[celstu1]

In the last few months, there have been SOOOOOOOOO many news articles about 'REAL SIZE' models. Women who are size 14 and modeling. People are clapping and cheering and all that .... but its driving me crazy. This one article I read today was a girl who was a size 4 as a teen, they told her she had to get to a size 2 and maintain it to be a model or go up to a size 14 to be a plus size model. She could not model if she were any size in between a 2 and a 14! WTH is that?

I don't think that just because a model is the Average size of women in America, makes her a role model. I think the average size in America is too high (if 60% of the population is considered overweight to obese). Don't you? I mean there are those who are who they are, and weight is an issue, but they are healthy, eat healthy, exercise and overall are healthy and just bigger, and that's that. But do you think we should be (as a society) all happy to see models that go to the opposite end of the spectrum of anorexic models?

I can't understand why a woman can't be a model if they are in the the healthy weight range for their height. If that means a 14, then great, if it means a 4 then great, and any other size in between! I just wonder why you have to be a 00 or a 14+ to be a model, but there are not categories for women who are a size 4- 12?


Just something thats been really bugging me! Models should be a healthy depiction of women, not anorexic or plus size.

Personally I think it's awful, to make a beautiful girl, gain weight to get unhealthy larger than she should be, or lose weight to get unhealthy smaller than she should be just to show off some clothes in a catalog. It's a sick industry!