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?

[SallySycamore]

@MondayYogurt

On closer inspection I think the thing that triggered my yikes button was her wrist bones in the hand resting on the car. But perhaps that's just the light and bones are just like that?

I think she just has bony hands and wrists. Mine sometimes look like that depending on the angle of a photo. Other bits of me definitely aren't as thin though!

I would guess she's tall and long-limbed, and there might have been some touching up with photoshop too.

[Pinuporc]

They might be naturally that thin but it really isnt usual for legs to be virtually the same width from ankle to thigh...

On a separate note people use the excuse that models need to be tall and thin because clothes look/hang better on them. The first dress is almost impossible to see because a) it looks far too big for the model and b) it looks like its billowing in a gale!

[Iwonder08]

Why is it suddenly acceptable to call a skinny woman 'unhealthy,' where God forbid someone would dare to comment not so positively about a 'plus size' model.

[17june2021]

She looks normal to me, but I’m early 20s so I/my friends are slim without any effort

The model looks to be, what, 30 max? Of course she’s going to be fit and in shape at that age. I think ageing and having children means that being slim might be unattainable for some, but to the rest of us it’s normal.

[category12]

There's been a lot of touching up with Photoshop in the car one. No-one is proportioned like that.

[GreyhoundG1rl]

@Iwonder08

Why is it suddenly acceptable to call a skinny woman 'unhealthy,' where God forbid someone would dare to comment not so positively about a 'plus size' model.

It would be an equally valid point about an overweight model, though. Just not PC to say so, when we're all supposed to pretend that loving your flab means it's no longer a health issue.

[Truffled]

Does body positivity not run both ways? Can’t speak for the model in the picture but my 14 year old daughter has a similar physique. She’s possibly got a condition that means she is tall and slim with long arms and legs and less muscle mass, we are awaiting test results. She has been really upset by people’s remarks before (because it’s ok to comment on the appearance of a slim or tall
person) and reading the comments about freakishly long arms etc is offensive! There’d be uproar if a picture of a plus size model was being critiqued like that. People come in ALL shapes and sizes and should be represented as such.

[khakiandcoral]

Oh FFS< it's a very poor and weird angle. Criticise the photo by all means.

The slim shaming is pathetic.

[Lulalu]

I know someone who works for Zara and the models are generally photoshopped. This one definitely is. I really don’t know they they bother as she was probably very slim anyway.

[Branleuse]

Shes very thin, but i think thats normal for models

[Wombats12]

Nah, I was always chunky, whatever age I was.

[TheMarzipanDildo]

“Why is it suddenly acceptable to call a skinny woman 'unhealthy,' where God forbid someone would dare to comment not so positively about a 'plus size' model.”

I don’t know whether or not this model is unhealthy or this is the perfect weight for her body. She looks underweight to me, but I’m not a doctor.

I would say that the double standard exists because being thin is more aspirational than being fat in Britain, even today when ‘curvy’ is in.

[Lulola]

I’m a size 10 but my wrist bones stick out just as much as hers.

Up until being about 25 I was naturally this thin, I found it very upsetting when people would comment - I would regularly binge eat to try and gain weight. I put weight on after and felt less upset when people commented on me being overweight than when they decided I was underweight.

Words hurt, all of this criticism on this thread is unnecessary, we don’t know anything about this girl and it’s none of our business. If a man out a picture up of a woman and called her too big their would be uproar, this is no different in my eyes.

[Lemonwoe]

In fairness most models are on the very slim side. But whether she is underweight I couldn’t tell: we’re so used to seeing bigger people these days that it’s skewed our view on what’s normal (I’m not fat shaming: I’m bigger myself)

[TellmewhoIam]

There are people naturally that thin, but very few (if any) healthy ones where the thighs taper in so much above the knee.

[Lulola]

*there

[Lulalu]

If it’s the same model in both pics, the first one is definitely photoshopped because the legs are half the thickness to the legs in the car photo. Sometimes they just get the proportions wrong.

[Signalbox]

I was that skinny in my 20/ early 30s but I've never had an eating disorder. My legs and arms looked like the lady in the first photo (knobbly knees and all which I was teased mercilessly for at school) Some people are just thin. Obviously some people who are thin also have eating disorders but it would be hard to tell from a photo. Also I doubt there are many fashion photos that aren't photoshopped in some way nowadays.

[bringincrazyback]

@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.

But would you agree that when models this thin are used, it promotes this level of thinness as aspirational? That's what worries me given the anorexia risk, and it's a whole different kettle of fish imho to the judgement you face, which I do agree you shouldn't.

[ObviousNameChage]

She looks very thin to me. I have no idea if it's natural ,a bad photoshop job or a health issue.

If it's natural there's fuck all she can do about her body shape, unless we expect her to eat enormous amounts of food just to satisfy the "public".

I work with someone that's nearly as thin as the model is. I don't comment on it just like I don't comment on the size 24 woman.

[Namechangeme1]

But would you agree that when models this thin are used, it promotes this level of thinness as aspirational?

Isn't that the same as using plus size models though - it promotes being overweight as ok and aspirational when it isn't

[Lulola]

But would you agree that when models this thin are used, it promotes this level of thinness as aspirational? That's what worries me given the anorexia risk, and it's a whole different kettle of fish imho to the judgement you face, which I do agree you shouldn't.

This statement is awful. In the same explanation you’ve said PP shouldn’t face the judgement but that the model with the same body type is encouraging anorexia. Are plus size models encouraging people to lead unhealthy sedentary lifestyles?

We need to mind our own business about everyone’s size.

[TellmewhoIam]

I wish there were more women footballer type models! Strong, whether thin or curvy.

[Changechangychange]

That’s photoshop.

In picture one, nobody has a thigh as thin as their ankle. Even very thin people. The femur bone is wider than the tib/fib.

In picture two, nobody’s upper arm is 1.5 times the length of their forearm. The upper arm is longer, but the ratio is more like 1:1.2.

I’m sure she’s thin, but she looks “wrong” to people’s eyes (and OP is reading that as “ill”) because the picture has been altered.