The Skinny on the Modeling "Agency"

16. tmz...was my comment inappropriate?....

"it's absolutely obvious....that homosexuals.....run the fashion industry...they want women to look as skelatonish as possible......

i agree some women are naturally skinny....just as men can be......but
to say to the world that women should look ....like they've been
recruited from a third world country consumed by famine....is another
homosexual attack at what the homosexual...consider their
competition.....women....."

this is my opinion...

Posted at 5:58PM on Feb 24th 2007 by whaz up!

17. Why doesn't the fashion industry just skip using models all together and just hang the clothes on poles and roll them down the runway?? I hate how at the end they have a promotion for an anti eating disorder organization because they know that this sh*t is not right. And that British lady is more than a little obnoxious.

Posted at 6:35PM on Feb 24th 2007 by TJ

18. I THINK FAT PEOPLE CANT BE SKINNY AND THEY ARE JELOUS. SKINNY LOOKS GOOD. YOU CAN NEVER BE TOO SKINNY OR RICH.

Posted at 7:39PM on Feb 24th 2007 by HI

19. Sorry David but your ignorance is showing. You must be part of the industry that promotes this incorrect information. Most models struggle to be as razor thin and unhealthy looking as a lot of them are today. It is not attractive, and they do nothing for the clothes of the designer's who foolishly support this behavior. These people do not have a high metabolism. As few may but not the majority. They will pay as they get older for their foolishness healthwise. Let's hope they don't die of malnutrition or arrythymias before then.They may lose enamel of their teeth, have bone loss problems, GI problems later, I wonder how many have lost their periods because they have such poor nutrition. I bet a whole lot are anorexic, bulemic, or just plain not eating. You can't fool a lot of us. I had anorexia and bulemia back in 1966-67. I know all about nutritional problems. The industry just makes up this foolisness. Typical excuses. Bring back the models who looked healthy, not like sticks. You are peddling foolishness for greed, and vanity. As an ICU RN for 34 years I know garbage when I hear it!

Posted at 7:59PM on Feb 24th 2007 by P.K.

20. David you don't know jack -- about anything probably -- but you definitely don't know about women so just keep your misinformed comments to yourself next time... looking like an emaciated 12 year-old is NOT healthy, but it sure does "fit the bill" in the fashion industry. And that's what most models do look like -- a starved mess of skin and bones. Some of them are healthy, they're thin but somewhat muscular (not extremely, just well-toned) and have almost the normal amount of body fat that a healthy woman should. But most of them aren't healthy, as anyone with two eyes and a working brain can tell. Visible ribs, promenent hip bones and gaunt faces are NOT signs of a "naturally" thin person who is healthy! And David, it isn't just "fat geeky" people who can see that the fashion industry ideal is dangerously unhealthy. It's so sad that people believe everything they are told by the media, women think they have to look ill in order to be attractive, and men think that a skeleton is sexy because that's what they're told the ideal woman is.

Posted at 12:14AM on Feb 26th 2007 by DAVID'S AN IDIOT WHO BELIEVES EVERYTHING HE HEARS

21. I am 5ft9in and I weigh 110 lbs. I eat roughly 2800 calories a day in addition to the nearly thousand that I drink. I have two young children. I do not vomit, or take laxatives. I am simply very skinny. People like me exist and it is a high insult to infer that we manipulate our weight with unhealthy practices. Some people are just fat. Does that mean that they eat all day and never exercise? No. Just let people be.

Posted at 8:51PM on Feb 24th 2007 by Amelia

22. I am sick and tired of the queer fashionistas telling us what looks good. If it doesn't look like a pre-pubesecent boy, they don't want it.

It is unhealthy and cruel to brainwash young girls that they need to look like a skelteon to be attractive.

Posted at 9:18PM on Feb 24th 2007 by Brenda

23. I think you are all pathetic. Post 16, you are a dickhead. Overweight people can get skinny, i know numerous people who DIED because they starved themselves because of people like you. But with exercise and diet, the rigt exercise and diet that is, you can be skinny. And just because your fat doesnt make you ugly, people just atomatically think that. Personally, I have never been jealous of models. I think some are gorgeous and have good outfits on at that time. But when they bring out the rib showing pansys, I dont feel anything but pity. Its pathetic what america believes girls should look like, and even more pathetic that the girls listen, and kill themselves over it. I agree fully with Brenda, and david needs to be slapped for his stupidity, while 16 should be run over be a very large bus going 100 mph.

