-Last week Ralph Lauren came under fire for (what looked to be) an extremely altered photo of a model in one of its ads. Bloggers at the website BoingBoing.net posted the image online, and lawyers for Ralph Lauren attempted to sue them for copyright infringement. Unfortunately for Ralph Lauren, this only furthered public interest and outrage over the dangerously thin looking model and, eventually, the clothing company released this apology: "For over 42 years we have built a brand based on quality and integrity. After further investigation, we have learned that we are responsible for the poor imaging and retouching that resulted in a very distorted image of a woman's body. We have addressed the problem and going forward will take every precaution to ensure that the caliber of our artwork represents our brand appropriately."-
Ralph Lauren
Monica Grenfell is horrified. Why? Well, see, this year's Miss England contest has a fairly unique finalist: Chloe Marshall, a size 16 (about a size 14 in U.S. sizes.) Seventeen-year-old Marshall has been quite outspoken about wanting to be "an ambassador for curves" and demonstrate to young girls that it isn't necessary to be a size zero. She says she eats healthy food and exercises regularly. Grenfell, however, is a dietician and she hopes Chloe doesn't win. "It would send an appalling--and very dangerous--message to other young women that it's OK to be fat.
Grenfell makes the point that we don't have an anorexia epidemic, we have an obesity epidemic, and that the last thing girls need to hear is that it's okay to be overweight because it puts you at risk for health problems like Type 2 diabetes and heart attacks. Mmm hmm. Well, we could debate that one all day, but there is certainly no consensus among researchers that obesity itself is the cause of the problems. In other words, the real issue is poor eating habits and a lack of physical activity, not the weight itself. And we certainly have a plethora of extremely thin role models for girls right now, role models whose bodies are not a realistic goal for many of the most active, healthy-eating girls in the world.
Monica Grenfell is horrified. Why? Well, see, this year's Miss England contest has a fairly unique finalist: Chloe Marshall, a size 16 (about a size 14 in U.S. sizes.) Seventeen-year-old Marshall has been quite outspoken about wanting to be "an ambassador for curves" and demonstrate to young girls that it isn't necessary to be a size zero. She says she eats healthy food and exercises regularly. Grenfell, however, is a dietician and she hopes Chloe doesn't win. "It would send an appalling--and very dangerous--message to other young women that it's OK to be fat.
Grenfell makes the point that we don't have an anorexia epidemic, we have an obesity epidemic, and that the last thing girls need to hear is that it's okay to be overweight because it puts you at risk for health problems like Type 2 diabetes and heart attacks. Mmm hmm. Well, we could debate that one all day, but there is certainly no consensus among researchers that obesity itself is the cause of the problems. In other words, the real issue is poor eating habits and a lack of physical activity, not the weight itself. And we certainly have a plethora of extremely thin role models for girls right now, role models whose bodies are not a realistic goal for many of the most active, healthy-eating girls in the world.
Monica Grenfell
Well, these are opinions of two diferent sources about the matter; are overweigh models meant to be models?
Ralph Lauren obviously thinks that no, they are not. They were not satisifed with the way one of their model looked, so they touched and edited her pics -a little too much, if I may say- to make her look skinnier. The Truth? They overdid it quite a bit. Im not saying they shouldn't edit the pictures, but that has unearthly proportions.
On the other side, Monica Grenfell -internationally renowed nutricionist- doesnt like it one bit. I mean, just read what she has to say. It explains itself.
Now, i came to write about this because sombody brought it up in school. In my opinion, i do not think that people with a BMI over 23.5 (overweight limit) should be modeling. But then again, don't get me wrong, i am absolutely NOT saying that overweight people should not exist, Im just saying that clothes, brand advertising and the visual media world should be selective with who they chose as their image.
And, of course, clothes don't look good on an absolute skeleton, but they look nice in somebody merely underweight. An besides the image they give away, there is the health problem. Lately people may think that theres is an anorexic epidemic as Monica Grenfell said. But why do they say that? Because people are actually pressured to try and look good. And they look good in first place, because they are healthy. But, honestly, being overweight is everything but healthy.
What we really have is an obesity plague though. Nowadays, kids care less and less for what they eat, and they will end up fat. I am sorry, but that is the ugly truth. But then again, this is one of a thousand opinions.
So what do you think? Should models be oversize?
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So what do you think? Should models be oversize?
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