Alessandra Ambrosio At The Victoria’s Secret Catalogue Shoot
July 27th, 2010
Posted by Skinny Gurl
Last week, Alessandra Ambrosio was in St. Barthelemy shooting the Victoria’s Secret Catalogue. I was so happy to see her in a bikini – I’ve been wanting to post some pictures of her in a bikini so you can tell me what you think.
In my opinion, Alessandra is curvy and very toned. She does have skinny elements to her body, which I like very much. I love that you can see her ribs in certain poses – a sign of a skinny girl. I really like her arms and her legs too, however I’m not a fan of her mid-section. Her mid-section is toned and you can see her muscles, something most would be happy with, but not me. I prefer the skinny stomach, that is a little sunken in with pronounced hip bones.
What do you think?
Alessandra Ambrosio At The Victoria's Secret Catalogue Shoot
Photos: Nobullshit – The Celebrity City
I think I’m with you in preferring the Vlada/xylophone type of skinniness, something that little bit extra. She is certainly sexy. But not Vlada-sexy
Another great description, by the way!
I hate it when I see girls close to my own BMI that are models.
They’re so uninspiring.
Alessandra had a great body a couple of months ago but she’s been slowly gaining weight and looks to be in the “so-called-healthy” BMI range now.
She’s probably about 5′ 10” and 127-133 pounds.
I have to admit that she is beautiful and does have a good build, but she’s just not skinny anymore in my opinion. She’s more..slim.
She DEFINITELY doesn’t weigh that much, I would say more like 120.
I refuse to believe that her thighs are that big and she has a BMI of 17.2 :-/
If she had a BMI of 17.2, we would probably be able to see her ribs at EVERY angle.
People tend to underguess celebrity weights and model weights.
I agree, she’s not 120. Take into account how muscley(sp?) she is and all. I agree more with the 127-133 guess, if not 135.
well… camera does add ten pounds… I’d say she’s under 125, mos def. The pics don’t do much for her legs.
Additionally, isn’t it the “off-season” for her anyway?
I dont like her figure much because she doesn’t have much of a waist-hip ratio. I love seeing a tiny waist and the bons of slightly flared hips sticking out. A sign of someone who really works for it, not just someone who’s born “unable to gain weight”…
I think Alessandra has a great figure! Her waist could be smaller,but who am I to critique. If I had that body I’d be happy!
First of all, I love her face. It’s gorgeous. What excellent cheekbones!
I also adore her arms, but I agree with SkinnyGurl about her mid-section.
I am also iffy about her legs. I love her calves, but her thighs could be a tiny bit smaller, although I do see the muscle definition. It’s just her inner thighs that look a little loose in a few of the pictures.
Still, she’s gorgeous, and I’d be ecstatic to have a body like hers. I love it when skinny girls manage to keep their curves! Hourglass figures ftw, yeah?
I lovelovelove Alessandra. She’s so different than the other baby doll VS girls, I think she’s my favorite out them all. While not traditionally skinny, she has an extremely athletic figure and is one of few who can pull of toned so sexily! Women begin to look like men when they get in too good physical shape, but not Allie. I think she’s feminine and beautiful. she looks incredibly healthy, too! obviously takes very good care of herself, which is not something you see in every working model. So while not the traditional image of delicacy, I don’t think I can say a bad thing about her.
Ditto to everything you said. I also love the skinny, ripped / elite runner look, lol it’s one of the reasons I try to run as many miles as I can fit into my schedule! And of course it’s better to exercise a lot and eat healthily than be a skinny-fat smoker that can’t walk up a flight of steps without fainting, lol.
Alessandra looks amazing, but I think she would look even better with 6-pack abs – she seems to have a bit of a pooch. Also, I think it’s just the way they always have her posing that makes her look super-curvy.
Anyways, she’s one of my favorites, I had her on my fridge for a while to stop me from eating too much.
Ugh, I’m one of those people unfortunately. I have to rely pretty much on diet alone to lose weight, because if I exercise too much I just get a bunch of bulky muscles
I played hockey for a season and my calves almost doubled in size because of muscle!
That said, she looks really good! I’m a bigger fan of skinny and toned than I am of just skinny.
I’d like to point out that this woman has had a child. I think it’d be near impossible for her to get the “skinny” midsection you so praise after having given birth!
Alessandra has a great figure, especially now for being a mother.
My mom has the “skinny midsection”
Then again, she was a gymnast :-/
I’m currently in my 7th month of pregnancy; everyone thinks I’m only 3-4 months along. I used to dislike that I had such visible ab muscles, but they keep my stomach from bulging so much.
I’ve gained 9lbs so far, which I hate, but my doc hinted he’d send me somewhere if I didn’t gain (sigh).
What I mean to say is that if you keep in shape before pregnancy and during, then rebounding after pregnancy isn’t that difficult.
That’s very true. BUT a bad thing to do would be to suddenly get active once you’re pregnant. It’s good to be active before and then keep doing small things like walking and light weight lifting while you’re pregnant. Not that I ever have been haha my mom and I just talk about this stuff. My mom is 5’7.5″ and after 3 months of pregnancy she was 120 lbs (she ran a lot and didn’t have much time to eat b/c of med school). I’ve also seen pics of her after she had my older sister and she was tiny again. So I don’t think its that hard to get back in shape…
Yeah my moms 5’11″ and after my older sister she was back to her 125-130 ish but with me she injured herself slightly but internally which caused her to gain about 5 to 10 lbs. Then again she was 34 when I was born.
