Tennis player turned model Anna Kournikova's sudden weight loss has sparked fears that she has an eating disorder.
The 23-year-old has swapped the shapely figure she once showed off on the tennis courts for a stick-like “lollypop look”, which is common in people with eating disorders - when the arms are twig-thin and the head looks too big for the body.
Nutritionist Angela Dowden says: "Anna has lost at least a stone, probably more. She has lost muscle from her limbs, and her face is looking skinny, which is ageing her.
"At 5ft 8in, Anna's former weight of 8st 7lb was on the cusp of being underweight. But at 7st 7lb, her weight has fallen below a critical level which can affect fertility and sex drive."
But Anna, who has been called a bad role model for encouraging girls to lose weight, says she's happy with her new figure, saying: "My shape has transformed and I'm much narrower. My shoulders are smaller, my torso is slimmer and my legs leaner, which I really like."
The model will reportedly marry singer Enrique Iglesias this summer.
Comments
Why do girls think men want them to be anhorexic? We don't!
Anna was hot when she was curvy - so she looks like Christina Aguilera but without the voice.
Posted by: Richard Quick | March 4, 2006 4:44 PM
she used to be pretty but now looks disgusting! euww. go eat a burger anna!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: hello | March 5, 2006 8:41 PM
It is so sad i am her fan and she used to be really nice now she is far to thin. She needs to put musle back on.
Posted by: Paddy | March 8, 2006 4:31 PM
Oh those who says that she should eat an hamburger are surely from the USA where most of the people of the planet are fat, and think that a Hamburger is healthy...
no wonder the difference between chicks in Europe and the USA..... Hugh, difference
Or is that the ones offeing her a hambuerue are obviously far beyond the normal weight, going into the obese???
Posted by: Lucy | April 23, 2006 1:12 PM