Gemma Ward To Quit Modeling Because Of Weight?
November 9th, 2009 by Rian | Filed under Celebrity Weight Gain, Models & Supermodels.UPDATE TO THIS POST: I added two more recent images (from Gemma at the airport last Wednesday) to this post!
It is being reported that Australian supermodel Gemma Ward is quitting her model career after recent criticism over her weight gain. Gemma – who at one time was notoriously stick-thin (see photos below) – has put on a little bit of weight over the past couple of years. Here is a photo of her from last week in NYC:
Photos via FamePictures
She was photographed last week in New York wearing a print jacket, shorts and biker boots and looking more like a healthy young woman and less like an emaciated wraith. Ward had previously been criticized for being too thin in the early part of her career.
The photos were posted by international fashion blogger Bryan Boy and received an number of vicious comments on her new size and shape.
Ward’s modelling agency in New York, Viviens, announced that the Australian had no immediate plans to return to the industry. ‘Gemma hasn’t committed to returning to modelling at any time soon’, a spokeman said, adding Ward had the agency’s full support.
Here’s a couple of old modeling photos of Gemma when she was much thinner:
A definite change!
What do you all think – does she look better now, or did she look better then?
More new photos:
Tags: candids, gemma ward, model, Models & Supermodels, weight gain
She looks bad!! Terrible legs, gross
ps: she looks much better if she’s skinny
she is so beautiful regardless of her size, it must be so difficult to deal with people tearing you to shreds because you are no longer a stick figure!
She obviously has issues with her body—prob struggled to stay super thin and now just let go. She should seek help.
This just shows how hard it can be to get anywhere in the entertainment or fashion industry if you don’t take care of your weight! But I do think she was a beautiful model!
shes jsut a normal size now, and still stunningly beautiful. more posts like this please!! it defo makes you feel better about yourself knowing you dont have to be stick thin and starve yourself to be pretty.
Wow she gained A LOT of weight, poor girl, must be difficult. Honestly I think she looked better before, and I understand the struggle of maintaining a good figure but sometimes you just have to have a burger, which looks like she has done just that :/
i think she is beautiful in the third picture, but yes of course she is quite thin there, so it’s understandable that she was not going to keep herself at that weight. there are good weight gains and bad weight gains, her weight gain does not seem healthy, she has no tone, which means she has not been working out!
Not good…
I agree with nnn. Also, she is so much younger in the modeling photographs. It’s easier staying super-thin when your sixteen (or however old she is there).
Well there were those blurry pictures of a blonde girl on the beach with a non-model figure/fairly untoned looking thighs who was aparently Gemma Ward.
I don’t think a model stops and thinks “Ive gained weight – time to stop modelling’. Pretty stupid story like.
I think she has a gorgeous face and figure.
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are we sure thats even her? Wasnt she dating Heath Ledger when he died? I’d gain weight too if I were her. So sad.
She should strive finding a happy medium. Moderate food, moderate exercise.
Good for her to quit modeling.
and why is she wearing pants and then not wearing pants???
It’s such a shame that someone who is still obviously slim is getting slammed for being big. She looks great. Okay, she has cellulite. But so do most women, actually. We’re just used to seeing her with nothing to her. She looks beautiful either way but it’s nice to see that she isn’t forcing herself to stay stick thin
Good for her! She shouldn’t have to starve herself to become stick thin. It isn’t natural and it isn’t healthy. I’m glad she’s smatter than most models. She’s more than a thin body
@ Courtney, I think your on about MK Olsen..
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Its such a shame she has given up modelling, she is sooo pretty, and an amazing model.
I personally think she looked better thinner, but if she is happier now then thats all that matters
She’s lovely. Better than the stick days.
She certainly looked better before the weight gain.
Beautiful woman full stop IMO.
I like thin but not starved. It’s not surprising that she has cellulite. I’m sure her body is storing as much fat as possible. The balance required takes time.
Not a very good pic of her face. Definitely has gained in her legs. It’s probably pretty difficult to maintain such a low weight. She was bound to gain at some point.
it’s hard to tell in those pics, they’re not very flattering. I’ve seen her in other pics recently and she looks pretty, but here I’d agree she dosen’t look as good, but I really think that has more to do with the angles etc. And so she has cellulite, so do 90% of women, u can be pretty with cellulite. shesh.
Post so other pictures so we can tell better!
She looks better thinner, although she looks good in the black tights picture.
she was looking very unhealthy in those skinny pictures…
she looks a lot better now (even if cellulite is never pretty, but hey, it’s a common thing).
Not unlike Tyra Banks. It goes to show that maintaining that weight is completely unrealistic for most women beyond the age of … oh, say … 18? I wish people would just give her a break. If she’s struggling with her weight, then I hope she finds a happy balance. If this is her natural set point, then good for her for rejecting the industry expectations.
Hopefully she made a ton of cash modeling and can now live her life happily, without worrying about starving herself.
I would be very surprised if she just “let herself go.” She probably decided to let herself be healthy–and so now it’s going to take her body/metabolism some time to catch up and her weight gain to settle down.
I think she is so beautiful, and i have so much respect for her that in this society she is able to be strong, and just because she doesnt weigh what she used to, she isn’t going to starve herself to be something she no longer is.
Good on her!
She deserves our respect!
I don’t think it’s her.. I certainly doesn’t look like her.. maybe it’s just a girl that looks just like her?
she looked better thin….
I think this just shows that not as many models who claim to be “naturally stick thin” are….someone would not gain that amount of weight if they were naturally a tooth pick
FYI I think she looks better now than when she modeled
I agree with Kj–these photos are super unflattering and weird. I think she looks much better now for sure, she looks ill in the skinny pictures. . . and she was supposedly dating Heath Ledger when he died. . . I’m sure she’s made ample amounts of money modeling and is now taking a break and trying to live a normal life for a bit(which includes eating.
This is so sad. Obviously she is more at her ‘normal’ weight now, and no….doesn’t look like a typical model anymore. But kudos to her….she has chosen her life and health over being a model!!
the girl is gorgeous!!! she was rlly young when she was that thin n as most of us know getting older rlly does change ur body n ur eating habits!! i kno that the change for me came at the age of 18 when my hips widened n my weight went up like 10lbs without a real change in diet… things happen i feel bad for the girl… give her a break
Totally different types of photos first off. I think a 0 is too thin for her height and the 8 or so (that she is now?) is probably fine but she would look so much better more toned. She has an unusual face, like Lily Cole, that looks better exaggerated at her former size, IMO…even though her body was way too thin before.
