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.

I have very good sized boobs thank-you very much and am small framed
although bf takes it out of them
but i can tell when i lose too much weight, i lose weight from the breast tissue

Arriety - I am naturally a size 6 and have had flak at school etc. But I have to agree those girls look very odd.

I think they are skinny but I bet they have been airbrushed to make them look thinner. Some of the photos don't look humanly possible.

Rofl about the razor rash.
DO you think they have published the draft copy of the next catalogue?

I don't get why skinny people get upset by this

You are the ideal beautiful body shape - every billboard tells you so

You should be proud - I would be out there in my knickers snogging boys

skinny and thin seem normal words to me
Can't use the word 'fat' anymore, are we going that way with thin/skinny?
Emaciated, that's not nice
Cachectic also not a great adjective

There are some gorgeous women out there who are petite and large breasted Darrell - Salma Hayek for example. But she is not bony.

Cachectic - ew. had to look it up

Going to pub now to stuff self with curry to add extra weight to fat arse

I've actually just got dressed up nice, like, and noticed I've got Massive Christmas Breasts! Hurrah!

Petite refers to short women.

yah you can be petite and chubby

My issue with this is that I have a 17 year old DD who has a fab figure. She is a real old fashioned hour glass with a small waist and curves but she says all the time that shes fat because she compares herself with the images she sees in the media. She is an intelligent girl and this frustrates me so much. The use of these thin models does have an impact on girls growing up who see it as the norm and don't undertstamd about the amuount of airbrushing that goes on.

Ahem, petite can mean small-framed. [arse notwithstanding ]

Slim is different to skinny. If you can't say skinny how do you differentiate between slim and skinny? I am slim. [size 10/12] I used to be skinny. [size 6/8]

Thanks for posting all these Wilf. As someone else has said, I'm not surprised that the super skinny model has not disappeared from high fashion yet, but to see them in the bloody Next catalogue is ... shocking, yes, very shocking.

To the naturally skinny amongst us, please don't take this personally, please don't feel defensive about your body weight, I am not saying that skinny women are unattractive or anything else, but surely you can see and acknowledge from the world around you that extreme thinness is a biological rarity?

I have one very thin friend. She is 45 and I have known her 20 years and she is and always has been the thinnest person I know. She is 5'8" and weighs 8 and a half stone. Out of all the hundreds of people I know she is definitely the thinnest (without an eating disorder) but she seems positively portly alongside some of these examples.

Perhaps this should be a campaign Mumsnet puts its matronly weight behind.

Tulpe, I think it's because we all know that, ummmm, say 2% of women are naturally very thin... the other 98% have to work at it incredibly hard.

I'd never say anything to a thin woman. oy put weight on cos you're making me feel bad! (i am happy being a 'normal' 12. I feel under no obligation to be thin.

Like WillSelf, It's Next I'm cross with.

The clothes aren't nice and the models make them look worse. They are just bad pictures and on that basis alone shouldn't have got through. Having said that, I agree that the models look too thin whether that's natural, eating disorder or airbrushing.

I also took loads of flak for naturally being of model proportions(fotunately am a size bigger now). Most men aren't attracted to that bodyshape and other women believe that only curvy girls are 'real women' and you can only be thin and ill and think it's absolutely ok to say this to you. Very odd.

Next is crap anyway...

< puts style and beauty hat on >

My dd (14) has a figure identical to the tall gangly blonde one adn I think she is tooo thin

It all depends on how much she eats cybils. If she eats normally, then fine.

jajas and wahwah, i never say anything to thin women in real life, i never even think anything... what bugs me is next present this euber thinness as something that could be achieved by just eating healthily and jogging, ykwim?

it can't be. not only do they need to be genetically slender to start with, they also need to reduce their calorie intake dramatically. They do.... the percentage of the population that is 1) tall, 2) attractive enough to be a model 3) naturally very thin is really quite a small percentage.

Less than 1% Maggie, and then you have to reduce it again to get the right age group - which is what nowadays, 15 - 28?

It's been linked before, but I'm

If they can show pubic stubble, surely they can show some fat.