Anastasia's figure/A thick waist?

[grandduchess_42]

Personally, I think Anastasia is the least attractive of the sisters and I therefore can't see that happening. She might lose the weight, but I don't see her becoming prettier. Of the four, I think that Marie and Olga aged well from childhood. Tatiana and Anastasia were much prettier as young girls.

i totally agree with Ortino. and then i don't and i agree with anya.

i agree that maria and olga aged well from their childhood. and i also see anastasia becoming very pretty. and i don't think that she would have been the most prettys't out of the four but i would think that she was going to be very beautiful. i mean look at her mother. she was georgeous. and i also agree that maria and olga were very beautiful.

[grandduchess_42]

hmm kind of but not really  :-/

[Lizameridox]

Alexei Nikolaevich looked much more like his mother the Empress and his sister Tatiana Nikolaevna.  Anastasia Nikolaevna did not share quite their striking looks....

[grandduchess_42]

Alexei Nikolaevich looked much more like his mother the Empress and his sister Tatiana Nikolaevna.  Anastasia Nikolaevna did not share quite their striking looks....

i agree that he did look very like alix. and had a bit of nicky's qualitys. i don't see how he looks like tatiana.

[Ortino]

Can we please stick to the topic of Anastasia's weight? Whether or not she looks like Alexei with a dress on is irrevelant really to this discussion. I'm not trying to be harsh or mean, I just think that going off on tangents isn't helpful in addressing the general idea of the thread.

[grandduchess_42]

Can we please stick to the topic of Anastasia's weight? Whether or not she looks like Alexei with a dress on is irrevelant really to this discussion. I'm not trying to being hars or mean, I just think that going off on tangents isn't helpful in addressing the general idea of the thread.

right. i agree.

i think she had a good weight. and i think she would have grown out of it when she was older. maria did.

[grandduchess_42]

did maria grow out of it? i mean it looks like she did.

[Romanov_fan]

Anastasia was quite thin and short as a child, as pictures show. She was still quite short when she died, and probably would have been her whole life. Thus, she was shorter than the rest of the family except perhaps Alexei. As for being heavy, she wasn't as a young child. By 1916, pictures show she had gained some weight. This was still true in 1918. So, yes, she was chubbier than she had been before. But the weight gain suited her up to a point. It filled out her features. In one of her last photographs, that I have seen, she does in summer, 1918 look to be what we would consider plump and a little too heavy. Being short, and perhaps big boned, weight gain would have looked worse on her than her sisters. Marie was heavy as a child, and slimmed down in 1916-18 so her weight was baby fat, and she was of average height. Anastasia was maybe just going through a phase and maybe not. Whether she would have been heavy the rest of her life is conjecture.She was the least pretty of the sisters, true, but she had personality. Why she was heavy probably had to do with her body type and age, and not food or exercise. The romanov girls had roughly the same amount of exercise in captivity, and were not served a whole lot of food, and Tatiana was very thin at this point. So it would have been difficult for Anastasia to have eaten unheathily, and considering the other girls skinny frames and that they got around the same amount of food and exercise, Anatasia's weight in captivity probably had the most do with body type and age.  

[Ortino]

Anastasia was quite thin and short as a child, as pictures show. She was still quite short when she died, and probably would have been her whole life. Thus, she was shorter than the rest of the family except perhaps Alexei. As for being heavy, she wasn't as a young child. By 1916, pictures show she had gained some weight. This was still true in 1918. So, yes, she was chubbier than she had been before. But the weight gain suited her up to a point. It filled out her features. In one of her last photographs, that I have seen, she does in summer, 1918 look to be what we would consider plump and a little too heavy. Being short, and perhaps big boned, weight gain would have looked worse on her than her sisters. Marie was heavy as a child, and slimmed down in 1916-18 so her weight was baby fat, and she was of average height. Anastasia was maybe just going through a phase and maybe not. Whether she would have been heavy the rest of her life is conjecture.She was the least pretty of the sisters, true, but she had personality. Why she was heavy probably had to do with her body type and age, and not food or exercise. The romanov girls had roughly the same amount of exercise in captivity, and were not served a whole lot of food, and Tatiana was very thin at this point. So it would have been difficult for Anastasia to have eaten unheathily, and considering the other girls skinny frames and that they got around the same amount of food and exercise, Anatasia's weight in captivity probably had the most do with body type and age.  

