I've been working on another web site for the last day or two while recuperating from my rather psychotic case of the stomach bug.
I tell you this because I am working on configuring a script for this other site. The script's demo page happens to be very useful in helping me learn how to configure the damn .pl, and that demo page also happens to be filled with pictures of famous actresses with their heights and weights. The script allows for user-sumitted entries into a table, and I guess the author of the script thought that a fascinating table would be one providing Cameron Diaz's measurements. And in fact, that author was right.
Did you know that Cameron Diaz is 5'9" and weights 118 lbs? Or that Julia Roberts is the same height and only weights two pounds more?
Yes.
I thought this strange, as I am a comfortable 5'10" (and a half) and I certainly don't weight 120 lbs. But I recalled calculating my BMI at one point and I found myself - on a scale that goes from underweight to normal to overweight to obesity - on the low end of normal, with a BMI of 20. That puts me at about 1.5 points away from underweight and 4.9 points away from overweight, which means that I'm doing ok.
But I did a quick calculation for little Miss Cameron Diaz and she's got a BMI of 17! On the main chart page, it doesn't even start until 18.5. She's off the charts.
And for that matter, so is Julia.
And because I am a psychopath, I went ahead and calucalated all of Charlie's Angels. Apparently, Drew and I have the same BMI (although she's six inches shorter than me and hence several pounds lighter) and Lucy enters just into the realm of normal weight, by 0.4 points. Lucky Lucy.
Naomi Campbell, however, is drastically underweight with a BMI of 16.2 - she's my height but weighs only 13 lbs more than the 5'0 Lucy Liu. Naomi actually has a BMI that is lower than Kate Moss', who figures in at 16.9.
But the most disturbing part of it all? You can actually just enter:
(star's name) height weight
in a google search and you can have every megastar's measurements. I would hate to be famous. Curiously, I couldn't find Nichole Kidman's. But that's because she spells her first name without the h, and I did manage to find Nicole Kidman's. She's also underweight. But that's no surprise. She's a high school dropout, too. Something I didn't know, for a change.
So anyway, just further proof that the people we watch on television and in the movies are actually considered, by medical doctors, to be physically sick and dangerously underweight.*
What ever happened to the woman with the luscious curves and sexily thunderish thighs? I guess she died just as mysterious a death as Marilyn.
*I would just like to note that I have friends that are naturally this weight and I understand that it's entirely possible to be very healthy and extremely skinny. But I think that is more of an exception than we realize, and that it should remain the exception instead of the model. Just had to clarify so I don't get any angry comments.
Dude, you are SO 5'11. Don't even try to hide it with this "5' 10' (and a half)" stuff...
(never mind that I went all through high school saying "I'm 5'11'' and a half...")
My BMI fluctuates between 23 and 24. I can't imagine being down in the teens. The amount of enjoyment you must have to deny yourself! It's just so sad that we bring girls up to thing that tradeoff is worth it.
Kari - Well, I only say that because I got measured at the doctor's on several occasions in France and I always came out to a dead even 1.78m. Which is 70.08 inches. Which pretty much makes me 5.10 (.08). I only put in the "and a half" for those of you who will yell at me if I don't.
I'm at 20 and I deny myself a fair amount of enjoyment (although I have gotten better. Or worse, depending on your point of view). So Jesus, those girls must just never smile.
18.7. Whew! That was close. Actually, I put in my height at 5'10" when I'm actually somewhere around the 5'9 1/2" area. I rounded up.
I'm a skinny boy. As long as I'm paying for this gym membership, maybe I should start putting it to use...
Well, all's I know is, Dad thought you were six-two.
Heh.
And Justin--guys *always* round up. Girls know it, too. It's okay, it's no big deal--girls almost always round down. It's just the Code. When a guy says he's 5'10, he's not really, because if he really was, he'd say 5'11 or even six-foot. And she's not 5'10, because if she was, she'd say 5'9.
Justin - WHOA! You ARE a skinny boy! (That's ok. My boyfriend weighed less than me for the first two years we were together - even though we're the same height. Like, a lot less. I think we're even now, but that's just because he eats a chocolate bar a day. He's still pretty skinny, though. I like his chicken legs.)
Kari - I know. Dad sent me an email. I argued back. And I agree about the rounding up/rounding down thing. The same thing - on a greater scale (heh, heh, scale) - happens with weight.
21.3, and my quasi-boyfriend weighs exactly the same as me, it's quite scary.
im 16.6 but i'm still a child so i don't know for sure if this BMI is suitable for a 11 yr old...
Nah, you're still growing and shit, so I wouldn't worry, unless you know that you weight a worryingly low amount in general.
weigh, damnit, weigh, not weight.
its scary..i don't know why i keep on gaining weight every two days....
