I've always been a big fan of Keira Knightley. I think she's a brilliant actress, she's gracious in interviews and you tend not to see her falling out of Camden clubs with a nose full of coke. So, why do other women hate her so much?
Is it because she's thin? Because she's actually touched James McAvoy and they haven't? Because they think she's anorexic and can't get over the fact that she's not?
Whatever it is, apparently Keira doesn't give a shit.
She recently told the London Paper that:
"If you put yourself in the public forum, it's what you put yourself up for. I don't need to read it. Manipulation is something women do a lot. Women get obsessed with other women - love them or hate them. That line is very easy to cross."
Keira also talked about Tanya Gold's article in The Guardian that claimed that so many women hate Keira Knightley, that we bond over it:
"If you want to befriend a woman, ask her the question, 'What do you
think of Keira Knightley?' In the resulting torrent of bile and
loathing, you will bond. She will say, "I hate Keira Knightley. She's
such a terrible actress. She looks like a stoat. And those teeth! She
makes my fists itch!' It is a Pavlovian response. Hatred of Keira is
like menstruation; all women share it.
...We have hated Knightley for being so thin and talentless and having
terrible teeth....For weighing less than an
actual domino when she played a character called Domino in Domino."
Keira responded by simply stated that she's "doing a good thing for women, then", by giving us something to bond over. (Be still my heart. That's such a good line.)
Really, I don't get the Keria hatred. She's not a shit actress. Sure The Pirates of the Carribean were a little rough, but so was Orlando Bloom's acting. Yes, she's thin. But, while some of us may not want to face this, some women are just naturally skinny. And Keira is one of them. She's an actress, they're paid to be thin and beautiful. It's part of their job. And I think it's because of this that Keira is thinner than she would be if, say, she were a blogger and sat at home eating peanut butter toast all day.
Get over it.
Just as you'd get your panties in a bunch if someone were to say that they hated Beth Ditto with a passion because she has bad teeth and was fat - lay off Keira for being thin. It works both ways. Don't hate on the thin girls.