It's nice to know Hollywood doesn't discriminate when it comes to damaging a starlet's fragile self-esteem. Turns out the rickety and robust alike are made to feel lousy for failing to achieve an impossibly high standard of beauty.
Keira Knightley, 21, who reveals that her prepossessing visage has been both a gift and a curse.
"I do think I must have a nice face because I'm completely aware my face gets me work," acknowledges the actress, who last month sued a British newspaper for implying her Ginsu-sharp clavicles and fat-free abs might be the result of an eating disorder.
"But the problem is that if you happen to be someone who people think of as pretty, you also get so many people whose business it is to comment on your looks."
Sometimes unkindly.
"I've been to photo shoots," she recalls, "where the photographer has told me he'd kept my legs out of shot so I don't need to worry about them -- that of course makes you worry."
Not even her comely countenance escapes judgment.
"Then I've had makeup artists who've told me they need to shade the top of my nose so it won't look so broken," says Knightley. "I also got rejected for a job once because someone said I had a funny mouth."
As a result, she sighs, these supposed flaws become the "things you start to focus on. You start off thinking you're OK, then you have to go to some event and you remember you have a weird mouth, a broken nose and horrible legs."
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