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.

Gosh all this skinny shaming posts recently! I look similar and perfectly healthy! People have become so warped about what a healthy body really looks like.

Models used to be thin. I'm not sure why it's shocking that some of them still are.

Dont see the issue. Looks fine to me.

There's nothing wrong with her! She's just tall, slim and probably has a positive ape index (armspan greater than height).

Is it the lady in this still? I can’t really see her figure but she does have a very slim arm

www.dylon.co.uk/detergents/discover-dylon-detergent/our-brand-purpose.html

She’s looks beautifully slim and healthy. Definitely not shockingly skeletal. Not even a little bit.

I wrote something then deleted it as don't want to offend anyone, but it strikes me as crazy that it's now not ok to show someone slim because a lot of people aren't and they might be "triggered" by it. It's clearly not healthy to be hugely over or under weight but ads can't do right for doing wrong really, whatever they do.

She looks great. I find it odd you’d see that ad and think that!

Most naturally slim people (like me) don’t need weighloss drugs. Why have you posted a photo of someone wearing an Ozempic T-shirt? However, for many people these weighloss medications have been life changing.

Like many others on here I’m sick of the posts shaming people who are naturally thin.

There’s a shot of her shoulder at the end that looks very bony, but otherwise she looks slender and toned.

She looks perfectly healthy and moves beautifully.

People have forgotten what a healthy person looks like. Look at a Youtube clip of the heatwave of '76. Look any the people walking the streets, notice anything different from today?

I think the woman in red looks to have a perfect figure and she doesn't look underweight to me. I would kill to be that size again! 😆

The article from the BBC has chosen that pic, not the OP

I didn't post the photo of the Ozempic shirt, that is the thumbnail image for the BBC new article which I linked to. Which no-one is reading.

She looks slim and healthy/fit. They both look fine.

As a society we seem to have lost sight of what is actually healthy because we are so used to seeing the opposite around us.

You only have to look at photos from 30/40 years ago to see the stark contrast of the size of people in general from then and now.

I’m pretty thin and very tall 5ft10. BMI 20 and she’s definitely I would say 1.5 / 2 stone lighter so yes I wouldn’t be surprised if she was underweight. She looks normal ish from the front but when she turns to the side you can see she’s too thin

She looks fine. I was that size when I was younger. BMI 18-19.

Most people on TV are slim

That picture alohamo posted is much more useful than the advert.

The advert was moving too fast to see anything!

There are two pictures on Aloha's link and yes, the arm is very thin. But even more concerning is the second picture where she's throwing her head back - if you zoom in you can see three breastbones

I don't think we're supposed to see breast bones on a healthy weighted woman? Someone correct me if I'm wrong and you can actually be a 20+ plus BMI with them all showing ?

I have noticed a lot of what I consider pro-Ana type pics on my Instagram recently

I used to be anorexic for quite a few years, and I do know what a healthy weight looks like.
(I don't think the woman in the video linked, looks unhealthily underweight but OP says that's not the one she's referring to)

Exactly, she looks absolutely fine to me.

I read it. Many fashion designers hate their bodies and also hate women. This is not news.

Karen Carpenter looked skeletal towards the end of her life. The woman in the red dress looks perfectly healthy; slender and strong.

Goodness, the endless screenshots of this model and her bones. Imagine if the bodies of the Snag models were analysed this way.