Olga and Tatiana were thin to begin with, so weight gain, particularly during captivity, would not have been likely. Of all the children, I imagine them having the smallest appetites. Marie was thin as a child until 1914 or so, when she began to fill out. I wouldn't agree that she got thinner as an adult, but her height would have hidden her weight better than Anastasia's due to her shortness. Anastasia begins to fill out between 1915-16, the formal shots taken in 1914 being the last time she was truly thin. As the reasons for her weight gain, lack of activity and shortage of food would have slowed her metabolism, making weight gain easier not more difficult. I speak from experience even though I am average size. Given her body type, this probably would have been terrible. For Olga and Tatiana this would not have been so much of a problem, given as they were probably eating less before captivity.

[Romanov_fan]

Thank you for pointing out what you pointed out. Your theory about why Anastasia gained so much weight in captivity, especially, (allthough she had been heavy before) is quite valid to explain her weight gain at that point. Marie was indeed, quite thin in early childhood, and gained weight in adolscence. I missed that. But, I would argue that by 1916 through captivity, she was thinner that she was in say, the 1914 formal photos. She was not that much thinner, though. Alexandra's letters refer to this, and this is quoted in most Romanov biographies, that Marie had lost some of her weight, whereas Anastasia had gained weight.

[Romanov_fan]

Tatiana was the thinnest always. Olga next. Marie, then Anastasia. Anastasia did put quite a bit of weight on in captivity, but she proobably would have anyway. It was most likely her body type and age. When she was younger, she was certainly skinny enough. Marie lost weight as she got older, and by the time of the captivity was fairly slim. Tatiana, always the thinnest, was very skinny in captivity, and Olga seemed thinner then too. Speculating about what their actual weight was is rather impossible today, given the fact the camera often added pounds and the clothes they wore might have too, being rather thick. It is not like they wore bikinis or something. They wore rather thick clothes. As for height, that can be done for all except Anastasia who by captivity, could well have been taller than even the 1917 photos. There are photos of her in 1918, but it is hard to tell her height from them.

[GrandDuchess_Bella]

Anastasia was a bit bigger than the rest of her sisters but today, we would not call that fat. She may have been bigger than she was expected to be (by Alexandra) but personally, I think she was normal. That's what I've always liked about her.

[Sarastasia]

I think Anastasia looks rather short and chubby in this photo, but then again she is standing next to Tatiana!

[stacey]

I have so much sympathy for Anastasia! Her two oldest sisters were always tall and slender and willowy, and while Marie did go thru a brief period of "baby fat" she did have the height to handle it, and anyway slimmed down pretty quickly. Poor Anastasia! She was always short and at that height (or lack of it!) unless you're VERY slim and small-boned the slightest bit of extra weight will give you that dumpy look, even if you're not THAT much overweight. I,er,speak as an expert here.   From what I've read, Anastasia was just over 5' tall, maybe about 5'2" tops. I'm about the same height, and I promise you, if my weight goes much over 110 pounds I start to look like a turkey dumpling.   My own guess is that Anastasia was between 135-140 pounds at her plumpest--cause I know how I looked at about that weight when I was 16. HELLO---it wasn't pretty!!!! I do think that as Anastasia got a little older she too would have lost weight and had a figure much more along the lines of Marie's--slim but with nice curves, never of course as willowy as Olga and Tatiana--she just didn't have the height for that! *sigh* Height can help out a lot--for a much more recent example. NOT to criticize the late Queen Mother (I liked her and admired her) but as she got into even her twenties, and especially into middle age, she became, I have to say, kind of "dumpy" like Anastasia. Why? Cause like Anastasia (and me!!) she was short! In order to retain a trim figure at our height, you have to stay very slim--and yes, as a matter of fact, I AM whining!!!   I envy you tall people!!! And I expect poor Anastasia did too--remember when Alexandra was commenting that "A is getting very fat" she added "to her despair"?? How well I know THAT feeling! Still, at that age we all tend to be a little dramatic, and I still think Anastasia was lovely. Plus she had that wonderful sparkling personality and a terrific sense of humor--I doubt if she wasted TOO much time worrying about her figure!!  

[Romanov_fan]

No, I don't think Anastasia was overly concerned with her figure, either. It wasn't her personality at all, to care she was not as much as a slender willowly beauty as her two older sisters, or as much a beauty as Marie. She was a bit dumpy , but yes, I am sure it looked worse and much more than it was because of her short stature. She might have slimmed down as she got older, although it is hard to say. But she would indeed have had to be very thin to look thin at all at her height. I doubt she would have gotten much taller. Marie was a bit plump, but was taller, so she did not look the same as Anastasia did at the same weight. Tatiana and Olga were paragons of being thin, although Tatiana was taller than Olga. I am of meduim height, and thin, so I can't relate to this personally, but I would think that when you are short, weight tends to make you look heavier than you are, even a little bit.