Last Year’s Fashion Model Weight Requirement…
…Put too much on designers’ plates? Because, obviously, folks, Ralph Lauren isn’t listening. Sure, you can spray all the tanner on her you like, but she’s still skin and bones. I can’t believe I heard no flak about it yesterday when I saw it in the papers.
Back in January, I had heard the fashion designers were going to begin regulating their models’ weights before allowing them to strut their stuff, at least in Milan and Madrid. But this pic begs to differ, as this poor child looks like she could drop at any time. Seriously, what’s it going to take — a collapse on the catwalk? (And in those cases, I’m sure they’d blame the high platform heels before starvation.)
Unpalatable!
Or I guess they’re returning to this last year’s silhouette since her organs were still able to fit into her emaciated little body. I mean, sure, some people are just naturally skinny…but they’re not the ones who should be setting the standard on the stage. This anorexic picture is what sticks in our — and our daughters’ — minds when we’re dieting…as an inspiration for body image?
Nahhhhhhh, that can’t be.
Naturally thin is one thing, especially in taller women. But I took a modeling class and at 5′9″ and 125 lbs I still felt the pressure to lose weight. Needless to say, I’m no longer modeling. It simply wasnt worth risking my health, fertility(since I’d like to be able to conceive AS WELL AS carry babies in my body) and energy level. These ladies are malnourished and I’d be very surprised if they even had regular periods.
I’m sorry but that’s just gross! Those women look disgusting to me - not attractive. I don’t say that to be mean to them personally but why would anyone really want to look like that???
They look like they’re cut out of a toothpick… and they should avoid going out on stormy weather! This shouldn’t be allowed.
can anyone see that they look like dead holocaust victims with alot of makeup on?
I agree. I’ve actually done several reports on the statistics for issues like these. And, the reason Milan and Madrid are ” regulating” their models’ weights now IS because somebody died, of heart complications due to malnutrition.
I’m seventeen, and the fashion industry disgusts me. More so now than ever, I notice those shows like “America’s next top model”, or those toddler beauty contests where some wannabe model of a judge in her forties has the audacity to tell a five year old she’s just not pretty enough, despite all of the instant tanner and hairspray her mother sprayed her with. Those things drive me mad, model thin expectations drive me mad. You’re exactly right, even those who are “naturally thin(30% of models in the U.S. Do NOT suffer from an eating disorder)” should not be setting a standard 25% beneath the average woman’s weight. A survey from psychology today took several polls and found teenage girls,and,increasingly, boys, to have the lowest self esteem/image in the nation. While this may come as no surprise, the percentage of eating disorders has increased exponentially over the past three decades, along with the widening chasm between model weight and average, healthy BMI’s. I don’t attribute models to the sole cause of this, but it aggravates me when big names in the fashion industry claim they model clothes, not people (even though the clothes just “hang better on thinner models”), yet those people are seen as the acceptable ideal/paragon of beauty because they are the only ones such clothes are made for.
Sorry for this random rant on your blog. This topic will get me fired like nothing else. When I was thirteen, I developed anorexia nervosa, uninfluenced by models or aspirations of thinness. I was hospitalized fifty pounds later at ninety-four pounds, but I got out to visit my father. At fifteen, I was hospitalized again, with a failing liver, at seventy-eight pounds. Keep in mind I was 5′7″ at the time. I will never forget the physical and mental anguish I, along with many others I met, endured. I will never forgive an influential industry such as fashion for advocating such pain in women, and self-hate in those who fail to meet below par.
i think that what they are doing to themselves is worng but to say hurtful things does not make the situation better u know what i mean
i am a model i have my own private photographer tom bove and i weigh 134 pounds and i am six foot tall i am proud of my body and yes i do intnd to loose a little more weight but thats all i would never stop eating for my dream and i have done made that anouncment i love food to much and hey you aint got to be skinny to modeltheir is thick models to=]]
I am seventeen years old and all my life Ive wanted to model. Growing up I watched the shows and admired the supermodels that were stick thin and eventhough I am 5′9″ I am 140 pounds…to many I look very thin but in my mind I am pushing the heafty side. I am signed with an agency and feel like I must be a certain size or they will drop me. I agree with everyone above…if you have to be rail thin then Im in the wrong business!
i think this is gorjuz
You know what? i’m seventeen and I am over 200 pounds but you know what? I don’t care. I am proud of the size I am and if someone has a problem with it then that’s just to darn bad. Life isn’t about being a size zero like the magazines show you. It’s about being you, being unique and likeing it. Don’t compare yourself to these models. Compare yourself to something real. SOMEONE real. Advertisements are part of the number one cause of eating disorders among teenagers. In 2003 alone 223,000 plastic surgeries were on teenagers 18 and under. Their influence? Magazines, movies, television, billboards. Companies may say they take good care of their models but would you say these women look extremely healthy? I wouldn’t I’d say emaciated yes, starved and powerless yes. I would rather have died of a heart attack than starvation and that’s just that.
wow that ia well, horrible. I may not be thin but i definiteky have the right ti say that is unaatractive. They need to gain weight!
one, they are malnutritioned which causes brain and organ problems,
two, it’s kind of gross. THey are holocaust size and those people tried everything to eat. I’d say in respect for them they NEEd to gain weight!
That is so freeking sick and wrong!!! What the hell is wrong with them!?!? I’d think they were more beautiful if the weighed 800 pounds! JESUS!!!!
i dont think she is that bad tbh, she is quite beautiful
I personally beleive that it is all down to personal choice. If they choose to be skinny then that is their choice okay they may be told to lose weight but that doesn`t mean they have too. And nobody has the right to tell you how to be. I`m not going to tell you to cut yuor hair because it makes your face look fat am I?
So why tell them to beef up because they look emaciated.
they need to gain a FEW more pounds to look perfect!!!!! but hey im a 12 year old girl (turning 13 this july) im about 5′3″ and i wiegh 85-90 pounds!!!!!!!!! my doctor says i am skinny and below average! but guess what i want to be ANOREXIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so any advice????????? does anybody want to encourage and cheer me on??????????? or argue with me?????????????????????
pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese answer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wtf fuck that shyt i dnt wana become a model if it invovles THROWN UP 24/7
ughhh those models out there this days look so discusting not gon lie ,they look like the light pole out side my house,or the skinny version of barney on crack !!!! lol
i dont fink d onee in d bikini looks disgustinly bad, dont get mi wrong d ova 1 dus bt a think u can be skiny n look gd bt 4 sarsh 2 want to be ANOREXIC at 13 i think is wrong !!!!!!
“i think that what they are doing to themselves is worng but to say hurtful things does not make the situation better u know what i mean
crystal said this on February 27, 2008″
Crystal, I’m sorry you see the post in that way. I certainly didn’t write any of those things to be hurtful, but I can see how it came across that way. I just think that the fashion industry needs a good slap from public opinion — especially from those of us with daughters whose self-image is affected by their gross delusions of beauty. The models themselves are only out there making a living by doing what they learn brings in money. My gripe lies with the fashion industry, not the models, who are themselves the most victimized.