Skinny Models No More

First thing this morning, faithful reader and all around smar-tay Eva sent me a link to a the Daily Mail's article about Jean Paul Gauthier's response to the skinny model scandal. 

He's radical, that JP... so he put a woman who is large and in charge on his runway.

Now, there's probably going to be a lot of flack about the fact that obesity isn't healthy...and I agree.  It isn't.  But I like his statement and this image a lot.

I like that this woman doesn't look mortified that she isn't thin. 

I like that she looks like she owns the damn show...

I like knowing (or dreaming about the fact) that she doesn't hate herself so much she has trouble getting out of bed.....

Could she stand to lose some weight?  Prolly. But the only time you EVER see an image like this in the fashionista world is when there's a black bar across her face and "Don't" under what she's wearing...

So let's give her some support for being willing to strut it in a world that calls her ugly, lazy and gross.

Comments

[Money Miss]

Yeah, but have you noticed he put her in a disgusting outfit? Not even a stripper would wear that getup. If you're going to do something like that, you should be making a gorgeous outfit that flatters everyone, not some disgusting piece of lace.

[No More Hype]

Finally! No more Paris Hilton/Bullimic/Real ladies modeling!!!!!!!!!!

[Kelly]

Well I think its ridiculous. Anorexia is unhealthy, yeah. But so is obesity.

Just because you are disgusted with one trend doesnt mean you do a complete flip and show another unhealthy one.

What the heck is wrong with showing average people? Average everyday people? With curves? People who work out but not obsessively, who eat food and not over the top amounts.

Like a Kate Winslet...shes curvy, but healthy! I was reading the People magazine that is on newsstands right now and they showed Cindy Crawford from the 90's...a normal body size and type.

Whats wrong with models like that?

[Stephanie]

Amen!!!! But just as the last person said, just becuase you are tired of being too thin that doesnt mean that you should just flip over to obesity, that is just as sick!!!!!!

[lax girl]

I think that it is good that bigger women are taking a stand. You don't have to be thin to be beautiful. Girls come in all sizes and are all beautiful in their own way.

[josie-scarlett]

I think that they should pick normal size models. By normal I mean people that don't have any kind of eating disorder.(anorexia, obisity) It is easier to see what the clothes really look like on people.

[Annie Brennen]

I deffinetly once believed the Hype. My sister is a year older then me and she ways the same amount as me. Also, she is a booming 5 ft 8 and NATURALLY THIN! My cousin is my hight and also nicely slim. I always thought that they were beautiful and that I, who is 'thicker' then them both, felt that I was overweight. People kept telling me that I would 'stretch out' eventually, but i didn't believe them. Now though, I do. I know that thing will work out for me and that how i am right now, is perfectly fine.

[Anna Banana]

Models who have one layer of skin and almost half-dead gives normal weight women eating disorders - women think we should look this way to be 'accepted' - and this is very disgusting because it is unrealistic. If one eats right, exercises and has all the necessary nutrients, then one would be healthy, even if they aren't 80 pounds. Why do women want to be this skinny - why else, for men of course....it's society that pushes us that way - if we are not skinny, men won't like us. The men that complain for an overweight of 10 pounds on a woman is disgusting especially if he has a pot-belly. Why is it that some regard men with pot bellies, happy go lucky and jolly and funny - but would you say that about a woman with a pot belly - you would more or less say, she's fat. It's still a man's world and things need to change.

[MomX3]

Barbie may have been unrealistic but at least she her career wear was suitable for jobs that didn't involve street corners...

[Velvet d'Amour]

Hi,
Velvet here, better late then never,lol
Thanks for the support.
As to the persistant discussion on how unhealthy I am and thus the debate, I find it laughable in its utter hypocracy.
Living in a society where every magazine is laden with images of Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Nicole Ritchie, and Kate Moss, where models have actually DIED coming off the runway and yet I don't deserve to be anywhere near runways due to the fact you presume on mere appearence the state of my health? Honestly, how utterly hypocrital it is to ban fat people from any media source based on our presumed lack of 'health', when the women we celebrate in the spotlight at the moment are drunk driving, drug addicted, anorexic, mentally unstable, etc? I do not wish to demean these women as they are many other more positive things as well, but clue me as to how healthy they are???!!!
Do you honestly believe that every thin person is healthy? I can't tell how much cocaine someone snorts, how much alcohol they consume, how much they may smoke, or inject, or if indeed they excersize at all, yet the assumption that I may kick in the next few minutes due to my unhealthy statis is seemingly a given.
Trust me, if I do drop dead of a heart attack whilst writing this I have had the most incredible journey and wouldn't have changed a thing, from hitting Galliano and Gauthier's runway, to modeling for Nick Knight in French Vogue, to walking the red carpet at both the Cannes and Triobeca film festival, my journey has been utter revelry! And I highly reccommend that,lol.
I do indeed love myself!
I think what is quite sad is how very little we seem to value a healthy state of mind. Certainly there are women who are much thinner then myself who may appear outwardly more 'healthy', but there are those amoungst them, that struggle incessantly with a very genuine agony of hating themselves thanks to the fact that they cannot live up to the screamingly unattainable beauty ethic we currently adhere to.
Just my two cents :o)
Velvet

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