To think using such a skinny model is irresponsible?

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yes Next, I'm looking at you
I came across is when I was browsing for some new jeans. Surely noone is actually that thin? And I've been anorexic! Whatever do shops still insist on using such skinny models? And no, this isn't 'thin shaming', I know we all come in different shapes and sizes. Not to add, those jeans are gopping.

yes looking at the fashion week models, eg victoria beckham but not just her all of them, they don´t just look thin but really unwell, I´m sure they weren´t as thin as this 10-15 years ago

I agree, hideous jeans, and don't especially flatter the model as pictured.

Bit of an own goal for Next one way or the other!

Isn't it the fact that while this model is slim, that's the only shape ever represented in clothes modelling? Life is diverse and that's amazing - but an alien who had to judge humanity by a clothes magazine or catalogue would expect size 6-8 to be the very largest proportions existing on this planet. More diversity please!

If you look at her arms, particularly in the picture with the grey sleeveless top, they look fine, naturally slim and not overly bony. The picture may have been stretched to make her look taller, but she looks healthy to me.

elsie, really? So slim women are not 'real' women? That's a pretty offensive way to put it, and I say that as someone who is not naturally slim by any means. More diversity is needed, absolutely, but insulting those with a slim build is not the way to go about it.

Perhaps they need to use a model who is more representative of 'real women'

And that's exactly the kind of comment that pisses me off.

She looks OK to me - yes, very slim indeed, but she's clearly naturally small-framed.

I would have a problem if ALL Next's model's were so slim* - we should represent the full range of body shapes in my view.

*Disclaimer - they may well all be so slim; I haven't looked.

The model is probably young, and when I was late teenage / early twenties my legs would have been that thin. Although clearly the image has been photoshopped as one leg is half the size of the other.

Models have been on the extreme end of slim for a long time now, and with photoshopping it is even harder to know what clothes will look like on the majority of women. We do need a variety of sizes modelling clothes, from very slim through to the larger sizes.

I'm not a real woman because I have skinny legs.

Add my tiny boobs and lack of curves and I am practically a man aren't I? :(

I think the high waist is creating a weird optical illusion.

Anyway, horrible jeans, horrible body shaming thread

She's not too thin at all. In fact I can't shop at Next for jeans as I am a size 4 and Next stop at a size 6.

Threads like this make me feel ucomfortable. Us slim people are still women and don't need to be ridiculed because we have slim legs and thigh gaps, this is a natural occurence you know. Who said you had to have curves and big boobs to be a proper woman?

The jeans are hideous btw.

"At a size 12/14 how am I meant to know how those jeans might look? Guess, buy them, try them then feel like shit when they look crap!"

I totally agree WholeNutt. The Photoshopping has made the model's left hand look huge. Do they think we are stupid?

I hate these comments about being a "real woman" They are often made by women who are in denial about being overweight. I would love more curves in the right places, but can't help being the shape I am without resorting to surgery, so that doesn't make me a real woman then?

I maintain legd and arms as skinny as the model even when heavily pregnant. Its a shame elsie has just informed me I dont exist.

If you lived in Japan I would be more normal and size 14/16 people would be seen as the freaky ones.

one leg is half the size of the other.

Not necessarily - one leg is side on, the other is seen from the front.

I don't think it's a body shaming thread. I think it's a company advertising policy shaming thread.

I'm also slim and was anorexic for years.

I don't feel the need to criticise anyone's body. Only the folk who consider it proper to use a model who is actually too thin to be healthy in the cause of fashion.

Not sure about this one, it's hard to tell really.

I think she looks ok - certainly not ill or scary.

At a size 12/14 how am I meant to know how those jeans might look? Guess, buy them, try them then feel like shit when they look crap!

Even in the model was the same size as you, that's no guarantee the jeans would look the same on you, as they would on her.

People carry their lumps and bumps in different places. Most models no matter what their size, tend not to have lumps and bumps anyway.

I'm that thin and I'm certainly not anorexic ,I eat like a bloody horse !! I don't class myself lucky either as I would much rather have curves and boobs.

I also object to photoshopping to make people look thinner than they are.

How can that be body shaming, to hate that? It isn't even anyone's body. It's a creation.

The Photoshopping has made the model's left hand look huge

Both hands are the same size.

"elsie, really? So slim women are not 'real' women? That's a pretty offensive way to put it, and I say that as someone who is not naturally slim by any means. More diversity is needed, absolutely, but insulting those with a slim build is not the way to go about it."

Aliama I used 'real women' in inverted commas so my meaning couldn't be mistaken... Though obviously it has been. I'm fairly slim myself ( 8-10) though would object to a reverse thread about larger models (deemed too large) being used.

My teenage DC is probably that slim, but does a lot of dance, and eats like a horse!

I don't mind the thing, but I would like to see a push wherein the size and whether the shot has been photoshopped is put on a label on the photograph. So at the bottom of the photo, it could say 'shown in size 6, photoshopped.' Then we'd know what was there.

Some people are naturally thin. Others are naturally larger. It would be nice to see a variety in magazines which reflects the variety in the rest of the population.

It would be better if they showed a range of model sizes, perhaps in the jeans style that would flatter each shape best. I know a woman a similar size to that model and as far as I know she does not have an eating disorder, but I'm sure some people that size do, just as people of all sizes do. Some of the jeans in the catalogue photo don't really suit that model's shape though, just like some of them wouldn't suit my shape. It seems silly to always choose the slimmest models when actually some clothes would look better on different shaped models.

I have known two women in RL who were/are that thin. One was my friend at school - she was slim to start with & then just shot up to a little under 6ft by age 16. She did not have an eating disorder, that was just how she was made. However, she did 'fill out' a bit as an adult and, although she has a naturally slim figure, now as a 39 year old mum of two she is probably a size 10.

The other lady has anorexia.

But I agree, the photo was probably photoshopped to make the "skinny" jeans look as "skinny" as the designer intended.