3.19.2012

Yes lets try this again since this year fashion week was worst then last year with the weight issues
Random thought Post




There's a body image war waging on in our society. Sadly in one corner we've got weighing in at 110 pounds and 5'10" is your average model. In the other corner coming in at 5'4" and 164 pounds is your average American female. Each one is fighting for the chance to represent for all womankind, but one size does not fit all. In our fight between our ideal body size and our actual weight, we're forgetting what really matters.

Every year around Fashion Week, I get all worked up about models and their weight. My concern is that many of them will go without proper nourishment to look skinny for a show. (It's similar to when a bride-to-be tries to lose weight before her wedding, but the ramifications are even worse.) Even though the CFDA's health initiative has been in effect for five years, noticeably thin models still walk the runways and grace the pages of fashion magazines. WHICH I STRONGLY STAND AGAINST!

When I started modeling, and to this day I know a few girls who chain-smoke and are on laxatives just to stay skinny. After a few months of that regimen, they look tired and exhausted. Those once beautiful models are sadly now suffering from mood swings and a lack of energy because they gave in to the temptation to stay thin no matter the cost. Its been proven to me that some women will go to extremes to maintain their girlish figures: dieting, surgery, and eating disorders.

According to statistics, the majority of models are thinner than 98% of Americans. Yes many people in our society are overweight, but many fashionistas are just too thin. We need to meet somewhere in the middle.

EDUCATE YOURSELF!