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!

Mintyy, that will have been her natural, her normal build etc. Healthy. Yes she looks much better and to be fair would probably do a lot better at advertising underwear when she was that size/shape.

Unlike the pics the OP has linked to. She's not 'naturally' like those ones.

I don't deny they exist. But I hate people saying that there can't be many people who are naturally thin, who eat loads and loads and do not exercise. I was tiny, 5"8 and weighed 7st 5lb when I was 16.

I was very lazy and eat a ridiculous amount (still do and I'm fat now) but still everyone went on about how I was likely to die. School got nurses in to see me until my parents kicked up a huge fuss.

It upsets me to see so many people saying she must have an eating disorder when really she could be lying on a sofa right now shoving chocolate in her mouth.

I think it is fine to comment on her body as it is clearly on display for the purposes of viewing, she's a Victoria Secrets model who wants us to look at it!

She does look underweight to me, I was very thin naturally in my teens and twenties, but I did not look gaunt around the face at all, it was just natural slimness- I agree the lines around her mouth are overly pronounced due to low body weight. Another person who has this in the public eye is Victoria Beckham and also Victoria on Made in Chelsea, you only see it on very thin people who have been larger/people with eating disorders, not naturally skinny people.

I just googled images for her. She was bigger (but obviously still with an amazingly unusually slender body) in virtually all of the other pictures. It looks like she has lost a stone. Hopefully not through illness.

If you look at Minty's link she looks very different there. I doubt very much that is her natural size or shape.

Models have a BMI much lower than even 17, often.

Bloody hell. I looked the daily mail pictures with her in her clothes and wondered what you were on about Then.......I saw the victoria secret set of pics and felt quite sick. She is lovely looking and in clothes I think she looks great. Upon seeing her body she looked awful. To be honest (and I am a straight woman). I think Victoria Secrets models are stunning and have amazing bodies . Her body is just slightly odd.

Im thinner than her. Thin bashing is not ok. I feel great. Next..

I have never ever seen a thread saying 'look at X, she's so dangerously fat' so why the fuck are these thread ok.

Going to hide it now as it just brings back crap memories.

But this isn't a thread about you! It is about this model.

'I have never ever seen a thread saying 'look at X, she's so dangerously fat' so why the fuck are these thread ok.'

I can't think of any famous dangerously fat women. And there's probably a reason why. Even soap stars drop loads of weight within 6 months of starting work.

Naturally thin people do exist - but usually they look the same all their lives, they don't suddenly drop 20 or 30lbs.

She does look very pretty and lovely in Minty's link.

It seems that it's only acceptable to be thin if you eat large quantities of food and/or hate your body.

I would rather look like this model than the fat women you see walking around in this country.

Well, I've had people tell me I was too thin (I probably was - I was ill). I didn't take it as abusive though.

I think she looks great and I was fully expecting to open the link and see some ghostly waif.

My 3 year old just saw the picture and said 'look mummy it's you'.
I am a size 20.
She is very slender but doesn't look unhealthily so to me.

I'm surprised no one has piped up with 'real women' yet.

Thin, fat, medium - all real! (Though it's only ever thinner women who are 'un'real...)

The VS models all say that they exercise madly and diet before the shows. I do think thst the models they use have got smaller in recent years.
Walking up and down a runway in front of the world's press in a bikini with only half your bottom covered is the stuff of nightmares tbh. Ugh.

I think that people who mention thinness usually are concerned and not being nasty. Although at school people can be very cruel I agree.

lottie Dawn French is one example.

I'm naturally very thin too - although my body is nowhere near as good as hers (smaller boobs and I don't do any much exercise, so don't have the six pack).

Despite my BMI being between 16.5 and 17.5, I too, like a previous poster, have somehow managed to give naturally give birth to two perfectly healthy, full term babies via very easy labours.

I eat perfectly well, and have never had an eating disorder, yet was bullied at school for being too thin and because I was back in my size 8 jeans within a week of giving birth, everyone assumed I'd either exercised a lot or hadn't eaten, when in reality, I'd done nothing and it is just the way my body is made.

I get that it is concerning that stick thin is held up as the ideal body image, but it would be nice if the issue could be debated without the collateral damage of those of us that are naturally thin being accused of 'looking awful and quite unwell'.

We would never dream of tackling the obesity epidemic (which is much bigger than the eating disorder epidemic caused by the size zero nonsense) by calling fat people 'heart attacks in waiting'.

I was expecting the usual drawn, hollow cheeked teenager but actually she looks really good. I have a friend who has a similar figure who did a underwear fashion show (gym training for weeks to prepare) and she looked just like her. Tall, good muscle tone and lively eyes (hate models dead eyes). I'm afraid I have to say YABU.