BlubberGirl
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I was poking around the New York Post yesterday (why, I don't know because I think it's a rag, but I digress) and ran across this article in their Page Six magazine. It's a piece on former supermodel Gemma Ward, and how her professional world came crashing down when she grew up and acquired a grown-up woman's body.
A quoted section of the article:
While Ward's famefor a brief periodwas spectacular, her story is emblematic of the hundreds of pretty teenagers who come to New York City each year in search of a modeling career. Although the industry has recently embraced plus-size models (more on that later), the pressure to slip into size-zero samples is stronger than ever. In 2007, top model Natalia Vodianova said that when she weighed 115 pounds at 5' 9" clients called her management to complain about her size. In 2008, model Coco Rocha said that when she weighed as little as 108 pounds at 5' 10", she was told, "You need to lose more weight," and that she even took diuretics. "The look this year is anorexic," Rocha recalled hearing. "We don't want you to be anorexic, we just want you to look it," they reasoned.
The fashion industry is sick, sick, sick. Here is the link if any of you want to read the full article. oh and BTW their idea of a plus-sized model is size 10/12.
http://www.nypost.com/pagesixmag/issues/20100211/Gemma+Ward+Supermodel+Betrayed?page=1
A quoted section of the article:
While Ward's famefor a brief periodwas spectacular, her story is emblematic of the hundreds of pretty teenagers who come to New York City each year in search of a modeling career. Although the industry has recently embraced plus-size models (more on that later), the pressure to slip into size-zero samples is stronger than ever. In 2007, top model Natalia Vodianova said that when she weighed 115 pounds at 5' 9" clients called her management to complain about her size. In 2008, model Coco Rocha said that when she weighed as little as 108 pounds at 5' 10", she was told, "You need to lose more weight," and that she even took diuretics. "The look this year is anorexic," Rocha recalled hearing. "We don't want you to be anorexic, we just want you to look it," they reasoned.
The fashion industry is sick, sick, sick. Here is the link if any of you want to read the full article. oh and BTW their idea of a plus-sized model is size 10/12.
http://www.nypost.com/pagesixmag/issues/20100211/Gemma+Ward+Supermodel+Betrayed?page=1
