Comments on: U.K. fashion: Skinny-model ban not desirable…

By: tara hurley

tara hurley — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:07:37 +0000

fashion needs to reflect the difference of the real world.

By: tara hurley

tara hurley — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:54:49 +0000

Everybody’s different. Everybody’s beautiful. Face it.

By: tara hurley

tara hurley — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:51:00 +0000

As most of us know fashion designers at the present moment only take 2s and 4s which in britain is 6s and 8s. Should we abolish this, in my opinion, stupid rule? Should we bring in curvy 12s, 14s and 16s? Or should we have a nice mixture? Have ur say, don’t be afraid tovoice ur opinion!!

By: jenni

jenni — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:17:24 +0000

OMG. Alessandra, you must be high. Models are “eating like horses” and stuffing their faces while maintaining a 5′11″ and 100 figure? What are you smoking? Just because you’re 18 doesn’t mean that you have the metabolism of a bird. I’d like to meet a model that doesn’t have an eating disorder.

At 14, I have to STARVE to maintain 110 at 5′9″. I’m taking 900 calories a day. I most certainly was not stuffing my face with pizza and eating like a horse. I wish. More like stuffing my face with diet pills.

By: JayT

JayT — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 05:53:47 +0000

WRONG PEOPLE!!!!
Thin gals and women are beautiful! Any girl with BMI over 19 does not look good. period.
The best bodies are between 16 and 18

By: Tessa

Tessa — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:36:43 +0000

And this girl wasn’t anorexic and happened to be(come) a model - she became anorexic because she was a model and the fashion world demanded rediculous, unhealthy things from her. Let’s show some respect indeed, but by accepting a healthy weight as beautiful.

By: Tessa

Tessa — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:50:09 +0000

Some may be naturally thin, but most of them look underweight, and that’s the point: they don’t look pretty, whether they’re healthy or not. A BMI of 18 is a good rule, which means models are still allowed to be slim, but are protected from having to starve themselves.
Self-regulation doesn’t work in this case; rules are needed. If the fashion world knew what was healthy, their ‘ideal’ of beauty wouldn’t have escalated like it has.

By: Alessandra

Alessandra — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:57:26 +0000

There is so much in the news lately about underweight models etc. Sadly a girl died, who happened to be a model, but this does not mean all models have eating dissorders. I work with models all day , every day, from around the world. My own daughter is a model, so am very wary of everything about the industry. But I must say, I very rarely meet a model with an eating disorder. Most are just healthy teenagers, who go dancing at night, walk for miles every day from casting to castings and eat like a horse! Most are thin, because they are young and still able to eat a pizza and not gain a pound, like a lot of us at 18 years old. Most are just geneticaly thin and have the annoying ability to eat huge amounts and not gain weight.
Most would love people to stop asking them, if they eat! These kids are out in the world early, making a living, that is not easy. There not at home bludging off family or governments, so lets give them a break and show them some respect.