ARE YOU PEOPLE FREAKIN KIDDING ME!!! If you think that she looks even remotely “thin” in the before pics, then you have an extremely distorted view of what “thin” is. She is a skeleton in the before photo’s. She isn’t thin, she is on the verge of death! However, somewhere in between the before and after would be perfect.
Wow, cellulite. . .
I love seeing how even models can gain weight. It makes them more human.
Ew! Gross! Skinny fat is still fat-lose it, tone it, or cover it up!
Unfortunately she looks more “average” now and when you’re a model you need to be “more” which I think she did look “more” when she was a stick. That tiny body really made her delicate features stand out, especially the eyes. Gorgeous eyes:)
I think she looks OK. She looks average and healthy weight wise.
Wow!! She looked WAY better skinnier! She just needs to lose a bit more and tone up, doesn’t have to go back to same size but she should definitely lose some weight!
there are a lot of comments about how she looks better skinny and what not, but i think she looks healthy. she definitely isn’t 16 anymore, so i think its a good thing she’s letting her body get to a more natural place. good for her.
Skinny one looks like E.T.
one thing happened: womanhood. It tends to happen after the age of.. 12? some are later than others… She looks like an 8 yearold in the before pic bodywise. She has a remarkable face though… Nice!
This weight gain occurred immedietly after Heath Ledger died. She was EXTREMELY close to him. They both grew up in Perth (Australia) and had known eachother for a very long time.
I believe the (substantial) gain is due to her grief. I think she turned to food for comfort and shut down from the world. She hasn’t modelled since HL passed.
She must have been to hell and back. I feel for her.
I feel so sad for her. It must be hard when your success is based solely on your appearance. We should be ashamed that when a girl goes from too skinny to a healthy weight she loses her job as a ‘model’ for us. It’s hard because I do think she looks more attractive when she was skinnier but part of me knows that’s what we’re programmed to prefer. Sigh.
I think maybe she just made the decision to start enjoying her life, instead of punishing herself to a life of starvation and no treats. Like we said about Posh, she must be terribly miserable eating nothing and denying herself everything food-wise. Yes, Gemma has cellulite now, but she’s also gorgeous, and still relatively thin. I hope she’s happer now.
i think this shows in the first place that the only thing special about today’s models is their being stick-thin. most of them have rather average or even unattractive faces but all people stare at their pin-stick legs (as they are supposed to). When these models gain weight, they look just like everybody else (as does Gemma Ward now IMO). I think some of the “older” models like Naomi or Cindy Crawford could afford gaining some weight and still look remarkably beautiful!
i think she looks prettiest in the 3rd pic but that doesnt mean she looks bad now. she has gotten older so its to be expected that her body is going to change. she looks healthy and is still very pretty
she’s absolutely stunning either way! i already pressure myself to be skinny, so i don’t want to start imagining how it is when your boss, manager, agents and the entire media industry and fans judge your body constantly! so i think it’s good for her to stop modeling for a bit. but then again, tyra never really stopped, and she went from stick-think to chibbier to normal…
I can’t believe some of you people.. she took a break from this gross world of modeling to deal with the death of her very close friend. I cannot believe how she is being criticized by some of you. People deal with death and grieve in many different ways, and if she stopped starving herself, good for her. She may need to learn HEALTHY eating and exercise habits to truly heal, but WOW, give this poor, beautiful girl a break!!!!
I feel bad saying this but she looked better when she was thin. Now she’s just a big woman. Maybe if she exercised she would look better, but now she’s just shapeless..
Well if she saved enough money she doesn’t need to be in the modeling world. She can always loose the weight or do plus size work, but she is not that big, she just need to hit the gym and quit bad foods.
Good for her, she’s got to do what is right for her and her psyche. Modeling standards are typically too rigid to follow AND be healthy anyway. So what if she’s put on weight, she’ll find what’s right for her somewhere in the middle. This criticism is silly.
She looks much better thin.
Now she does not have model legs, she has old women legs!! Lol. They are awful! She use to have such a great body!
I think it should be noted that a) she was close friends with Heath when he passed, b) she was younger in her skinny days and c) she was never going to model permanently, she always said in interviews she wanted to be an actor.
I think she still looks incredible. These photos are so unflattering.
Go Gemma Ward!!!
This is so sad to see what has happened to her.
She was so beautiful when she was skinny, and now she´s just FAT, Sorry but that´s the word!
She has Cellulite and her skin is so flabby and pale… she can´t get any worse
Gemma looks awful! How can a beauty like her do this to her body?
This is exactly what I said before about stick-thin models. They put on weight just like normal people, especially in retirement. So, no point in being envious of their starving bodies knowing they’re paid to look like it.
she looked better before, definitely. But she’s not fat now, so I wish people wouldn’t call her fat. She is just heavier now, it’s a different body. If she wants to quit modeling over that, I don’t blame her considering the criticism she’s received.
either way she is beautiful, in the end, if she is happier with more weight and less pressure, then thats all that matters, right?? perhaps she is thinking that there are other supermodels on the rise and that her time in the limelight is sort of fading, therefore she opted out while she was still really popular. leaving the industry on a good note.
you guys are so mean, the thing is those are terrible angles. She looks like a regular girl you know? just normal
I think she looks best in the blue dress. Hard to believe it’s the same woman.
Besides maybe she quit because she wants to attend a post secondary institution. The world may never know.
she looked sick before, now she has mischa barton’s body. it’s good that she’s healthier, but losing a few pounds-with a healthy diet and exercise-wouldn’t hurt..
Mostly, I think the flowered dress is unflattering. I’m sure she’s not *fat*. I’ve seen skinny girls with cellulite – it’s just a fact of gender. But I do think she looks absolutely gorgeous in the skinnier pictures.
That’s funny, she went in bare legs and came out in black tights? I think these after pictures do Gemma no justice, I’d like to see what a close up of your thighs looks like!
She looks fine, if this is her natural weight, let it be.
i feel so bad saying it, but she looked soooo much better thin…cant believe thats even her
I think she looks better but just needs to tone the legs.
i feel really sorry for this girl and all the bad things people are saying but everyone will have their opinion… mine is that she is max uk size 12, still got a great figure minus those unflattering shots of the back of her legs which are just a step too far imo and no matter what she is a gorgeous face. i hope she is healthy and happy because this really suggests her tiny frame was the result of something wrong!
Horrible. Looks SO MUCH BETTER thinner.
I saw the picture of her in the purple dress in a magazine ages ago and thought she was so perfect!! She has a very unique look.
I hope she changes her mind and loses the weight!!
I am wondering if maintain the skinny version was unhealthy. Maybe she decided it was a slippery slope trying to be in the modeling industry and struggle with possible unhealthy toll maintain such a low weight was doing to her body. I think she looks great now. I hope she has found health and happiness!
