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[Angel_Eyes]

Has anyone noticed how magazines in the last year or so have tried to put forward the message that celebrities who are stick thin are unnatural and that they really shouldn't put those strains on their bodies - trying to promote the message that we should not allow ourselves to become like this.

However, when you then turn to the fashion pages of the same magazine, all you will find are images of stick think models with clothes that are only made up to a (UK) size 12! Hypocritical or what?

[Lloyd Brown]

of course it is . . . but it is what sells,

[tgoforth1984]

I am glad they are trying to voice the problem, but they need to follow it too, and not be a hypocrite. I am a watcher of America's Next Top Model, and they are actualy starting to put on more plus size models. In reality though they call a plus size model between a 12 and 14, but that is the size of the average woman. Can you believe that?

[Cobalt]

I'm surprised it still sells so well considering that, although there are plenty of women that are stick thin, there are also plenty that are not - Perhaps it is a great opportunity for someone to launch a fashion magazine aimed at people with more realistic figures?

After all, not everyone wants to be able to see their own skeleton in the mirror and spend their lives eating nothing more than lettuce leaves and celery.

[tgoforth1984]

Originally Posted by Cobalt

I'm surprised it still sells so well considering that, although there are plenty of women that are stick thin, there are also plenty that are not - Perhaps it is a great opportunity for someone to launch a fashion magazine aimed at people with more realistic figures?

After all, not everyone wants to be able to see their own skeleton in the mirror and spend their lives eating nothing more than lettuce leaves and celery.

Thank you for saying that! I hate seeing their collarbones and ribs sticking out. I am a woman, and I'll admit when i got with my husband I was underweight. I weighed about 125, at 5'8", and a size 6. Now when I do start really losing weight I would like to go down to about 145. It's more realistic for my height. My husband fattened me up to 180 lol. I think a curvy woman is definitely more sexy than a bony one.

[Mesoc]

I believe this has been going on for years to be honest. Thats all they seem to be promoting anymore.

Honestly, I like women with a some meat on them, though nothing is wrong with a model either, I'm not picky.

[mmjones]

Curvy woman look much better. I don't like skinny girls that their ribs pop out becuase they look sick!

[Jewel]

As a skinny woman, it upsets me to hear people say that being skinny is unhealthy and shouldn't be encouraged. Some women are naturally skinny, they don't try to make themselves weigh less. I have always had fast metabolism, and have never had an eating disorder, but I am 5 foot, 2 inches and 95 pounds.

There is nothing wrong with being skinny if you are not imposing it on yourself through an eating disorder.

I don't find curvy women unattractive at all, by any means. I'm just saying that it's not fair to deem something unhealthy when it's not. Obesity is unhealthy too, and that's being fought as well.

Where is the healthy medium that people are "allowed" to fall into? Does it even exist?

[QuietLunatic]

I understand that some magazines and fashion shows are banning the anorectic looking models from their pages and runways. That's a good move forward, IMO.

[Jewel]

I don't think that the skinny model ban will last. The models being used are still extremely skinny, and it hasn't made much of an impression. I'm not necessarily for or against it, there are advantages and disadvantages.