Which is worse: That Lily James was on a liquid diet for Cinderella? Or if they just Photoshopped her?
For the past few months, both Disney and Lily James have been adamant that no CGI was used to give her a seemingly impossibly tiny waist for the live-action Cinderella movie.
“Lily’s waist hasn’t been altered (in the film or in any stills/marketing materials),” a spokesperson for Disney said last month. “She’s wearing a corset.”
But, now, Lily admits it really wasn’t that simple… She actually had to stick to a liquid diet to have any level of comfort in the binding corset.
“When [the corset] was on we would be on continuous days so we wouldn’t stop for lunch… You’d be sort of eating on the move. In that case, I couldn’t untie the corset,” she told E! News. “So if you ate food it didn’t really digest properly and I’d be burping all afternoon in [Richard Madden]’s face, and it was just really sort of unpleasant. I’d have soup so that I could still eat but it wouldn’t get stuck.”
She further explained to ABC News that the corset got her waist down to a ridiculous 17-inch circumference. She added it “pulled me into the inch of my life.”
Ironically, Lily told E! News she believes girls should embrace a “natural” look.
“For girls growing up sometimes I think they get the wrong idea for what women should look like,” Lily said. “I think it’s so important to be healthy and confident and natural. And not put too much stress on trying to be thin — I don’t get the thin, thin thing at all.”
I just have two questions about the whole ordeal. For one, why is restricting a living, breathing person to a liquid diet really the better explanation than CGI? If producers so wanted Lily to have a tiny waist, wouldn’t it be less harmful to just fake it? Also, why is the tiny waist even necessary in the first place? Not only does the practice sound really unhealthy, but I think the whole controversy about it is taking away from the rest of the publicity for the movie.
For what it’s worth, Lily said questions like those are just making matters worse.
“I think it’s all very hypocritical, and they contradict themselves, and they’re drawing more attention to it. I think all that stuff’s so negative, and you’ve got to let it wash over your head,” she told The Los Angeles Times. “I’m so healthy. I’ve got hips and boobs and a bum and a small waist.”
What do you think?