I can’t believe these ugly legs belong to a model. Their shape is just bad, no matter how much weight she loses or gain.
By the way, it’s sad she let herself go this way. She’s full of cellulite.
i am sorry, but she looks gross, Love her before she gained weight…she has courage to come out in public like that.
To those who asked/wondered, I chose the newest set of paparazzi photos I could find of her for this post. I didn’t purposely choose bad pics!
I say somewhere in between, perhaps just a size smaller? but the real problem is her cellulite, she must get rid of it now.
She will not quit, but she will lose weight and model back. I think most of them are trying to make a name for themself. She def will lose and stun the whole world. xxx
I feel badly for her, and I don’t think that this is really fair. No matter who you are or what you look like, it’s hard to look good in the public eye.
Wowza some negative comments here. Erm..her legs don’t look good, granted, and i wouldn’t be wearing a dress like that if i was her, but if she was staying skinny in an unhealthy way it’s good for her for gaining some. Also, i think her body still looks good and she’s def. not fat. I agree w/ the comment about restoring fat, i know lots of people who, after gaining from super skinny to somewhat bigger, have lots of cellulite and just very untoned bodies, after that it really takes time for the body to settle again, and of course it requires work too.
She should listen to Crystal Renn, stop starving yourself and do plus size modeling. I heard recently that plus sized modeling starts at like size 10, how nuts is that???
Bad clothes, bad hair, but the weight gain isn’t the worst thing in the world. She can pull a “Carrie Otis” and become a plus size model.
wow what a difference. i am sure it was not her choice to quit modelling they just don’t wanna work with her anymore and i understand why. no she has no choice she has to lose the weight. her weight gain is really unhealthy for her anyway.
do you have more recent pictures of her? and why did she change into black tights?
the (bad) picture that shows her face doesn’t even look like her… ??
She looks fine.
I can’t believe people are actually saying she looks TERRIBLE…what a stretch! Ya, she would look better if she lost a few, but to say she looks awful is just absurd.
She looked emaciated before, but now she looks much closer to being attractive, although still extremely thin, especially for her height.
I’d much rather see her modelling now than before, and if anything, she could stand to be curvier still.
After reading “Hungry” by Crystal Renn, I will never again look at such a skinny model the same way. Good for her for getting out.
Yeah, she has put on a bit of weight, but I can hardly blame her. More than half of the girls in the model-industry laxate and starve themselves. And a lot of them start at a young age. Just try to imagine what those girls are doing to their bodies.
I know it’s a trend these days to be super skinny, but I think it’s sick that people with a BMI of 20/21 are being considered overweight.
i know she looks like a regular average size woman now, i prefer when she was thin.
she was really gorgeous
i couldn’t even recognized her to be honest
she is beautiful to me no matter what. Anyone would be lucky to be half this beautiful, regardless of her weight. People should see that she’s com a long way since her skeletal days and even if I would rather look like her before, she has nothing to be ashamed of now. Regardless of what anyone says. And she initially put on so much weight after Heath Ledger’s death. Maybe modeling and obsession with looks isn’t her number one priority anymore? Good for her!
Those pictures are shocking! I can’t believe that’s the same person.
The poor girl started modeling when she was about 14 and was very tall and thin. She then became the top model in the fashion world and as she got older was under pressure to stay unnaturally thin. Im sure she reached a point where it didn’t seem worth it to stay that thin and after depriving herself for so long she went slightly overboard with the eating/weight gain.
But Gemma Ward has made millions in the short time she was modeling so why not retire early if you can?
first of all, the pics used as examples are horrible and unfair. In the newer pics, it is all focused on her legs and rear, she is dressed to shop incognito on a day off, and not made up. There is one brief photo with her face showing at all. The before pics are modeling pics where she is styled and professionally made-up for a show or shoot or whatever. Even if there was no change in weight she would look vastly different given the two circumstances.
secondly, I don’t think there is a secondly. Let her do what she wants. it isn’t our business. I don’t think she “just let go”. I think she might have decided to take care of herself and allow her body to mature in a healthy normal way.
and for modeling? maybe she decided she’s already made enough hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of $$$ doing that and it was about time she decided to pursue her true passions or do things that actually make her happy? who knows?
She started modeling when she was still technically a child, obviously that kind of figure isn’t sustainable. I still think she’s gorgeous, but it just goes to show how fickle success in that industry is.
Wow. It doesn’t even look like the same person. =/
Oh goodness, the poor girl needs to be left alone. She was absolutely stunning during her modeling prime, but even as a normal, average weight girl, she’s still very pretty no doubt. People need to stop chastising her for something as silly as weight.
OK, by no means am I a fan of compulsive exercise, but even I keep myself in a way better shape than that. She’s only 22! If I were her I would immediately get on an exercise bike to tone those thighs.
Proof that many of those models are NOT naturally like that. People are always trying to cover up the issue of eating disorders in the fashion industry when we are not idiots. I find her to be beautiful no matter what and if she is taking care of her body by nourishing it then I say stick with that. I think her body wll even itself out once her metabolism gets back to normal.
She has a pretty face, but her legs are not currently model sized if she wants to stay in the profession. She looked much better in her waif days. I hope she was healthy when she was thin.
Annie, I’m reading that book right now!
She looks exactly like that girl from MAMA MIA…. i believe her name is AMANDA something… anyhow i think she is so pretty! I love big eyes and its so cool that she has put on some much needed weight… if she is happy, that is TRULY all that matters—
when i was super thin i was happy, and when i got fat, i was STILL HAPPY ( go figure, right?!) you just have to find something in between, and thats where i am at now… maybe this model is trying to NOT deprive herself of food and actually NOW just realized YOU LIVE JUST ONCE, why NOT enjoy it while you are here!?
I’m not going to speculate on any eating disorder, but if she does have one, it’s probably best she doesn’t return to modeling. She looks so much better now.
Annie and Rian, is that book worth buying? The one by Renn? I love memoirs; I am reading one now by Cupcake Brown — its called A PIECE OF CAKE (it has nothing to do with food or weight) its an extremely moving, sad memoir that makes you cry every time you turn the page, i kid you not!) =)
M*, I’m not sure yet… so far it just reminds me of other ED memoirs, nothing stands out about it although I am enjoying reading about the behind-the-scenes look at the modeling industry. I’m about 1/3 of the way through it. When I’m done, I’ll be writing about it in this thread on the site forums!
People are seriously sick and deranged individuals if they think that she “needs help”. Wow, get a life!! She looks normal! I have cellulite too…so what?! And clearly she looks a bit more put together in the previous photos because she is posing for them, has her makeup and hair done etc. etc. and in these recent one she’s just been papped. You can’t compare the two. It’s unfair, whatever her weight, she’s bound to look better in the modelling ones as it’s a more controlled setting. Blah, people really need to get a hobby.
