Keira Knightley Only Likes Emaciated Nudity

Posted at 3:30 PM Oct 06, 2008

By Kenny Herzog

Keira Knightley's latest curious quotable isn't quite up there with Meg Ryan starring in a film about liberated middle-aged women despite having transformed herself into a Russian circus clown to compete with young Hollywood. But there's something a bit counterintuitive about it. Dare I say possibly hypocritical.

Regarding celebrity nudity, she remarked to Glamour magazine (I knew that NCDSUV subscription would eventually come in handy), "I detest unnecessary nudity and what it says about women in society. I think you see a lot of films where... the woman gets her tits out again and runs around naked for no reason. And you kind of go, 'Ugh, do we have to?'"

Well, firstly, yes. If you want to get asses in the seats to see what substance the rest of the film has to offer. Sad, but true. It's like cheerleaders at football games, or in the case of a subpar film, like cheerleaders at a chess match.

But secondly, seems a little strange, Keira (if I may call you Keira and not Madame or some such caveat that you've earned by playing 37 elegant 19th century naifs), that you'd be concerned about how Hollywood shows women relating to their bodies.

Granted, my incredulity is predicated on buying into all those nasty eating-disorder rumors. But since I have a whole shopping cart full ready to purchase, I'll merely remark that if it's ok to parade around with the sort of frame that sends the average woman into a tailspin of diet-crazed self-consciousness, I'm not sure you're the ideal person to decry how other females choose to exhibit themselves on-screen.

Then again, perhaps this is what we get for putting rich, pampered 23-year-olds on the cover of magazines and letting them espouse their opinions to millions of readers to be construed as any kind of gospel.

Besides, we're much better off leaving that to older, wiser bloggers who spend most of their time actually reading said articles. Damn you, Glamour