Alexa Chung Denies Eating Disorder Rumors
December 21, 2009 in General by Versus
MTV’s presenter Alexa Chung has heard a lot of eating disorder-related rumors lately and she’s setting the record straight:
Last night Alexa’s spokeswoman Liz Matthews denied rumours the star had an eating disorder.
Liz insisted: “She’s a very slim build. That’s her sister’s build, her mother’s build. There’s no problem with her weight whatsoever.
“Everybody’s body looks different depending on what you wear. It’s very easy to find a picture with bones sticking out.
“Alexa’s weight hasn’t changed for four years and she takes her role as a style icon and someone young girls look up to very seriously.
“It’s just the shape of her body. Some people are born with a body that’s small and slender – there’s nothing she can do to make it any other shape.”
Source: News of the World
More pictures of Alexa from 2009 after the jump!
She has always been very very tiny, so I tend to believe that she is just naturally skinny. However, in some more recent pictures of her, I think she looks as though she has lost some weight, which is not a good look when you’re already as skinny as Alexa, and I think she’s starting to look a little scary!
your all bloody sad for writing on here keep your opinion to yourself why do we need to know!
Hun your sad you just write on here and alexa is beautiful and if she doesnt have a eating disorder then she can not help the way she is formed. She is an icon to many girls so im sure she wouldnt encourage other girls to be aneroxic just to get her look. She is stunning and her weight doesnt affect that, she may have just lost a few pound but im sure shel put them back on after the bad press. the only thing would say is her legs are rather thin but i believe thats just her build.
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I’m not stalking anybody. I just noticed that you have the same IP address.
Alexa posted a tweet a few months ago about some of her friends saying she needs to eat more because she looks scary, so she has to be a little aware of her body, right?
and being having an eating disorder can last for years or even in families,imho
Yuck… Sorry to say but she’s pretty ugly girl :/
She has always been tall and very thin, just like most of the models on the runways. She looks fine to me. And I’d have to agree with her rep that sometimes we can’t change our build. For example, I am 5’1″ tall and weigh 103 lbs. However, I don’t look rail thin like Alexa (or any of the other models.) I can’t change that and I think we can make our bodies the best we can for ourselves as individuals … trying to change our bodies into something we’re not can have grave consequences.
You’re bmi is 19.5. You are normal weight so i don’t know why do you compare yourself with Alexa who looks like a walking skeleton, more or less. I agree with you on what you say about accepting our bodies and making the best out of them. That’s the healthiest way of putting things, imo.
She wasn’t comparing, she was giving you an example of how that is her natural weight, and she wouldn’t be able to change that, well unless she did some pretty drastic things.
Some people just fall into the heavier side of weight, some to the thin side, some to the very thin side. You cannot assume someone has an eating disorder because of it.
My grandmother, by today’s standards would have been considered “anorexic-looking” and thought to have an eating disorder, because as a teenager, and into her late 20′s, she was extremely thin and bony. No, she didn’t avoid food, restrict, etc. She ate just like the rest of her siblings. She happened to be thinner then them, but they all ate similar amounts of food. And unlike my sister who recieved my grandmothers genes, I am naturally more heavy-set. I ate the same amount of food, growing up with her (she was a year older). She was long and thin, I was more chubby.
I’m just saying, don’t assume.
I don’t watch her show but looking at her, she doesn’t come across as having an eating disorder, to me anyways. I just assumed she was naturally thin. It’s a shame if she does have one though–those aren’t easy to deal with.
You can be thin, when you follow a healthy balanced diet. My sister Emmy (also a commenter of this site) looks exactly like that and believe me she does not have an eating disorder.
oh dear, we have this discussion on every single topic. Point is no one is denying what you say, people are merely questioning certain celebrities’ habbits. So, this is about this celebrity and what she does, not about you, your sister, your mother, x, y or z or if is it possible to be – generally speaking – naturally thin or not. Of course it is possible, but i have said it before, extremely fast metabolism is an exception, NOT a rule, and moreover Alexa herself declared she ‘forgets to eat for days’. That’s the subject…
Uma I have two words for you: ‘anger management’.
