Get Thee To The Peach Pit!

So let's leave aside how boring the new 90210 is. Cause it is. Let's focus instead on another issue. While I was watching last weeks episode (only because I had heard that Kelly's mom was going to be back and drunk - and yes, that was fabulous), it occurred to me that the actress playing Erin "Call Me Silver" Silver, Jessica Stroup, was incredibly skinny. Like so skinny, that she made AnnaLynne McCord look almost normal. Almost, I said, cause watching AnnaLynne on Nip/Tuck last year was like watching a Holocaust victim seducing Dr. McNamara. Which if you watch that show, you know that's not actually outside the realm of possibilities. Anyway, I recently saw the following picture, and I realized why I couldn't stop staring at these women's wrists:



Come on. Come on.

Even Tori Spelling looks like she ate something!! And Tori Spelling was a size 4 when this above picture was taken - I looked it up.

The press has noticed, too: Entertainment Weekly asks "Are the skinny starlets of 90210 setting a bad example?" and Flow TV does an excellent analysis in "Familiar Zipcode, New Bodies: A Critical Analysis of the Feminine Body in 90210"

I remember desperately wanting Brenda's bangs, Kelly's earrings, and a moody rich Dylan (I also wanted to live in a hotel like Dylan. Still do, actually).

Young women today can watch and desire eating disorders and a double zero sized pair of $600 jeans.

The CW also shows Tyra Banks America's Next Top Model, which by the way, kicked off a contestant this week, partially because she was too skinny.

Expect that model to have a guest spot coming up at Beverly Hills High.

UPDATED TO ADD: The Fug Girls, they of the most snark fed opinions regarding celebrity fuggery in the whole internets, finally got around to destroying the show as well right here. Please note they include the following picture of Ms. Jessica Stroup.



LOOK AT THOSE ARMS. WHO IS TELLING THIS WOMAN TO BE THIS THIN? She was in Reaper not more than a year ago and I swear to God she was at least 15 pounds heavier, and she looked beautiful and thin. As the Fug Girls say, if the camera adds ten pounds, Jessica may very well be in negative space.

Give Me More, Monkey!