I think Gemma is at a good weight right now. She is already in between (as she’s neither underweight nor overweight). She’s looks to be at a weight in the healthy BMI range. It’s normal for people when they gain a lot of weight and go from skinny to “normal” to have a lot of cellulite. It happened to me and it has happened to many others. There’s nothing you can do to get rid of it. Once you have cellulite it is there to stay, even if you lose weight again. She could work on toning her legs (by exercising, NOT by losing weight) and get a fake tan and that might reduce the appearance of it a little.
Thanks for clearing up that you didn’t intentionally pick bad pictures, Rian! I was just curious because there were a lot of pictures in that set where her cellulite wasn’t showing. And I know people wouldn’t have said she looks gross if you showed those instead at first.
i think she is still gorgeous and adorable
she certainly can not walk the runways now in that shape but i think she looks completely fine the way she is now and keep on living that way. she doesn’t need to walk the runway.
does nobody notice the resemblance between her and Dakota Fanning? THat’s the first thing I thought!
She looks pretty–she was a little too bobbly headed before. Whatever works for you though!
i dont think she looks that nice thin.. well, at least the first picture.. horrible and strange…
she’d probably look good somewhere between where she is now and where she was.
I think her weight gain is largely related to age, though I think she looks a little bit overweight. I wouldn’t encourage her to try and achieve that super skinny look which was probably effortless when she was 16, but exercising & avoid junk food might be helpful, especially as she gets older. If all else fails, she could be the most gorgeous plus size model ever. Oh, and cellulite happens to the thinnest of us. It’s not fair. I wish it only happened to fat people, because then at least you could do something about it-blame your genes!
gorg either way!
Oh my god, she looks fine. She looks like a NORMAL, slender young woman. Good for her.
I like her better thinner…she just looked absolutely ethereal
her face is so stunning that it really doesn’t matter. most of us regular human beings who do diet for a while need a break. it must be hard to be photographed at such compromising angles. she seems to have a good head on her shoulders and keep in mind, the camera does add fifteen extra fuck’en pounds.
Wow. I’m surprised anyone thought she looked better when she was so thin. She’s so much prettier now. Yes, her legs are a bit heavy. That’s the kind of body she has. But look at her face, people. Much prettier at the normal weight. She resembles a fetus in the earlier photos, frankly.
When I first saw just the legs and not head on face shots…I was like yikes thats a weight gain! However her face is still beautiful, it doesn’t seem she gained much weight there. Also, her figure is still pretty and womanly. To see this weight gain makes me think she struggled with eating or was using drugs. I say good for her!
wowza…a beached whale just flopped ashore up in here!
I mean yeah, she looked amazing before… but probably just because of our screwed-up beauty ideals, and it obviously wasn’t her true body type so I’m glad she’s not being unhealthy anymore. (Or maybe she was just a stick-thin teenager?) Regardless, she is a beautiful woman now. You go Gemma.
Ok.
Gemma ward is GORGEOUS.
no matter her f*cking size, she is beautiful.
she was best friends with Heath Ledger, and when he passed
she completely shut off from the world… she flew back over here (Australia).. I remember seeing her on Byron Bay beach a while ago, and yeah she had put on a bit of weight… that doesnt take away her beauty though, anyway she could easily lose the weight.. if she was that thin once, she can be that thin again.
I’m glad you posted this Rian! The Australian media have been going crazy about it. I admit, when I sure the pictures I was so shocked. It wasn’t these – there are some others of her wearing high waisted shorts. I don’t think she looks terrible now…but I can’t bring myself to say she looks great. I’m mostly just so shocked at the change. She was a fabulous size in ‘The Black Balloon.’
The story is a bit of a fabrication though- the media have merely been putting two facts together. She has gained weight and her agent said she has nothing planned soon. There’s no statement actually saying she has quit, let alone it being for weight related reasons.
She’s so beautiful. I want her to be healthy, no matter what that looks like. If she’s healthy now at a bigger size, then I’ll take that. Maybe she should move into plus size modeling. She has such a unique and ethereal quality. I would love a supermodel so well-known like she is to challenge the norm of scary skinny. Skinny does not equal beautiful.
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Also, as people have said, she was pretty young at the height of her success. From the very beginning, when she appeared on a modelling competition show, she was tiny. I think this weight gain is more than just becoming more womanly. She has let herself go!
her face is still the same…its just her legssssssss
I fell in love with her looks 7 years ago and no weight gain will change it.Some of the comments are really disgusting.
Is she still a model? She’s way too chunky to be a model.
And no, I don’t need to give her a break. Models are chosen specifically for their looks. She got her big break. Now she’s just big. Doesn’t make her less of a person in my eyes, but certainly not model material.
She had her moment and now she needs to move on. We only comment on her weight because she’s supposed to be a model. If she were just a regular girl, I’m sure we’d all just comment on what a pretty face she has.
I think she’s fine, really…just as long as she’s not in fashion, because in fashion this is HUGE. And definitely nobody will hire her at this weight. But she’s fine….not her best, sure, but she should at least be able to enjoy herself…I hope she wouldn’t gain more weight.
She haven’t been modeling for 2 years now.
With the added 2 pictures, it’s obvious that she’s gained a great deal of weight, and she really could use to drop some. She’s naturally pretty, but the extra lbs. aren’t becoming.
The only way she could have “let herself go” was if she was in an emotionally unhealthy place. She is gorgeous, is healthy, and young. Let her be – and let her explore her body – at different shapes and weights. Who are you to judge and say “she let herself go”? At any weight she could be at, she would still be beautiful.
Lay off. She did not quit modeling because she gained weight. She wanted to focus on acting. Her becoming a model was a fluke. Gemma always wanted to be an actress.
i think she looks great now- she was WAY too skinny before (no breasts, hip bones jutting). i wonder if she had a problem before, because that’s a significant amount to put on. but she looks fabulous and healthy and glowing! less like an alien!
this is what happens to a body that is badly starved. it becomes almost impossible to lose weight once an anorexic binges and puts on some weight. the body ants to hang on to it for fear of starvation again.
clearly most models go to extremes to be thin, and that can not last. look at all the past super models today…they all have gained weight since the height of their weight.
SO SAD. The comments about her being depressed now over Heath Ledger seem like the truest I’ve read. She just doesn’t look toned. Even if she wants to be an actress and not a model, she looks like she may not be living the healthiest lifestyle. Doutzen Kroes weighs more than her now probably, but still is an active model because she is very toned. Gemma needs to hit the gym a bit, then she will be fine IMHO.
