There are actual pro-Anorexia sites that use pictures like these for "Thinspiration".
Posted on 11/16/2006 12:10:19 PM PST by Froufrou
The mother of a Brazilian fashion model who died from complications of anorexia has made an emotional appeal for parents to take better care of aspiring young models.
The death of Ana Carolina Reston, 21, follows growing criticism of the use of underweight models in the fashion world, an issue given new significance after the death in August of Uruguayan model Luisel Ramos of heart failure during a fashion show in Montevideo.
Reston died on Tuesday in a Sao Paulo hospital from a generalized infection caused by anorexia, an eating disorder in which sufferers obsessively deprive themselves of food in pursuit of an ultra-slim look.
Reston weighed only 88 pounds (40 kg) and was about 5 feet 8 inches tall. Doctors consider the weight normal for a 12-year-old girl about 5 feet tall.
"Take care of your children ... no money is worth the life of your child, not even the most famous (fashion) brand is worth this," her mother, Miriam, told O Globo newspaper.
She said her daughter had been trying to help her family with the money she made as a model. Miriam spoke on national television and to local media to highlight the tragedy.
She said she had pleaded with her daughter to eat more and to see a doctor. "She would reply, 'Mummy, don't mess me around,'" Miriam told O Estado de S.Paulo.
O Dia tabloid carried a picture of the dark-haired, big-eyed girl in lingerie on its front-page with the headline "Dictatorship of skinny look kills a model."
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There are actual pro-Anorexia sites that use pictures like these for "Thinspiration".
Me too, but there was always that darn pizza :)
You can never be too rich or too thin.
Like, heavy, man!
I've always pitied slaves to fashion.
It's a chicken and egg - do people buy the clothes because designers and fashion mags say they should or do designers make their clothes to fit with what the masses want?
I see more of a than b. Otherwise designers would be using size 12 models - the average dress size nowadays. Instead they design clothes for young boys and sell them as women's clothes.
At all.
for the average woman to maintain 'that' look, she has to starve
The models are starving too. An acquaintance of mine is a fashion model ... has had big spreads in Vogue, etc. She looked more "filled-out" 5 years ago, as a high-school senior than she does now. I fear for her life.
I watched a disturbing documentary on HBO the other night about anorexia/bulimia called "Thin." I would recommend it to the parents of any young girl who might be susceptible to this monstrous psychological disorder.
"You can never be too rich or too thin."
Or too dead.
Brilliant description.
Thailand?
I have a picture where I weighed 99#, and I was in a ballet company (granted, I wasn't underweight by the 'standards' but you could count my ribs).
And I was told I was too 'fat' too create a good line in dance (yes, I had a butt even in starvation).
Models used to be all sizes....from Mae West types to Audrey Hepburn...
You're right, it all happened sometime around Twiggy, Balanchine and women's gymnastics taking off...
The combination of fashion, art and sports all creating the same 'perfect' female form, that was so narrow a standard that few could attain it without drastic measures.
So now I see 9 year olds with the normal chub pudge of their age 'dieting' like their mama's.
We're either morbidly obese or starving.
YOu are right on the money (as usual). Men in the fashion industry and the movies used to like their women/models more voluptuous and easily distinguishable from Males. Then came the 60s and Twiggy (who would be considered a horse by today's standards). All downhill from there. Clothes suck for the most part and the "gay" designers could care less if women look ridiculous. No dog in that fight, eh!
You're right in the weight range I'm after. I read recently that clothing manufacturers are making clothes larger, and it makes sense. When I was thin, there was no size 0 or 2. I was a 3 in dresses and a 5 or 7 in pants.
So, is they're messing with us a good thing or bad? If we are, as a nation, getting fatter, why'd they add the 0 and the 2.
Well, I'm 5 inches shorter and I....
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I....
Love cookies :)
LOL!
I do think I am seeing a bit of a revolution in the sense that larger sizes are now being marketed in some of the 'nicer' stores.
Heck, you want my money, you make a dress that won't make me look like crap!
"(yes, I had a butt even in starvation)."
Bwahahaha! Me, too. One time a guy in school yelled at me, "that sure is a lot of ham for those two eggs!"
But, my waist was 23 once. I bought Lee Riders at the country western store, size 22 waist, and had to lie flat on the bed and hook a coathanger in the zipper to zip 'em up. It was for Western Day and the only day girls could wear pants to school. The changed that rule the year after I graduated.
This would be me. I weigh somewhere in the range of 110 (maybe a couple pounds more) and am 5'4, which puts my BMI under 19, I think. I wear a size 4, sometimes a 6, depending on the cut of the clothes. It's my high metabolism, which I inherited from my dad's side of the family. I have had plenty of people tell me I look like I don't eat, but obviously they've never been around me at mealtime :) Plus, chasing 3 kids is good exercise!
Stay right there XEN, looking' good.
[ jealous sigh ] My husband is like this, too. The man who wrote The Zone diet says that we sturdier people have been on the planet longer and we're type O blood.
I think he's right. Hubs is 5'9" and barely weighs 130, and is A+. Are you a blood type other than 0?
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