Victoria reportedly "nibbled", but only a little. It seems that eating out with Victoria has the same effect as taking a very strong appetite suppressant. And Eva, always noted for her slim but curvy frame, is shrinking fast. The Desperate Housewife appears to have become the latest member of Posh's skinny brigade - a select group of women striving to emulate their size zero leader. When the Spice Girls were photographed together recently, it was reported that no one wanted to stand next to Victoria - and it wasn't because they didn't like her.
Being alongside someone as tiny as she is would make anyone look, and feel, large. Just ask Katie Holmes. When Victoria's best pal was pictured standing beside her at the Paris fashion shows last year, the slim actress appeared to be at least three sizes bigger. Since that week away, however, Katie appears to have been shrinking. Mrs Cruise looks to have lost more than 2st since the birth of baby Suri a year-and-a-half ago, largely through diet tips from her British friend lots of strawberries, sushi and seaweed shakes.
The slim star has been caught by paparazzi wearing Spanx girdles underneath her dresses, and at the "Welcome to LA" party she organised for the Beckhams, Katie made sure she sipped low-calorie fruit-flavoured drinks instead of fattening cocktails. A recent study by the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that obesity is socially contagious, and you can catch it from friends the way you catch a virus; a "fat flu", if you like. Nicholas Christakis, professor of healthcare policy at Harvard Medical School and co-author of the study, said: "A person becoming obese most likely causes a change of norms about what counts as an appropriate body size.
But does it work the other way? Can being around someone who is thinner than you change what you consider a normal frame? Is there a "skinny flu"? Dr James Fowler, co-author of the study, says: "Consciously or unconsciously, people look to others when deciding how much to eat, how much to exercise and how much weight is "too much". It's important to remember that we've not only shown that obesity is contagious, but thinness is, too.
Nutritional psychologist and author Marc David agrees: "Like it or not, we are creatures of our environment. If you linger in a room full of sleeping people, you're likely to start feeling tired. But enter a ballroom party and you're likely to be ready to dance. When Kate Moss dumped Pete Doherty following his affair with another model, she was whisked away to Marbella by a group of her closest friends. Davinia Taylor, Holly Davidson and Rose Ferguson joined the supermodel at a luxury villa in an effort to help her mend her broken heart.
Perhaps it is just a coincidence that the singer, always known for her lovely rounded curves, appeared to have lost a stone when pictured walking alongside a waif-like Kate on the beach. According to Amanda Baten, a nutritional psychologist trained in cognitive behavioural therapy: "Women are often pitted against each other by the media and bombarded by messages from society regarding the ideal woman type.
Who can forget those photos of a skeletal-looking Teri Hatcher jogging through Hollywood with weights in both hands and bones painfully outlined? Not long after those photos appeared, Teri's Desperate Housewives co-star Marcia Cross was spotted dining at an Indian restaurant with Tom Mahoney now her husband. According to one eyewitness: "He ordered sea bass and prawns, but she just opted to sip on an endless succession of fruit juices.
Marcia recently admitted to the pressure she feels to be thin. She has beautiful bones sticking out of her chest. And on another site, as anorexics discussed whether she was the 'best thinspiration', fans wrote: 'Posh is a major hottie! I love her arms! If I could look like her, I would never had a problem with anything! And: 'I think she's beautiful! I wish I looked like her! Marjorie Wallace chief executive of mental health charity Sane - which recently conducted a report into proanorexia websites - said: 'There is an element of the worship of the thin and that is where bringing celebrities into it can be so dangerous.
Dr Dee Dawson of the Rhodes Farm clinic in London, which specialises in eating disorders, said: 'Victoria Beckham is usually the celebrity most people that I see want to look like. People with eating disorders look at her and models like Kate Moss and think they are the proper weight to be and I have to tell them that she is not. They both look beautiful without having stick-insect catwalk bodies. Following an outcry about her weight after her first son Brooklyn was born, Victoria admitted that she was too thin, but insisted she eats 'like a pig'.
Three years ago her husband was moved to speak of his concerns that she was losing too much weight after Brooklyn's birth.
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