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  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    sorry but she looks sick.
  • AZTrailRunner
    AZTrailRunner Posts: 1,199 Member
    No self-esteem issues in her future. :noway:
  • CaptainGordo
    CaptainGordo Posts: 4,437 Member
    I'm not a doctor, but she does not look healthy. Her folks have to be supporting whatever method she's using to look like that. Lovely.
  • BondBomb
    BondBomb Posts: 1,781 Member
    Yet if any of these women were to gain weight the media would be all over it!
  • Thomasm198
    Thomasm198 Posts: 3,189 Member
    She does not look healthy.

    :noway:
  • KatieJane83
    KatieJane83 Posts: 2,002 Member
    sorry but she looks sick.

    That was my very first thought when I saw the pic.
  • KatieJane83
    KatieJane83 Posts: 2,002 Member
    Yet if any of these women were to gain weight the media would be all over it!

    And she's not even a woman! She's only 15!! :frown:
  • AZTrailRunner
    AZTrailRunner Posts: 1,199 Member
    Yet if any of these women were to gain weight the media would be all over it!

    There are tons of healthy-weighted models out there. The fashion industry drives this trend, and those that put money in their pockets.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,454 Member
    Maybe it's the whole vampire look.
  • BlueLikeJazz
    BlueLikeJazz Posts: 219 Member
    I think it's hilarious that the caption reads "Is this what the new face of fashion should look like?"...as if runway models looking underfed is a new thing.

    And ElExGordo, if someone truly has an eating disorder, parents are often oblivious or simply don't know what to do. You can't force-feed your child unless you have them hospitalized and tube-fed, and many hospitals and eating disorder clinics will not take a patient or hold them for more than a couple days unless they're severely underweight. Not to mention the lack of long-term care coverage under most insurance policies. I was severely bulimic in my late teens and the only option I had was to go to free counseling at my school because of funding and the fact that my BMI was 20, normal. My parents suffered a lot of emotional hardship due to my eating disorder and I would never want anyone to blame them for my illness.
  • coyoteo
    coyoteo Posts: 532 Member
    WAIT! Is pale the new tan? If it is, I'm so cool now! But really, I thought fashion needed everyone to be all golden brown....

    Oh, and yea, she looks a little....thin.
  • KatieJane83
    KatieJane83 Posts: 2,002 Member
    Maybe it's the whole vampire look.

    She does kinda look like she's already had all the blood sucked out of her doesn't she? :indifferent:
  • fit4mom
    fit4mom Posts: 1,352 Member
    She could be naturally that way. I know a friends kid who is because she was a preemie and no matter how much she eats she just is tiny compared to everyone else. I don't have all the info as to why she got picked. But there is an agenda to push certain kinds of clothes and when you cause people to buy into a certain ideal then you can corner the market. There just selling a bill of rights. It's deception. Although most would agree it's wrong I think that it really starts in our own homes teaching our own children that it's about defining the intent of their hearts and knowing that they are a gift to be cherished. We can't control the media but we can control the content that is filtered through our children's hearts and minds.
  • elizabethblake
    elizabethblake Posts: 384 Member
    Whoa. Meg Ryan is dating John Mellencamp?!?!?! When did this happen? (and why do I care?)

    For a 15 year old, she may just be that skinny. My son is 15 and the boy has no body fat. He's long and lanky and thin as a rail. And he eats tons!
  • kunibob
    kunibob Posts: 608 Member
    For a 15 year old, she doesn't strike me as alarmingly skinny. She hasn't even finished puberty yet. My sister was extremely skinny at that age in spite of eating well and being a competitive athlete; it just took awhile for her body to catch up to her height.

    That being said, I have two major problems with this:

    1) a girl that young being involved in the world of modelling, which is going to chew up her esteem and spit her out

    2) a girl that young being an example of a beautiful "woman"
  • fit4mom
    fit4mom Posts: 1,352 Member
    For a 15 year old, she doesn't strike me as alarmingly skinny. She hasn't even finished puberty yet. My sister was extremely skinny at that age in spite of eating well and being a competitive athlete; it just took awhile for her body to catch up to her height.

