AIBU to find these ads with anorexic looking young women offensive?

[ShinyHappySummers]

They keep popping up on MN today. Hardly chosen the best demographic here IMO either.

@pinkcircustop

See we have such a problem in this country with weight than when there’s slim women about people think it’s anorexic.

What’s actually unhealthy is having plus size women advertising clothes because we shouldn’t be normalising being overweight.

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YABU for saying anorexic. Anorexia is a mental illness, unless you can diagnose something wrong with the brain from images of legs, then you are completely unreasonable. Anorexic is not a describing word.

Terrible pictures but I can't see that they are offensive.

I do often look at threads like this through the eyes of someone who is tiny in order to try and see if i can I can see what your seeing.
If I wore jeans like these I's probably look like them, I'm naturally very slim and I would look lost in them. I'm not anorexic and now feel rather put out that if I did wear them this is what people would view me as.

Personally I think they look fine, the jeans are not my cup of tea but other than that they look fine. I'm not offended at the photos but I am offended at women with the same build as me, being branded as anorexic based on a presumption and being described as offensive because of this.
I wouldn't ever dream of making comments like this, would you have started the post if the models were at the opposite end of the scale?
Women come in all sorts of different shapes ans sizes, with and with out eating disorders, they should all be allowed to model clothes if they wish. You dont have to like the photos, them , the clothes nor the fact that they may have been photoshopped.
If you are really concerned about the advert there are ways of challenging it without posting on a forum which will serve no purpose other than making sure people know what you think and making you sound judgemental and could just start a bun fight. Maybe complain straight to Mumsnet or the ad people (the people who can actually account for the making of/using of ads).

Anyway Im going to bow out now as I fear getting some stick for my post, sorry in advance If I have got any backs up.

I also don't feel the algorithm has directed it at the right group of people here. Those models do not look like they have had children.

That comments offensive tbh, OP, because you’re basically saying mothers all look a certain way and have a specific body type.

I gave birth a few months ago. I’m back to my pre-pregnancy size 4 and have no stretch marks. I am frequently told there’s no way I look like I recently had a baby.

Not everyone looks the same, and that includes mothers.

Plenty of people on the site with no children.

I don't get those ads. It depends on what you have been looking at on your phone/ cookies etc.

@ChocolateChipBelvitaSoftBake I completely agree.

@ShinyHappySummers

Not sure how to report an ad 🤷🏻‍♀️ And a bit disappointed MN have allowed it I suppose.

“Allowed it”?

Give over. There isn’t someone from MN sitting at their desk personally approving each ad.

And why do people think slagging off thin women is somehow feminism? (I say this as a size 16).

YABU, would you have been equally offended by pictures of an overweight model? The women in that photo are slim but you have no proof what their BMI is and whether or not they're anorexic

Is it not based on your own cookies? I've never seen that one, I get the shitty 'the vet took one look at this dog and rang the police' clickbait bollocks due to the story pages I read.

@Chocolatechipbelvitasoftcake

I agree 100% with you.

What's unhealthy is the constant push of "body positivity" even when the models are obviously morbidly obese.

We should only be seeing healthy weight images.

And don't come at me with bullshit about how some fat people are healthy. They aren't. I say that as someone who was fat. Morbidly obese even. 80kg at 5ft6 is in no way healthy.

What's wrong with using people within a spectrum of healthy weight? Lower and upper, but no extreme?

Also sick of seeing all slim, toned women being labelled as anorexic. Seeing muscles isn't indicative of being underweight FFS.

The pictures have been altered to make her waist smaller, especially the one on the right. Today's aesthetic is a small waist in comparison to hips and I think a lot of models don't have this, being straight and lean all the way down. If they had left her natural waist it would look broader. Agree entirely with the wider issues around portrayal of women's bodies, but I'm not sure its having the effect on women people think in terms of eating disorders. Few young women today strive for a very this extremely thin look, and most would not wish to look like the women in the pictures, as aspirational body shapes today are much larger and stronger looking. Obviously the whole idea of aspirational body shapes is a huge issue, but this one is no more concerning than any other.

Also sick of seeing all slim, toned women being labelled as anorexic. Seeing muscles isn't indicative of being underweight FFS.

Those aren’t slim toned women. They’re ridiculous photoshopped caricatures. No one’s abs actually look like that. They’ve merged a person with a corrugated iron panel.

Those abs look weirdly photoshopped.

YANBU

I actually agree in general with the mumsnet narrative that we've slightly lost slight of what a healthy weight looks like, but the women in these pictures do not look healthy and slim. They look severely underweight. I presume there's some kind of photoshopping gone on here.

They do look anorexic to me.

I don't think the images are real.

Just look at the website. They are not "anorexic looking". It's bad photoshop on slim women
Also, how about some "binge eating disorder looking"? Or is it just anorexia being a fair play...

We should only be seeing healthy weight images.

We'd need a working definitely of what healthy weight is first.

BMI is piss poor. Leaving aside the obvious overweight athletes issue, there is evidence to suggest that a "overweight" individuals may have healthier outcomes than lower end range "healthy weight". This is owing to the way early studies grouped overweight individuals with obese.

So a healthy weight may not actually be skinny and adjusting our expectations to think it is deeply harmful.

It certainly isn't malformed photoshopped skinny.

On their site the exact images don't look as bad. Still photoshopped but I think that during resizing and whatever for the ad the pics have gone pretty wrong

Those images look photoshopped to me too. The models look weirdly stretched. They are not 'offensive' to me but if they popped up on my screen I'd definitely do a double take.

Like other posters though, I very much object to the use of the word anorexic to describe complete strangers whose medical history you know nothing about. I thought the world had moved on from this kind of labelling and terminology, but apparently not.

I was this size in my early 20s. I find it offensive that you're assuming they're anorexic. Yes, they look stick thin, but they don't look any less healthy than models who are size 24. That's grossly unfair.

On every thread like this there are always a few people who, when faced with an extremely thin woman (whether photoshopped or not) who declare that we've all got so fat that we have lost sight of a healthy weight and that the woman in the picture ( even if she looks positively skeletal) looks perfectly healthy to them.
Every time.
It's horseshit. We can still tell if someone is overweight or obese. And we can see clearly when someone looks far too thin.

Dress sizes may have been changed for some reason but that was decades ago now. They've been the same for most of my adult life. And in any case, I can assure you I know I'm too fat and would know it whether my dress size was labelled a 10 or a 20.