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?

@BearPie

Zara is known for the ridiculous photoshop - see also the models in their Barbie collaboration.

OK this is useful because I don't have any eye for photoshop and some people find it really easy to tell. I think I have photoshop blindness.

What’s ‘thinspo’?

I’d say most models are a similar size and I’ve seen way slimmer models. So she doesn’t jump out as looking unhealthy to me.

There are of course naturally slim people like there are overweight people but the danger comes from girls who aren’t naturally slim trying to become unhealthy (for them) thin just so they can become a model, actress etc.

@callmeadoctor 😞

@MondayYogurt the easiest way to spot it is to simply Google non-posed photos of the model. Or look at their personal instagrams for 'normal' photos. Compare what you see with the styled photoshoots and you'll see where the photoshop has ben added.

Well, she looks about the same size as me and I've not keeled over yet, so...

OK this is useful because I don't have any eye for photoshop and some people find it really easy to tell. I think I have photoshop blindness.

Why do you describe it as 'useful' though?

Do you aspire to look like some of the Zara models and are wondering how achievable it would be?

I hope the arms of the first model on the beach have been photoshopped, they look dreadfully thin where they come out of the sleeves.

I think the car one is a bad photoshop - the proportions are wrong.

Some people are naturally thin as some are 'natural fat'

If I posted a picture of a size 20 model saying wow how unhealthy etc etc you'd soon hear the pile on

I'm shocked at almost everyone saying she is OK. I would say she is clearly anorexic. Yes you can be tall and lanky. Those arms and legs are way too thin OR they have been photoshopped to that thinness and that is completely irresponsible.

I think photoshopped clothing ads and such should have to be labelled as such.

The legs are all wrong - like Twiglets. It must be photoshopped, because they are more cartoon-like than normally thin.

It does seem irresponsible of Zara to either photoshop or use models this thin. While they might be healthy like that many young girls wouldn’t.

@Seesawmummadaw

What an absolute load of wank!

Why is fat shaming bad but this is okay?

This. 💯

Stop judging other women on their size.

She's very slender. For me I think it's because the tops and bottoms of her limbs are the same width, you usually expect s thought to me wider than a calf/ankle

They're photo shopped (badly). Nobody has arms like that, she looks like a praying mantis!

*a thigh to be wider....

@stairway should we stop plus size models too then? Because they seem to be everywhere and are equally unhealthy?

They look very thin but not unhealthy.

Have you never met very thin people before? They do exist. Just like very fat or very short people exist. The fashion industry likes to use very thin people to model their clothes. The science industry likes to use very clever people to do their experiments. Different types of people have different roles in society.

I do hope you don't always get so baffled everytime you see someone who presents as slightly different to the norm.

Until I hit middle age, I was this shape.
I used to eat a lot but just genuinely never put weight on. I was working in a psychiatric hospital at the time and the number of probing questions I got from colleagues (who all thought I had an eating disorder) was ridiculous.
I am overweight now and although it's not healthy, in someways its a relief as at least no one questions me now.
My DD and one of my DS's are also "thin" and get the same "conerned" remarks.

She’s almost definitely very underweight.

I don't think its so much whether the model is a healthy size - some people are naturally that size and look very thin due to their height and genetics, the issue is when others use pictures like this for inspiration and motivation to lose weight unhealthily. There is a lot more diversity amongst models today than there were a few years ago but there is still a huge emphasis on tall, very slender women.

My friends built a similar way...... She hates it and has been bullied all her life because of it. Some people just are very, very slim.

@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.

Me too, and my DD. She couldn't eat more if she tried yet she is judged constantly and so I am, as her mother. It sickens me, yet 'fat shaming' is wrong.

I was called 'anorexic' throughout my youth. I was no such thing.

DD is getting really upset by it (she is 13 very tall and a completely healthy BMI, just a low one, it's how she is)