Should skinny and underweight fashion models be banned elsewhere, as in Spain?

Question

From today's headlines:

MADRID (Reuters) - The world's first ban on overly thin models at a top-level fashion show in Madrid has caused outrage among modeling agencies and raised the prospect of restrictions at other venues.

Madrid's fashion week has turned away underweight models after protests that girls and young women were trying to copy their rail-thin looks and developing eating disorders.

Organizers say they want to project an image of beauty and health, rather than a waif-like, or heroin chic look.......

Answer 1

I think its a great idea man, i used to watch the skinny models and they looked so bad they didnt even look like models to me, but it'll be fun to watch the curvy nice models, mmmmmmmmmmmmm

Answer 2

I think they should adopt a policy where proper diet and exercise are encouraged but not enforced as a rule. I wouldn't know but I think that it is easy for some of them to get trapped in the fast life of cocaine and partying, as with most of us they are humans as well, which entitles them to make a few mistakes. In the mean time I wouldn't expect any big boned models to be grazing down the runway. If it were up to me they would have slightly larger breasts[about the size of a half of grapefruit or cantaloupe].

Answer 3

that is approximately time the kind international and hollywood began taking accountability for the photographs of great skinny women persons they challenge. i think of that's an excellent ingredient that there became a ban of very skinny fashions in Madrid. i desire the ban is going international. i'm sick and bored with the twisted messages that the kind international and hollywood sends out in recent times that to be considered as attractive, you should be stick skinny. Nicole Richie is one in all those unhappy photographs shown international huge. i do by no ability pick to look as skinny as her or women persons like Madonna or Keira Knightly or Teri Hatcher. all of them look so horribly gaunt with their cheekbones so sharp, you should cut back your finger on em, and tiny waif like physique's that look very unrealistic and unappealing. So, i'm prepared on the ban.

Answer 4

No way.

We have enough obesity problems WITH skinny models strutting their stuff. Imagine how out of control the epidemic would get if there was NOTHING to remind us to put down the cake and get out the DDR dancepad. :P

What sort of overeating disorders would we have, if we never had something to work towards?

Answer 5

A big YES. It has become a mental disease of late. The models look dangerously thin and often, they look absolutely stoned with drugs. Being stick thin is abnormal and it has a very bad influence on impressionable young women who'll starve, do drugs, smoke like chimneys to stay thin

Answer 6

It shouldn't be about banning any one particular group. We have slender people in the world and we have larger people. Let's represent them all equally huh? Beats banning anyone!

Answer 7

I hope so, but the fashion people will probably keep the stick girls.

Answer 8

I think they should market the clothes on the size that they are trying to sell to.

Answer 9

Absolutely yes. I'm not talking about substituting them with fat women, but with healthy looking women would be great.

Answer 10

Yes it might make growing up normal for teenangers easier instead of feeling they are overweight