14 DAY TRIAL // Though Rachel Zoe might not be a name that instantly rings a bell, hers is a face that is instantly recognized. Stylist to the most popular celebrities in showbiz and star of her own reality show, a while back, Zoe was blamed for making anorexia fashionable. Now under fire for her own weight, the 38-year-old stylist says there’s no way she’s too thin, as the Daily Mail informs.
Bad mouths say Zoe told all her star clients that nothing would ever look good on them if they weren’t stick thin, wherefrom the accusation of making anorexia fashionable. One of her most high profile clients was Nicole Richie who, as the world must know by now, had at one point reached such worrying low weight people actually speculated if she ever ate at all. Now it’s Zoe’s turn to become subject to such speculation.
Snapped on the beach on vacation the other week, the stylist came under serious fire for her apparently emaciated frame. With visible ribcage and a face older than her 38 years, Zoe’s appearance sparked speculation of starving herself to maintain her waifish figure, an allegation she claims is unfounded. She’s always been skinny like this, it’s not something that she does deliberately. On the contrary, no matter how much she eats – and she does eat – she doesn’t gain weight.
“Truthfully, I’ve never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I’ll look at photos and be like, ‘Oh, that’s not a good look.’ But generally speaking, I’m not too thin,” Zoe says in a recent interview, as cited by the British publication. Therefore, it could very well be that the photos that got the entire tabloid media thinking of an eating disorder simply be of the kind that don’t make her look good.
“One diet doctor estimated that Zoe weighs a dangerously thin 80 lbs (5st 7lbs). Zoe, one of the most influential stylists in the world, who has dressed Cameron Diaz, Nicole Richie, Mischa Barton and Lindsay Lohan, has long maintained that she is healthy despite her shrinking frame. But she unveiled a body which looked severely under nourished. Her arms were twiglike, and her face looked years older than her 38 years,” the tab goes on to say.