What kind of message does this picture send to pre teen and teenage girls.  That thinness counts more than health?

i thought this photo was 'photoshopped' to make her look skinnIER, or is this her REAL shape?

yes, it sends a terrible message to our teens. my 15 y/o daughter is a size 0 and she thinks about body image all the time. sad.

and how about that 5'10" 120 lb model that was recently fired for being FAT?  another great message...

Goldilox

 and how about that 5'10" 120 lb model that was recently fired for being FAT?  another great message...

This is that same model.  

It looks weird.  The only way to get the fashion designers to stop using emaciated models is for rich people and celebrities to stop buying their clothes.

You know, a lot of these same models and celebrities jumped on the animal-rights bandwagon a couple of decades ago and strong-armed the cosmetic companies to stop testing their products on animals.  From what I remember, L'Oreal was the last drugstore cosmetics company to stop testing on animals, and that was probably 10 years ago or more. 

Because a bunny in a cage with burned eyes is an ugly image, and it was an image that Peta successfully disseminated throughout the fashion industry.  But somehow the routine images of skeletons walking fashion runways isn't off-putting.  I guess the news stories of "former" models dying of anorexia isn't off-putting, either.

Yeah yeah, I know these women are naturally tall and thin to begin with, but they can't fool me.  I know an underweight person when I see one, and I know an emaciated person when I see one.  Underweight is one thing, but emaciated is de rigeur right now.  Sad.

same woman?  it is?  i need to re-read that article, how on earth would she be called too-fat? 

i must be missing something.

They didn't say she was too fat, they said she didn't fulfill her contract obligations (too fat).

My PUG weighs more than her...the answer here is NO....

My mom was 5'1" and fretted because she weighed 95 lbs.

This is not only unattractive it is dangerous to health.

"They fired me because they said I was overweight and I couldn't fit in their clothes anymore,"   this was her comment to the press.  

anywho, deff too thin @ 120 lbs for her  height no matter the photoshopping.  IMO

well, if  mothers and fathers would put a stop to their daughters wearing hoochie tops and super tight jeans, as well as watching the shows and programs that promote this type of behavior, maybe it would stop

oh yeah, you can also quit buying all the trendy clothes too, because they all promote it

Not attractive at all.

Enough to make me want to consider diverting the money I've been sending to children that I sponsor in Sri Lanka and India to her. But then looks can be deceiving. I still marvel at how one old man who was all of about 5 feet tall and 100 pounds or so was able to bring in one 70-pound bag of rice after another onto his shoulders from a loaded pickup into a restaurant in Indonesia. I just had to buy a meal for him and the other three guys in his crew.

Spam code: OBFTY (Oh, be fatty)

The model isn't this thin, the image was altered.  Ralph Lauren photoshopped the image without her consent and knowledge to make her appear much smaller and thinner.  She said it made her sick to see her head on this altered body. The model has decided to come forward about being fired because 120#s was considered too fat.  She is advocating a healthy weight for models. 

I  never weighed over 80lbs  unless I was pregnant (105lb ) until I had my last child 12 yrs ago!  I couldn't gain weight no matter what I ate......Then it hit me....LOL!    Now i wish i  hadn't complained so much...

I don't know, I kinda like this one :

--virgil

Then there's this one:

--virgil

She's not skinny at all .

--virgil

Now THAT'S trouble virgil.....I don't have the TIME to sit outside the bedroom door with a shotgun all my life---

Back in the early 80’s, when I was just out of college, my first steady gig was working for a catalog house in Orange County.  That was back when monkey wards and Sears spent big bucks on catalogs, along with many other companies.

Shot a zillion clothing shots while there, and all the models were very thin.

The camera does add weight. The visual illusion is caused by viewing a 3D body shape in 2D in print. Lighting and pose can remedy this in portrait work, but a catalog shot is used to sell clothes, and the model is a prop. We had to light to enhance fabric, textures, and the drape of the apparel, not the model.

A lady with a normal build tends to make clothes drape in a less flattering manner in photos, so skinny models were, and still are the norm.

Vendors like RL are a minority in the biz, when considering the full gamut of clothing women buy for themselves. RL manages to sell clothing at 500 to 1,000% over value by virtue of the exotic and trendy imagery they use, and a young and gullible target market.

The sad truth is, 23 years old is long in the tooth for today's high fashion “trendy” model.

You’ll notice in the article that the young lady began at age 15. Once the first sign of natural aging become apparent, it’s time to find fresh meat. The target market never gets older, but models do.

I sincerely hope the young lady saved a good portion of her earnings, and moves on.

It’s a mean business all around.

 By the way,

Ralph Luaren looks like a Bratz Doll ... my daughter says so.

--virgil

--virgil

virgil,

That RL model does look like a Bratz doll. That Bratz picture is funny! The RL photo is gross.

Whats wrong with model  twos  stomach?

thats not even sexy see those kind of girls are just tasteless and unculturized, give me the girl next door, or a thick girl with a amazing personality and brains and im set. i need to find me a girl that can go 5 minutes without texting WHAT AND WHO ARE YOU WIT H?

Bad health: being skinny is much better for you than being fat. Life expectancy is higher. Diseases of the heart are rarer. Diseases of the blood are lower.

I know, I know. Stand up and defend skinniness and you are stuck in the camp that supports beauty pageants and diets for pre-teen girls and other brands of insanity.

I think this, like so many things, is best answered with the Golden Mean: Moderation in all things. 

I personally like "curvier" women also. But I'm not going to feed into the "eat another hamburger, skinny thing!" camp either.

Moderation in what you eat. Moderation in your goal weight. Moderation in exercise. Moderation in alcohol.

It is a recipe for a good, long life.

Dang Virgil, when your daughters outgrow soccer, they can model for freakingnews, and be famous like the 2 gals whose pictures you posted here.

" The model was, understandably, upset at the result of placing her head on a smaller models body."

What about the smaller model, whose face wasn't good enough?  I wonder how she felt? 

Hey Mate,

"  ... they can model for freakingnews, and be famous like the 2 gals whose pictures you posted here."

Those two models are not real .

That was the part you missed.

--virgil

Let me know, if it wasn't ...

--virgil

I feel that you should weigh the same amount for what ever your height is. Like if you are 5'1 then you shouldn't weigh 180lbs and or if you are 5'11 you shouldn't weigh 90lbs. I'm 5'8 and I weigh 160lbs so to me I think that my weight is ok. I hope that makes sense. So I think even being chunky is not healthy but being to skinny is just not healthy either or of course to fat as well. But then its hard to stay a certain weight when there is like a McDonald's and Taco Bell in every corner in Bakersfield. Then again I love to eat fast food myself but I improving myself on eating healthy food now days.

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Was the photoshopped Ralph Lauren model fired for being overweight?

Yes, she was fired for being too fat.   5'10 and 120 pounds.  How obese can you get??

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Her face is pretty...but her body looks really wierd.  Is this photo for real?  What is under that nice clothing is probably pretty scary stuff.

this rl looks gross, she needs a cookie to fatten her up a bit, virgil that first girl looks creepy, props on #2 though