Comments on: 20 Expert Quotes on Skinny Models, Fashion Guidelines, Anorexia and Body Image

By: MF

MF — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:49:00 +0000

Funny how Tyra Banks struts around in a bathing suit at 160 lbs and the headline says “you call this fat?” and people defend her saying she was so brave, bold and beautiful to do this…and then Britney Spears performs in a bikini at the MTV awards after having 2 children and people attack her body saying she was unfit and flabby?!?! Everyone is equally as responsible as the media and fashion industries because we all pass judgements. What should be important is not how much a person weighs but if they are healthy and neither being overweight or underweight is. We shouldn’t be promoting extreme thiness, but we also shouldn’t be commending being ‘curvaceous’ when the person is in fact overweight. Let’s promote positive body images and good health.

By: Dorez

Dorez — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:41:16 +0000

Imogen, I love your comment. It’s the truth. Fashion is a business and consumers better be aware of that. My daughter & I have a fashion line (Jahqoi) and we specialize in plus-size clothing. What I’ve found is that some full-figured women don’t want to pay designer prices for their clothes. They say they want more stylish, quality clothing, but then they complain about the prices. The fact is, designers (and the fashion industry) go where the money is.

I also agree with Catherine Schuller’s comments… that we need to see a mix of sizes on the runway. But once again, I can assure you that’s not going to happen if plus-size women aren’t buying the clothes.

I hope all of this discussion about models & celebrities being too thin will at least get us all thinking about where we really stand on this issue. We need to stop supporting designers who use these unhealthy models, and we need to support those who promote ‘normal’ looking women.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:35:47 +0000

I hate the image Janice Dickinson and others are giving to young girls and women out there - but what I LOVE is Tyra Banks’ response to a not-so-flattering picture of her that was recently published. Putting the EXACT same bathing suit on and strutting around on stage really reinforced her confidence in herself, even though she has put on a little bit of weight. Claiming she weighs 160 pounds, she said she is completely happy with the way she looks, and I love how People Magazine put Tyra on the cover with the headline, “You call this fat?”. VERY stunning, VERY classy, and VERY beautiful!!!

By: Strollerderby : Janice Dickinson Wants Your Kids to be Anorexic

Strollerderby : Janice Dickinson Wants Your Kids to be Anorexic — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:42:03 +0000

[…] Wow. I knew Janice Dickinson was a nut job, but I didn’t know that she actively wished eating disorders on children. Seriously. This is a direct quote from an article in the New York Post by Deborah Starr Seibel - “‘I’m dying to find kids who are too thin. I’ve got 42 models in my agency and I’m trying to get them to lose weight. In fact, I wish they’d come down with some anorexia.’ When you laugh at such politically incorrect statements, Dickinson yells back, ‘I’m not kidding. I’m running into a bunch of fat-assed, lazy little bitches who don’t know how to do the stairs or get their butts into the gym’. ” I have spent a lot of time on my personal blog complaining about what the media is doing to kids and bitching that nobody should be surprised that so many adolescent and teenaged girls (and now even much younger children) end up with anorexia or bulimia. With all the talk on banning ultra-thin models, I had started believing that the fashion industry might be trying to promote healthier body images. But then I read about Janice Dickinson. My point being, nobody, for the love of God, sign your daughter (or son) up with Janice Dickinson’s modeling agency. […]

By: Keith Sanderson

Keith Sanderson — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:45:53 +0000

There is certain arrogance among some, perhaps many people in the fashion industry. An example is the current attempt to trivialize anorexia nervosa, as witnessed by ex super model now supreme super mouth Janice Dickinson when she said she wished her 42 models “would come down with some anorexia.”
Statements like this indicate how ineffective guidelines are in the fashion industry when there are persons such as Ms. Dickinson declaring the guidelines are “bull.”

Further evidence of the disregard of some, perhaps many in the industry regarding their employees and the images they present to impressionable adolescents is their continued focus on the models and not the industry impact on its customers and public in establishing what “looks right” and what is “in.”
The industry spends untold millions of advertising and marketing dollars on skinny models that display the wares of the industry. It is obvious all in the industry believe their marketing expenditures have an impact on the viewing public or they would not be so extravagant. How can the same industry then ignore the impact their too skinny models have upon the people who see them?
I ask who in the industry has said? “Shame on you MS Dickinson, I am not going to use your agency.”