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Emma Stonesparked health concerns after her appearance at London's Royal Festival Hall for the 79th British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA).

The actress donned a black Louis Vuitton dress featuring a halter neckline and a keyhole cutout below the chest.

Stone was nominated in the Best Actress category for Yorgos Lanthimos'Bugoniabut lost toHamnetstar Jessie Buckley.

Emma Stone has left fans worried about her appearance after revealing that she struggles to keep weight on

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On social media, many observers expressed concern over the apparent change in her appearance, claiming she looked unhealthy and pointing to her visible collarbones, sunken cheeks, and slender frame as signs that she was underweight.

"I'm sorry, but you cannot defend this by saying it's genetics… it is not, this is a body eating itself, I've been through this, many women and men too. It's not something to romanticize," one viewer wrote.

"Really don't like the whole ribcage look," echoed another.

"Emmayou are beautiful you don't need to lose that much weight," expressed a separate fan.

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Others noted that the actress was "half the size" she was inBugonia.

An additional viewer raised concerns about the influence of celebrities losing excessive amounts of weight.

"She looks cadaverous. The effect of that extreme thinness on teenage girls' minds is a tragedy," one netizen said.

Another fan called the beauty standard that glamorizes thinness "extremely concerning," pointing out, "Everyone looks like they're eating half an apple a day. Let's leave the EDs in the 00s and stop pressuring women to be so thin."

The 37-year-old attended the BAFTAs, where she was nominated for Best Actress forBugonia

Stone has not addressed the recent speculation surrounding her weight.

In 2012, the 37-year-old actress toldS Magazinethat she struggled with her self-confidence and sometimes felt "disgusted" with her body.

"I do have that thing of, 'Oh my God, I'm disgusting – I ate a huge Wagamama lunch, the whole yaki soba, and I feel so fat.' But I'm still gonna eat that stuff, and you know what? You can get nice, loose clothes that cover it all up," she said.

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TheOscar winnertold the magazine that she has body image issues "because I wouldn't be human if I didn't."

Stone explained at the time that she doesn't believe in "depriving yourself" and that she had indulged in Mississippi's comfort food while filmingThe Help.

"Suddenly nothing fitted me, but then they have such delicious food in the South and I don't believe in depriving yourself," she shared. "Yes, you should be healthy and take care of yourself, but growing up I've seen people who have horrible issues with food."

TheLa La Landactress previously said she finds it difficult to maintain her natural weight

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Two years later, theAmazing Spider-Manactress toldSeventeenmagazine that she struggled to keep weight on "especially when I'm under stress, and especially as I've gotten older."

Stone attributed her weight to genetic factors and called outbody-shamingcommenters who constantly speculate about her health.

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"People have a right to imagine what they want to imagine. My job at those moments is to tellmyselfthe truth," Stone stressed.

"My great hope for us as young women is to start being kinder to ourselves so that we can be kinder to each other.

"To stop shaming ourselves and other people for things we don't know the full story on. There's a sense that we're all 'too' something, and we're all not enough."

"We can all be super critical of ourselves and of our image in the mirror," Stone said

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During the interview, which she gave at age 25, Stone said she viewed weight-related insecurities as a societal issue that especially affects women and girls, famous or not.

"No matter how things look from the outside, we can all be super critical of ourselves and of our image in the mirror."

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Jason Walsh, who trained Stone for her role as tennis player Billie Jean King in the 2017 filmBattle of the Sexes, toldPeoplemagazine that the actress was "ecstatic" to gain 15 lbs (6 kg) of lean muscle.

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To prepare for the film, Stone reportedly did a "full-body training regime" which included lifting 70-lb (30 kg) dumbbells in each hand, doing push-ups with chains on her back, cardio climbing, and drinking protein shakes.

Stone lost the BAFTA award toHamnetactress Jessie Buckley

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TheLa La Landstar attended theBAFTAswith her mother, Krista Stone, whom she has previously called "the best person in the world" and thanked for encouraging her to pursue her acting career.

While Stone went home empty-handed from the ceremony on Sunday (February 22), she has previously won two BAFTAs for Best Actress in a Leading Role forLa La LandandPoor Things.