Yeah, i'm with Lottie - you're still growing so pile on them pounds. I think it's normal to extend out horizontally when you're also extending vertically.
LOL! I found your site by entering "naomi campbell" height weight
wow, she is small. i'm 5'10" and 150 is fine for me. we must remember, the camera adds 10 lbs. that's showtime!
what! I've heard camera's add pounds to ur look~but I never knew it was 10lbs!!!
WOW very underweight. I fluctuate between 19 and 20.5, but last yr I was very low, around 16 (it doesn't take a genius to guess why) and I'm glad about where I am right now, even though i see A LOT of girls my age that are very very skinny. Sometimes, its a sad worls when you think about it, that everyone competes to be the skinniest. It's just not right.
this BMI business is totally illegal.
i'm 5'9" (no, really. i'm actually 5'9") and weight 225.
apparently, i'm obese w/ a 10% body fat measurement.
yeah, that's an accurate figure...
does anyone know how to calculate the body fat percentage and what percentage is healthy?
I found a link to your site from a searach on arabic language schools in Tunisia. Did you decide to do the program? And may I ask information about the course. Thanks.
I just watched moulin Rouge for the first time and no wonder nicole is keeling over. It aint from the teburculosis it's from her thin and malnourished body.
Call me a jealous overweight girl but no that is a mistake. I used to strive for her thinness and it left me an anorexic. I now recovered and I spend my time tryingt o discourage the ever growing in popularity behaviour. Unfortunately not only nicole kidman but other actresses and singers and the media in general are sending out a improper image to women of today especially young girls.
As a allied health professional I am aware that fitting in is an important part of life and being 'the look' of thin and savvy are in since twiggy did her thing. But health is also an important part of life and I think positive role models should be pushed further into the limelight.
enough of my spiel. Nicole and the rest are unhealthy and they will pay later in life when they are sick with osteoporosis, and other lifestyle related degenerative diseases. So I guess we are one up on them.
Im 12 at 56 in height and I weigh 159-160. I wear a 9 in pants to a 11. Am i over weight.
Im 12 at 56 in height and I weigh 159-160. I wear a 9 in pants to a 11. Am i over weight.
I am 136 punds and five foot 6. I still feel fat!
Everyone should just eat what they want, because everyone gets old and never looks that way again. I am going to enjoy food without guilt.
Well im like 5 foot 6 (seriously) and i think i weigh around 120 pounds. I dont think i have a good body and i would like to go down to like 110 pounds or something.
i'm 16, i am 5'10/5'11, weigh 125... BMI of 17. something
I'm five foot five and a hundred pounds. At least I know I'm not fat.
I really think it�s terrible how people think themselfs as fat even though they are totally normal or even skinny. I live in Finland, I am 15 years old and have suffered from anorexia for almost three years now.. A little time ago I was 168 cm and weighted only 36 kilos. I still thought I was very fat. I am still very skinny, but I am getting better every day. It�s just that I didn�t want to waste my life no longer. I decided to live. And I hope that people would love themselfs in the way they already are. Don�t try to change how you look, you will only lose a big part of yourself and suffer for it. And that is because getting smaller sized also makes you behave differently.
Let's see...I have a BMI of...::dramatic music::...15.5. Okay, so maybe I am a little underweight, but I'm still healthy!! NO, really! Of course, I just dropped about 5lbs due to a cold/fever.
just a tip, to put ur email when u fill in this form, i think you should type (im 40 percent sure this is the correct way to do this)
mailto:your@email.address
instead of just
myemail@email.mail
lol nvm didn't work
Advice - yeah, normally you'd be right if I hadn't given priority over to the http address. Most people that swing by sites have their own web sites, so I like to link directly from here. Otherwise, I like to have an email, just in case I want to get in touch with someone privately. You can't click and send an email to the person from the site, but I get record of it each time someone makes a comment.
Does that make any sense?
Its amazing how you know celebs height and weight stats, but do you know what Kate moss height and weight is after having a baby sh eis still skinny but curvacious please find out. Also if you can find the stats for Madonna and email them to me. This will be a hard one for you to try to find the Hilton sisters height and weight stats its basically impossible to find out ,because they are so rich and dont want people to know their business. I would consider them celebutantes but if you can find out the stats on those chicks please email them to me I dont think you are psycho at all
im 5ft1 and 105lbs i have a bmi of just over 19 its not bad being in the teens for your BMI!!!
Funny... I have a BMI of 14, and I actually do feel rather healthy. I guess it is very individual then... If I should belive these charts I'd be close to severe underweight. uhm. I might look like it but certainly I do not feel like it. I feel people should not worry about their weights all that much if they are not experienceing great physical discomfort.
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more like a question actually...How do you calculate BMi?? 5'3 by 82 lbs.
5'11" and 114 lbs
Amanda, your BMI is 14,5
Em, yours is 15,9