She’s so cute! And you don’t have to be model-thin to be cute. Or beautiful. Or sexy. Or just a fine woman!
Yikes! I think she looked so much better thin! But if she’s happy with her body then I’m not going to judge her, whatever she does.
I think she looks fine. She has a beautiful face and, though the photos are unflattering, still looks better body-wise than most people you’d see on the street.
She has gained weight, but that’s what the body does if it stays hungry for too long: it increases appetite and cravings, slows metabolism, and stores everything you do eat as fat. Eventually, once it gets used to being fed again, the body realises it’s not being starved and metabolism goes back to normal. She is probably not naturally as thin as inher modelling days, but I imagine her natural ’set point’ will decrease as her metabolic functions return to normal.
I guarantee the weight gain is the result of her body going into starvation mode after years of little eating.
Whoa when did this happen? I am so surprised. She has definitely done a Mischa Barton…
I think there’s probably a healthy middle ground in between what she used to be and what she is now. She doesn’t look healthy and curvy; more like someone who has stopped exercising and put on a lot of weight fairly quickly.
I’ve never thought she was a great beauty, but I think her appeal lay in her delicacy and ‘other-worldly’ look. She’s lost that now, but she is by no means unattractive.
She’s obviously gained quite a bit (I’d say 25-30 lbs or so) BUT GOOD FOR HER. HONEY, IF YOU HAPPY BEING FAT, YOU BE FAT!
too thin before, too much like Misha Barton in the leg area now.
there’s got to be a happy medium
I bet she’s happier now.
Honestly I think her body type is similar to Mischa Barton naturally.. in her OC days, she was such a waif.. as she got older, it became clear that she was slightly more bottom-heavy. Gemma looks heavy here, but not overweight by any means.. I’m sure she will balance out and lose the weight though, especially with all of the media scrutiny surrounding her. The public knew her and made her famous when she was a waif, and that’s why there’s such a backlash.. it’s not that her being heavy is bad, it’s just drastically different than her previous look.
Maybe this happened because she eats normally now and this is her natural build and weight. So what if she has to quit high fashion modelling, if that means she will live a longer and healthier life?
What size do you think she is?
wow i’m usually all for curvy bodies but she looks freakishly gorgeous in the before photos
She looks absolutely perfect.
she looked way better than in these pictures!!
omg!!her legs!!
but why did she end her career??!
i mean she could loose weight again!!:O
wow 139 comments this shows how passionate people really are on this issue. I think its great she is finally not starving herself but it is sad she cant both be a model and not starving herself. I think she sets a great example for girls not to starve themselves. I do agree her body doesnt look great now but still, its the prinicpel of the matter that shes not giving in to being unhealthy just to model. I wish some designer would put her on their catwalk just to show everyone being healthy is beautiful!
@southerngumdrops just what i was thinking!
@Rian thanks so much for this post!!!!Its such a great message
fact is, she obviously wasn’t healthy before and it was just impossible to keep that up in the long run!She now looks more like a healthy, and still beautiful, young woman. Maybe she should seek some help though to deal with her previous problems. however, it’s a shame she doesn’t want to continue modeling now (although who can blame her) with her new curves and promote this healthier look instead of the sickly, grey and dangerous anorexic look we always get bombarded with in the modeling industry and the media in general. More healthier looking models like her now, Lara Stone and Doutzen Kroes in the industry!
that’s what happens after years of starving (“dieting”) when you accidentally slip up… Poor girl…
These pictures shows the models do starve to stay thin, i don’t believe in natural skinny, but she is very very pretty.
by the way, I think that will happen to most of the models who are on top now…
Gemma Ward did not gain weight because she couldn’t maintain it or because she is getting older….she just turned 22 for goodness sakes! Ever since Heath Ledger passed away, she struggled to cope with his death and I’d imagine spent more than a year mourning, whilst gorging on food. They were extremely good friends and were rumored to be dating. Give her a break!
NO question here of course. She looks way better now. Still tiny but a lot healthier. She has such a gorgeous and haunting look about her. Definitely not a copy cat.
yes, she gains lot of weight, but she looks much healthy and normal
Wow! Now she’s starting to look like a real woman. She looks really good! These people who say she looked better when she was stick-thin are sick, really. EDs and such. But Gemma looks very healthy here, good for her!
I suppose she would look better somewhere in between. Not skinny like before, but her legs now look ugly.
Jesus this girl has a beautiful face. I thought her face looked a bit weird when she was pin thin, but now – wow. She is just gorgeous.
The girl was DATING Heath Ledger when he died. Honestly, she was probably doing tons of blow with him and then smartened up after his drug caused death. She’s got a gorgeous face so she could get away with being whatever weight she wants.
I do not think it is fair to compare a professional photo with a picture taken on the streets with no make-up, no preparation or else…
She is beautiful now and she was beautiful then, but now she her weight is normal, before she was way to skinny…
Hmm,now that I think about it it could have been 5-6 years.Still,her face is amazing.
I thought she looked much better skinny but she obviously had to starve to look like that> That is no way to live ur life she should move on do something new.
Wow some comments saying she’s fat, you must be twisted!
There is no way she is fat, yeah she has some cellulite, but even Kate Moss has cellulite and she’s still a working model!
I think the angle is unflattering, there is no doubt she has put on a lot of weight but I bet compared to the normal sized girl/woman she would still look slim, I think she is a UK 10/12 max.
It goes to show that these models aren’t always naturally skinny and they have to work at staying slim and I’m sure that’s not healthy!
Maybe she can go on to bigger and better things..!
I’d just like to stay that the people saying she looks terrible, where she has gained weight, what is wrong with you? Do you think living an unhappy life, and staying super thin is heathy? There is nothing wrong with her weight now, she seems happier, and it is not as if she is obese, she just has more curves as women SHOULD! She is amazingly beautiful and it shouldn’t matter about her features on the outside, we all have flaws, and she’s the one who became a super model, not you so just leave her alone. She’ll never reach perfection, either will anyone.
reading these comments literally turned my stomach, shes still gorgeous and thin.Yes shes no longer sick looking,but why does that mean she should get help? you people can be really gross
I see cellulite at her thighs
she looked so much better before and her styling on new pictures isn’t flattering … she looks rather sad
If she wasn’t a model, I would think she looks to be a good weight now but needs to seriously tone-up, however being a model I know that her industry demands that she’s much thinner. So I think it would be best if she found a happy medium and could then continue to model. I don’t think her body was at all attractive when she was super-skinny.
i think she would look good if she was at a weight in between the two extremes! i don’t think she carries weight well..but with that said, i also don’t like looking at girls on the runway that look like they haven’t eatin a real meal in years. she is beautiful and she’s paid her dues as a model in my opinion so if she’s over it, good for her! she’s probably just enjoying eating for once!
she looks normal and perfect..!!!!
