by Dr S Guru

Created on: April 13, 2009   Last Updated: May 01, 2009

Underweight models on the runway or in fashion magazines and emaciated fashion magazine models should be banned completely from the modeling industry. This is a rather strong opinion I know and I don't mean to offend. I understand the designers need to have a stick thin model to parade their clothes, because all clothes look better on a hanger with no flesh inside them and I understand the designer's reluctance to use more fabric than is necessary for their samples, because designer material is costly. What I don't understand is why the designers don't just use a clothes horse instead. A person who calls themselves a designer should be able to design samples of clothing that are realistic enough in size for the average woman to parade.

Once upon a faraway time' I was a runway model. I use to go to the gym four times a week and I walked almost everywhere everyday of my life, I went to bed hungry most nights because I didn't eat much at all a 'prerequisite' and I smoked like a chimney to combat the hunger pains and started drinking wine and champaign because they seemed to be the order of the day and everyone said that wine was extremely filling if you were starving because a glass or two of wine was like eating a few grapes....yeah right! I like the fact that America's Next Top Model has a token bigger girl on it each season I just wish they wouldn't make such a fuss of her being bigger, because out from behind those cameras that add ten pounds plus to you in real life those bigger girls would still appear to be quite slim.

When a model says she's built naturally thin she is generally lying, there is slim and there is really thin and 99% of really thin models just don't eat. I knew a model that lived on a ration of one bag of boiled candy per week and a handful of popcorn every other day and another model that only ate on Sundays, another that lived on four sprigs of broccoli per day and she use to past wind every time she moved so she was very unpleasant to be around. Needless to say I also knew a lot of models that ate sparingly but still felt the need to throw up after everything they ate, something that most of these women have carried on doing in later life.

The scary thing is that the emaciated look of models transfers itself from the runway and from the airbrushed magazine pages into reality and young women and little girls are trying everything they can to get the protruding collar bones and the arch in-between the legs that the skeletal models have, they do not realize that they are damaging their health and once they are told they do not care. As long as designers and modeling agencies and we who buy the magazines featuring models that are way too thin keep on perpetuating this problem, we will continue to send out the message to the next generation that beauty is purely skin and bone and we do this very well indeed....many seven and eight year old girls today are concerned about their weight and have issues regarding it, which is so sad in a world where there are people genuinely starving because they do not have a choice.

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