Inquiry urges health checks for models
Friday September 14 2007 The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,,2169390,00.html
Summary:
Models for London Fashion Week should provide medical certificates to prove they’re healthy and not suffering from eating disorders. Having a minimum Body Mass Index rule (MBI) is insufficient as a model can easily tamper with that by ‘binge eating’ just before they’re weighed for the BMI calculation, then starve themselves to quickly bring it down again. ‘The Model Health Inquiry’ has made published a final report with recommendations. Models ought to be at least 16 years old for instance and if younger should need a chaperone. The younger models are both too vulnerable and prepubescent model figures are impossible to aqcuire by any healthy means for older models.
Comments: I have always thought the modern western society’s fashion ideal was too harsh. Why should we be dead skinny? Is it sexy to show the skeletal layout? Is it healthy to allow oneself to be forced into either starvation or creating an unnatural and unhealthy diet for the sole purpose of weight loss utilising unblanced diets like that of Montignac, or even worse The South Beach diet? I don’t think so. Besides, the whole fashion ideal is a health hazard, leading to eating disorders, depressions and even suicide. Also, the whole obsession with physical beauty is just off, I don’t like the beauty ideal and the impact it has on pe
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The fould that models are skinny is of the media and the stylist that makes the dresses. You had to be a'"skelet" to wear the dresses when you were walking on the catwalk. And when you have a few kilo overweight what they supposed to mean with overweight, then in all gossip magazines they talk about there cellulitis and there "unheilthy look". Sometimes it looks very afwul seeing these girl walking like a ghost. Skinny isn't always beautifull as many people think. When you look healthy that's what beauty actually is.
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