Looks like a vagrant!
She was very young when she started modelling, pretty much underdeveloped. Bodies change. She’s 22 now and I think she looks much better at her current weight. I always thought she looked sick when she was so thin.
she doesn’t look happy to me but I AM HAPPY for her that she gained weight she looks normal now,
she was much younger! it’s normal! give her a break.
she actually has boobs now. i think she looks very good, beautiful and healthy, no need to lose weight (:
She looks much better now, although she just needs to tone up her legs. That’s it!
its not all about the size or the shape, you also gotta think about her skin for example- I think she really has to suffer from stretch marks, poor girl
its (more than) ok not to be a size zero but the curves have to be beautiful to let yourself feel beautiful
She looks very beautiful and no, she’s not fat at all !!!!
I was so jealous of her when I was a teenager. We’re the same age, and she was getting on the cover of Vogue and I was just…..me. She still has her looks, but she has no doubt let her body go. Can’t believe that I now have a better body than her! (so shallow I know. and I know she’s been through a lot)
I can’t actually read this comments because they annoy me so much
@Jess, I was exactly the same! this post has made me feel better!
Previous starving does wreck your metabolism. I think she will lose a little and hit a setpoint soon. I think she needs to choose better foods and exercise a bit. She is a beautiful young lady. I think she’d be a gorgous US size 6. Not a size 0 but not overweight either.
I think she is gorgeous no matter what size. Naturally beautiful. Nuff said.
She looks like an older dakota fanning to me
It doesn’t really seem like a fair comparison to me: the skinny photos are print quality and of course she looks fantastic (her face does); the ‘fat’ photos are horrifically unflattering, the type of photos that we might see of ourselves if someone caught us at our worst. So how to compare? She doesn’t look happy to be caught in the ‘after’ photos, and she’s dressed rather frumpily. I think that there’s a middle ground, where one is not suffering terrible eating disorders, nor totally letting themselves go and dressing as if they hate themselves. The ‘after’ photos are often what people have to go through to re-set their metabolisms after long term severe dieting.
Wow. I mean. Wow. Some of the comments here are just…disgusting to be honest.
“she has courage to come out in public like that” She is a beautiful girl. Very few people are going to look spectacular if you stick a camera up their skirt.
Okay, as someone who has been struggling with an eating disorder, I completely can relate to this and applaud her for giving up something which is obviously a trigger. It is SO hard and so painful and so CONSUMING to try to maintain and deal with your body when you feel the stress, pressure and guilt to stay skinny. It is such an terrible terrible unhealthy relationship with yourself and seeing her choose to give that up and move forward and be healthy is INSPIRING. Who CARES about that pretty picture? She is gorgeous and STRONG for not conforming any longer. I am trying to work on my own eating happines and it is a daily struggle, this is inspiring! THANK YOU
She looks fine now. Just needs to choose to wear tights with such a short dress rather than bare legs.
As I have said before. This is NOTHING UNUSAL. Most of the models (including myself) turned normal after retiring from modelling. If that was another girl who walked by you in the street you wouldn’t even think of saying anything bad about her (unless you have a unhealthy body image)
She looks fantastic. Period.
I saw her in ny recently and was like god, that girl looks so familiar – kinda like gemma ward – but I was coninced it wasn’t her bc she was HUGE.
Totally sloppy sub aerage… And I honestly was sure it wasn’t here bc no one had pointed out how big she was on the blogs – but I guess its neer too late!
she looks healthy and normal now – she looks much prettier done up like at the fashion shows in the first two pics.
i doubt she had pros doing her hair and make up for her airport pics.
her hip bones in the first pic scare me
Re: “Hungry” by Crystal Renn. I took it out of the library. I liked it. The writing is amateurish, but I think her story is valuable. I can’t even imagine doing what she did to her body, just to be thin. Me, I’d rather have cellulite and eat cheese and enjoy life.
I don’t believe that her weight currently, is really her natural weight — she looks too funny, and unnatural. It could maybe just be the clothing, or the photo timing.
Either way she’s a beautiful girl, and if she finally decided to live a healthier lifestyle, I’m happy for her. People should stop giving her so much flack.
She did look really good before, but you can tell that she must have not worked out much since her legs don’t have much definition, now or before. I don’t think she looks bad now, but cellulite, while common, isn’t exactly ‘healthy’ either. It still shows a build up of fat cells. I think she would be fine if she just exercised a bit & stayed around this weight. just because you ‘return to normal’ doesn’t mean you can eat whatever you want because that’s a ‘normal’ size. It’s just as unhealthy to gain a lot of weight as it is to lose a lot of weight, if both are done the wrong way. So, i wouldn’t glorify her for becoming a ‘normal’ person since we wouldn’t want her to be unhealthy. i think we’ve warped what normal even is anymore. it shouldnt be super thin, but then again we shouldnt think really heavier people [not speaking of Gemma, just in general], are healthier when they aren’t. both are unhealthy examples.
mini rant, sorry 
i’m thin naturally [also short as hell haha], so its annoying sometimes to hear that ‘oh it must be done unhealthily’ & that i’m ‘not a normal girl’. um…some thin people are just like that. doesn’t mean we aren’t normal since i’m pretty sure we’re not from mars
But I think she looks fine. Some of the angles make her look worse than she really is [like the 1st pic].
she doesn’t look bad either way – although the first skinny pic of her looks a bit bobble-headish. i think as far as her weight gain goes she just looks normal, even thin people have a bit of cellulite, it’s a female thing!
she could just go to the gym but she shouldnt feel like she has to, no wonder she wants to quit modelling i’d hate to be nagged and critisised over my weight every day.
I think that she would look good in an in-between of the two extremes, because now i think she is a bit too chunky, especially in her legs and its not flattering.. HAPPY MIDDLE
OK, I hate how people are saying she is now healthy. She isn’t. I am not saying she was when she was super skinny either. None of them are healthy. Her flabby body is due to pure lack of control and laziness. This is not healthy or sexy. It seems she is over weight not healthy. This girl needs some self confidence and she’s not setting a good example to anyone – she’s telling girls that been over weight is alright which it isn’t it’s unhealthy it’s just the same when she was telling young girls it’s alright to be super skinny.
is anyone getting where i come from here?
There’s been a lot of super-negative comments towards other posters that I’ve had to delete… FYI to those making these type of comments, people are not ‘disgusting’ just because they have a different opinion than you!
i think its funny that most of you think you know what it takes to be a model. her life was not hers, the fact she is seems to be trying to reclaim herself some how is amazing. we should all try to do the same. look around your cube and tell me you are not owned and then weigh yourself after.
