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Model with flabby tummy shocks the world

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MmeLindt · 03/09/2009 08:06

According to the Daily Mail

How sad is that? That we are so used to the airbrushed perfection of models that a tiny pic of a normal woman causes such a fuss.

She is 5ft 11in and 12 1/2st and is considered too big to model plus sizes

I think she looks fab. I have a wee tummy just like hers and she has made me feel much better about it.

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MrsPigeon · 03/09/2009 09:06

I think she looks lovely.

For what it's worth, I would guess that the reason she has the roll on her stomach is because she lost a lot of weight as a teenager, so she used to have a larger tummy which has now shrunk. If you are overweight when you are young and then lose weight then you do lose definition on your stomach, just like after a baby - my BMI is 21, I've not had a baby and I'm not overweight, but my stomach looks like hers. Yes, carrying extra fat around your middle can be unhealthy but she's lost weight and has a healthy BMI, good for her. And the big smile on her face shows she knows she looks gorgeous, which is the most attractive thing of all. The Guardian reported that she now has more work than she can handle and has been told by her agency not to lose weight, lucky her!

Personally I found it interesting how people have reacted to this - I found it almost shocking to see a picture of someone looking like her in the press, even though she looks totally normal.

troutpout · 03/09/2009 09:12

Pah
Call that a blardy tummy?
Pah...i laugh in that face of that tiny excuse for a tummy

EleanoraBuntingCupcake · 03/09/2009 09:12

well yes noddy i am gorgeous too obviously!

Lizzylou · 03/09/2009 09:13

A good friend of mine is very slim, very healthy and runs 6 miles about 4 times a week. She has always had a tummy, even when she was 18, even though the rest of her body has no excess fat at all and is toned and lean. She used to be very conscious of it, she even went to the doctors about it, but she has no medical condition, that is just the way her body is.

We are all built differently, this you have to be this size/shape/weigh this much rubbish is very blinkered and not at all true.

CheerfulYank · 03/09/2009 09:14

Oh WHATEV. I think she looks quite pretty.

belgo · 03/09/2009 09:16

Plumprumpsoggybaps:

'As for the ladies in Paris- well, unless they're walking around in their underwear or a bikini, it's not really a fair comparison. Magic knickers, good posture and wise dressing make an enormous difference.'

I think you can probably add liposuction and tummy tucks to that list, regarding the posh ladies of Paris.

Niecie · 03/09/2009 09:22

I suspect she is an apple shape and any excess weight she might have is carried on her middle. I had a completely flat tummy at 20 but had an arse the size of Hampshire because I am pear shaped. Not much you can do about it either way - the distribution of fat is in the genes.

I would have been very happy to look like this model though. Doesn't really matter if she does have a bit of extra skin as she is perfectly healthy as many others have said.

As for French women being more chic, I would disagree, it is only women from Paris - the rest of the country are no more chic than the rest of Europe. Can't say I feel I stand out in the crowd when I go to other parts of France and I am very far from chic!!

I also agree with Noddyholder that it shows in your face if you are too thin and I would rather be smooth of cheek and large of bottom than scrawny, thin and showing my age.

Lizzylou · 03/09/2009 09:24

It says in the Guardian that the model had lost 60lbs when she was a teen, so it is very likely that her tummy is excess skin.

gingerbunny · 03/09/2009 09:25

fab pic i wish i looked like that!

belgo · 03/09/2009 09:26

I agree, it looks like excess skin, and that's nigh on impossible to get rid of without surgery.

Is it possible to be an apple and a pear shape? Because I think I'm both

wastingmyevening · 03/09/2009 09:29

That's what I immediately thought looking at the picture Lizzy, it's a deflated tummy. Nothing you can do about that, bar surgery.

nikki1978 · 03/09/2009 09:34

Personally Anna I think it is people like you who cause the insecurity so many of us have with our weight. To say that this woman is unhealthy is ridiculous. She looks slim, has a healthy BMI (dcotors have said it is healthier to have a BMI that is at the top range of healthy not the bottom) and is not fat in any sense of the word.

