Kate Bosworth is Alive and Thriving

Friday, February 02, 2007

The infamous Mark Twain once quipped, “The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” Kate Bosworth is not dead either, but from all of the negative press and tabloid reports it would seem that she is well on her way in the physical and professional sense of the word.

After her split from Orlando Bloom last summer (September 2006) and an apparent weight loss, the media began to speculate that Bosworth was headed for the dreaded road of self-destruction by means of an eating disorder.

Despite plentiful resources available and easily found on the Internet of biographical references to Catherine Ann Bosworth (also referred to as Kate and Katie), the gossipers chose to ignore, or conveniently forget, that she has been an athletic female for nearly all her life.

Kate Bosworth was a varsity player on her high school’s soccer and lacrosse teams, and well as an avid horse lover and champion equestrian. This is the same athletic shape with washboard abs that made her an overnight teenage dream in the movie Blue Crush that was now being forgotten to exploit the female actress and fuel cruel rumors.

Ironically, just months before the charges of an eating disorder, other malicious stories, complete with paparazzi pictures, depicted Kate Bosworth of gaining weight, showing her in a bikini on vacation with then boyfriend Orlando Bloom, with a full, plump, but not fat, rump.

Say what they will or want about Kate Bosworth in the tabloid media, the actress is far from off her game or out of it either.

Despite the lackluster reviews from Superman Returns, Kate Bosworth is still an attraction for the box office bosses and the public who fill the seats. She has recently wrapped up filming for The Girl in the Park, co-starring Keri Russell and Sigourney Weaver due out later this year. She also teamed up with Kevin Spacey again and is currently filming 21; she played opposite Spacey in the Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee movie, Beyond the Sea.

Further proof that Kate Bosworth and her career isn’t dead seems to be the ironic news that she has been cast as the lead female actress in After Life, an Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo film that begins filming later this year and due out in 2008.