Skinny models vs Fat models?

Question

So, Spain banned being too skinny from the catwalk. Now, fat or so-called "healthy" models are being used more in fashion. This is the polar opposite of what was once considered accepted in the fashion world. However, obesity is a bigger problem and takes away more lives in America than anorexia. Instead of skinny models starving themselves or influencing girls to do so, obese models are promoting the idea that being fat is okay. Being obese is definitely not something that should be promoted. A little meat on your bones is okay, but if you weigh a significant amount of weight above average and you're a public figure, you are still not sending the right message. I'm I right? Does any one feel the same way?

Answer 1

It is not promoting fat models. There is no such thing. The Plus Modeling industry has to meet as many requirements as other models. They have to meet height and weight requirements and have to keep physically fit. .
They are doing this to promote models to be healthy not underweight. There is a major problem with anorexia and bulimia in the industry. Not obesity so this is what they are addressing. Just because they don't want the models to look like skeletons doesn't mean they are now wanting them to be fat.
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Answer 2

I have yet to see a truly "fat" woman on a catwalk, except when it is intentionally a show of very fat women. The fashion industry doesn't sponsor those as far as I know.

Healthy is the answer.... not appearance. Too skinny is just as dangerous as too thick.

I've struggled with my weight ever since puberty and recently discovered that a diagnosis of PCOS accounts for much of it. I just started a medication that they say will balance my hormones, control my sugar, lower my cholesterol and bring down my blood pressure. Sounds like a miracle drug... and it's just a commonly prescribed diabetes medication called Glucophage. I'm praying that this works. I read some testimonies of patients who lost a lot of weight to the tune of about 10 lbs or so a month just by taking this.... people with PCOS I mean. If this works... a year from now I want to be 100 lbs thinner!

Be open to people of all sizes, Dear. You sound like you can't handle someone who is overweight at all, and you have no idea what road that person has had to walk, the rejection they suffer from people like you, and the despair of ever being accepted or fitting in with anyone.

Please..... be kind.

Best Wishes,

Sue

Answer 3

You're JOKING, right? These "fat" models you speak of weigh what....like 135 lbs. vs. 105 on a 5'9"-5'11" frame? How can anyone in this world justify that as fat? If you see these girls as fat your mind is just as warped as those poor anorexic skeleton girls who can't keep up a size "0" pants and think they're hot. God didn't make ANYBODY look that way naturally. That should be a big HEADS UP that it is perverted and disgusting.

You obviously have NO IDEA the meaning of the word obese if you use it in the same paragraph to describe the healthy models that now beautifully grace the catwalks.

Do a little more research before you post an asinine question on something you know absolutely nothing about!

Answer 4

I do feel the same way. I think being a little chunky is fine - you are still healthy. But if your doctor says you are in the obese range, then that IS NOT healthy. I'm all for promoting different body types - but by different body types I mean people who have naturally big hips (but aren't obese) people who naturally have small hips and very minuscule butts (but are not obese), people who are tall and thin, people who are short and stalky and muscular, etc. There are many different body types that are out there - without looking at the obese body types. I'm glad that women are objecting to the idea that everyone should look like a runway model - but I don't think they should be ok with obesity.

However, I don't think the models they are using there in place of the dreadfully skinny ones are "obese", or even considered plus size models. And I also bet that the majority of plus size models are not in the obese range! Although I saw one on MTV that was obese. My thoughts are that if you jog (at a reasonable pace) for 30 minutes, 5 times a week (or something equivalent to that) you probably aren't going to be obese. If you CAN'T jog for 30 minutes, you need to do something about that, whether or not you are considered obese. Everyone should be getting 30 minutes of cardio five times a week, and everyone should be able to use their body well enough to jog for 30 minutes, or the equivalent (with the exception of people that have medical problems preventing them from doing so).

Answer 5

That's kind of ridiculous. Our Anglo-American culture is by no means intelligent or mature enough to put any actually "fat" model on a catwalk. Do you consider a size 5 "fat"? An 8? Absurd.

The skeleton aesthetic of the catwalk model has only come about in the last 30 or so years. In the '20s and even until about the '70s, women were portrayed as ruddy, athletic, and healthy. The women who are now preferred are those who actually portray death. Why has the white/bleached/dead aesthetic never been pushed on men in modeling or advertising? Because it is an aesthetic founded and promoted by men. The art of ballet, which (as opposed to the art of modern dance) features impossibly thin and long-limbed women, was also founded and promoted by men. We learn from our culture that the ornamental, delicate woman nearly dead from wasting away is attractive, and that is sick.

It sometimes repulses me that anyone - though I realize many of them are deemed "mentally ill" from unrealistic media messages - is ungrateful enough to starve him or herself. Poor farmers and laborers in China and Bangladesh who can't feed their families would balk at a person so fortunate and yet so ungrateful that she has to starve herself to fit some male-established standard of the female body.

The gender more often "dying" from obesity is not women. We do not need to starve ourselves anymore.

Answer 6

You're completely exaggerating. They banned clinically underweight models. There's this entire spectrum called "healthy" in between "underweight" and "fat". No way are obese women going to be walking the runways at anything but a plus-size show. Designers won't allow that. I do agree that obesity should not be glamourized any more than emaciation should be, but that's not what's happening and I doubt it will happen anytime soon. What's happening in Spain is that they're trying to prevent the idealized portrayal of dangerously thin figures.

Answer 7

Did u know that Marilyn Monroe was a size 12 and was considered the most beautiful women of her time and still is consider very beautiful. I feel that it has just gone from one extreme to another. They have banned skinny models due to the growing depression among teenage girls. There needs to be a middle ground. I think the message they are trying to send is to be happy with yourself and your body. This is a big thing especially among women. They look at the photographs of airbrushed women and they feel very very depressed about their appearance. By promoting larger women it showing other women that you can be confidently sexy what ever size you are. Its not about promoting fatness or skininess its about promoting confidence and happiness with ones self.

Answer 8

I think that each company should have an equal amount of people will various body weights because some people naturally are very thin while others are naturally overweight or close to it.

There shouldn't be one set body type.

Answer 9

thye aren't promoting fat models.. they are using a fat:height ration. Someone who's obese wouldn't qualify. Read more before posting something stupid, stupid

Answer 10

I dont care. People have the right to be either obese or skinny if they want.