Posted at 8:14PM on Feb 26th 2007 by Keny

24. I don't know anyone that watches that retarded show. I saw five minutes and changed it, it was dumb and not even entertaining. There just trying to jump on the model tv show bandwagon.

Seriously, most of the chicks are not THAT naturally skinny and of course being a fat ass is not good either, that probably why somewhere in the middle is more pleasurable to watch on the "catwalk".

*when I say fat ass, I mean someone 250+pounds.

P.s. all but a few of the chicks I've seen in their commercials are ugly as hell and NEED to dress up and wear a lot of make up to be considered pretty. They are not pretty, skinny yes, but not pretty in the real world which is why they're models.

Posted at 10:53PM on Feb 24th 2007 by kd

25. Anyone with a roll of scotch tape and a piece of fabric can be a fashion designer these days . . . thanks to the web, but only true fashion designers could design for all shapes and sizes . . .CYNDI IS SO RIGHT!!!!!

Posted at 1:54AM on Feb 25th 2007 by kd

26. Thank you Catalina! I also know girls who have high metabolism and they do not look like the walking dead. Lots of these girls have eating disorders because they are constantly told by their modeling agency that they do not want to see any amount of fat on them. Recently two sisters who were models died of an eating disorder, a few months apart , one of them ate nothing but lettuce. You don't have to look like a skeleton to be beautiful. Tyra Banks, Cindy Crawford, Heidi Klum, Giselle, none of them are anorexic thin and they became successful models.

Posted at 11:14PM on Feb 24th 2007 by Jackie

27. Can we get Oprah and Trya on Crack and Meth diets ... . when they get as skinny as Barney from Mayberry RFD get them to scat and pee fight ..... Then Throw bags of 100 bills on them . ......WONDER IF THEY"D STICK ???

Posted at 1:45PM on Feb 26th 2007 by ...repeat the Question ??

28.
He is partially right, most girls that enter the modeling world are naturally skinny...but they are also in their teen years, when many girls are thin to begin with-- but your body changes a lot from 14 to 23, so maybe that is when the problems start.

I am naturally thin myself, so sometimes its nice to see girls that are thin AND haver naturally small everything else-- more damaging imo to have rail thin girls with boob jobs be the ideal-- THAT is not, and will never be natural.

Posted at 11:39PM on Feb 24th 2007 by me

29. The industry is very corrupt from what I hear from models

Its actually crazy

I'm a guy and modeling is all about sexiness to sell a product or service

Why would you have women who are boney get contracts of hundreds of thousands of dollars when a glamour model who can do bikini and lingerie and nude shoots as well as fashion can sell the product or service or business ten times better ?

These big time agencies are very discriminatory and unhealthful and need to be regulated

There was a class action suit not too long ago against many of these agencies for price fixing
But thats not all that their doing wrong

This is why the glamour and porn industry has blown up so big because you don't have as much of the discrimination factor

All you have to fear about is if in 20 years your family sees your video or naked pics will they get mad?
Will you care?

And models need to pay attention to who they intend to deal with
There are a lot of shadyness and corruption and not enough legit photogs, artists, and even sober models in the industry

There needs to be more regulation instead of this care free attitude and you'll have more stability

Posted at 2:58AM on Feb 25th 2007 by Alan

30. I cannot believe some of the ignorance going on here. Having worked in the fashion industry, I can assure you that at least half(or more) of the employed models have different degrees of an eating disorder. Many smoke, use certain drugs to keep from gaining weight. A surprising number have constant bulimia, or occasionally throw up. These women will eat less than 1000 calories a day, that is not a healthy diet. Sure there are naturally thin ones, but all you have to do is look at their bone structure and size of their heads to see which ones are severely underweight. It is terrible that this is the image being promoted to the public as the ideal female form, and really a skeletal form does no IMO look better in clothes. This is the thinnest I've seen models since the 1960's Twiggy era, and now she'd probably be considered not thin enough. It's almost like any sign of being female is disappearing, like women feel they need to be invisible. Sad and strange.

Posted at 9:36AM on Feb 25th 2007 by Maria