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To think using such a skinny model is irresponsible?

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Awkwardsis · 12/02/2014 07:32

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.

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TulipOHare · 13/02/2014 00:34

That model isn't remotely skinny

Come now. She is. You can admit that she is thin without attaching value judgments to her size.

Metebelis3 · 13/02/2014 00:37

She's not skinny. She's TALL.

MusicalEndorphins · 13/02/2014 07:44

The model just doesn't have any excess fat, good for her. I wish I didn't!

Quangle · 13/02/2014 16:56

she also doesn't have any hips because they've shaved them off her. I find it slightly disturbing that the photoshopped element of this does not just "read" wrongly to more people.

As I said before, yes she's thin, yes that's fine. What's not fine is to present a body shape which simply doesn't exist. People then get into a frenzy of fat shaming vs thin shaming when actually we should all be laughing our heads off at the idea of very tall, thin women with hips smaller than a very small waist. This body shape simply doesn't exist because it doesn't work in terms of human anatomy and suggesting that it does via photos such as this is insidious and damaging. How would this person actually stand up?

OwlCapone · 13/02/2014 17:04

You would have thought they'd have photoshopped off all the loose threads on the edge seam then.

Quangle · 13/02/2014 17:23

ha ha. You are right. I zoomed in to check out the photoshop in more detail - it's shocking! One hairy arm and one non-hairy arm and one dissolving hand.

Mimishimi · 13/02/2014 21:13

She looks okay. If you scroll around on the zoomed in photo, you can see that she still has some fat in her thighs. She doesn't look too scrawny. My mum is 5'9" and looked like that in her teens/early twenties. Possibly the high waist exaggerates the effect.

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