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Zooey Deschanel: Actresses are too skinny, it's scary

Zooey Deschanel is known in Hollywood for her quirky sense of humor. But the "New Girl" actress got serious during an interview with Glamour , criticizing actresses today, saying they are just too skinny."Women I admired growing up— Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep—were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin," she said in the February issue of the magazine. "There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny—much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that. I'm a very small person, and if I lost 15 pounds, I'd look like them; it's scary. For young girls, what does that say? You need to look this way to be successful? That's not true. You do not need to look or be anorexic to be successful in Hollywood. The range of what's acceptable is larger than what people believe."Deschanel has definitely proven that, with her hit comedy series, which has earned her a handful of Emmy nominations."If 'New Girl' had been a movie, I don't know whether I would have been given the opportuni...

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