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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?
OP posts:
TheQuirkyMaker · 28/01/2026 15:54

Serafee · 28/01/2026 15:28

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

We are accustomed to seeing ourselves and others- and most of us are overweight (I am)!

OP posts:
TheMorgenmuffel · 28/01/2026 15:55

She looks fine to me

2031MummyTBC · 28/01/2026 15:56

TheQuirkyMaker · 28/01/2026 12:41

The ad showed up on a page I was viewing, and she looked so beautiful I just wondered what people's thoughts were. There is so much AI and photoshop, I wondered whether she looked naturally as beautiful as this or whether it had all been enhanced in someway.

You thought the model was so beautiful, so you decided to make a thread inviting scrutiny of her weight?

Maybe time to put the phone down and step outside? On what planet is this even a question. She is average size, not even thin.

How can you doubt it to the extent that you start a thread?

Hmm

Interested in this thread?

Then you might like threads about this subject:

Toothfairy89 · 28/01/2026 15:58

Gahr · 28/01/2026 15:30

Sadly rare, considering the obesity rate.

Not really? 50% of young women are a healthy weight, only 17% obese. Still not ideal but hardly rare. Average BMI is 24, so again actually perfectly normal to be a healthy weight?

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 28/01/2026 15:59

From the photo she has exactly the ideal frame for a standard model. Nothing worrying.

Flyingintotheunknown · 28/01/2026 15:59

SleepingStandingUp · 28/01/2026 12:16

Left one.

She’s not stood straight fgs. She’s posing with her weight on one leg and the other slightly forward hence why one looks larger than the other - because one leg is closer to the camera… and she’s leaning against the background!
Do you always scrutinise each and every picture of models when you do online shopping? Her legs look very normal to me. What do you feel the brand would gain from having her legs edited?? They’re not trying to sell her legs they’re selling the garment. The focus is on the garment not the model. Lol

Toothfairy89 · 28/01/2026 16:01

She looks a perfectly healthy weight?

You can't even see her torso as she's wearing a baggyish dress, I have absolutely no idea why you picked this model to question the weight of?

Flyingintotheunknown · 28/01/2026 16:03

Toothfairy89 · 28/01/2026 16:01

She looks a perfectly healthy weight?

You can't even see her torso as she's wearing a baggyish dress, I have absolutely no idea why you picked this model to question the weight of?

Some people have nothing better to do. They obviously have issues being happy in their own body so they try to rip someone else apart. Absolutely nothing wrong with the model. If the op had posted a plus size model and asked if people thought she was too fat there’d be uproar.

ClarasSisters · 28/01/2026 16:04

TheQuirkyMaker · 28/01/2026 15:52

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.

I just wondered if other people thought she was real or AI.

So why would you not include that in the thread title, and rather decided to focus on her size. If that was your actual question?

MaggieBsBoat · 28/01/2026 16:05

She’s slim.
Clothes models usually are as this is what shows off clothes the best.
She looks fine to me.

fenfofe · 28/01/2026 16:05

Healthy!

BoudiccaRuled · 28/01/2026 16:10

SleepingStandingUp · 28/01/2026 12:16

Left one.

This is totally normal for people with thin legs!
People are so critical. Can't even have thin legs without being criticised and accused of having "wrong legs" now. Sometimes I just wish the world would stop so I could get off it.

Duckiewasthefirstniceguy · 28/01/2026 16:14

TheQuirkyMaker · 28/01/2026 15:52

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.

I just wondered if other people thought she was real or AI.

That’s not what you asked, though. You asked about her size.

Also, you’ve now said how beautiful and eye catching she is a few times. She’s a pretty girl, but a fairly generic looking model. Certainly not ‘eye catching’.

What is this thread?

Funnywonder · 28/01/2026 16:16

She’s grand. She doesn’t look anything close to some of the extremely gaunt models I have seen over the years. I don’t even think I would glance at her twice as regards her size.

Muffinmam · 28/01/2026 16:24

She’s a fashion model but she’s still bigger than Kate Middleton. She also looks attractive.

