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Among those sniveling, rodent-like, British sorts who follow the weight fluctuations of actresses who look inarguably healthy, Catherine Zeta-Jones's current "condition" is approaching near-scandal levels of alarm. For example, the Daily Mail today cites a not-harrowing new collection of photos supposedly suggesting Zeta-Jones has suffered a perilous loss of curvature and, well, stone:

She's a poster-girl for gorgeous curves, but Catherine Zeta Jones appears to be in danger of losing her bombshell status. ...

The actresses weight is known to have has fluctuated over the years. Catherine, who is married to Michael Douglas, has told how she 'ate for Wales' when pregnant with her first child, Dylan, now seven.

At her heaviest she weighed 13 stone. After the birth of her daughter Carys five years ago, she used a tough dance-based routine from her movie Chicago to whittle herself into shape.

Representatives for Zeta-Jones furiously challenged the reports, noting that even at her most pregnant the Oscar-winner has never tipped the scales at anything more than 11 stone. Story author "Daily Mail Reporter" insisted s/he stood by the number, though, clarifying the paper's policy that every lost curve is roughly equivalent to .87 stone and that a careful study of the photographic record would speak for itself.