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The Skinny on the Modeling "Agency"

Posted Feb 24th 2007 3:01AM by TMZ Staff

VH1's new reality series "The Agency" reveals the ugly side of the beauty biz!

The show takes place inside the famous Wilhelmina modeling agency in New York, where agents and bookers offer some very harsh advice to the young models. While already thin by normal standards, the walking waifs are continually told by their handlers to lose weight, workout more -- and to look like a "bloody stick." The lovely bones!

The modeling industry has been under attack for its skeletal weight demands, causing all of Spain, and fashion capital Milan to set up new codes banning emaciated girls from the catwalks. Bon appetito, ladies!

While the hard truth in "The Agency" may not be pretty, it does make for good TV.

"The Agency" airs Tuesdays at 10:00 PM on VH1.

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31. Oh and I wanted to add that yes, many models are naturally thin or of normal weight with great bodies, but they are encouraged to lose 10 to 25 pounds to achieve that stick form. That's terrible too, because their bodies were perfectly beautiful at their original weights.

Posted at 9:44AM on Feb 25th 2007 by Maria

32. Holy shit! That girl was pretty thin to begin with, wasn't she? Or are my eyes deceiving me? They want her to lose TEN pounds? Christ, where's it gonna come from?

Posted at 5:29PM on Feb 25th 2007 by Stiletto Girl

33. that guy "Pink"...he was brutal...and he's freaking fatty & bald ! LOL

Posted at 4:02PM on Feb 25th 2007 by crazy

34. If you want to eat and exercise like a normal person, pick a different job! "Hunger hurts, but starving works." Yepp.

Posted at 11:05PM on Feb 25th 2007 by Sara

35. Um...whaz up..let me get this straight. Homosexuals think women are their competition so they design skeletal clothes for them??? And that's why women have eating disorders? You are an unbelievable bigoted fucktard, whaz. Where do you people come up with this stuff? No, really, do a bunch of retarded homophobes sit around thinking up with these theories? Sad, sad, sad.

Posted at 9:16AM on Feb 26th 2007 by BobP

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