The Oscar winner attended the ceremony with her mother, Krista

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She is also nominated for Best Actress forBugoniaat the upcoming Academy Awards, where she will compete againstJessie Buckley,Rose Byrne,Kate Hudson, andRenate Reinsve.

The ceremony will take place on March 15.

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The2026 Winter Olympicshave ended, which means fans are now looking forward to the next Games, which takes place on American soil in Los Angeles.

To kick off the two-year wait,NBC released a promotional videofeaturing Kate Hudson singing "California Dreamin'" on Tuesday, Feb. 22. The video showcased numerous Team USA stars like Katie Ledecky, Steph Curry and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, the famous Los Angeles Coliseum and even the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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The 2028 Summer Olympics are the first stateside Games since 2002, when the Winter Olympics were held in Salt Lake City. Flag football will debut at the 2028 Summer Olympics for the first time, bringing the popular U.S. sport to the global stage in a non-tackle version.

Hudson's newest movie, "Song Sung Blue" alongside Hugh Jackman, is streaming exclusively on Peacock, an NBC platform, which explains the connection with the Olympics video.

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The United States had a successful finish at the Milano-Cortina Games, finishing with the second-most gold medals and total medals of any country, only behind Norway. The U.S. ended Sunday, Feb. 22, with an overtime win over gold-medal favorite Canada in men's hockey to win its first gold since 1980.

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The United States finished with the most medals (126) at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris but was tied with China for the most gold medals with 40. The U.S. will certainly have extra motivation to dominate the gold medal count with the Games being held in the states.

For now, Team USA fans have Hudson to get them excited for the next Summer Games.

Kate Hudson, NBC kick off 2028 Los Angeles Olympics campaign

Here's the full NBC promotional video with Hudson signing "California Dreamin'":

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Grey's AnatomystarKatherine Heiglis getting candid about the painful process of grieving her late costar,Eric Dane.

On Sunday, the actress behind Dr. Izzie Stevens shared an emotional tribute to Dane,who died at 53 on Thursday,less than a year after going public about his struggle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which is also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease.

In theraw post, Heigl admitted that she struggled with whether or not to publicly discuss the loss, writing, "I debated this post for days. I have never been comfortable grieving publicly. I share my tears, my stories and my memories with those I'm closest to and more times than not I share them only with the heavens alone."

She continued, "But that silence can often look like a lack of care which I could not abide here."

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Heigl went on to address Dane's wife and primary caretaker, Rebecca Gayheart, 54, as well as the former couple's daughters, Billie, 15, and Georgia, 13.

"Rebecca, Billie, Georgia... There is so little, if in fact anything, one can say about a tragic loss like yours," Heigl wrote. "All the 'I'm sorries' and 'my prayers are with you' ring a bit hollow in the midst of so much pain and grief. So I will say the only thing that has ever brought me peace when I've lost someone I love."

The actress then referred to Robert Frost's poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay," noting that she has the single verse tattooed on her body in her parents' handwriting.

"Nature's first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; but only so an hour," she quoted. "Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, so Dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay."

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Heigl concluded, "I will never forget Eric's gold and I will forever be grateful I got to bask in it for even a brief moment in time. Thank you for sharing him with us. God Speed my old friend... Here's to your next great adventure."

While Heigl was a part ofGrey's Anatomyfrom its very first episode, Dane didn'tmake his debut on the medical dramauntil season 2, episode 18. The duo shared the screen on the ensemble show across several seasons, up until Heigl departed midway through season 6. Dane would remain with the show for two more full seasons, eventually exiting in the season 9 premiere on Sept. 27, 2012, when his character, Dr. Mark Sloan, was killed in a plane crash.

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Since his Feb. 19 death, several of Dane's costars have taken the time to honor his memory, praising his life and career.

"The last 48 hours have been devastating," wroteGrey'salum Chyler Leigh — who played Dane's love interest on the show — in a statement toE! News. "I never thought I would be using the term 'had or was,' but here we are. And I hate it."

She continued, "Eric had a heart of gold. His humor and, especially, his laugh was infectious. He was a deeply intelligent man who could carry a philosophical conversation for hours even while we were on set."

