John Lewis Website models TOO skinny? TW

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Thought I would add one for John Lewis as people were discussing M&S models.

JL landing page really shocked me.
The arms.
I know we should celebrate all women, but I find this rather a disturbing and retrogressive look.
Disclaimer:
Yes I understand thin women are real women, no I do not celebrate morbid obesity and yes I am a tall slim woman who lived through heroin chic 90s and the stick thin 00s size 00 Rachel Zoe celeb craze and it harmed my body image and resulted in an ED.

Now even JL is trying to be down with the kids and high fashion, thrusting this look in my face. Has nothing been learned?!
Not sure why I blurred some of the faces. I don’t want to attack the individuals but the overall look of the site.
If JL see this- It reminds me of ED thinspo pages from back in the day!!!!!

CLICK TO OPEN PHOTOS FULLY.
Am I being unreasonable to expect more responsible imagery from JL?

My arms are thinner than that! Get a grip.

I’m a uk 14/16/18 depending on brand so I’m definitely not thin, I don’t personally feel that those particular models are too thin (especially if there are other models also used of different sizes/proportions)
Yes, I can agree they are very thin arms but they don’t scream too thin where they are only achieved by disordered eating. They’re on the cusp but they do have some lean muscle they’re not completely bone and sinew.

As a slim woman, please don’t. I used to get this all the time when I was younger, Jones about my weight, people saying I didn’t eat, people grabbing my waist or wrists. I come from a really slim family, my dad is a thin man. I eat fine, I match my husband most of the time. I hate how it’s acceptable to comment on slimmer women’s bodies and say this sort of thing.

Prople come in all shapes and sizes. I don’t comment nastily on any other bodies, so why do you have the right to comment on bodies like mine?

the JL website has a range of sizes of models.

I think there are a range of sizes but not shapes. Models, unless for petite ranges, are usually tall, nearly always hourglass shape etc. I’d like to see true diversity and basically normal looking people

What's the point scrubbing out the faces in one picture and leaving it in the next? In any case the are professional models who want to get their faces known so it seems high handed to censor them.

The photos have clearly been photo shopped becasue the woman in the blue top, her face doesnt match the size of her arms

I thought the other woman was in the Marks thread?

I can never get into John Lewis links from this site for some reason, it always comes up with an error

Stop complaining about other women's arms.

They look normal.

@Joker01

"As a slim woman, please don’t. I used to get this all the time when I was younger, Jones about my weight, people saying I didn’t eat, people grabbing my waist or wrists. I come from a really slim family, my dad is a thin man. I eat fine, I match my husband most of the time. I hate how it’s acceptable to comment on slimmer women’s bodies and say this sort of thing."

Exactly this. It still goes on today. People find it totally acceptable to comment on young girls' (and women's) figures and tell them they're "too thin", "unhealthy" etc, when some are just naturally that size. My children are naturally slim, as are the whole family going back generations. Children and adults think it's perfectly acceptable to comment on their body shape. It's rude, upsetting and entirely unnecessary. Threads like this are awful. Would it be acceptable to post photos of large models and claim they're unhealthy and setting a bad example? I'm fairly sure posts like that would get taken down.

John Lewis have a range of model sizes, as they should. A quick look on their website shows a large variety of sizes.

I don't think they're that thin. I'm similar. We've lost sight of what it looks like
to not be overweight

Oh now you've done it, someone will be along soon to make that tiresome bingo joke

I remember one birthday sobbing because a man in a shop had been talking about my weight very loudly to another person in my earshot. It’s so bizarre. People just assume you have an eating disorder when actually, bodies are weird things and genetics affect them. We seem to have accepted that some people are larger, in fact larger bodies are celebrated, but bodies under a size 8 are still seen as bad things to be discussed, analysed and ridiculed.

There have been issues with underweight models in the past, especially on the runway, but I think when a brand is using a range of different bodies to represent their clothes then surely that’s all it is, a range of different bodies?

@Joker01

I too remember coming home from school in tears on occasions because of the constant comments. I don't think people realise how upsetting it is to have people comment negatively on your natural body shape. My children are now experiencing the same thing. Thankfully they're resilient and try to ignore most of it. Teen girls especially can be very cruel, but to be honest it ultimately comes from adults; threads like these show that. One of mine has even been accused of body shaming by wearing Brandy Melville clothes, because not everyone can fit into those clothes!

People making unwelcome remarks about your shape/size isn't because you're thin (or fat). It's because you're female. People 'joke' about thin, fat, tall, short men, too - but nowhere near as often or as freely as they comment on women's bodies.

I think thats completely incorrect. Men take the piss out of each other for beer bellies, being fat, being bald, growing the wrong beard, not enough of a beard, you've only got to hear a load of them at a table in a pub or restaurant, they're ribbing each other and talking about others that they know in ways that women would never do to their friends

They’ve gone back to using models. Thats what models do, model clothes.
I find the current trend for using androgynous looking models more annoying than size. Totally shapeless clothes, far too big for the model. God forbid I might want to buy something that looks vaguely attractive 🙄

They look fine to me. We've become used to everyone being overweight these days.

Exactly this.
The best websites I have seen for clothes will have the item modelled by about 3 different models, one say size 6, one size 12 and one size 18, you can get an idea of what it might look like on your own size.

Skinny.

I’ve just googled this brand as I’ve never heard of it. Body shaming?! The models look totally normal size! If someone can’t get into their clothes, sounds like it’s very much a them problem! How utterly bizarre

But a lot of people ARE this skinny? So it is representative of a lot of women

OP whats your problem model looks good nothing wrong with her.
Im a big girl myself and i dont care what others think.
Fat thin i dont care.
So many threads lately about fat people and thin people.
If your not happy with your size do something about instead of slagging other of to make you self feel better.

Mine do 🙅‍♀️

From just scrolling through the women’s section, I would say most of the women are slim depending on the collection. There wasn’t one model that I would consider skinny to the point of concern.

They look normal to me.

As I understand it you can complain to the ASA (advertising standards authority) so Fill Your Boots love x