Scarlett Johansson has criticized the movie and fashion industries for encouraging eating disorders and unhealthy dieting among women. The voluptuous star, who is celebrated for her old-fashioned Hollywood curves, insists the trend for actresses to become even thinner is not only dangerous but unsexy.

And Johansson refuses to starve herself, despite constant pressure to conform to a slim figure. She says, "I try to stay fit and eat healthily, but I'm not anxious to starve myself and become unnaturally thin. I don't find that look attractive on women and I don't want to become part of that trend. It's unhealthy and it puts too much pressure on women in general who are being fed this image of the ideal, which it is not.

"I think America has become obsessed with dieting rather than focusing on eating well, exercising and living a healthy life. I also think that being ultra-thin is not sexy at all. Women shouldn't be forced to conform to unrealistic and unhealthy body images that the media promote. I don't need to be skinny to be sexy."

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