There’s a lot of pressure to be thin in the celebrity world.  Famous guys and girls pay mucho deniro to personal trainers and nutritionists in order to help them look their best.  For Keira Knightley, it seems that her hard work and natural body composition has made things more complicated.

The Pirates of the Caribbean actress says she was “devastated” when pictures of her were used as examples in the “skinny celebrity” discussion.  “When all that blew up, I felt terrible,” the actress, 22, tells the British edition of Elle in its June issue.

"It appeared that I were promoting something when I absolutely was not. I am thin because that’s what I am, and I was thinner at that point because of the work I do. Nothing else.”

“I had lost weight,” she says. “We were filming in searing temperatures and shooting fight scenes in which you were wearing a wetsuit underneath a load of corsets, fighting with heavy weights in the water. Can you imagine a more advanced cardio workout than that done hour after hour?”

Keira has always been up front about the fact that she is not a victim of eating disorder.  In fact, she went so far as to visit a doctor in hopes of gaining weight.

“He told me that for someone of my body type to get to a [European] size 12, I would have to eat a lot of sh-- food, stop exercising and drink loads,” she says. “But I don’t want to have to go ‘round eating crap and being really unhealthy in order for people to stop having a go at me.”

We think you look great, Keira!

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