I will write whatever I want, about myself, my sister, my pet…get it?
lol wow some people tend to forget its just a forum for fun…
i agree with what you said Zoi, some people are just naturally thin.. although i do think that her weight loss in recent pictures is very unflattering… it could be from the stress and not necessarily an ed
good answer
yaa good points cinderella, this forum is just for fun and i think people need to understand that everyone has a right to their own opinon. Zoi made some good points- i can see why she used her sister as a example, but uma made some good points aswell and about how alexa doesnt eat for days which could be the reason for concern.
As for her having a ed, i have no idea if she does. I hope that she is healthy, but i dont really know her/who she is. Hopefully she is eating and if she is going through something, i hope she gets better soon:).
I was not angry; read again, maybe actually open your eyes while doing that. i am naturally thin, my sister is naturally thin, i have friends who are naturally thin but who the heck cares and what do we have to do with the celebrity lifestyle. I was merely saying that you cannot compare one average human being to a celebrity and assume they function the same. They don’t. As an average person you probably have a job, maybe a family, chores and so on, things that take up most of your time, money and energy. When it comes to celebrities all these are invested in looks. Now, you either understand me and we’re fine, or you’ll just attack me again (because i have not attacked you, however you failed noticing that) and then you’re not the smartest person alive.
As for the anger management: loool, honey, what do you imagine, i sit all day in front of the side,all angry and messed up, waiting for someone to pick on? i come around a couple of times a day – it is winter holiday after all – and i just reply to certain things that get my attention. And than move on, check back the next day. Now, sorry, but fail.
Zoi I agree with you completely! I have a sister who is a stick, literally. She looks like a high fashion model, except she is 5’2″. She cannot gain weight at all, she hates it, she wants a butt so bad and nice thighs like VS models. But it just doesn’t happen! She eats everything, and has a big sandwich before bed but it just does not work.
I don’t know if Alexa is naturally think or not, I don’t even know who she is but I can say that people CAN be naturally thin!
Of course there are people who are naturally thin. But in Hollywood there is additional pressure to be thin, so even naturally thin people are affected by that. Everyone’s excuse is that they are naturally thin. I’m so sick of reading “oh I eat whatever I want, OMG I just love burgers” in magazines, when that doesn’t paint a realistic picture of things. Maybe it’s, “I have a burger then don’t eat for 5 days.”
So I think when people hear that “naturally thin” excuse its just annoying, not unbelievable.
I’m sure most celebs have militant personal trainers, eating disorders or both. Some even have “slimming” drug habits.
Lol, I don’t know what my point is anymore…
Lady Gaga said celebrities have to be anorexic to be thin…so they are paid to be skinny…they take pills,drugs,dont eat,exercise too much…who knows what they do…and believe me i didnt eat today too much and i went to gym…and i couldnt keep up with the rest
i was ashamed of myself…i couldnt work out cuz of not eating…so i cant be anorexic and go to gym…but what do they do that can make them go to gym and be anorexic ? or they just dont go to gym and go to the beauty salon? i went to the beauty salon and i slimmed down fast…but its just a matter of time to be myself again…and im size 4…
How do you know it doesn’t paint a realistic picture though? Maybe it does for those who say that. Not all celebrities say they eat everything; plenty do admit to exercising and dieting, so it’s not like there’s a reason to hide it and lie and say they eat everything.
But one thing I wanted to ask you is why you found it annoying when people say they eat whatever they want. Please don’t take this to be me being vicious, I’m just trying to understand others’ points of view (:)) because I’ve been struggling to gain weight for a long time now, yet I don’t get annoyed when people say, “Oh I gain weight just by looking at food!” because I’m sure that’s the case for them, otherwise they wouldn’t be saying it.
Well normally when I hear the typical “I’m so sick of hearing people say they eat whatever they want” I think that either that person is envious cause they can’t get thinner while eating whatever they want or that they really don’t believe it’s possible and therefore get annoyed about what they think is a lie.
I’m not saying that this is Ange’s case. I think she might be referring to how false celebrities are when it comes to this subject. I think a lot of them are naturally skinny, like Miranda Kerr, but others have eating disorders, like Lindsay Lohan.