I am not particularly of the mindset that big is beautiful when we are taking about obese and morbidly obese people who are putting their health at risk. However to suggest that everyone should have a flat stomach and be completely firmed and toned is ridiculous. Show that picture to any medical professional and I'm sure not one of them would say that small amount of fat is enough to cause health problems.

I have been very large before (14st) and very slim (9st). At the moment I am about 10. I am as healthy now as I was at my slimmest but a bit more wobbly. I would not go back to being 14st again as it was unhealthy but I have some excess skin on my tummy from babies and weight loss that will never go away (much like this lady appears to have). I have learnt to accept myself with this tummy as I refuse to go under the knife for vanity. Opinions like yours make me very angry tbh.

RubberDuck · 03/09/2009 09:37

I have a BMI of 18.9. (8 stone, 5'4"). I exercise at least 45 mins 5 times a week. I do a martial art for 2.5 hrs once a week. I also do chin ups (only about 5, 3 times a week), pushups (50, 3 times a week), crunches (100, 3 times a week). I consider myself fit and healthy.

I STILL have a stomach like that .

Would love to know how the Paris ladies get a "healthy" flat stomach without serious surgery...

mollyroger · 03/09/2009 09:38

I have low end of normal bmi and she looks much better than I do - I have that fold of tummy but if I lost any weight I'd be unhealthily thin.

RubberDuck · 03/09/2009 09:39

(Have to say, the rest of me is getting fairly toned now, but I have given up all hope of my stomach ever getting flat...)

belgo · 03/09/2009 09:47

Nikki1978:
I thought it was the other way round, a BMI at the lower end of normal is healthier then one at the higher end of normal.

(btw, good luck with your maths test, I think it's you, and I think it's today?)

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MmeLindt · 03/09/2009 09:53

I have a BMI of 28 so am overweight. I am trying to loose weight but am finding it difficult. My target weight is 65kg which would put me at a BMI of 25, the top of the BMI range.

I know that I would look better at 65kg, but I am pretty sure that I will still have a baby tummy. I did before I put on the weight.

Having someone think that even at 65kg I would still not look good is quite disheartening. And I do think that even at 74kg that I can look chic AND sexy (if that is possible).

When I look at pictures of myself I think that I look good. But I could look better. That is my motivation.

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nikki1978 · 03/09/2009 09:57

Belgo - maybe, only I saw an article recently that said it was better to be a 24 than a 19 on the BMI scale as it is more healthy to be slightly podgy than veering towards being underweight.

Thank you - exam was yesterday! Passed and am now signed up for Maths and Biology AS for this year (will do the A2s next year).

noddyholder · 03/09/2009 09:58

Thank you niecie I think english uk women are sooooo lovely in comparison to their more chi chi counterparts in france.

belgo · 03/09/2009 09:58

That's great Nikki! Well done!

(sorry for hijack)

kathyis6incheshigh · 03/09/2009 09:59

I thought one of the problems with BMI was that if you're taller it tends to overestimate how thin you need to be, if shorter it tends to underestimate.
So if you're short you can have a BMI within the range but actually need to lose weight, and if tall vice versa? So the model is probably fine but some of us who are shorter and supposedly have good BMIs may actually need to lose a bit.
It's a very very blunt instrument....

NorkilyChallenged · 03/09/2009 09:59

Anna = you must wake up every day so thankful that you live in Paris.

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MmeLindt · 03/09/2009 10:01

Kathy
Dooooooooooooooooooooooon't say that. I am struggling to get within my BMI and am such a shortarse.

I have put a pic on my profile.

It is weird because sometimes I look at myself and think that I am ok as I am. If it were not for outside influence then I would not bother trying to loose the weight.

And the fact that it is so difficult to get decent fitting clothes.

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kathyis6incheshigh · 03/09/2009 10:05

sorry
I am massive at the moment because I'm pregnant and the only way I can keep the nausea under control is constant eating. Losing weight when baby is here is going to be a big job....

ReneRusso · 03/09/2009 10:08

That's seriously bad news, I'm a shortarse too.
MmeLindt, Daphne looks a cutie. How's her BMI? She looks like the vain type who would starve herself to keep her figure.