History Main / HollywoodThin

* Creator/SquareEnix: In the later years had started to develop several characters that can be considered unhealthily thin, around the time of the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 era, with [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII Lightning]] starting the trend of characters being really skinny for their line of work, unless the character had a more developed figure in canon, most characters had a very thin physique. Women were the most affected characters, but men were also hit by this.

* Taken to the extreme in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. In the episode "Sleeping With The Enemy," we see a child model who weights so little she's reputed to have gone back to her birth weight, and becomes too thin to see should one look at her from the side.

** In another episode, Lois becomes a model, and is given diet pills by her agent in order to 'keep up' with other models. She and other models compare the visibility of their ribcages, and play tunes on them with xylophone mallets.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' takes aim at this - in one episode, Kate Moss is depicted as so thin as to be two-dimensional. She's [[https://media.tenor.com/NDWvzaL1enMAAAAC/family-guy-kate-moss.gif blown out of the window by a stiff breeze]], and [[https://i.imgur.com/PEO5wIh.mp4 falls through a gap in the floorboards]].

* Wrestling/CMPunk was later on the receiving end himself in WWE, where he was called a "Skinny Fat Ass" by Wrestling/KevinNash. In the wake of the Wrestling/ChrisBenoit paterfamilicide, US news media put a spotlight on WWE and it's drug issues. In a preemptive bypass to the buffer UsefulNotes/StraightEdge Punk's presence would have been to the inevitable criticism, reporters made sure to emphasize Punk was "half the size" of the other wrestlers in WWE.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' takes aim at this - in one episode, Kate Moss is depicted as so thin as to be two-dimensional. She's [[https://media.tenor.com/NDWvzaL1enMAAAAC/family-guy-kate-moss.gif blown out of the window by a stiff breeze]], and falls through a gap in the floorboards.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' takes aim at this - in one episode, Kate Moss is depicted as [[i.imgur.com/p4RvwSj.mp4 so thin as to be two-dimensional]]. She's [[https://media.tenor.com/NDWvzaL1enMAAAAC/family-guy-kate-moss.gif blown out of the window by a stiff breeze]], and falls through a gap in the floorboards.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' takes aim at this - in one episode, Kate Moss is depicted as [[https://i.imgur.com/p4RvwSj.mp4 so thin as to be two-dimensional]]. She's [[https://media.tenor.com/NDWvzaL1enMAAAAC/family-guy-kate-moss.gif blown out of the window by a stiff breeze]], and falls through a gap in the floorboards.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' takes aim at this - in one episode, Kate Moss is depicted as so thin as to be two-dimensional. She's [[https://media.tenor.com/NDWvzaL1enMAAAAC/family-guy-kate-moss.gif blown out of the window by a stiff breeze]], and falls through a gap in the floorboards.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' takes aim at this - in one episode, Kate Moss is depicted as [[https://tenor.googleapis.com/v2/media?id=12230865482680758783&format=optimizedgif&client_key=tenor_web&appversion=browser-r20231012-1&access_token=ya29.a0AfB_byDVcE5YxnoaMZ5EJqyZnq1xt6DK7bxPev1KZ9NKYGltbcrIkHn5ehP6n0ueIgw5InmXmA6c_WNg99noFdswPUmHV5OUGqqo8grUTmVGR6eGvFJ3Q-QSMuewEVYNycd6SKYFFFxceCb6Moz_wzz6bPTsBAR48iCiaCgYKAV0SARASFQGOcNnCmAcPkWv_84mfruE-GT-bxg0171&key=AIzaSyC-P6_qz3FzCoXGLk6tgitZo4jEJ5mLzD8 so thin as to be two-dimensional]]. She's blown out of the window by a stiff breeze, and falls through a gap in the floorboards.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' takes aim at this - in one episode, Kate Moss is depicted as so thin as to be two-dimensional. She's blown out of the window by a stiff breeze, and falls through a gap in the floorboards.

Women considered "fit" enough to be shown on TV generally fall into the fifth percentile when it comes to shoulder width and rib cage depth. These are hereditary traits that no woman can actually control and that have nothing to do with actual physical fitness. Yet these women are the ones who Hollywood shows as "average", especially if they have [[GagBoobs unrealistically enormous breasts]] (that are almost definitely implants) hanging just above that extremely narrow waist.

* The male counterpart would be newer ''Franchise/GIJoe'' figures. If blown up to full size, they would have roughly 25-inch biceps. For comparison, jacked-as-all-hell Mark [=McGwire=] had about 22 inches at his peak, and Wrestling/HulkHogan, at his steroid-laced hugest, would brag about his 24-inch, which were really only around 21-22 inch,"pythons".

* Beyonce expressed backlash to the figure she maintained for ''{{Film/Dreamgirls}}'', saying she was relieved to be able to gain weight after it was over. She had to lose twenty pounds for the role.

* Along with the Twiggy example above, Creator/AudreyHepburn (unintentionally) set a standard in the early 1960s for HollywoodThin. She suffered starvation during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands when she was a teenager, which damaged her body's metabolism and led to a relatively early death at 63, after a lifetime of health problems. The irony of this is that she at first didn't fit the beauty standards of the day, so she was often cast as the HollywoodHomely girl who needed a makeover. She was also less uptight about her costumes being altered to hide her body flaws than other starlets of the day. Of course nowadays she's seen as one of the most beautiful women ever.

** The Kpop industry (and Asian pop industry in general) is (in)famous for having ridiculous size standards for their idols, especially the female ones. Extreme diets (like only having water and a cracker as a meal) and an ungodly amount of hours of dance practices are the norm, which has them looking inhumanly thin. There have even been some instances of performers fainting on-stage or just after presentations from exhaustion and malnutrition.
*** There's even cases of idols being criticized by fans for "getting fat" despite looking like [[https://www.kpopstarz.com/articles/307504/20220703/5-female-kpop-idols-considered-fat-thick-thighs.htm this.]]

* Clair Leonelli in ''Anime/HeatGuyJ''. The artist (Nobuteru Yuki) draws thin people to begin with, but really played it up with Clair. (It's especially noticeable with his dark clothes and [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette sickly pale skin.]] Justified, as he's the resident [[IllGirl Ill Boy]] in this anime. Averted in the manga, where he's still thin, but no more so than any other character, and not sickly looking.

* The girls in ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub''. Especially in their fairy forms. (Kinda justified for the main characters and their magical friends. With their magical insect wings, it doesn't seem so strange that they have an insect-like body structure. Not justified for the muggles, however.) Oddly enough, they look fairly sized, even if on the small side, as children.

Ditto in animation, video games, and a great many comics, doubly so because they aren't required to find living people who have the desired looks. In fact, being unconstrained by human physiology allows non-live-action media to take this trope UpToEleven; see also NoodlePeople, MostCommonSuperpower and HeroicBuild.

* Toys/{{Bratz}} are this. They've probably done less physical damage than Barbie though, because their bodies are more an anime style. What's more concerning is the stereotypes for fashion, makeup and hobbies that they set little girls.