Ready to Wear and Willing to Die
Will there be a time in the near future, when during a fashion show a doctor will walk around examining the models, like horses in the stables before a race or dogs in the kennel before a show? Will the fashion industry be forced to regulate the health of its models since they obviously do not want to do it themselves? I am not in favor of any such laws, but what can you do when girls keep dying?
Last week a Brazilian model died from health problems induced by anorexia. Ana Carolina Reston, a 21 year old woman at 5 foot 8, weighed 88 pounds. This is the healthy weight of a 12 year old girl.
My friend, and fellow blogger, Bramble, shares her experience with this subject:
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The sad news of yet another model dying last week, should be, but will not be, a wake up call to women everywhere. And yes, the age-old cry of the absolutely fabulous, "you can never be too rich or too thin" is a lie. In the past couple of months 2 models have died because they were simply too thin. Thinking one can exist on diet soda and lettuce, is not really thinking at all. What happened to the hourglass figure? Where have all the Marilyns gone? The same girl consuming 0 calories a day is the same girl wearing the pin up girl t-shirts, and cinching their waists with big belts, trying desperately to create curves. Why not just have curves? Women are women after all, not men. What is wrong with being 5' 7" and a size 8? This I ask myself everyday, and yet still, I wonder what it's like to be the size 2s I see on the rack. Do those girls have a better life than me? I seriously doubt it. |
Read her whole post, because it may give you, as it did me, some insight as to what women are dealing with on a daily basis.