Keira Knightley "eats like a horse"

**mrs.v** · June 16th, 2008, 05:32 PM

Keira 'Eats Like A Horse'

Keira at the Atonement premiere (Albert L. Ortega/WireImage)

Far from being anorexic, Keira Knightley has to "eat like a horse" to keep her weight up, according to her mom.

The waif-like Pirates of the Caribbean star has been dogged throughout her career by false claims that she has an eating disorder.

The 23-year-old actress has constantly denied the rumors and even successfully sued a British tabloid last year after it claimed she was a bad role-model for young women.

Now Keira's screenwriter mother, 57, has told Britain's Sunday Times newspaper that her daughter has simply inherited her father's stick-thin figure.

Sharman MacDonald told the paper that Keira's dancer dad, Will Knightley, 62, has always struggled to put on weight and that the actress also has to "eat like a horse" to stay at healthy size.

“She has always been thin," said Sharman, who wrote the soon-to-be released movie Edge of Love, starring Keira and Sienna Miller.

"She’s her daddy’s daughter, with his long body.”

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**twitchy** · June 16th, 2008, 05:35 PM

munches her hay thoughtfully whilst staring at the next field?

**GRuser1** · June 17th, 2008, 06:47 AM

Well, she looks like she's naturally on the thin side, however in some pictures she looks so painfully thin one wonders if she's doing it on purpose...
I wish I were on the naturally thin side instead of the other way around.

**LynnieD** · June 17th, 2008, 06:50 AM

Eats like a horse huh?? And what else do you do like a horse there Keira?? Do tell!

**thetrapezium** · June 17th, 2008, 08:55 AM

i saw kiera walking down a london road a few years ago, and i can sure you shes lost weight since then.

well atleast on her thighs.

**Zee** · June 17th, 2008, 09:36 AM

Clenbuterol. Cough..

**cmmdee** · June 17th, 2008, 11:22 AM

Eats like a horse or uses a lot of horse (i.e. heroin) to stay thin???

**Sasha** · June 17th, 2008, 12:15 PM

Bullshit.

**Palermo** · June 17th, 2008, 01:03 PM

Two words: fucking liar

**Sleuth** · June 17th, 2008, 02:19 PM

i believe her.. she has looked too thin on occassion but overall she does look like someone who would struggle to gain weight. Some people just do have fast metabolisms and it is very irritating when everyone assumes that you are starving yourself or anorexic just because you are thin. Its disgusting how people think its ok to make comment about thin people (talking about regular people not celebrity) when you just know if you queried that person about their weight it would not be OK.

**Lenny** · June 17th, 2008, 05:34 PM

Hmmm, I don't believe she's naturally skinny because she always had a (slightly) pear shaped body. She had a skinny tummy and stumpy legs compared to the rest. I always thought that she's someone who has to watch what she eats in order not to gain any weight in her lower body half. BTW, she seems to have lost her cankles. Plastic surgery anybody?

**AliceInWonderland** · June 17th, 2008, 06:53 PM

are her 15 minutes up yet?!!!!

**CherryDarling** · June 17th, 2008, 08:25 PM

Originally Posted by cmmdee

Eats like a horse or uses a lot of horse (i.e. heroin) to stay thin???

That's what I'm thinking too.

**A*O** · June 17th, 2008, 09:22 PM

People who protest a little to often about how much they eat and never exercise because they inherited grandma's skinny gene go right to the top of my ED/junkie list.