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.

@JoyousGreyOrca ok well as I said,I didn’t say it Vivienne Westwood did but if you believe that’s true then please show me an example of where a fat woman looks better in an outfit than a thin woman. I bet you can’t

I used to look like that naturally. It’s quite insulting to be told there’s something wrong with it. I was told to my face lots of times I was underweight, anorexic, etc, people can be so rude.

I don’t know her BMI. I know my BMI. I’m just saying that she looks slimmer than me. As most models are.

I find the double standards very concerning, the outrage if you even say someone is fat. But it’s apparently ok to look at a slim woman and call her skeletal, gaunt, abnormal, unhealthy,

the thread for me, show just how fucked up some people are about weight.and how deeply they resent slim women, even hate them. It is nothing to do with that actresses weight, and everything to do with their own hatred of their own weight.

it’s bloody sad.

She looks normal. We have lost sight of normality now most people are padded.

The slim shaming here is gross.

I could not agree more.

Is it jealousy, is it bitterness? Is it because people are willingly confusing an "average" size 16 with a "goal" size 16?

Why is it acceptable to bitch about women pretending they are "too thin" just because they are not fat!

I wonder why MN admins think it's OK to speak like this about skinny people.

I think both models look to be of healthy weight - but the model with the afro is more eye-catching.

My BMI is 18.7 . I'm heavier around the thighs and have hips so definitely have curves in an athletic way and wear a size larger bottoms than tops. I've been this way since 14. I hope people don't look at me and think that I am "gaunt" and "skeletal".

MN has never been unbiased or unprejudiced.

It's the same with racism, it's shockingly ok on this forum, foreigners are fair game.

I don’t know why so many here are insisting the model is a healthy weight. How do you know that? Unless you’ve weighed her yourself you can’t know. That model would have to be upwards of 9st 7 to be a healthy weight and my guess but it is only a guess because I haven’t weighed her is she’s in the region of 8st

It’s the same as the people claiming she’s underweight. As no one here is weighing her, no one knows, but we’ve eyes in our heads, or know women of similar proportions.

that woman is not 8 stone, she would be incredibly ill if she was due to her height.

On that basis you can't say that she is an unhealthy weight either.

Just thinking this, I can see my collar bone and some of my ribs. What the woman in red has also done is have the absolute temerity to be flat chested which automatically seems to make people think they have carte blanche to comment. Women do not like flat chested women in my experience, they are seen as lesser, less feminine, scrawny etc. It's bizarre.

Oh tell me about it. I was an A cup till I was 45.
Dd is now an A cup. Gets called scrawny all day long.

Who's calling her scrawny? Why is anyone commenting on her body shape/size at all?

Acquaintances in uni, work and elsewhere.Also my experience when younger.

It seems to be ok, as on this thread, to obsess over slim women's bones because " thin privilege" blah blah.

The AUDACITY of someone to be flaunting their unfatness!

Absolutely this.

I am 5'4 (so pretty much bang on average height for a woman in the UK) and my healthy weight range starts at 7 stone 10lbs.

Though it is unsurprising when only a third of the population are a normal weight.

It does seem odd that these people are commenting 'all day long' (I'm sure you don't mean that literally, but rather it's very often).

I am very slim, I've had comments - haven't we all? But most people these days are not so rude, especially in the work place.

Obviously, that's a figure of speech. People do comment often, though. Especially now that very large bums are in fashion.
Just as this thread is ok, but a thread commenting on Tess Halliday and analysing her body would be deleted.

@LaurieFairyCake - my BMI is around 23 and I can see my breast bones, so that isn’t an indicator of being underweight, just fat (or lack of) distribution 🤷‍♀️

People are commenting on her body because models who are underweight are promoted as aspirational.

@Gettingslimmer as I said before I’m 5ft 10 and 10st which is bmi 20. This woman is stones lighter than me. Not half a stone lighter which would be just about healthy. Her profile states she is 5ft 10 with a 24 inch waist. My skinny 11 year old who is 5ft 3 weighs 6 stone has a 26 inch waist. Her bmi is 15. There is no way this woman is not underweight in terms of healthy bmi

Well, I don't think she is underweight. Hard to tell as she moves so fast
I am more fussed about Botox and fillers being promoted as aspirational. Being slim is not unhealthy.

@Lentilweaver she’s on instagram and you can see there how thin she is. www.instagram.com/anjaleuenberger?igsh=MXJsZTY4enY5MDNhbg==