Mila Kunis
is quoted in yesterday's E! Online about losing twenty pounds to play a ballet dancer in
Black Swan:
"I could see why this industry [query: which?] is so f--ked up, because at 95 pounds, I would literally look at myself in the mirror and I was like, Oh my God!" she says. "I had no shape, no boobs, no ass...All you saw was bone. I was like, This looks gross."
I hope people notice what I think is the most meaningful portion of the interview, which is about the difference between how she looked to real people--"family and friends became concerned"--versus how it looked onscreen:
"In real life, it looked disgusting," Kunis says. "But in photographs and on film, it looked amazing."
We experience people's bodies more and more through the filter of imagery, but photos do not = bodies. There are worlds of differences living in the (theoretically) thin line between the two.
