To think that this model looks awful and quite unwell?

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Got to say that it surprised me, Victoria Secrets models usually carry a bit more weight compared to the the emaciated girls we see doing the high fashion stuff.

She's so, so painfully thin. Her face is drawn and she looks older than her years.

When is the modelling world going to start using healthy looking girls who don't look like famine victims? This is not what people want to look at!

Seems my bolding went wrong.

I do think we are so used to larger sizes that we see anything slim as in usual/too thin she actually it's perfectly fine. We have a scewed perception of what is a healthy size, even for kids, my mil and a few others think my ds2and ds3 are too skinny, you can see collar bones, ribs, etc they are slim but healthily so and the right shape for their age, kids are meant to be slim.

I understand why people are saying we shouldn't criticise this model for how she looks, just as we shouldn't criticise anyone.

But tall and underweight, and she is underweight, is the only acceptable standard for women who model and I think that's a problem.

I also think its strange that as models get thinner, the general population gets fatter .

She also has no pubes which is a bit weird for a grown woman.

I personally think she looks ridiculous in the outfit, the feathers are bizarre. It's not a look that women should aspire to.

I'd rather look like this:

Heidi Klum

But this woman is much smaller than a size 8, I'd say she's more of a 6 or even a 4. We live in a world where even size 8 women are told to lose weight if they want to go into modelling. That is not right IMO.

She looks a bit mean.

DontmindifIdo
IMHO and her body shape isn't natural - it is the work of a lot of exercise and a limited diet. - define natural? Do you think that a blobby body due to an unlimited diet and lack of exercise is more natural?

No, however I don't believe having a restricted diet and heavy exercise to be natural.

If she was eating healthily but normally and was doing a reasonable amount of exercise, she wouldn't look like that. (The definition of natural being a body shape you don't have to "work" for but have whilst living a healthy lifestyle)

She may well be naturally thin but her body is likely to be the result of a restricted diet and heavy exercise programme and therefore not natural.

I look like that model, body size, I am pretty healthy :)

for those saying that it's healthy to be a bit underweight.
It really isn't.
It's actually far better, from a health perspective, to be a little overweight, than to be underweight. And the reason we are 'fatter' than we used to...those skinny waists 60 odd years ago were often a result of poor nutrition or war rationing, not eating well!

This isn't the body of the woman though - its the body of a teenager or even pre-teen.

She's 26 not 16 - there's a huge difference between being in your mid to late teens to being in your mid to late twenties

ducktowater

Now that is a healthy body.

I find it interesting that some do the most defensive posters on here are the ones calling overweight women "fatties" and "blobbies"

Hypocrisy much?

No. I don't think she looks too thin, or ill, or older than her years. She has a fantastic body! Go and google 'anorexia'! There are slender people in the world, she is one of them and she is tall too.
The older than her years thing, are you looking at the lines on her face? My DD14 has those, and has done for years. So what?
I object to people who are any specific shape being held up to the young and impressionable as an ideal, because everyone is different, but there is nothing wrong with the way she looks.

Too many ribs showing, too thinner face. That figure comes from not eating as well as exercise.

Not a role model for DD2. DD1 has more sense than to ever look at a fashion model and think I should be that thin.

She's 26 not 16 - there's a huge difference between being in your mid to late teens to being in your mid to late twenties

Yup, there was for me. I was much fitter, slimmer and toned and healthy in my late 20s than my teens due to starting running and going to the gym at 20, eating much better and knocking social smoking on the head. For a couple of years age 14-16 I didn't do much exercise at all and ate a lot of junk.

Yes MySiamese. She's now going to be my gym pin up to make sure I go!

Yes OP, her face looks older than it should and I suspect that's because she over exercises and would rather eat shit than a doughnut. The problem with it IMO is that her shape is being sold as something to look up to whereas a size 16 body isn't.

I'm a size 12 btw, so not fat or thin.....but with a lovely saggy post 3 DCs tummy :)

DucktoWater - with respect, I think you must be an exception to the rule. Most people tend to have slower metobolisms through their twenties and will inevitably gain weight. The body naturally stores weight around the stomach too for obvious reasons.

Many many young women in their late teens are thin and gangly but "even out" for want of a better description in the next 5-8 years. myself included. Bah!

She looks fine to me. She has quite a lot of developed muscle on her stomach and thighs, which I suspect the op mistakes for bones. She looks like she runs and lifts weights, and is a sinewy mesomorph.

Not everyone looks like the average British middle aged woman. And I expect that model is far healthier than most of them.

Sorry ectomorph

too much 'dancing dust'

I would much much rather look like this beautiful woman!

I'm a UK 4/6. I'm perfectly healthy and have delivered two 7lb odd babies at 40 weeks, even with my BMI of 16. I'm naturally tiny and I am bloody fed up of being told I must be ill, that I'm too skinny, being given a massive slice of cake because "I could do with it" etc, etc. I don't tell fat people they need to diet, that they look unhealthy, give them small portions. Why the heck is it ok to bodyshame me?

And as for all the "real women" bollocks, I may be thin but I aint fucking imaginary!

And breathe...

Tricky. Some people are naturally that skinny. I think she looks different to most people as she obviously works out therefore has muscle tone unlike most of us who are softer looking. I get called skinny but I'm not - I'm size 10, 5'4 and 8.5 stone. BMI in healthy range. So not skinny at all really medically speaking, just average.

Here's me wondering what her personality is like?
Never mind that hey!
Shove a burger Down your throat lovely, cider doesn't like your figure

What do you mean you like it? Don't you know that's not important.

I don't know anyone with a natural figure like that either.

I think she looks unwell, unhealthy and not in the least attractive. No, I'm not using size 16 as my standard healthy. More like size 10. Which this woman is nowhere near.