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Is this model too thin or about right?

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TheQuirkyMaker · 28/01/2026 12:03

To me she looks healthy but thoughts?

Is this model too thin or about right?
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MissMoneyFairy · 28/01/2026 14:41

Why have you chosen this particular model out of the thousands in magazines, are you trying to advertise the fashion label.

Wickedlittledancer · 28/01/2026 14:43

Can you imagine someone posting a pic of an overweight woman and asking do you think she looks too fat to be a model there would be an outcry,

how weight obsessed do you need to be to do fhis.

GetAbsOrDieTrying · 28/01/2026 14:44

She looks fine, just like any other model. Pretty girl and is obviously fit. Not sure what point you are trying to make!

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nOlives · 28/01/2026 14:45

If it's not photoshopped then she is standing in a very uncomfortable/unsustainable position. Mind you I often think that when looking at modelled clothes. Like what would it look like on someone standing or sitting in a position that a normal human might.
The dress looks lovely. It would look very different on me 😊

NightIbble · 28/01/2026 14:51

I think it just makes her look a bit out of proportion like her legs and arms don't match the hips but that could just be the angle she's standing at.

Thecows · 28/01/2026 14:52

LaurieFairyCake · 28/01/2026 14:27

She looks fine to me

There’s a photo of that Peltz woman married to one of the beckhams (the one that’s fallen out with his parents) and she is ridiculously underweight. She looks really abnormally thin, much thinner than that model posted

That's definitely not real, the Peltz photo! Can't believe anyone would think it was. The image OP put up is just lovely though, a beautiful young girl and nothing wrong with her legs whatsoever

Sassylovesbooks · 28/01/2026 14:56

The model seems tall, which usually they are, and looks all in proportion and healthy.

BauhausOfEliott · 28/01/2026 15:01

OP, if you think she's a healthy weight, why are you asking this question?

I find these sorts of threads really distasteful. Just because someone happens to be a model, that really does make it OK to start threads about them where hundreds of women all chip in to speculate about her body.

Mjmum10 · 28/01/2026 15:05

Can't tell for certain from this picture, some people carry less weight on their legs which is ideal for modelling. She looks slender but healthy if I had to comment

ohpoowhatnow · 28/01/2026 15:10

She’s a lovely shape

TheNinkyNonkyIsATardis · 28/01/2026 15:12

She looks healthy enough in that image.

Big however... That's the finished product. Photoshop, makeup, pose all affect how her body appears.

I'm not her doctor, so I can't comment on whether she is healthy, but the image representing her is showing a slim but still healthy weight.

LaurieFairyCake · 28/01/2026 15:12

Thecows

unfortunately it is. Posted by her and lifted directly by the Daily Mail onto their headline story. She really does look like that.

Flyingintotheunknown · 28/01/2026 15:20

Uhghg · 28/01/2026 13:11

I know loads of companies who edit photos.
There are social media pages that try and expose them.
Often it’s the models themselves.

They also wear breast pads, butt pads and waist clinchers - perhaps this is how they get away with it.

I see women like this most days.
I would say her weight is pretty average and definitely not too thin but it’s highly unlikely that her photo has not been edited in some way.
It doesn’t mean she’s not gorgeous in real life too.

This is hilarious! You do realise there is such a thing as copyright and the owner of the copyright of a picture is always the photographer (regardless of if you have paid for the photos or not). So no, companies themselves don’t ’edit’ the pictures, a photographer would have to do it! Nobody is allowed to edit/ photoshop a photographer’s work without explicit permission from the photographer! And why would a photographer want the reputation of his work going down the pan by just allowing anyone to edit their photographs Willy nilly! Models are not allowed to edit the pictures or they can be sued. Models don’t even sent their pictures from most jobs, they have to wait until the image comes out on a brand website or ad campaign and they have to sign a contract stating they have no rights to those images. I used to model myself so I know!

It makes me laugh when people who know nothing about the modelling or photography industry bleat on about editing and photoshopping pictures. If ‘models’ are editing their own pictures then they’re obviously not proper ‘models’ and probably just some online influencer or someone who likes to pretend they’re a model and have got someone to take pictures for them from their phone camera or used some backstreet amateur photographer lol.

Gahr · 28/01/2026 15:20

LaurieFairyCake · 28/01/2026 15:12

Thecows

unfortunately it is. Posted by her and lifted directly by the Daily Mail onto their headline story. She really does look like that.

Leave Nicola alone. If anyone said that about Victoria there'd be uproar and accusations of envy.

