Comments on: What Do You See?

By: Edith

Edith — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 05:57:13 +0000

This Is So. Dad The Need Too Look At What Is Happeneing To These Models. But They Don’t Care If You Starve Yourself. The y See It Only Their Way Or The Highway. They Should HAve A Decent Weight Requirement. And They Need To End This “Starve The Model” Madness. I Like My Health Over Anything Else! These Money Hungry Agencies Are Immoral

By: Wickedpinto

Wickedpinto — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 04:06:10 +0000

I worked with (and was crushing on, almost hooked up with, but I screwed up) a girl who was GORGEOUS!

The nefertiti sculpture kinda beauty, and a body that was perfect in it’s lean aspect.

She was about 5′7, and weighed more than 150lbs.

If anyone told her to go on a diet, I and most of the people who knew this woman, would have gone balistic.

She wasn’t just long and lean and beautiful, she was fit, and healthy.

No kidding, the reason I don’t like large women, as in actually large, bordering on obese, is because I don’t wanna attach myself who is dead set on dying before me.

Same thing with people who think the needle on the scale is the measure of beauty.

By: Stacy

Stacy — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 03:05:45 +0000

But oddly enough, childhood obesity if very high right now. I’m concerned for the crowd of young girls especially that are medicating themselves with food. Positive female role models are imperative.

By: Talmadge East

Talmadge East — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 02:43:14 +0000

I think that you make a really good point when you say, “Until we change our attitudes we can expect our daughters and sisters and nieces to carry on with this quest for perfection…” It is ultimately OUR choice as we, the market, can dictate what we like and therefore what is presented to us.

By: Beth

Beth — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 02:12:38 +0000

And! The pictures you show are without a doubt airbrushed to hide her looming death.

By: Beth

Beth — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 02:10:27 +0000

These stories break my heart too–and more, they ENRAGE me. Like you, I’m small (size 0-1), but I’m WAY meatier than they are. I can’t even imagine weighing 88 pounds, or being 5′8″ at my current weight (+/- 105). My family tells me all the time that I “need to eat.” (Whatever; I eat what I want when I want.) But the fashion industry wants girls/women to be even smaller! When people like us look at these girls and feel BIG in comparison, there’s a serious problem.
They are blatantly ignoring the message they send to women and girls, and the women in the fashion/beauty industries should be ashamed of themselves in particular. They KNOW the effect it has firsthand; even if it doesn’t influence them personally, they know those who are affected by it.
As much as I love a couple of those magazines (Allure, Bazaar) I’m going to let my subscriptions lapse (I’ve already canceled several others) until the industry STOPS promoting death in young girls. I’m a mother of a little girl, and I don’t want her thinking that’s “normal,” much less “ideal.” I don’t want her thinking she has to compete with airbrushed skeletons, or with some twisted fashion editor’s image of “perfection.”