I would say that technically too thin so a BMI of under 18. But un-technically probably when the person just looks unhealthy, bones show that shouldn't show and so on. It depends on the person and they body frame really.
i don't even know what to say. my best friend is my height (5'3) and got down to 120 and looked SICKLY but also have another friend who is probably 105 at the most and has love handles like I've never seen before . I think it depends how much of your weight is muscle and how much is fat.
I'm also the type of girl who has been raised hearing "curvy is a good thing". My daddy thinks a stick thin woman is the most unattractive thing ever and would never look twice at someone like eva longoria. my boyfriend is the same way which is definitely a blessing cause lord knows i will NEVER be that small and thats alright with me!
Well, on a lot of healthy people you can see a few bones... What I hate to see is when you can actually see a girl's ribcage between her breasts. That's gross. Or when they lose any semblance of a shoulder and they just become square pointy things.....
I don't understand how guys could *want* that kind of a girl... What's the fun in cuddling up to a pile of bones at night?
Maybe it's just me (it might be, considering how prevalent this is), but I think most women in Hollywood are too thin. I think a lot of them really look better with a little weight on their bones-- like I think Jennifer Aniston was better looking in the beginning of Friends when she was a little curvier than the way she is now. And Lindsay Lohan was really pretty cute during her Mean Girls phase, but now she just looks weird. I recently watched the movie Chicago, and you see it all through the movie. All of the girls' ribs are popping through their skin at weird angles and Renee Zellweger looks like an up-side-down broomstick. And I hate how Hollywood touts people like Jennifer Lopez as "curvy." Ok, so she still has a butt, the rest of her is way thin! Personally, I think someone like Queen Latifah looks much prettier than someone like Paris Hilton (or Nicole Ritchie, as jdog said).
I guess I would describe it as "hollow." Our friend's girlfriend is a dancer (like ballerina type) and she is soooo skinny. Her face, her shoulders, everything just looks hollow. Like she's sunken in around her skeleton. It's so gross. We were with them Saturday and he kept trying to get her to eat nachos and cheese fries but all she had was a turkey sandwich. He even knows she's too thin! At one point he actually grabbed her side and said "you need to gain some weight!" I think it's safe to say most guys don't like girls that are too thin!
Too thin? When I think the word "gaunt" while looking at someone. Stick thin arms with no muscle tone stand out to me as well.
Anyone see Hillary Duff on the cover of Cosmo? I thought she had the cute/adorable thing going on before, but she seems to have crossed into waif territory. I feel so sorry for these girls that have jumped on the waif train a-la Lindsey Lohan and even sorrier that it's become something to aspire to.
Kinda what everyone else mentioned, but when you can see the outlines of bones and when their head looks really huge You can just tell by looking at a person if they are too thin.
I agree with all of you for sure. Another thing that comes to mind is if someone's elbows are the widest thing on their arms, or their knee's are the widest thing on thier legs.
I feel sorry for all those tiny skinny things in Hollywood. Remember Calista Flokhart (sp?), or good lord, Debra Messing. They look like those starving children in Africa, but white, rich and have access to food. This country is so messed up. There are people who eat more than their share of food when there are people in other countries who barely have enough to eat (including me), and then you have people throwing up thier food or refusing to eat just to look skinny. We have a messed up veiw of body image. It makes me so mad! That's why I want to go into nutrition so I can counsel families and starting with the children to learn how to have a healthy relationship with food and view of thier bodies.
*just a little rant* I went to Applebee's last night with my fiance for V day and I see these parents, very very large walking out with their probably 8 year old daughter who is as wide as she is tall. She couldn't even walk normal. It was so sad, I felt like crying for her that her parents aren't trying to help her. She's in for a lifetime of pain and disease starting a life of obesity that young. She can't make the right food decisions at that age with parents who encourage bad food choices. *Alright, rant over*
It's hard to walk down sunset in Hollywood, or go to a show/club without seeing sickly looking thin women/teenagers with boob jobs, that make them look like they will fall over due to the weight of the implants.
There is a difference between wanting to be toned/fit and a stick.
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. I think it depends how much of your weight is muscle and how much is fat. 
You can just tell by looking at a person if they are too thin.