Lol, I am not envious or remotely fat. Maybe you read more magazines/ interviews that I do, but every time I read anything that features a celebrity discussing weight they talk about the fact that they eat anything they want and are naturally thin.
So I always just roll my eyes, cause it just seems disingenuous.
I know people can be naturally thin. In my country of origin many people are as thin as her. But it just seems weird to have that exist in the U.S. when I know the American diet is very fatty and most Americans are not thin.
She is stunning. She does look a little bit too thin. But if that really is her naturally body type theres nothing she can do about it… but she could gain more muscle mass I guess….
i love herrr. wanted you to do a post on her for ages so thank you XD and i think she is really skinny but she always have been…she has the most amazing style though, i love her clothess
those shoes in the second pic have seen better days
I was thinking exactly the same thing. She shouldnt even wear those around the house.
They’re vintage dries van norton.
Nah, she defiantely does not have a eating disorder. she looks normal and healthy to me.
Time to look again.
Freedom I agree with you. I think she looks fine.
She has commented before that she lives a very hectic life, and usually forgets, or doesn’t have time to eat.
Most people have hectic lives and yet remember to eat. Does she also forget to breathe?
I agree – I thinks that’s a lame excuse. Celebs often say they are too busy to eat but how hard is it to grab a sandwich on the go? Are they also too busy to go to the bathroom or shower?
She has always been thin, I doubt she has an eating disorder.
She is beautiful. I have seen many pictures of her, and while she is thin, she is not the thinness that results from voluntary starvation.
Everybody talks about how Hollywood is this place where everyone is a size 0 and happy and they all conspire to put other people down. When you really analyze the situation, you see that the only time skinny celebrities are being talked about is when they are being accused of having anorexia.
I’d hate to be a celebrity…I already get enough anorexia accusations. I can’t imagine being a celebrity and going through that. Not everyone can be naturally thin. But not everyone can be anorexic either. And there are people on here who will call every under size-4 celebrity, anorexic. So much for pro-diversity in beauty.
i agree 100%!! everyone talks how hollywood wants to you be this size 0 person but when you are a size 0 naturally, you’re accused of being anorexic or starving yourself. i agree with her, sometimes you can’t help how your built. i would love to gain weight in the spots i want but you can’t force food to go down to your hips, thighs, butt, etc. i’ve seen women who are naturally skinny but are picked on because they don’t have that hourglass shape. i’ve never been accused of being anorexic but i have told to put on a few pounds when i look fine. i don’t want to be a celebrity myself if i have to deal with getting criticized everyday for my body. whatever happen to all beauty comes in all shapes and sizes?
ok, i was fine with her publicist saying she’s just slim. fine. but to say that her body hasn’t gotten slimmer in 4 years? WHY do they have to lie so much? Do they think we’re stupid?
Gauging from the totally out of it look she has in some pap pics (like the 3rd pic), I’m guessing it’s something chemical…her eyes look way too weird sometimes.
SHE IS NATURALLY THIN. She doesn’t seem like the type to have an eating disorder. Plus shes a model who does high fashion so you won’t be seeing her strut down a Victoria’s Secret runaway or in a SI Swimsuit issue. Someone said that someone always has to comment’s that there are people who are naturally thin and don’t have eating disorders and I agree. People don’t take comments like about someone’s body type to the heart just becauseyou have a similar body type these are just OPINIONS. Different Strokes For Different Folks embrace what you’ve got. Nevertheless I would like to see her gain a little weight. I think she’s gorg and has an amazing sense of style
“There’s no problem with her weight whatsoever.” How do you know? Have you checked her blood test results, does she have a regular period, is she not feeling faint or dizzy, does she feel full of energy? These are certainly things only Alexa herself would know.
“Everybody’s body looks different depending on what you wear. It’s very easy to find a picture with bones sticking out.” Then why does Alexa look the same in everything she wears, that is, super skinny? And why do her bones stick out at EVERY angle (such as her jutting clavicles, bony wrists, knobby knees)?
“Alexa’s weight hasn’t changed for four years.” So then it HAS changed before those four years? OH, wait– yes it has! If you look at her old pictures, she was much fuller. Hmmmm….
