Top five skinniest celebs today

Okay, so it’s a bit like staring at roadkill and turning it over with your foot. But we can’t help but gawp at how some celebrities have turned the corner from ‘helps designer clothes hang well’ to full-blown ’scrawny as a hobo’ stage.

Here’s our current pick of the worst.

5. Nicky Hilton

Her skinny little legs are the talk of blogtown. All the celeb gossip sites are pointing to her pins and crying foul. They’re too thin and they’re too tanned and too draped in tiny shorts to be anything short of attention-seeking.

4. Kate Bosworth

Oh Kate. You’re a lovely girl with a beautiful face. But now that beautiful face looks like a big beautiful plate balancing on a pin. Why, girl? Surely as an actress you need to be able to play a range of looks, not just war refugee.

3. Keira Knightley

Yes, Keira, blah blah blah, you eat good stodgy food, you’re just built that way, you come from a thin family. Whatevs. You look too damn thin. And you’re getting thinner. While you still looked slim the protestations were plausible, but you’ve careered into scrawny territory, as has your mate Sienna Miller. Shame, considering you’re a proper good actress and everything.

2. Nicole Richie

She’s not long had a baby, but she still looks super-slim and it’s a worry given her rumoured eating disorders. Unlike most celebrities, she even broke the unspoken rule and – gosh – admitted she was too thin (to Vanity Fair, May 2007).

1. Katie Price

Against my better judgement and my intellectual ‘I actually read books’ background, I can’t help but love Katie and Peter. I watch their ‘reality’ show and – when no-one is looking in my nearby Sainsbury’s – leaf through the latest tabloid mags to chortle over the bawdy, fishwife quotes from Jordan/Katie, the lovably hapless Peter Andre’s latest witticisms and the antics of Harvey. But I do worry so about Ma Price. With her skinny little legs sticking out from under her great big (even post-reduction) rack, she just looks plain wrong.

Next week… the top five celebrities who eat, drink and exercise in moderation. Oh wait…