Maybe she recovered from an E.D. Yes, she looked amazing as a model and looks much different now, but she is still a beautiful woman and will probably find a good place in the middle and get back in shape. I don’t think it is a bad thing that she gained weight and is retired from modeling.
Modeling is a short term career. Most girls don’t stay in it for long, and she probably made a butt load of money and decided to do other things! More power to her!
One of my favorite models…wondered where she disappeared to! Glad to see she’s healthier/doing her own thing, but i do miss her modeling. I guess there’s always Sasha Pivovarova, who looks remarkably similar in the face…
wow, she has put it on hasn’t she?
Look at her heels in the photo with no tights!
I feel bad for her I think she has given up on herself or she is going through some type of hard personal issue.
She doesn’t look happy and she needs some lotion on those heels or maybe a pedicure.
I just feel bad for her she is gorgeous made up as a model and I hope she will get healthy.
although i prefer skinny, i think she is great either way. Perhaps her body is just not meant to be stick thin
It just proves that those emaciated models are NOT naturally skinny.
I think this helps illustrate that some models are very young when they start out, and like the rest of us, it is sometimes difficult to maintain once you get older.
Don’t you remember yourself/other girls in high school who were naturally very thin in their teens, but then began to fill out more as they aged?
@ Jenn, I think that Sasha Pivovarova is more beautiful than Gemma, she also seems to be at a relatively healthy weight, her legs aren’t sticks and yet she gets a lot of runway work. She’s one of my all-time favorite models.
In general I agree that high fashion models have to be thin because the clothes usually look better, but over the last two years or so there has been a lot of models on the runway that just look frighteningly thin in pictures, I can’t even begin to imagine how dangerously thin they must be in real life. They probably get paid very well but I’m not sure it’s worth the long time side effects. I hope that we’ve reached rock bottom by now and models’ weights are going up a bit.
Helen Williams i’m with you.
Wouldn’t it be a nice change if everyone jumped all over a male celebrity who gained some weight? It doesn’t seem to be quite as interesting as a woman who has gained, is it? I think we women secretly can’t wait to see someone who has “failed” at staying thin. We’re a sick lot sometimes. Gemma Ward is still beautiful. And for all of you who are shocked by the cellulite, you must still be pretty young. Just wait! You’ll get it too. Most women (and even many men) wind up with some degree of cellulite.
can you imagine having sex with someone so thin? yeesh, not hot. she is beautiful either way but she looks sad in the face.
Clearly she wasn’t thin before NATURALLY, I think is the real issue. And if she wasn’t, then she must be done with that aspect of her life, and good for her. If she’s ready to be happy with her body the natural way it is, then that is great. Some models ARE that skinny just out of luck and good genes, and some have unhealthy eating habits to fit into runway sizes — its all fact, really, but out of the latter number two is impossible to keep up for long amounts of time. I’m sure she’ll find a happy medium.
i always thought she was going to be the next kate moss and take her place…but kate moss isnt going away bu then she seemed to go more commercial being in movies like the strangers.
i think she looks beautiful, and better with weight on her. when you starve yourself to be that stick thin, you’ll gain weight very easily, but i don’t think she looks bad. i hope she gets and stays happy and healthy!
Before was better for sure!
I am absolutely DISGUSTED in some of the comments I have read on here. In the before pictures, she looks emaciated, and most likely (not saying for sure) has an eating disorder.. and may still have one. From a person who has suffered with an eating disorder for years, I know first-hand that when certain people reach a low weight, their body is so malnourished that they eventually start eating more and more… and sometimes cannot stop, or it forms into a different or more than one type of disorder. If you saw her on the street now, I guarantee you that you would not find her fat in any way (unless you have a sick sick view of what fat is, and in that case YOU need help yourself). Some of you are so uneducated and ignorant, and are horrible horrible people in my opinion.
To me this is an illustration of untoned legs, not Kristen Stewart’s legs.
helen williams– she is not overweight by medical standards. maybe your personal ones, but i really doubt a doctor would consider her overweight.
“OK, I hate how people are saying she is now healthy. She isn’t. I am not saying she was when she was super skinny either. None of them are healthy. Her flabby body is due to pure lack of control and laziness. This is not healthy or sexy. It seems she is over weight not healthy. This girl needs some self confidence and she’s not setting a good example to anyone – she’s telling girls that been over weight is alright which it isn’t it’s unhealthy it’s just the same when she was telling young girls it’s alright to be super skinny.”
Helen, the message you’re clearly trying to send is that models have to be “bony” in order for them to be healthy.
People have different opinions for sure…. but for anyone who think she’s “fat” or “overweight”…seriously, get a clue
she’s still beautiful and are YOU guys models?
She doesn’t NEED to force herself to that weight, why should she unless she is ready? She looks beautiful either way. I love the skinny look but that is my irrational mind speaking I work to suppress every day.
Also in the skinny pics she’s made up from shows/events, in the other ones she’s just out and about so the comparison already starts with a visual bias (even if unconscious).
A beautiful healthy gain. She was clearly starving herself before, so a rapid weight gain is only natural now. I know from experience what happens when you damage your metabolism. She’ll probably gain soke more as her body recovers, and then hit a set point. She looks indisputably better and healthier “after” IMHO.
Wow, she really looks really miserable. Too bad, she really use to have such a nice body.
She has been upset after the death of supposed boyfriend Heath Ledger. You tend to eat more when you’re upset like that. It’s understandable. She could find a happy medium between the two sizes. She was always too thin, yet still beautiful. She could find a healthy weight in between the two and work out, she’d be healthier and better off. She should not go back to being a freaking twig though..that is a NOT beautiful.
I’m going to go against the majority and say she looks better now. She looks sick in the old ones. And sick and unhealthy is NOT attractive.
Now, however, she looks healthy and beautiful. Who cares about cellulite? Nearly every woman will have it eventually and picking her apart because of something so natural is ridiculous.
i read that she quit modelling to pursue a career in acting, which she used to do in her teens and she’s said that’s what she’s always wanted to do. i think she should tone up her legs a bit but other than that she’s fine. she’s still beautiful, her face hasnt gained an ounce of weight, i think she’s gorgeous.
if she’s happy at this weight then good for her. whats the point of making a living on something thats making you miserable and unhealthy. im sure she’s got enough cash to last her through the next 10 yrs to worry about modelling for the rest of her life. she probably has more ambition.. maybe wants to do something mentally stimulating?
Then she was a model, now she is normal.
Kokaile
“Then she was a model, now she is normal.”
