Is anyone else cross that the Next model looks on the verge of anorexia?

[WilfSell]

I think the catalogue one of the most widely recognised retailers in the UK, pored over by countless young girls no doubt, should NOT feature a model who is so thin she looks ill.

Her upper thighs and arms are just about the same or perhaps thinner than the lower and her face is getting that 'stretched' look where you can see odd muscles.

I really don't think it is on.

On the picture that BALD linked to... her arms dont look normal, surely they have been airbrushed to some degree.
(not that that makes the pictures ok of course!)

But can you not see there is a difference in being naturally skinny and being bullied for being different and in a minority [just as obese children are] and presenting that very unusual skinniness as the perfect ideal which puts an enormous amount of pressure on girls and young women to starve themselves? And if you are not aware that eating disorders are rife amongst the modelling and acting profession then you are a bit deluded.

I (used to be) naturally v skinny (until after dd2) and was also bullied at school for being mega-thin. I was not however, a representation of a good, healthy body - and neither are these models. Kiera Knightley gets a lot of stick for being 'too skinny' and to me she looks far better and healthier than these.

How odd badietbuddy. I suffered from anorexia myself. Have you?

No pofarced, bulimia was my ed of choice. I had an aunt who died from anorexia a few years ago after suffering for more than 20 years. Anorexia, or any eating disorder, is not about trying to emulate images in magazines. It goes much deeper than that

I agree with badiet, but from an academic position, noy a sufferer's/recoverer's

But still it is a factor and shouldn't be ignored...

You misread my post badietbuddy. I said it is 'triggered' by images of women in the media'. It requires many other things to develop, including feelings of low self worth. But there are many girls who start by trying to starve themselves to fit a presented ideal, and then it spirals out of control.

It is interesting how some women manage to recover fully and some women never escape its stranglehold. I'm sorry about your aunt badiet.

God - those photos are dreadful.

Quite odd really - sort of expect it with high fashion but not next.

Those models def look too thin and badly airbrushed.

They do look odd, as in not anatomically possible (some of them).

Bad airbrushing / changing their shape?

Now all the lingerie models look lovely. Slim, but curvy

But I guess that's because they have to have tits and hips?

except for this one, who made me guffaw with her boiled-egg smuggling habit.

she has got terrible razor rash if you zoom in ooochie

Arf
But considering their obvious over-fondness for the old airbrush, they could have done something about that poor girl in the first links' 5 o clock shadow

sorry to be all serious but actually I really think it stinks, using very skinny models who have breast enlargements as lingerie models. People who have large breasts usually have quite fleshy figures.

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oooo the one in the pale grey suit looks like you could snap her leg off if you bumped into her....

Exactly po. I was lightheartedly trying to make that point. The au naturel ones just are more rounded all over. And the one with two bald men pushed up under her chin has got awful plastic implants and does indeed look like a freak.

But no-one is fooled by those implants surely.

Bloody Next though. Is it too much to expect a bit of social responsibility from these massive companies?

We need mrsBaldwin over here

Agree that those images are particularly severe and not what I would expect from Next.

Also agree with Jajas that thin women are open to a level of derision that would be deemed unacceptable if applied to larger women.

I am a size 8-10. I used to be "naturally" thin, no matter what I ate but these days I find that I gain weight very easily if I overindulge or if my meds aren't quite doing their job (I have underactive thyroid and have regular checks to make sure meds are at right level). I also gained an incredible amount of weight during my first pregnancy (7 stone - I kid you not - I ate for England due to severe depression) so I do understand what it's like to be larger too (a size 20 at my biggest).

However, women do appear to feel they have a free pass to make all kinds of comments about "skinny minnies", actually being called "skinny" I don't find particularly flattering either, and a variety of other terms apply. They also assume that you have no concept of what a fat day might feel like, which is total rubbish. If your clothes feel tight, or you have pigged out all weekend, you are going to have a fat day whether you are an 8 or an 18.

TBH if the clothes look as bad as they do on these extremely skinny models then they will look truly crap on the average British woman.

Next didn't used to use such skinny models, what on Earth are they thinking?

It is surprising that a large company would use emaciated models , I thought the tide was turning in regards woman's sizes in the media.
Obviously wrong.