“There’s nothing she can do to make it any other shape.” Oh, really? You mean consuming more calories will not change her shape? You mean fat people are born fat, and skinny people are born skinny? And calories have nothing to do with one’s shape/size?
Oh, the stupidity.
About your last 2 questions…yes, genetics does have A LOT to do with it. I don’t know this girl, but some people have to consume an enormous amount of calories to gain weight, it really isn’t that easy. So yeah, she can probably do something about it, but we don’t know to what extent, and we haven’t seen her schedule either.
To me it just sounds like people trying to team up and insult a beautiful girl.
Jealousy is very unattractive.
Lol, please give me the name and address of anyone jealous of this girl. I would love to pay them a visit and slap some sense into them!
Um, well, she has a pretty face, a beautiful body, and a good fashion sense. So yea, count me as one of them.
Alexa is naturally gorgeous, witty and has an amazing sense of style. I know plenty of people who are envious of her, and I am one of them!
She’s said herself that she often forgets to eat- whether that means an eating disorder disguised in forgetfulness, I’m not sure. Point is, you can’t be healthy by forgetting to eat.
Sorry, I don’t buy it.
She may not have an eating disorder but when people say they’re naturally skinny I’m pretty skeptical. No doubt, she has a slim build but I’d say she works to maintain it and not gain weight.
I have nothing against her, I like her & think she’s gorgeous, but I doubt she’s just naturally that skinny without thinking about it.
I like it better when people say “yes, I work hard to look this good and I’m proud of it.” I mean, I’d be extremely proud if my body looked like that!
It is just me or is it weird when people say they would want “x celebrity to gain a couple of pounds and is too skinny”?
It’s like me saying I think Crystal Renn needs to lose a couple of pounds and is to fat.
Kind of a douche thing to say.
How about, that is her body type, skinny – and she CAN’T gain weight.
Umm, people can gain weight. Whether or not they choose to is another matter. If you like being thin then say you like being thin, but don’t say you can’t gain weight, cause that is just being disingenuous. Similarly, most people can lose weight (naturally, surgically etc.).
Ange, I disagree with you. If that were the case, I’d be 120 pounds a long time ago.
I eat a high fat/protein diet, about 3000 calories per day. Yes, in theory, if I ate even more calories (4000, 5000), I would probably gain the weight I want.
But you have to remember, people can eat only so much. Eventually people’s stomachs get full, and eating another bite would make them throw up everything they just ate. It’s not a simple matter of just eating cupcake after cupcake after cupcake. You have to actually force yourself to eat that extra bite. And there is a limit to how much you can eat per day.
I also want to add, not many people feel like eating to the point of nausea every meal just so that people would stop calling them anorexic. Some people feel there are more important things in life and want to enjoy food, just as some heavier people feel that there are more important things then busting their butt at the gym for hours.
Calm down. I have the same problem. I’m thin and probably always will be. I try to eat really healthy and I’ve had people think I was anorexic because I don’t want to eat fries, burgers etc.
I’m mostly just playing DA with many of my posts.
You’re very right – naturally slim people shouldn’t push their bodies to be something they’re not and naturally larger people shouldn’t either. The body is quite good at letting you know when you have had enough or need more food (if we bother to listen to it).
However, 3000 calories is quite a lot to not have a weight gain – perhaps you are still growing and/or very active? If not, it might be worth having your thyroid checked out.
Well I think it’s about time that thin people shouldn’t have to keep defending themselves from those who aren’t willing to understand that we all have different bodies, and just because it’s easy for some to gain weight doesn’t mean it’s like that for everyone.
Good point, Alias. Are people saying the skinny celebs should gain weight so they look better, or are they saying the skinny celebs should gain weight so they are healthier? There have been surveys done, and a lot of times women tend to disregard their health when talking about their looks, as in if they think that they would look better skinny they don’t care that that skinnier weight could be unhealthy underweight for them or that they would have to use drastic/unhealthy means to get there, as long as they “look” good they don’t care what it does to their health(and I’d imagine the same is true for women that think they should be bigger, but those surveys seemed to only focus on the one end of the spectrum: skinny means pretty
).
