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Here’s another celebrity that was kind enough to share her weight with us: Dita von Teese!

She’s 114 pounds (8.2 stones / 52 kg) at 5’6” (168 cm).

How come Dita revealed her weight, you ask? Well, her story started by saying that she got implants to repair her body after drug use. Here it is (from Contact Music):

DITA VON TEESE went under the knife for a boob job at the age of 21 – because years of drug abuse had ravaged her body.

The burlesque beauty admits she began dabbling with illegal substances when she was a teenager, and her habit spiraled out of control throughout the 1990s.

Von Teese confesses the drugs took a major toll on her figure, but seeing herself so gaunt gave her the motivation to kick her addictions and she eventually opted for surgery to repair the damage.

She says, “I was a bit of a party girl in the early ’90s and used LSD and Ecstasy. Eventually my weight dropped to 6stone 7lbs and I looked terrible, so I gave up drugs. My breasts never recovered, so when I was 21 I had 32D implants. Now I‘m a healthy 8 stone and 2 pounds.”

See some pics of Dita from recent events after the jump!

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They’re not your average size 2 models and they’re not plus size models either – they’re real size models or normal size models, as in sizes 8-12.

And they’ve finally been incorporated in a fashion show, more precisely, in Mark Fast’s Spring 2010 Fashion Show.

Why did the designer choose them? Here’s the explanation from the creative director of the brand:

“The decision to use fuller girls is something we have been talking about. There’s an idea that only thin and slender women are able to wear Mark’s dresses and he wanted to combat that. We wanted women to know they didn’t have to be a size zero to wear a Mark Fast dress – curvier women can look even better in them.”

Hmm… ok, then they should have picked more flattering underwear (just a thought).

On a more important note, what do you guys think of the real-size models initiative? I mean, you’ve got the size 0-4 skinny models dominating the runways, we’ve got the occasional size 12 and up plus-size models as well… I always wonder why we don’t get more of the size 6-12 models, especially since so many women fall in this category? Even more, the majority of the typical skinny models are underweight (not saying that they’re not healthy, because some are naturally skinny) and the plus-size ones are mostly overweight (again – not saying that they’re not healthy, we can’t assume that)…

But it just makes sense that we need more models with healthy BMIs – and sizes 6-12 are a great source for that.

What do you guys think?

UPDATE: I am including 2 more pictures from the same show – skinny models this time. The look (hair and make-up) was unflattering for all of them. Check out after the jump!

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What do we have here? We’ve got 3 shapely sisters in 3 little black dresses posing prettily on the red carpet!

Khloe recently complained on the show that people call her “giant” or “amazonian woman”, even though she is only 5’9”. It’s all about the fact that she always poses next to her much shorter sisters: Kim is 5’2” and Kourtney is 5 feet tall. I even doubt that her BMI is (much) higher than Kim’s, because if you look at her, you can see that she is just: 1. Taller. 2. Shaped differently – she doesn’t have her sisters’ hourglass shape, but she looks great nonetheless.

How do you like the girls (and their dresses) here?

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Tori Spelling has dropped to a frail 98 lbs. — and Star has learned that her mother is to blame!

In our April 13 issue — on sale today — we report that Candy Spelling, who the actress has been estranged from since December 2007, has ramped up the blood feud between mother and daughter by spilling many of Tori’s intimate secrets in a new tell-all, and the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum is so upset by it, she can’t even bring herself to eat.

“It’s not good,” warns an insider. “Tori’s so stressed over her mom’s new book, she has no appetite but is still exercising every day. Her friends are all worried that she may be anorexic. She’s now down to a size zero.”

Tori is 5’6”, so a 98 pounds weight would put her BMI around 15.8, severely underweight. A few weeks ago, it was reported that Lindsay Lohan (who is also 5’6”) is now 94 pounds – so what do you say?

Source: Star Magazine – Get Star Magazine Subscription

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Here are Gossip Girl beauties Leighton and Jessica, apparently freezing on set.

Remember when Dan characterized Blair (in one of the first episodes) as: “95 pounds of girly evil”? She might have been a little lighter at that time, but I highly doubt she was ever 95 lbs. at 5’5” (BMI 15.8). Anyway, regardless of weight and BMI, they’re both looking great!

P.S. Leighton’s hair is blonder every time we see her. Is there place for 2 blondes on the show?

2 more after the jump!

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