Shockingly underweight model in TV ad

[IdaPrentice]

Has anyone seen the TV ad for Dylon (of all things)? - it features two female models, the first (with afro hair) is wearing a loose top / pant suit so it's hard to tell, but seems pretty thin, but the second, wearing red, is so so thin. Her arms just go in a straight line, no curve of any kind of muscle, she's bordering on skeletal, her face looks gaunt too.

I just saw the ad for the second time - by coincidence I'd just read an article (think it was on BBC news website) about how fashion houses have moved away from 'body positivity' and plus size models, and thin is back. The theory is this is partially influenced by all the Hollywood stars on Ozempic.

This is so unhealthy to put on TV as the kind of female beauty that everyone should aspire to. I really thought we'd moved past it now. Depressing.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PUjbbsbKqoE

I guess you mean this one? I agree.

I just watched the ad and she doesn’t look unhealthily thin to me. Her body looks very similar to mine and I’m not underweight just lowest side of healthy BMI range.

Both of them look a perfectly healthy weight to me!

The woman in red looks skeletal to me. Can’t tell about the woman with the Afro.

Behave. They’re a perfectly normal weight, people have forgotten what a healthy weight is.

They look fine to me. Nothing wrong with using slimmer models, same as using bigger ones. We need to see all sizes on tv really.

I definitely agree the woman in red looks worryingly underweight. Think the woman with the Afro is a normal weight although slim, but hard to tell for sure due to her clothes being less revealing.

The woman in red is very slender but doesn’t look unhealthy.

If I've seen that ad once I've seen it fifty times and I'm getting rather fed up of it now.

I have to agree with pp's, they look fine to me too

You’re joking. The woman in red is skin and bone and don’t forget the camera puts in weight so she’ll be even thinner in real life. She is skeletal. And yes, I’m perfectly capable of knowing what a healthy weight looks like.

She's slim and strong looking - toned. She moves like a dancer.

What is your version of a slim woman? This one has hips, curves and not outstanding collarbones.

Maybe it's just me but she doesn't stand still long enough for me to see her properly anyway

This.

Not at all skeletal. She looks strong and healthy 💪.

She's tall and slim. We've forgotten what that looks like these days.

She looks fine. I think we're just used to fat people on tv all the time now.

They’re both slim, but definitely not skeletal. No doubt someone will start quoting that the average uk size is 16, it always crops up on these threads.
size 16 is hefty. Just because it’s average doesn’t change the fact.

My BMI is 20 ish and she’s a hell of a lot thinner than me tbf. She looks great though (but then, she is a model!)

The woman looks absolutely fine. Nowadays there is a far better representation of all types of sizes in adverts and surely that shouldn't exclude women on the much slimmer side. We wouldn't say in a thread 'don't you think that woman in X advert looks incredibly big with a huge face'. Think you have gone too far and 'skeleton gaunt face' is rather insulting. She's a person too.

She isnt bony, I tried to pause the ad at various points but its difficult as she is moving very fast but couldnt see bony bits on her, she is just very slim. She is very tall by the looks of it

My beef is that no way will that dylon stuff get colours looking like that again

Bingo! That always gets said on MN threads about weight but not usually so quickly!

Got a very Katherine Hepburn figure by the looks of it, angular

Do you think its untrue then?