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?

[CounsellorTroi]

This is unlikely to be natural and it is damaging. Why isn’t photoshop ever used to make people appear fatter?

Good point. You would think they would do this to make the clothes more appealing to more normal sized people.

[Summersun2020]

I’ve seen some reaches on here, but I have to say this is up there 😂😂

[Pinuporc]

What's so unbelievable, people have different weight dispositions.

Of course they do. But being 5'11.5 would put you in a small category of women to start with, even smaller percentage would be that height and have the same body shape as the model shown.

Google says 1% of women are over 6' and that will encompass women who are 6' and incredibly thin, 6' and naturally stocky, and everything in between.

[ObviousNameChage]

I know this person in real life. She's thin , she's fine,she eats, she is very similar to the model.


I find it mind boggling that according to some posters she either doesn't exist, she's some kind of rarity or worse she's ill and there's something wrong with her.

[TatianaBis]

She does look too thin to me and I modelled myself in younger days. Some people are naturally skinny but she looks unnaturally thin.

[TellmewhoIam]

I was at school with someone who was spotted and became a supermodel. She was very, very thin (and loud and robust in a good way!) but her ankle was never the same diameter as her thigh!

[stairway]

Plus size models exist because bigger women want the model to look like them. The super slim models are not there to sell clothes just for other women who are also super slim. It’s meant to be aspirational.

[TatianaBis]

By which I mean too thin in real life, not unnatural as in photoshopped. She could shopped too, but there are a lot of women that thin in the modelling world.

[Clymene]

@ObviousNameChage

I know this person in real life. She's thin , she's fine,she eats, she is very similar to the model.


I find it mind boggling that according to some posters she either doesn't exist, she's some kind of rarity or worse she's ill and there's something wrong with her.

I sure your friend is lovely but she is at least a stone heavier than the model in the photos.

[Gwenhwyfar]

@stairway

Plus size models exist because bigger women want the model to look like them. The super slim models are not there to sell clothes just for other women who are also super slim. It’s meant to be aspirational.

No, they're there to show the clothes. It's to make the clothes look good, not the women themselves. It helps to have a standard-ish size of model so you can at least take a guess at what the clothes will look like on yourself.
Plus size models don't look anything like the average plus size woman either. They're beautiful and tall for one thing. They're also there to make the clothes look good.

[LifeinPieces21]

@PersonaNonGarter

She looks alright- not too thin.

I disagree

[Gwenhwyfar]

"Good point. You would think they would do this to make the clothes more appealing to more normal sized people."

Why would it make clothes more appealing to normal sized people?
M&S used some famous-ish women as models once, all different sizes. It was totally confusing. You couldn't tell if a dress made someone look chunky or if it was the model.
The ideal for me would be someone with exactly the same dimensions of me, but if that's not possible, I want them to be a standard-ish shape so I can at least guess from that i.e. I know that a mini skirt on a model might be knee length on me and if it looks bad on a model it will look totally shit on me.

[BearPie]

@tentimesaday

People saying 'some people are just naturally this thin' ....
Sorry, but no.

Ask anyone in the modeling business - it's very, very hard work to stay this thin (and remember, the camera puts weight on you). No shame, but it's disingenuous to claim otherwise.

Yup.

[user1473878824]

Would you have started this thread about someone fat?

[mibbelucieachwell]

Hmmmm maybe.

She definitely looks kinda pissed off though.

[rjacksmiss]

@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.

I agree with you. My friends accused me of having an eating disorder when I was at my absolute healthiest. I'd never body shame them. I felt so self conscious.

[CorianderBee]

[quote callmeadoctor]Does anybody know anything about this poor girl?twitter.com/Eugenia_Cooney?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor[/quote]
She's looked like that for at least 5 maybe even 10 years. She has a YouTube channel (or did when I was a teen and now I'm 26).

She always denies anorexia but everyone knows she has a problem.

[Tuberoses]

She’s skeletal. Your upper arm is not supposed to be the same thickness as your wrist. I would say she’s the “thinspo” build that anorexics aspire to. How irresponsible of Zara.

[Kokosrieksts]

@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’m size 8, normal weight and have wrist bones that are very visible like that.

[Clymene]

I'd really like the posters saying they're naturally this thin to post a photo.

[Womendohavevaginasnick]

I used to be that skinny. Skinnier actually, from around 12 to 25. I was 5 foot and 6 stone at 12, 5 foot 5 by 18 and 7.5stone at my heaviest(pregnant). Now I'm now slightly overweight but a lot fitter and I'm finally starting to like my body.
Even pregnant the only weight I gained was the baby.
I couldn't breastfeed long because my milk dried up because I had no fat reserves.
For some reason, when I was skinny, everyone thought it was ok to comment on my size, what I ate, how often, and tell me I'm lucky. Didn't feel lucky.
I ended up with very disordered eating around 15/16 as a result, lasted till my early 20s, and was somewhat self destructive in other ways until I got pregnant.
I was always naturally skinny and didn't have an ED until people got into my head saying I was too thin. I'd binge when people were watching to 'prove' I ate well, then starve myself to make up for the binging. I started to enjoy feeling hungry and then the binge became the reward.
I remember loving my food before.
Skinny shaming is as unacceptable as fat shaming is and needs to stop.
Skinny shaming caused my eating disorder.
Thankfully nobody comments on my figure anymore.

[Greenmarmalade]

It’s not necessarily skinny shaming - it’s a critique and careful eye on the fashion industry and modelling. I know former models who were put under a lot of explicit pressure to stay underweight.

[WorraLiberty]

@Clymene

I'd really like the posters saying they're naturally this thin to post a photo.

Why? So they can be ripped apart too?

On that note, where did the OP go?

[Providora]

@Clymene

I'd really like the posters saying they're naturally this thin to post a photo.

I'd like the posters who are criticising this woman and saying she looks unhealthy to post a photo!

[skinnyarms]

Here you are.
Always been skinny and bony.
5'8" and a bit underweight, aged 50.
I run, swim, cycle.
I don't look like the models as I'm more muscular so actually I am heavier than I look.