I couldn’t agree more!!
oh my – she looked like an emaciated alien in the skinny photos. How sad
How to battle cellulite*
-Drink at least 2 litres of water a day
-Avoid cola, sugar replacement chocolate/ sweets/ drinks- use brown sugar or honey instead if necessary
-Take 40 degrees baths for 25 mins at least once a week; daily if possible (you will start to sweat at 20 mins)
-Walk 10,000 steps a day (get a pedometer and clip in in our jeans pocket
- Skin brushing your whole body once a day (check lymphatic skin brushing on google)
- Try to eat more brown rice than bread
= Try a toning exercise- pilates to lengthen your muscles
Cellulite is extra fat stored in your body- if you do the above religiously and eat healthily you will tone and lessen your cellulite. Less cellulite= even body line= less saddlebag or inner thigh effect= legs look longer.
Try the above and take the drop a dress size for the holidays challenge!! (Please do not overexercise and/or under eat as this can lead to long term muscle and organ damage, skin and hair problems and rebound eating on `cheat days`= unhealthy and you will probably gain weight in the long run.
The idea is to tone up, loose a few kilos or half a stone over 6 – 8 weeks and feel great!!
Good luck!
God you people are annoying – She is a normal healthy young WOMAN.
She looks great now and gross then. ANYONE with proper eyes could see that emaciation is not a good look on anyone.
She’s at least 40lbs away from emaciation now – no danger there.
i need to say : ‘yuck’
cellulite, out of any forms/lines, totally out of shape. she looks really bad. and you’re able to see it in her face.. she is very unhappy with herself. she looks more ill than she did before
She was beautiful when she was thin. Nowadays she is not that super skinny anymore, i think it’s so weird. But she is def not fat. Her face looks sad though.. It just makes me wonder, did she starf herself to be that thin? I don’t get it, i always thought that that was her natural build.
There was a time in between when she wasn’t that skinny but still not that pudgy. But I still like her most when she’s skinny.
It almost doesn’t seem like her in a few of those photos. If it really is her… I’m sad to see it. She really looks like she’s pregnant … and she looks so unhappy as well. =(
She is a really beautiful girl.. hope she gets things together again soon.
Much respect for this girl. No model is naturally thin. She looks healthy despite the ugly outfit. She can be a plus size model, which is considered anything higher than an 8. Which is sad.
I think maybe she was dieting in ways normal to the modeling world but harsh to human beings as a whole.
When she took a break I am sure it stored on her in an almost survival mode when she decided to eat normal.
I don’t think she has been overeating.
This may be her natural shape.
And having starved herself for years to get into that stick thin shape,
karma has hit her.
She didn’t ‘let herself go.’
@bella
actually, many models ARE naturally thin…but clearly gemma is not one of them
she was obviously starving herself to be that thin! soooooo sad..
@bella…okay, that’s unfair to say that NO model is naturally thin. Yeah, cause everyone who is skinny HAS to starve themselves. C’mon!
Actually, yea, I did read that she had been upset over the death of Heath Ledger, which would make sense since she DOES look unhappy, obviously enough. If she was close to him, or dating him as they said, then its obviously why she gained. it makes sense.
though, i doubt that she’s ‘at a happy, healthy weight.’ no one can be happy when they’re grieving. it most likely has only added onto her stress. i feel for her.
but, who isnt to say that she wasn’t actually that thin naturally & whatever caused this is not her normal weight? no one stops to think about that. not saying that it’s a bad thing she gained, but people are so quick to criticize naturally thin people, saying that ‘oh, they all starve themselves!’ not all do. i think we’re too hard on people who are overweight, but then on the flip side, a lot of you are really hard on the naturally thin. so, kind of make it an even playing field.
such a pretty girl. nothing that a little exercise and better eating habits couldn’t fix.
Its a shame she gained all the weight, but I think this is emotional, so its best if she gets help and focuses on herself.
Ha ha she looks like an alien in the old photos. She is healthier now for sure.
Just not fair to compare the before and after using pictures from catwalk backstage with makeup and hair done, versus the pics taken on the trip arrival on the airport all messed up!
Of course everyone’s gonna say she looked better before, but that does not say anything bout her weight!
I agree with Lily. It’s hard to say whether she looks “better” now, because those are beautifully lit, carefully posed pictures of her modeling days compared with candid shots of her as she looks now. I certainly wouldn’t want someone snapping pictures of me throughout the day, while I was just wearing my comfortable traveling clothes—ESPECIALLY if they were going to be unfavorably contrasted with shots where I’d been styled/posed.
I know being very skinny is unhealthy but blowing up like a balloon then shrinking…isn’t that even more unhealthy??
Terrible legs… I do’t like the pink hat at all but the other is pretty. And these glasses suit her.
She was obviously starving herself before. YES… I believe runway models starve themselves!!! They form habits of eating minuscule amounts of food and after a while don’t think they even have a problem. I’m SURE she would classify as malnourished in the first photos! I hope she finds a happy medium cause it’s gotta suck gaining weight when you’re known for being a model
You people saying shelooks gross need to wake up to yourselves~!! Natural looking woman arent gross (Linda first comment) they are beautiful! The way god createed them!~ and Gemma looks great
The photo is completely unflattering of her legs from the back side. But I think in between the two weights would be the most flattering and healthy. She does not seem fat now just not in very good shape.
she changed clothes because she landed in australia and it’s hot! she probably got changed in the airport bathrooms or something.
she looks amazing, she is really pretty, who cares! i love what she is wearing, also. there is something so wrong with the modelling industry, which promotes starvation in a world where kids in africa do actually starve. that, and the continued use of fur, really makes me question why a bunch of bitchy, gay parisian men get to put down women all over the world and get paid for it.
i think she is still pretty but she did look better when she was thin. now she is a little chubby
well, take into consideration she probably had been traveling, you know?
i think she looks awesome now.
I think she looks beautiful. Who cares if she gained weight?! she is still a talented model and looks beautiful!! Love her!
vivi: cellulite is NOT “extra fat”; it is a NORMAL fat distribution in female human beings. I am in my early twenties, wear size 0/2, work out, and eat a balanced vegetarian diet. I have some cellulite on the back of my thighs. The appearance or non-appearance of cellulite is almost certainly caused by skin composition and thickness of one’s skin. If someone has thinner skin (e.g. you can see more veins), you will see more cellulite. It’s not a defect.
Your regime is fine for reducing overall body fat but other than reducing body fat %, there is no “cure” for cellulite and just about every woman has some regardless.
*grumbles at the constant misinformation campaign designed to make women neurotic*
She looks beautiful, despite her weight gain.
I have to admit, she looked very good when she was tiny, but now that she’s gained some weight, we’re able to see that it was not natural.
She has such a gorgeous face that she doesn’t need a skinny body.
I SAID THIS MONTHS AGO.
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