To wonder if this Zara model is a healthy size?

[MondayYogurt]

Most models are tall and slim but something just made me stop and look at these pictures for longer, wondering.

Is it just photoshop?

You’ve chosen to ignore the experience of models and data from the business pushing anorexia in the drive for such models. The vast maj of people with figures similar will be at huge risk of hospital. Such images are all over social media and fashion and have been linked to eating disorders.. Zara is irresponsible. Its frequented by teen girls and they are blatantly encouraging eating disorders. Couldn’t care two hoots whether it’s rude to point that out.

Without knowing the background of either model I wouldn’t judge.

My DD, although not tall, and my DS, who is, both have bodies like that - long, thin limbs. They are a product of their very tall, very slender father. I also have very bony wrists - I can’t wear a watch for instance as i can never find a strap small enough. Some people are built that way.

Zara is well known to use the most ridiculous photos

Can't even see the clothes the woman is supposedly modelling

Great Mother there shouldn’t however be pressure on model and teenage girls to look like that. Models need to be seen as beautiful too. The chances of young models being both healthy with knees the widest part of their legs and industry beautiful are slim. The body you can do something about and they are pressured to do so, the looks not so much.

Zara are irresponsible. I hope they get a backlash.

If I didn't have muscles from my sport I'd look exactly like this and I eat like a cow. I'm 5'11 with huge feet and always been a lanky bugger!

Couldn’t care two hoots whether it’s rude to point that out.

Yeah, we've noticed 🙄

So if I say you're a fat bitch & look so unhealthy & are sending out a bad message to teens, that would be okay the would it

Sounds to me like you just want slim girls to disappear. You might want to have a serious think about where that comes from. Jealousy is never a good look

Who has said the word “ bitch”? Nobody. Nobody wants anybody to disappear although it seems it’s fine for normal body shapes to be completely unrepresented. Companies selling to teenage girls should not be glamorising anorexia, those pictures do.

Why is everyone who disagrees with something always accused of doing it out of jealousy? Always. It’s frustrating.

Urgh 🤦‍♀️

Polestar you are still massively missing the point this IS a normal body shape for some people. It's not always unhealthy & those girls (I was one, but not as tall) more often eat more, not less as it's a metabolism thing

& you have been pretty damned vile about the real human being with real feelings in those Zara photos, whether using the word bitch or not

Purple when it comes to venomous projection of negativity over a body image. Unfortunately jealousy is often the key motivation.

@SingingInTheShithouse

Purple when it comes to venomous projection of negativity over a body image. Unfortunately jealousy is often the key motivation.

I really don't think people concerned about encouraging anorexia are motivated by envy.

With regards to lots of naturally thin people commenting on here of course we will. It does catch my eye and I've been on mnet for 18 years so often comment on them (under a vast array of different user names). I'm still very slim after nearly all those 20 years and will still always defend the fact that there are some of us who are naturally built that way with zero effort. Not saying we want to be that way necessarily but there you go. Of course it's natural that a large proportion of women built this way will be attracted by the thread tile. My reason for doing so is 100% is to try and stop other woman using awful terminology, although it's not been as bad on here as the recent thread about actresses, that was really horrible.

I really don't think people concerned about encouraging anorexia are motivated by envy.

So you're another who thinks slim girls should disappear, even though it's a perfectly natural body shape 🤦‍♀️

Oh God, this is terrible. I like it when people are slim, the way Nicole Kidman or Naomi Watts are. But this model looks very unhealthy.

@WhenISnappedAndFarted

Threads like this make me so angry.

I'm this thin, naturally this thin. Have spent my whole life being judged and told to 'eat' when in fact I eat a ton and don't put on weight.

Well that's OK, you are that way naturally perhaps this girl is also this thin naturally, but it doesn't mean she should be a model and set this look as beauty standard when honestly it does not look healthy.

Has anyone had a look on their teens' social media lately?

Very few ,if any of the "models", "influencers" , whatever are as thin as this Zara add. Fashion models, especially this kind haven't been the "inspiration"for years.

The "look" is still slim/thin , with a tiny waist, but with thick thighs,boobs, and a round ,well defined butt. Just as unachievable for girls built differently as the very skinny look.Plus extensions,fake tan, fake nails,fake eyelashes, big lips etc. Complete with tips about surgery,fillers and whatever other modifications.

While I understand that models like this can be triggering for girls and young women struggling with anorexia, that's because it's their "thing". What they look for. Unless we delete every skinny model from anywhere online,they'll still find them and use them.

And while we argue and focus on this, millions of teens and young women are being targeted,damaged and harmed by a completely different "movement " and inspiration, that gets largely ignored because it's not "skeletal" and "unhealthily skinny".

And while we argue and focus on this, millions of teens and young women are being targeted,damaged and harmed by a completely different "movement " and inspiration, that gets largely ignored because it's not "skeletal" and "unhealthily skinny*

Completely agree we are focussing on the wrong things - being super skinny is not the ideal anymore That's shown on social media,

It's all about the kardashians IMO and plastic surgery etc Botox fillers - that's more damaging nowadays than the model shown

If this was a thread about overweight models, there would be accusations of fat shaming and lots of talk about body positivity. However, skinny models are apparently fair game for criticism and body shaming. Maybe she's happy in her body and naturally thin?

So you're another who thinks slim girls should disappear, even though it's a perfectly natural body shape

Don’t be ridiculous.

I am neither the size of the Zara models, nor the size of these models, but I prefer to see the latter.

Health issues aside, why can’t we be bombarded with photos of diverse looking people, instead of these sullen, stick sizes? They never look particularly happy or comfortable.

Nope, she's NOT just 'slender' !

She's either been 'photo-shopped' that size, or she's emaciated, to the point of being on the verge of cardiac issues (as sufferers of anorexia nervosa are).

I find it heartbreaking that this kind of body 'perfection' ideation still persists in fashion It is neither healthy nor attractive.

"Health issues aside, why can’t we be bombarded with photos of diverse looking people, instead of these sullen, stick sizes? They never look particularly happy or comfortable."

Because we're not looking at the bodies, we're looking at the clothes. Diverse models wouldn't work because the point is to sell the clothes. As for looking happy or not, the model does the pose she's told to do by the person controlling the shot, surely?

@sleepygnome

If this was a thread about overweight models, there would be accusations of fat shaming and lots of talk about body positivity. However, skinny models are apparently fair game for criticism and body shaming. Maybe she's happy in her body and naturally thin?

Nope. The thread would have been taken down almost immediately.

@Gwenhwyfar

"Health issues aside, why can’t we be bombarded with photos of diverse looking people, instead of these sullen, stick sizes? They never look particularly happy or comfortable."

Because we're not looking at the bodies, we're looking at the clothes. Diverse models wouldn't work because the point is to sell the clothes. As for looking happy or not, the model does the pose she's told to do by the person controlling the shot, surely?

The example I showed demonstrates diverse women modelling clothes, and I am looking more at those clothes, if anything, than when the stick-thin person is wearing them. I am also more likely to buy them. It’s simply not true that we wouldn’t look at the clothes, if average-sized people were modelling them.

"The "look" is still slim/thin , with a tiny waist, but with thick thighs,boobs, and a round ,well defined butt. Just as unachievable for girls built differently as the very skinny look."

No, MORE unachievable.