Why Mrs Clooney is disappearing before our eyes: Amal and how scary-skinny is the new hallmark of success
By AMANDA PLATELL FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 00:27, 23 May2020 | UPDATED: 08:06, 23 May2020
A year ago, no one outside illustrious legal circles knew the name Amal Alamuddin. Fewer still had an opinion about her clothes, figure, hair, handbag or shoes.
An internationally renowned human rights lawyer at the top of her career, her performance in court and her fine brain were all she was judged on.
Then she fell in love with an American film star called George Clooney.
A year on from their whirlwind engagement and wedding, this clever and thoughtful woman has been swept along by a tsunami of celebrity fascination, culminating in her being granted the ultimate ‘accolade’ of being referred to in glossy magazines as simply ‘Amal’.
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October 24, 2024: A curvier-looking and still relatively unknown Amal out in London (left). March 19, 2024: Colourful trousers show off her still shapely figure in New York (right)
It took Kylie, Beyonce and Posh decades to achieve that.
She’s continued working since becoming Mrs Clooney, representing Greece’s fight for the return of the Elgin Marbles
But there’s a sting in the tail. This week, Amal was on the cover of Grazia magazine under the headlines ‘Amal Under Pressure?’ and ‘Sudden Fame Taking Its Toll . . . Struggling To Be Mrs Clooney’.
It repeated earlier claims on U.S. website Radar Online that she weighed little over seven stone and was a ‘walking skeleton’.
U.S. Star magazine claimed there were ‘fears for scary-skinny Amal’.
Amal and George Clooney on their wedding day (archive)
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September 29: Like every bride, Amal’s lost a little weight for her wedding in Venice (left). October 13 : Newly-wed at Heathrow, but the pounds continue to fall off (right)
Unpleasant, yes, but even Amal’s greatest admirers cannot ignore the fact she seems to be disappearing before our eyes.
Even on her wedding day, the white trouser suit she wore billowed in the wind to reveal a woman who had shrivelled in the half-year before she tied the knot to Mr Clooney.
Why? Amal is not a vacuous pop star nor some WAG whose entire existence depends on being photographed on red carpets with the correct circumference of thigh.
I fear she has become the victim of the invidious pressure most women in the public eye seem to be falling victim to these days: that the only way to be seen as truly successful is to not only be super-glamorous, but super-skinny, too.
After the honeymoon, she went back to work, not in a lawyer’s sensible suits, but in the expensive couture of a Hollywood A-lister.
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May 1: Stylish but smaller than ever on a Big Apple lunch date (left). Later that day: Showing off her lithe limbs at a Broadway play (right)
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