Posted on 08/30/2009 3:08:07 AM PDT by Scanian
When she was 16, Crystal Renn signed a $250,000 modeling contract and moved to the city. But after starving herself for years to stay at 95 pounds, she gave it all up to become a plus-size model -- and finally, at size 12, achieved major success. With her memoir, "Hungry," due out Sept. 8, Renn tells her story to The Post.
Nine years ago, when I was 14 years old, a modeling scout spotted me at an etiquette class in my hometown of Clinton, Miss., and pulled me aside to show me a photo of supermodel Gisele in a clingy white gown. "This could be you," he said.
There was just one problem. I was 5-foot-8 and 165 pounds. The scout told me that if I lost 8 inches off my 43-inch hips, he could make me a famous model in New York City.
Until I met the scout, I never paid attention to what I ate. If I wanted a cupcake, I ate two. After the scout put dreams of stardom in my head, weight loss became my job.
By the end of ninth grade, I was eating only veggies or plain chicken. Combined with two-hour workouts every day, I quickly dropped to 120 pounds.
By 2002, I was too thin for a size zero. I called the modeling scout. "Come now," I told him.
The minute he saw me, he said, "You're going to New York!"
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I CAN HAS CHEEZCAEK?
(heh) And pie. There will be lots of pie.
See what Twiggy started back in 1966? The industry still hasn’t got over her.
Even today women set their standard of beauty and sex appeal by what’s in women’s magazines. If they want to know what appeals to men they should look in Playboy instead.
Is a hugh factor, imo. It's not irrelevant that the model under discussion, when she had the figure fashion photographers wanted, wasn't menstruating and had no libido. Gay man largely run the fashion industry, and gay men are frightened by healthy female sexuality and healthy female figures.
You're right. The face, and the ironed 60s hair.
And healthy female sexuality and healthy female figures don’t hold any appeal for them either. Sometimes I think their idea of the perfect body is that of a pubescent boy.
Dang, thanks for that. I was scratching my head trying to think of who she looked like.
I don’t think I would have got there without your observation.
Thanks for that.....TPD
I agree.
Not that healthy women can’t be thin. Healthy bodies, both male and female, come in a variety of sizes and shapes. However, if major bodily systems are shutting down, something is seriously wrong.
This young lady is 5’8” tall and weighed what my 11-year-old weighs: under 100 lbs. My daughter is the average height and weight for a girl her age, according to our doctor told us earlier this month.
(Median height for an 11-year-old girl is roughly 4’10”.)
Like the concentration camp label. The absurdly thin doesn’t look good or even healthy.
Isn’t there anything in-between?
At 6’, my fighting weight should be around 170lbs....that means a 32” slacks and a 42” jacket.
With weightlifting 6 days a week I settle in around 200lbs with a 34” waist and a 45” jacket at a little over 50yrs old.
I don’t stay in shape because I’m concerned about my appearance but my health.
I want to be around when my grandkids grow up.....
Healthy living and staying in shape is not difficult, it just requires a limited amount of personal discipline.....
Outside of a true medical condition, everything else is just an excuse.......
That stated, I don’t care what others do, it’s their own personal decision and they must live with the consequences.....
Actually, when I saw the before and after pix, I said “Twiggy” and then “Marilyn.”
Of course homos dominate fashion design with it’s preference for sexually ambiguous-looking models.
Queers are subversive little bastards who love to put their perverted stamp on as much of American life as possible.
In the “before” picture, she reminded me of a survivor of a concentration camp. In the “after” photo, she looks like a Venus.
my 15-yo daughter, who is average-sized and very healthy but feels 'inadequate', and I just had a long talk yesterday.
IMHO, designers also wants their precious works of art to hang correctly on a body simply to show it off. They couldn't care less what it takes for a person to get to the point where they are merely a hanger. The model is not a person to them...the model is simply a tool.
I also wonder about pedophiles in the fashion industry. Ultra-thin women not only look more masculine, they look like children. There was a time in this country when men would have no interest in “bony girls,” until they matured into women and developed some curves.
I know this for a fact because I watch old black and white cowboy movies. LOL.
After pic is HOT HOT HOT !!!!
Women’s dress sizes don’t mean much to me, I’ve never been able to figure them out.
It’s my understanding that the average woman’s dress size is 12 and the average store mannequin’s dress size is 6. Runway models are in the 0-1 dress size.
That’s a mighty big leap from reality.
Women’s dress sizes don’t mean much to anyone, except for comparing different sizes of the identical garment. I wear some clothes in Medium (6-8) and some in Large (10-12) and some in Extra Large (14-16), on the same body at different times.
You have to try everything on, or take measurements and use the sizing chart, if it’s a catalog order. And this doesn’t address the problem that clothes in larger sizes are made longer, so if you buy something to fit (for example) your hip or chest size, it’s likely to drag on the ground unless you’re also 6 feet tall.
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