Personally, I think she looks too skinny. But since I don’t know if she’s healthy or not at that weight, I don’t feel comfortable saying she should gain weight, ’cause right now I would only be saying it from a purely aesthetic reason because I prefer a fuller body type. I know that there are naturally skinny women out there, even knew a few, and some did look like Alexa C. looks, and since I have never seen Alexa C. before now, and I don’t know why she has gotten skinnier(some women respond to stress by losing weight, and not intentionally either, just as some women gain weight when stressed, and some get skinnier as they get older, and so on
), I don’t think it would be OK for me to speculate and accuse her of having an eating disorder, ’cause for all I know she’s really stressed or just maturing 
What makes me think that she is not naturally skinny is that you can look at photographs from a couple years back and she has a bit more weight on her.
BEFORE
http://img151.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=33922_wenn858358_122_362lo.jpg#
http://img223.imageshack.us/i/alexa2mv8.jpg/
http://img143.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=33911_wenn856182_122_372lo.jpg
AFTER
http://www.godammit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/eat-please-alexa-chung.jpg
Especially noticeable in her face. That’s just my opinion.
I know exactly what you mean, she has always been slim, but I remember when she was on Popworld on T4 (UK) she was thin but with no jutting bones, and thick shiny hair, Now she is much thinner so to say she has always been this weight is just insulting to her fans. Anyway her show got cancelled so now she has all the time in the world to eat!! I am not jealous by the way I just cant stand PR bull***t!
I don’t know if she has an eating disorder… maybe, maybe not… but I think her arms are scary looking! she looks fine when they’re covered but when she wears sleeveless ugh!
What if she’s not naturally skinny? Like, so it means that if you are naturally fat you should just accept it and be fat for rest of your life, feeling ugly and being judge as a lazy person? I mean, c’mon, so no one should make diets or exercises, because you have to be how you NATURALLY are?!?!? THATS RIDICULOUS!
These celebrity anorexia witch hunts are becoming very boring.
They’re not based on anything other than seeing a celebrity has lost weight then the next thing you the media becomes Joe McCarthy and starts the blacklisting.
She looks very thin and could be anorexic, but where’s the bloody proof? Anorexia has other symptons. My sister was diagnosed with illness even though she never reached the danger weight zone, even though she did become thin. You wouldn’t have known unless you had to lived with her.
Also, extreme weight loss can be attributed to many reasons. It could be stress, overworking, illness, medication, laziness (in terms of forgetting to eat. As a student i only ever ate dinner in my 1st year because i couldn’t be bothered for the 1st 2 meals and sometimes dinner was ice cream because the hob and oven was ‘too long’), etc.
Anorexia is a serious condition and I wish the media would stop throwing it about the way people did ‘your mama’ jokes back in the 90s. We know that celebs are prone to weight obessions given the pressures they face, but don’t label someone anorexic unless you have the proof; it just gives the wrong message about the illness, which doesn’t help those that actually have it.
I’d like to believe her – but I read someone that in her modelling years she used to complain about being fat and that she quit because the industry gave her distorted body image and low self esteem. It’s quite possible that being in the media spotlight has distorted her thinking once again.
Whilst she clearly has a naturally slender frame, she looked curvier a few years ago and I think she has gone beyond her natural/healthy size.
I don’t know who she is and I do not think she is pretty.
If I could look like anyone, it would be Alexa. She hardly wears any makeup (and no hair extensions either), and she manages to look 100 times more amazing than the guests on her show. Yes, she is slender, but you can’t assume she has an eating disorder. And even if she does, then I hope she gets help. I’m not going to think she is less of a person because of it. She’s an intelligent girl, and I love her sarcastic sense of humour that all of her American guests don’t seem to get >.<
Oh, and at least she hasn't had plastic surgery.
