We all know about body fat, we hate it and would luv nothing more than to never ever have to worry about it. You have heard about the BMI (body mass index). It is a way to test the ratio of ones body fat. It is when the doctor or trainer pinches a bit of your skin under your arm and on your side with that funny looking pincher thing and then looks at you funny.
In this article, I would like to share a few thoughts on body image and the beautiful professional models that are making some people a whole lot of money at expense of their well being.
My thoughts were started from a post I ran across sometime ago. The post was in regards to a newspaper article, which talks about runway or catwalk models in Spain and how they are now having to pass with a much higher BMI result in order to be contracted. As I did, you are probably thinking, it is about time the models were allowed to gain some fat. At the same time I remembered sometime in the past when we had the Twiggy era, remember her? (yes, yes I am that old)
Ok, hold that thought and I will return to it later in this article…..
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by: Dorothy L
Tags: anorexia, bad self image, body image, cat walk models, dying to be thin, runway models, thin is in
July 28th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
It’s sad what’s expected of runway models, or actresses for that matter. Body image to an agent to agency is about the ten to fifteen pounds a camera puts of the person in front of it. The models I have worked with scream feed me if they don’t actually say that. What has to be done in the darkroom or on a computer to make them have that healthy look is sad at best. Great article.