’s name. They picked up speed once she started making more appearances to promote the second Spider-Man movie from the rebooted franchise, “The Amazing Spider-Man.”
Browsing celebrity blogs, you will definitely come across at least a few concern trolls saying in comments to Emma’s photos that she needs to gain some weight. Some of them, Emma herself tells USA Today, even go as far as leaving her direct messages pleading her to “eat a sandwich” because she “looks sick.”
Emma thinks that this, more than anything, says something about the people leaving these comments, not about her.
“I firmly believe that nothing really affects you or can really bother you if you don’t already feel that way about yourself. [I have] been looking at myself in the mirror being mean to myself [but] I’m not sick. I eat sandwiches,” she explains.
“In no way is it my intention to be a bad example. That has been kind of bothering me lately. I’ve shamed myself for it. We shame each other online. We’re always too skinny or too fat or too tall or too short,” Emma continues.
The only reason she allows herself to be upset over this is because she wants to be a role model for girls, to tell them that body confidence comes from inside and is independent of beauty “norms” we’re always told we should strive to meet.
The moment she knows there is so much negative criticism about her body, she feels like she has to speak up to set the record straight, lest one of the girls she wants to inspire ends up reading this stuff online.
However, Emma is convinced that all this talk about her weight hints at a problem within those who initiate it.
“We’re shaming each other and we’re shaming ourselves, and it sucks. When I make a comment about someone or I choose to gossip about someone and speculate about their body or their life or their face, it’s usually a reflection of something I’m feeling myself,” she says.
This isn’t the first time that Emma talks about body image and beauty, but it’s definitely a first when she’s taking it so much to heart.