Alexa is naturally stunning. She is very high fashion, and has captivating beauty. The people I know who ‘don’t get’ her looks are the people who tend to like that artificial look ala Paris Hilton, Taylor Momsen etc. She wears what she wants, (a mix of old, new, designer and chain) and doesn’t look try hard or slutty. She has a dark sense of humour and is herself, and I think this is very refreshing.
http://forums.thefashionspot.com/f50/alexa-chung-80922.html
alexa actually wasn’t always rail thin. there are pictures of her from when she used to host a uk music show and she had a much fuller face and a slim but not bony build. i don’t think these pictures are that old.
http://www.celebrity-pictures.ca/Celebrities/Alexa-Chung/Alexa-Chung-1244563.jpg
http://www.tvscoop.tv/alexa%20(2).jpg
This is the unfair treatment many women get. Because they are thin now or were one photographed at a higher weight, they have to be anorexic. Nothing is more depressing to the women who wants to look great but to be insulted for wanting and trying to be beautiful. I wish she had the long hair back, but good for her, she looks great.
The long hair really detracted from her striking face IMO. Also, she has very limp and thin hair (she has said it herself) so once it gets past her chin it starts to appear ratty (but ratty is still better than big fake hair extensions!)
ok well idk if she has an eating diorder although shes stick thin it could be naturally. just usually i dont see too many people who are naturally really thin in everyday life who are older then 16 but shes tall so a lot of tall people r naturally like that. but she is a little suspicious cuz when she was on a late show i think it was jimmy fallon and she was talking about old friends or bfs and she finds them on facebook or myspace and she said “its tragic when you see they are fat now”. those might not be the exact words but she used the words tragic and fat
She has always been slim but never this rail thin. People who say she has always looked like this obviously haven’t seen pictures from her Popworld days or her early T4 days.
I personally think something is up, because you can’t “forget” to eat on a daily basis to the extent that you drop that significant an amount of weight.
i saw alexa in the london topshop 3 weeks ago I HAVE NEVER seen such skinny legs in my life. im sorry to say but she is exceptionally thin and unhealthily so. i actually gasped when looking at her legs she is even thinner now then when this picture was taken, however she was wearing skinny leg jeans which may have accentuated her beanpole like legs. its really worrying. EAT ALEXA!
woah really?? thats really scary.. my friend saw her at a party at London FW and said the same. she looked anorexically underweight (excuse the expression).
Alexa’s spokeswoman Liz Matthews mentioned in her statement that Alexa’s weight has not changed in FOUR years…You only have to google her when she started on T4 to see she was at least a stone heavier. While nobody really has the right to judge someone’s personal weight of choice, you can really see that she looks poorly. I think there could be a number of genuine reasons for her weight loss, change of job (stress) moving to a different country (stress) working constantly (stress) simply not having the time to sit and eat 3 meals a day with her mental travel and work situation. You also have to remember, Alexa didn’t make it as a successful model back in the day, her look was extremely commercial, quite a rounded, cute face, that would have affected her. Now her peers are the cool, edgy bone thin androgynous girls/models, who are ‘high end fashion’…and maybe she wants to fit in? I don’t know, it’s just a thought. The sad thing is Agnes D is naturally thin you can see she still looks healthy, Alexa has a slim build anyway but at the moment she looks like she’s either starving to look that way or there’s a more logical answer such as ilness/stress. I hope its the latter because otherwise that would make her a very sad, desperate individual. I have to say one more thing, if Alexa takes her role as ‘role model 2young girls’ seriously, I think she should definitely see a doctor, because there is nothing worse than seeing a skinny girl who is obviously unhealthily and not naturally so. My sister is the same height and a similar build to Alexa when she hosted pop world-My sister went to india and became ill with food poisoning while travelling, when she returned she looked so frail and was so weak, not unlike Alexa now. Thankfully after getting well again she put back on the stone she had lost through being sick. Are you getting my scary point.
this is pathetic, the point of this is for her to tell people she hasn’t got an eating disorder, and all you can say is how disgustingly thin she is, yes she is a celebrity and there is a pressure to be thin, as well as busy days where eating is not their number one priority, however the fact she has come forward and said this surely means she is aware that she is thin? She is naturally thin and at the end of the day if she wasn’t a celebrity she would look the same, and no one would comment on it.
I think she is one of the most stunning women on this planet, and i don’t see what you people get from putting her down. grow up and accept that everyone is different.
she takes her ‘image’ so seriously as an icon for young girls that she gets photographed with a cigarette?
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