Oopsylazy · 28/01/2026 15:25

Gahr · 28/01/2026 15:20

Leave Nicola alone. If anyone said that about Victoria there'd be uproar and accusations of envy.

I agree.

It’s so horrible to see women tearing others women apart for their looks. Do we ever talk about men like this? Do they talk about one another in this way?

It’s so regressive.

Flyingintotheunknown · 28/01/2026 15:27

LyingToMyTherapist · 28/01/2026 13:30

The models themselves don't edit or photoshop the images. The models more often than not do not own the rights to the images used and are in strict contracts with the agencies or companies.

I'm a professional commercial photographer with thousands of shoots under my belt. Not once have any of the models gone on to edit the images. Even if they did, they wouldn't be able to post them.

I’ve just responded to say the exact same thing you have just said here. I think some people just like to make stuff up and pretend they know what goes on at a photo shoot when they have no clue about the industry lol. Models editing their own photos indeed 😂

Serafee · 28/01/2026 15:28

I think she's a completely normal sized young woman.

Gahr · 28/01/2026 15:30

Serafee · 28/01/2026 15:28

I think she's a completely normal sized young woman.

Sadly rare, considering the obesity rate.

Uhghg · 28/01/2026 15:34

Flyingintotheunknown · 28/01/2026 15:20

This is hilarious! You do realise there is such a thing as copyright and the owner of the copyright of a picture is always the photographer (regardless of if you have paid for the photos or not). So no, companies themselves don’t ’edit’ the pictures, a photographer would have to do it! Nobody is allowed to edit/ photoshop a photographer’s work without explicit permission from the photographer! And why would a photographer want the reputation of his work going down the pan by just allowing anyone to edit their photographs Willy nilly! Models are not allowed to edit the pictures or they can be sued. Models don’t even sent their pictures from most jobs, they have to wait until the image comes out on a brand website or ad campaign and they have to sign a contract stating they have no rights to those images. I used to model myself so I know!

It makes me laugh when people who know nothing about the modelling or photography industry bleat on about editing and photoshopping pictures. If ‘models’ are editing their own pictures then they’re obviously not proper ‘models’ and probably just some online influencer or someone who likes to pretend they’re a model and have got someone to take pictures for them from their phone camera or used some backstreet amateur photographer lol.

Edited

It’s not the models editing the photos - they’re the ones calling it out.

There are literally photos of the kardashians in magazines where one has an extra foot etc

You can’t say that photos aren’t ever edited or models don’t wear things to enhance certain areas.

mondaytosunday · 28/01/2026 15:35

Looks normal for a model.

LoveSandbanks · 28/01/2026 15:36

I met an ex catwalk model a year or so ago. She was still very slim. Models are built differently to the rest of us. They’re very tall, with very narrow bone structure. It’s almost like they’re petit but stretched.

I don’t mean any of this negatively btw, she had a great figure and a frame that made her slim rather than skinny. She was as also nice to chat to. She moaned that she could never find clothes to fit 🙄

justtheotheronemrswembley · 28/01/2026 15:41

Looks fine, but there's so much photoshopping goes on these days it is impossible to tell. Her legs don't look quite right to me, nor does her hip line.

LaurieFairyCake · 28/01/2026 15:42

Oopslazy Gahr I’m not ‘tearing anyone apart for their looks’ instead commenting someone looks underweight (quite different to the model picture posted who doesn’t look underweight)

and clearly she does look underweight as someone is querying that it can’t be a real picture

unfortunately it is

Flyingintotheunknown · 28/01/2026 15:46

Uhghg · 28/01/2026 15:34

It’s not the models editing the photos - they’re the ones calling it out.

There are literally photos of the kardashians in magazines where one has an extra foot etc

You can’t say that photos aren’t ever edited or models don’t wear things to enhance certain areas.

I never said photos aren’t edited and I’m not denying that doesn’t happen.
You are completely wrong in what you’re saying about companies and god knows who editing photos however. Nobody apart from the copyright holder can edit the photos. And e-commerce photos like the one shown in this thread will have had minimal editing! It’s about showing off the garment to the buyer, it’s not about the model so there would be no reason for this model to be ‘photoshopped’ to make her hips ‘look out of proportion’ which is what a few people have said on here. It wouldn’t benefit the brand to do so.

TheQuirkyMaker · 28/01/2026 15:52

MissMoneyFairy · 28/01/2026 14:41

Why have you chosen this particular model out of the thousands in magazines, are you trying to advertise the fashion label.

I have just watched BBC's Wolf Hall and was Googling Tudor culture and fashions and this ad popped up. The model was so eye-catching (the point of ads of course) I just wondered if other people thought she was real or AI.

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