    That being said, I have two major problems with this:

    1) a girl that young being involved in the world of modelling, which is going to chew up her esteem and spit her out

    2) a girl that young being an example of a beautiful "woman"


    This! I agree with this! Total common sense! Thank you!
  • Jaymefirst
    Jaymefirst Posts: 268 Member
    I would like to think that a heathly, positive role model would have been choosen. She is not what I want my daughters to look up to.
  • sarahgilmore
    sarahgilmore Posts: 572 Member
    She's thin, but, she doesn't look *bony*

    I have a problem with how she looks a LOT older than 15. Like, twice that age.
  • Murphy15
    Murphy15 Posts: 142
    Gross
  • rileamoyer
    rileamoyer Posts: 2,412 Member
    She looks like a malnourished little girl that has had puberty delayed and her mom put her in a costume.
  • RAFValentina
    RAFValentina Posts: 1,231 Member
    For a 15 year old, she doesn't strike me as alarmingly skinny. She hasn't even finished puberty yet. My sister was extremely skinny at that age in spite of eating well and being a competitive athlete; it just took awhile for her body to catch up to her height.

    That being said, I have two major problems with this:

    1) a girl that young being involved in the world of modelling, which is going to chew up her esteem and spit her out

    2) a girl that young being an example of a beautiful "woman"


    This! I agree with this! Total common sense! Thank you!

    Agreed... she hasn't developed yet so I don;t think she's too thin... maybe we also say "too" thin because some people find it easier to say that all these models are too thin to make themselves feel better in their own skin... Not that many of them get ill... and follow strict fitness and eating regimes which in itself isn't unhealthy.... just as body builders do. They must be careful they balance it well ...but we are all different... What wouldn't be healthy was not eating a balanced diet, laxative/purging abuse, eating disorders, over excessive/obsessive exercise and an unhealthy mentality.
  • morgthom75
    morgthom75 Posts: 127 Member
    Eww.
  • CaptainGordo
    CaptainGordo Posts: 4,437 Member
    And ElExGordo, if someone truly has an eating disorder, parents are often oblivious or simply don't know what to do.
    If they are oblivious to her having a problem, then unless they are physically unable to see her, they are fools. If they don't know what to do, with the scores of resources out there in this day and age, then they are fools. Being a moron is not an excuse for letting this happen.
  • fit4mom
    fit4mom Posts: 1,352 Member
    In all honesty I have more of a problem with the business than the girls. It's sad that they are parading them around as the healthy whatever, especially at 15, but also where and who are the people speaking up and saying that this activity is wrong. It's tough enough as a teenage girl (this one (me) having a former eating disorder as a teenager) without having people, especially adults, look down on you. This could be her natural physique. The other thing is that she is from a foreign country, and generally, country by country, foundations and principals are different. We need to hold adults accountable instead of picking on the youth. I understand if those of you making comments didn't mean to pick on a 15 year old, but come on. Teenage girls are very fragile and body image is huge. I have compassion for her, especially being in a women/man eating women/man business. It's tough enough being a girl in this world without adding to the stress of their body image.
  • FearAnLoathing
    FearAnLoathing Posts: 4,852 Member
    Yet if any of these women were to gain weight the media would be all over it!

    The media is all over it when they are too thin as well
  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    I was that thin at her age. Except I somehow had boobs. And yet people marveled at how much I ate. I'm not saying she is naturally like that, but it's possible.
  • jamja
    jamja Posts: 190
    It's so sad that we glamorize that look. So unhealthy in so many ways
  • BlueLikeJazz
    BlueLikeJazz Posts: 219 Member
    And ElExGordo, if someone truly has an eating disorder, parents are often oblivious or simply don't know what to do.
    If they are oblivious to her having a problem, then unless they are physically unable to see her, they are fools. If they don't know what to do, with the scores of resources out there in this day and age, then they are fools. Being a moron is not an excuse for letting this happen.

    It would have been nice if you had read the rest of my comment re: not knowing what to do (i.e. not being able to force-feed someone who won't eat). And I guess the "oblivious" part came more from my own experience, where I was binging and purging 6-7 times a day but my parents had no clue about my disorder because I was a normal weight and never purged at home. The bottom line is, too, that none of us knows for sure that she has a problem. I've known a few (lucky-*kitten*) people in my lifetime who are naturally this thin.
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