I totally agree with everyone who prefers the “skinny midsection” – ribs and hipbones <3
I´m not a big fan of abs either, they belong to a male body, not a female.
Allessandra looked so great some months ago, remember these -unphotoshopped- pics where she was kneeling on a surfing board? There was a huge gap between her thighs and her stomach was as flat as the board.
I don´t even know if she gained or not since VS tends to photoshop the models "curvier". I´ll wait for some private pics before I judge.
This is a tough one for me. I think her face looks better now (with the little weight gain) but I definitely liked her body better a few months ago. She’s still fit but not amazing like I thought before. Her face is beautiful but I feel like it’s way too sharp when shes at her thinnest. She starts looking androgynous and older to me.
Hey Skinny Gurl, I love your blog! It’s awesome possum
and I love Alessandra too. Always adored her toned body. However I have a preference of skinnier stomachs too.
Any ideas on how to achieve a nice skinny stomach/mid-section? (besides doing the traditional sit-ups/crunches which might result in muscles)
thanks!
heyy stacie!
i’m not much help in the way of abdominal exercises aside from lunges and side stretching, but i do know that if you change you squeeze your regular meals to tiny portions throughout the day for a long enough amount of time your stomach will begin to shrink. and also tons of water, to keep everything moving smoothly but everybody knows that! xp hope that’s a little helpful.
love, love, love her.
SkinnyGurl I see what you mean about her tummy its not a “skinny stomach” exactly but I think if she lost weight she would be way too thin and skeletal, i think its just her body shape that makes her look that way
I really love that skinny and healthy, fit look, i think its perfect
I’d love to look that way after I’ve had a child. It’s not easy I know, but she did look really skinny at one point after having her child. Maybe she was just restricting then and not exercising as much. There’s more muscle tone to her now, which means she’s been crunching those abs.
I’m not a big fan of sit ups to be honest bcos when I do them, I get the un-flat stomach abs and look like a man, or a femail gym instructor which I dont find sexy at all. I love the vlada thinness so much, she’s a whisper of a thing and I’d honestly love to look that way. Exercise is great, but sometimes it messes with my doet, sometimes it suppresses it, other times it makes me so ravenous that I over-eat.
This pic is horrible, she looks boxy and manly. yuk!
I tend to very much disagree with you. No, she may not be the skinniest in the world, but i don’t at all see how that would make her manly. She is a beautiful girl and, personally, if I saw a man with her body, I would think he was EXTREMELY feminine.
thanks kiss, for the little tip!
my body type is generally skinny but i do have a problem that when i do eat a lil’ extra, it all goes to my mid-section.
First of all, I love Alessandra.
BUT. In these pictures, her stomach is too pronounced than what I’m used to on her and I don’t like it.
It reminds me of when people have muscles behind a layer of fat, and the muscles push the fat forward, therefore making them look bigger when they’re not (does that make sense??) It happens to one of my friends. She’s superfit (she’s a personal trainer), and naturally superskinny, but all her weight gain goes to her stomach. So she does sit-ups and all, and has abs (if you punch her gut you’ll break your fist, she’s rock-hard lol), but it sticks out. Sometimes I’m so envious I could spew, other days I’m secretly glad I don’t look like that (muscles never show on my stomach, I’m either super flat or bloated (which now I think about it, sucks. Lol)).
Anyway. Alessandra. She’s a gorgeous girl, there is no denying it. And like Skinny Gurl said, she has the elements of a skinny girl. I think it could just be the angles of these pictures, but the muscles look to have really bulged her out (esp. her upper thighs and stomach).
But whatever. She’s still hot and I’d still kill to look like that at her age after a child! =)
But personally I preferred her skinnier
agree completely with you,cass! definitely prefer her skinnier. her weight gain is obvious in both her stomach and thighs.
i relied on miranda kerr instead – haven’t seen a picture of her eating unheathily before.
she’s naturally skinny though. there are tons of pictures of her having chocolates, cakes and ice-cream that i remember giving up on using her as thinspiration 2 years back when i was losing weight
Chloe, Miranda’s a gret thinspiration because she’s actually into nutrition and all that – I’m trying to remember, I think she might have studied it (or maybe it was if she wasn’t a model she was going to study it).
Anyway, she eats super, super healthy all the time. And she’s so gorgeous =) (And she’s Aussie, which just makes her even better =P )
But yeah, Alessandra seems like one of the lucky ones who eats what she wants – and only puts on a bit of weight by the looks of things lol. But she’s still pretty skinny!
Um I would love this body!
She’s gorgeous as usual!! But her her stomach is a bit too muscular for me, and I don’t like her thighs…they’ve gotten bigger:/
Here are some pics of Alessandra on vaction, where she’s NOT posing and you can see she looks less curvy and her figure is much more attainable:
http://theskinnywebsite.com/site/2010/08/more-new-alessandra-ambrosio-bikini-photos
Omg I don’t get how you could not like her stomach, it’s nice and toned and she is indeed underweight but she looks good, why would you want someone to look sick and their stomach sunken in, that’s gross and ugly
LOVE her arms here. The rest look normal toned to me, but I prefer thinner legs. That’s what I struggle with the most, so naturally, I think it’s the most important part.
Given the high standards that models are held to, and how they are supposed to be on that next level compared to a pretty girl off the street, these pics leave much to be desired. My impression of her from the catalogue vs natural photos lead me wonder what is “it” that she has? She looks pretty average to me. Not stunning. Not skinny. Not necessarily fat. Not impressed.
I’m not really liking her thighs.. They look like they’d touch..