Is this irresponsible of Boden or am I being over sensitive?

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as the mother of a child with anorexia. This kind of model being used by Biden is irresponsible

Wait is that what you think vanity sizing is? 🙈 clothes shrinking in wardrobes?

My DD is that size. She's not anorexic. We are not white. I was that size at that age too. Eating 3 meals a day. I am not any more, in my 50s.

Dd looks like that. 6 feet tall.

I can imagine that a thin model is triggering for those with eating disorders but clothing companies have to represent different sizes and body shapes to sell clothes.
I am thin (naturally thin) and want to see models with my body shape modelling clothes that I might buy.

It’s mad isn’t it.

If you look up many brands - for example all the Arcadia ones they all shifted up by one size. I remember when I was at uni it happened. I even saw someone write a blog on it where they compared labels and measured stuff.

So an 8, used to be a 34. Then they made an 8 a 36. (Which was the old size 10). So if you were an 8, to get a true size 8 you had to start buying a size 6.
It was Topshop, Dorothy Perkins etc and then stores like Oasis. warehouse and Debenhams did it too.

My petite friend who was a size 6 suddenly had no clothes in her size- but then they brought in size 4 in the petite departments, but it was just the real size 6.

Back then a lot of those type of brands like that went up to size 14, so it meant women who were a size 16 could then buy their clothes and the brands hoped to sell more as the women were happy buying something with a label on saying 14.

Why they couldn’t just sell a real size 16 with the label on saying that! But it’s all for £££

It looks like it's been photoshopped - the top half of her body is out of proportion to the bottom. Which is obviously problematic in itself.

You won't get sensible answers though...it's MN, and everybody has a teenage daughter who is 6 foot tall, weighs 6 stone and eats like a horse.

Agree OP. She looks emaciated rather than slim.

Or some of us are not white- like the model- and built differently. We don't all need to look the same.

No she is absolutely not a healthy weight and it's dangerous to say she is.

It isn't irresponsible because the company is not aimed at young people. Had it been Zara or H&M, I would have thought differently. More widely, I think it is a shame that the 'true to life' more curvy models have been ditched for the super skinny again. That doesn't help anybody.

Personally I find the Snag models more dangerous.
My GP says my DD- whose bones are visible like the model- is a healthy weight.

I was naturally like that until my 40s. No anorexia, I just had a naturally small appetite.

A so-called friend still spread it around that I was anorexic, though - because I’d once declined biscuits at her house (horrible custard creams.). At the time I preferred a fag with my coffee anyway. She was the sort of moderately overweight person who’s endlessly on a diet they never stick to.

She’s very thin and above all looks weak. I wouldn’t react to the thin so much if she looked healthy and active.

I used to look like that, but with a smaller waist, & I certainly wasn't anorexic.

I've looked at all the models in the Boden bikini pages online.

The blonde model is very slim. I'd not label her anorexic, because that's a medical diagnosis, not just an image of someone who is thin.

But she's very very slim. Her collar bones protrude. I think it's a mistake to use models this thin because it creates an unrealistic 'ideal' that women have to try to achieve.

I'm slim (47kgs) but I'd need to starve myself to look like that . I still carry fat on my middle.

I am all for people being slim and healthy but those models are pushing the boundaries.

It is just possible the images are photoshopped/ AI.

Same. I had this figure naturally until I had my child in my early 20s. I ate like a horse but I was also very active.

I had a phase in my 40s where I was too heavy, but all OK again with the help of a bit of Orlistat and much healthier eating and working out.

Oh I had that too. I was a naturally skinny schoolgirl, and one day on the tube home, my sister's stupid friend screamed out loud that I was an anorexic who didn't eat. No idea where she got that from, as I ate very well!

I am not sure about irresponsible as such, but I am said to see the return of heroine chic in the fashion world. I was enjoying the move towards more diversity, now we seem to be heading back to the 90s Kate Moss era.

Yes I agree. It would be different if all models were that size and enforcing a false norm.

Also if someone is that sensitive to be triggered by one photo, this is a MH issue not a problem with the model or the company. A person who is really that vulnerable mentally probably shouldn't be online looking at models or possibly online at all.

The model’s right arm does look exceptionally slim and her right shoulder looks off. There is very unlikely to be a shoulder pad in that beach t shirt and yet that’s what it looks like. So I think the photo is off, although I’m not against the use of slim models

I think you’re being weird… she looks no different to any other slim model and some people look like that naturally.

The photo does look like it’s been stretched to me. Her torso is really long.

All the models do seem to be that size, at least in the swimsuit section

My collarbones protrude and my BMI is 21… you don’t have to be that thin to have collarbones.

But she's very very slim. Her collar bones protrude.

That doesn't mean anything, some people have more prominent collar bones than others. Just because you would have to be significantly underweight to have collar bones that looked like that doesn't make this person underweight.

I have very skinny/bony ankles. Some people wouldn't have ankles that skinny without being significantly underweight. It doesn't mean I'm underweight.

I don't insist that anyone who has a thigh gap must be underweight because i have a BMI of 20 and no thigh gap. I'm just aware that bodies come in different shapes and sizes.