I watched the Oscars yesterday (we’d recorded it) and once again, I’m amazed at how unattractive Renee Zellweger looks at these things. I don’t get it. She’s a cute girl and she usually wears classic, stunning dresses (her red one for the Oscars this year was particularly gorgeous) but she just doesn’t have the magic. She looked too thin and too white and too squinty.
I think her problem is that she has no sense of personal style. Her look changes all the time but she looks more and more uncomfortable with each change. I think she needs to figure out what flatters her boyish figure, and go more casual with her hair, and then run with that.
Ah, if only I was a fashion designer in Hollywood.
TurtleHead 
I couldn’t agree more. Every time I see her these days, she looks like skin stretched over a grimacing skeleton. She’s totally typecast in the new Ron Howard movie…she looks like a mousy, starving, great depression survivor. I doubt they needed makeup. I imagine her with dishpan hands. She was the same in Chicago. Her 20’s flapper costume hung off her bones like a newly ironed shirt on a wire hanger. If only the entertainment media didn’t make such a big deal about her “gaining 20 pounds” to play Bridget Jones, she might not feel so self-conscious about it and actually stay at that weight. Or maybe if she cared less what people think of her. She looks much better.
I watched the Oscars with a group of people, and all of us were commenting on Zellweger… we were trying to figure out how exactly she got herself to look that way and how could she possibly want to?
I agree with you but I think it’s more than just the fact that she is skeletal thin. I think it’s also that she has no fashion sense. The dress she was wearing Sunday — being tight from top to bottom — just accentuated her complete lack of breasts and hips. Penelope Cruz had on a similar dress in shape and it suited her so much better. On the other hand, I thought Gwyneth Paltrow looked great and she has a similar figure to Renee, just a much better dress.
I think Renee needs to both gain 10 pounds and find a better stylist.
That’s the worst thing, I think — that she thinks she looks good. The dress she chose was meant to show off how thin she is from head to toe, but instead of looking glamourous she just looked ill. Not good, not good at all.