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Patrick Dempsey, who was the McDreamy toDane's McSteamy(the widely popularized nicknames of theirGrey's Anatomycharacters) toldThe Chris Evans Breakfast Show, "He was the funniest man — he was such a joy to work with and I want to just remember him in that spirit because any time he was on set, he brought so much fun to it."

Dempsey went on topraise his longtime friendfor publicly battling ALS, adding, "He did an incredible job at bringing awareness to this horrible disease and those remaining days. And it just reminds us that we all have to celebrate every day like it's our last day."

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Russia's invasion of Ukrainefour years ago launched Europe's biggest conflict since World War II, causingimmense suffering for civiliansand harrowing ordeals for soldiers while rewriting thepost-Cold War security order.

Russia Ukraine War Anniversary

Thefighting enters its fifth yearon Tuesday, and it shows no signs of stopping anytime soon.

The U.S. hasbrokered talkswith delegations from Moscow and Kyiv as part of the Trump administration's yearlongpush for peace. But reconcilingkey differences, such as the future of Russian-occupied Ukrainian land and postwar security for Ukraine, has thwarted progress.

Meanwhile, thousands of each countries' troops havedied on the battlefield, and Ukrainian civilians have been battered byRussian aerial strikesthat have brought years of power outages and water cuts.

Here's a look at the conflict, by the numbers, since the full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022.

1.8 million

The upper end of the estimated number of soldierskilled, wounded or missingon both sides, according to a report last month by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank.

It estimated that Russia suffered 1.2 million casualties, including up to 325,000 troop deaths, between February 2022 and December 2025 — what it said was the largest number of troop deaths for any major power in any conflict since World War II.

Russia has not released figures on battlefield deaths since January 2023, when it said more than 80 soldiers were killed in a Ukrainian strike, bringing the total military deaths Moscow has confirmed to just over 6,000.

CSIS estimated that Ukraine has seen 500,000 to 600,000 military casualties, including up to 140,000 deaths.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said earlier this month that 55,000 Ukrainian troops have died in the war. Many are missing, he said.

Neither Moscow nor Kyiv gives timely data on military losses. Independent verification is not possible.

14,999

The U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission's count for civilian deaths in Ukraine since Russia's all-out invasion, though it says that is likely an underestimate. More than 40,600 civilians were injured over the same period, it said in a December report.

The war has killed at least 763 children, according to the U.N.

Last year was the deadliest for civilians in Ukraine since 2022. The conflict killed 2,514 civilians and injured 12,142 in the country in 2025 — a 31% increase in civilian casualties over 2024, it said.

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19.4%

The percentage of Ukrainian land occupied by Russia, according to the Institute for the Study of War.

Over the past year, Russia has gained just 0.79% of Ukraine's territory in the grinding war of attrition, the Washington-based think tank said in calculations provided earlier this month to The Associated Press, underscoring the little progress Moscow's forces have made despite huge costs in troops and armor.

Before Russia's all-out invasion, it controlled nearly 7% of Ukraine, including Crimea and parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in the east, as Moscow-backed separatists fought the Ukrainian army, according to Ukrainian officials and Western analysts.

The percentage drop in foreign military aid to Kyiv last year compared with the annual average between 2022 and 2024, according to Germany's Kiel Institute, which tracks assistance to Kyiv.

U.S. President Donald Trump stopped sending American weapons paid for by the U.S. to Ukraine after he took office just over a year ago. European countries, striving to make up the difference, increased their military aid last year by 67% compared with the 2022-2024 period, the institute said in a report this month.

Foreign humanitarian and financial aid to Ukraine fell by 5% last year in comparison with the average in the previous three years, it said.

5.9 million

The number of Ukrainian civilians who have left their country.

Some 5.3 million of those people have found refuge in Europe, according to a report this month from the U.N. office in Ukraine.

Additionally, around 3.7 million Ukrainians forced out of their homes have moved elsewhere within the country, the U.N. said in December.

Ukraine's prewar population was more than 40 million.

2,851

The number of Russian attacks that affected the provision of medical care in Ukraine, according to the World Health Organization. The figure covers the period from the full-scale invasion through Feb. 11.

The attacks include 2,347 strikes on health care facilities, as well as ones that damaged vehicles and the storage of medical supplies.

Follow AP's coverage of the war in Ukraine athttps://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine