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!

I think she looks like a beautiful, toned and very slender woman.
Not ill, but yes, she obviously works very hard for that figure and if I had to show my body off to millions (and have it bitched about on the Internet) I bloody well do too.

I don't want her body. I'm happy with mine.

I don't think her body is attractive but that's a far cry from saying I think she's emaciated, drawn and old which was in the OP. That's just downright nasty.

Not to mention that she should be some kind of role model or that other women will be influenced by it and rush out to the gym to get it or be in tears if they can't achieve it.

How patronising is that?

Ecuador I have the stunning hair and face too ha ha :) I don't actually care if anyone thinks I am too thin, I am happy with me ! I am 36, I eat lots and exercise not a lot, I am just a slim person and they do really exist. :)

I think she looks fantastic, slim and super toned.

I also thought it was a tad ironic that one poster thought it wasn't 'natural' for us to exercise loads and be on a limited diet.

If we were all still in caves. living as hunter gatherers or actually a couple of hundred years ago trudging the fields that is exactly what we would be doing and it would be far more 'natural' and what nature intended our bodies to do. Moving most of the day and not stuffing our faces with sugar and fat.

Being overweight, sedentary, unfit and unhealthy - that is not natural or good for us.

she looks thin but not emaciated.

Because, MySiamese, you stated that MyPretty's slim build was because of the exercise she does and not because of her body type.

I agree with you about the appropriateness of someone with a figure like that modelling underwear, though. It would do nothing to convince me that the bra she's wearing would even support my 44 year old, less than perky 32Gs, never mind actually look good on them.

But it's not women who are being influenced though is it limitedperiodonly?

Oh, what the hell. It's all fine and there hasn't been a rise in eating disorders in the UK over the last few decades.

I think the lines around her face give her away. Agree she doesn't look like she is meant to be that slim.

I hate these threads. Before children I looked pretty much just like her. Not as pretty but same body shape.

I was bullied horribly at school for being too thin and IMO the OP is just like those bullies.

YABU

Some women are that slim in "real life" and are perfectly attractive.

I doubt they care if you want to look at them or not.

Oh right, well i think I cleared up that twice already.

Yes I too was bullied and still have horribly insensitive comments made to me now Mckayz, it's awful and makes me quite angry. Yes OP you are just the sort of person who would make me feel rubbish about my body shape and size.

Hmmm. Look, everyone knows the fashion industry is full of girls who starve themselves. I think it's quite disingenuous to say that there are loads of people who are just naturally that thin. Perhaps some people are - I am sure some are but seriously, not many. Models are not known for their healthy lifestyles.

This thread is horrible; thin shaming dressed up as concern.

I don't think the OP is 'bulliying' at all. Now, more than ever before,every woman in music videos is a size 0 - this is very different from even 15 years ago.

1919 - it is not horrible imo. These days any woman in the music industry who is more than a UK size 8 is considered fat.

I used to be 5'8 and 7st 10lb before children. I looked 'too skinny' to most people and there was nothing I could do about it.

I am now (3 children later) 5'8 and 9st 4lbs, BMI of 19.8.

I still get told that I'm 'very skinny' despite having a tummy!

Lottie, yes actually in a world with billions of people in it there will be lots of women that thin naturally.

When people looked at my wedding pictures the first thing most of them said was about how thin I was.

It's probably why I don't do anything about losing weight after the kids. I don't want to go back to the abuse about being thin.

I don't want to comment on what the model looks like because I don't like to judge people that way, but I do want to ask why it is ok to say: 'I am naturally thin, although I eat like a horse' and everyone nods and says: 'yes. I have a friend, brother, cousin like that' when an overweight person saying: 'I don't over eat but I'm naturally curvy' has people calling them deluded and a liar. The fact is that people tend towards a particular body shape and size. Obviously, this can be accentuated by lifestyle, but I do think it's a bit unfair that people believe in 'natural' thinness, but not 'natural' fatness.

And...why does it matter? I am sick of the conversations on here about other women being 'unhealthy' because of their size. Size is not the biggest indicator of health and I wish people would stop thinking it is!

I think she looked healthier here

Mckayz - it's not right that people have abused you for being thin. But there are a lot of famous women who don't eat anything because right now it's fashionable to be a size 0 when that isn't their natural size. Like I said, if you look at music videos from 1997 people just are not as thin as now. If you listen to interviews with famous models, many of them talk about the problems with eating disorders and drug misuse. Nobody should ever be abused for being thin but to deny that these problems exist just makes no sense imo.

Hmmm

Yes she is too thin. Yes it's a bloody shame that thus goes on.

I've a friend who is an actress, she is very beautiful but fir her entire career has been told to lose weight. She was acceptable to the industry at about 6.5 - 7.5stone (she is only 5ft 3) and achieved that through major disordered eating and using cocaine. She struggled fir a long time and us now a healthier albeit still very low weight, she is now physically strong, and no more drugs or alcohol.

These models are well rewarded fur the sacrifices they make but if you think there is anything natural about it you are sorely mistaken - that model works incredibly hard at maintaining that level of thinness and muscle tone because that is what the industry (men) demand.

Quite, lottieandmia. I find this determination to deny that eating disorders are rife in the music/entertainment/fashion industries just bizarre.