Bottom line is if you want to work in Hollywood and you're a woman you have to adhere to the idiotic ideal of acceptable body size, which is ridiculously and abnornally skinny. Sad to say most people have come to believe that a woman can't have any credibility unless she is that way.

I don't think Sara looks too skinny at all, she looks great! She's beautiful, I always thought she was a little "big" but she still looked great, I think she's a lot healthier now but she's still curvy and vivacious, not too skinny at all.

Kerry got to it before I could: one size 8 is not another Size 8 ... and sorry to burst any bubbles, but she doesn't exactly look healthy in the first picture. Cute and "happy", I guess. However, now she looks like an out-of-proportion Renee Russo ... go figure ... can never win when you're in the constant public eye.

Hey people I remember when Sara was on my favorite teen drama show in the 90's. Yeah you guessed it, "Popular". She was cool, funny and a great actress. But even then she was stuck playing the best friend role to the skinny stars of the show. In Hollywood the bigger or average size stars get stuck playing the quirk best friend, the evil step-sister, or the losser that learns the lesson. It's kinda like the portrail of gays ! But I just wanted to say that while I was watching "Less than Perfect" (which she seems to be a little bit perfect now) she is still funny and awesome and we should support her no matter her size!

I read somewhere that Sara decided to stop drinking and lose weight because she and her husband were thinking of starting a family. Being pregnant at the weight she was could have been a potential health hazzard if she had a tough pregnancy.

Whatever the cause of her weightloss, she looks much better.

*Its not okay to be overweight. It is unhealthy.*

c5mjohn, that is actually a popularly held misconception. If you check out books like "Fat Politics" or "The Obesity Myth" you'll discover that scientists have shown you can actually be fat and healthy. In fact, people who are fat but eat healthily and exercise have longer life spans than thin people who don't exercise and eat poorly. This is not to say that all fat people are perfect models of health, just that fat is not necessarily an accurate indicator of health. Playing the "health card" is an easy way for thin people to discriminate against fat people and feel morally righteous about it.

I always thought Sara was fairly attractive, but she looks much hotter in the picture on the right (and no I'm not a fan of the Paris Hilton, Nicole Ritchie, Lindsay Lohan look). I think a lot of it also has to do with the setting, lighting, angle of the picture. Another actress that had supposed weight issues was Tiffani Thiessen, who I think is one of the most attractive actresses. Either way this loss of weight shows (whether or not Sara was affected by it) the pressures to be skinny to the point of almost aneroxic in Hollywood, it's really a shame.

"But if Sara thought in 2002 that she was "healthy", then what changed her mind in 2005?"

Perhaps her doctor did. Who knows? She could have gotten into a health and fitness kick or maybe she wanted to open some more doors in Hollywood for other roles.

One day she may fill us in on why she wanted or had to change, but at least, judging from the picture on the left, she isn't going the Lynsay Lohan or Nicole Ritchie route. She actually looks quite healthy compared to those other malnourished girls.

Joel: I assumed she was referring to me. She is right about overweight is not average in America, rather it is common.
Oh, and I'm not sure if I would have immediately thought she was overweight in the first picture without the headline and the "after" picture. Although after looking at it again she still does appear overweight, whether or not its because of the camera.