Tara Reid’s "Shocking," "Alarming" & "Scary Skinny" Body Is on Display

Tara Reid is in Miami and just like any other Spring Breaker, she’s hitting the beach in a bikini (ignore the fact that she’s not in college). While being in a bathing suit is basically a requisite for vacationing in Florida, the 39-year-old isn’t blending in with her skimpily clad beach-goers. Instead, she’s making headlines.

“Tara Reid looks worryingly thin as she shows her bony rib cage and tiny thighs,” the Daily Mail wrote. “Tara Reid’s thin frame shocks again,” Page Six said. Tara Reid’s “worrying thigh gap,” “alarmingly thin bikini body,” etc. The point is, the 39-year-old doesn’t seem to see what her critics do. Not only is she smiling in the sun, but when she’s received similar criticism in the past, the Sharkando star has dismissed the concern. 

"I’m just a small-boned girl,” she told TMZ. “I eat, I eat, I eat. Some people that eat too much, you yell at them that they’re fat. You want to get mad at me because I’m skinny? Great, get mad at me. I am what I am.”

While she’s recently claimed to be “really happy” with her looks, Reid has suffered from body image issues in the past: she got liposuction on her stomach to regain a six pack after her breast augmentation caused her stomach and breasts to ripple.. “I had body contouring, but it all went wrong,” she said. “My stomach became the most ripply, bulgy thing.”

There are two ways to look at this situation: One, she is healthy and news outlets and social media users need to discontinue commenting on her body. The other is that she really is sick. Regardless of the truth, appraising someone’s body in a negative light in a news headline is never OK.

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