Kate Middleton’s very obvious eating disorder needs to be dealt with.

Bloozie · 28/01/2026 16:38

She looks a healthy weight to me. The slimmer end of healthy - this isn't the only version of what health looks like.

A pic should appear of a line up of women that are also (mostly) healthy though - I am using it to make the point that just because I am saying she looks healthy, doesn't mean that it's the only/ideal/perfect way for a healthy woman to look. She's slim end of health.

Is this model too thin or about right?
pinkyredrose · 28/01/2026 16:52

TheQuirkyMaker · 28/01/2026 13:39

Not too thin. Too beautiful if anything. The ad popped up when I was browsing. This is the link:
Forest Green Cord Claudia Mini Pinafore Dress

How can she be 'too beautiful'? For a start different people find different things attractive plus beauty standards vary wildly according to where in the world you are.

People are allowed to be naturally slim and attractive.

Btw there's a difference between slim and thin.

Tillygan60 · 28/01/2026 16:55

Why do you even care?

MajorProcrastination · 28/01/2026 17:11

about right for what?

Uhghg · 28/01/2026 17:14

Flyingintotheunknown · 28/01/2026 15:46

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.

Clothes companies are well known for having edited photos.

Clothes often look better on slim, curvy women.
It’s a well known fact that if the clothes look good on the model, someone is subconsciously more likely to buy it even if they don’t have a similar body type.

Shein is awful for making the models wear hip and butt pads and then editing the photos.
What is good about it is that customers can then upload their own photos.

I don’t know who is responsible for the editing but many of the models are calling it out on social media.

abracadabra1980 · 28/01/2026 17:16

On the thin side but fine. Is it Lottie Moss (sorry NRTWT)

Gwenhwyfar · 28/01/2026 17:21

I was going to write that she looks great, then I noticed knees are a bit bony. I suppose some men may not want to lock knees with her. In any case, it's illegal to use underweight models now, isn't it?
In that case, is there even a need to comment?

Charlize43 · 28/01/2026 17:23

I think she could look healthier with a few more pounds, not many though. Her legs look a bit stringy to me, but it is hard to tell. Sometimes it's more obvious when you see the shoulders and collar bones, especially if they are protruding too much.

Too thin for me would be Ariana Grande, who now resembles a frail old lady. Nothing like how she looked before at a healthy weight.

RichardOnslowRoper · 28/01/2026 17:27

I am pretty certain that if I dissected the body of a plus size model- her legs look like treetrunks, her knees like footballs- there would be uproar.
But somehow ok if the target is slim.

Flyingintotheunknown · 28/01/2026 17:32

Uhghg · 28/01/2026 17:14

Clothes companies are well known for having edited photos.

Clothes often look better on slim, curvy women.
It’s a well known fact that if the clothes look good on the model, someone is subconsciously more likely to buy it even if they don’t have a similar body type.

Shein is awful for making the models wear hip and butt pads and then editing the photos.
What is good about it is that customers can then upload their own photos.

I don’t know who is responsible for the editing but many of the models are calling it out on social media.

Omg you’re missing my point!

I have already said that companies use edited photos! You was claiming that anyone and everyone was just editing them Willy nilly when they’re not allowed to do so as only the copyright holder can do that! What I have said is that for e-commerce shots they use a whole range of different methods such as using clips at the back of clothing to make them look a better fit on the model. They do NOT go editing the model’s hips and legs and god knows what as they would gain nothing from making the model look completely different when it’s the clothing they’re trying to sell. The most that would have been done in post processing of the picture on this thread is probably getting rid of any dirty marks on the white background, maybe brightening the picture a little etc. They will however, not be editing the shape of the model or her legs or hips for that matter. I’m not sure what butt pads have to do with photo shop.
I’ll leave it here now thanks because you obviously don’t get the point I’m trying to make…. But you go ahead and carry on claiming you know it all when you have no experience of working in the modelling or photography industry. I used to be a model so I know quite a bit more than you do.