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And we wonderw hy teenage girls are starving themselves to death--this is madness--out of control--a distorted world!!!
At size 4, Fashion Week model Coco Rocha, 21, is latest of many women
considered fat by industry
Tuesday, February 16th 2010,
8:57 AM
Smith for News
What the ... ? Coco
Rocha says the demand for her modeling services has gone down because of her
size-4 body.
Kambouris/Getty
"It took a while to grow
the confidence to say, 'This is who I am, take it or leave it,'" Rocha
says.
Slaven Vlasic
Rocha has recently
appeared in Diane von Furstenberg and Zac Posen's Fashion Week shows, but she's
not the only model dealing with the industry's pin-thin weight demand.
So it's come to this.
After all the hype, promises and international outcry, fashion's still
calling normal girls fat.
Coco Rocha is the latest victim of fashion's
irresponsible, unattainable demand that young women - some barely into their
teens - be emaciated.
The 21-year-old top model, an outspoken advocate for industry reform, told The New York Times that demand for her services
has waned, thanks to an occasional hamburger habit.
Sunday, she modeled for Diane von Furstenberg. Monday, she walked in Zac Posen's show.
Look at the pictures.
She's a size 4 - and she's gorgeous.
Gemma Ward, an Australian who quit the business
last year, got attention recently for chunked-up pictures (read: she's got
thighs) that circulated online. One blogger suggested she could get work in the
plus-size biz.
Compare these women with the models getting all the
bookings - stick figures with jutting collarbones, thighs the size of their
ankles and not a whisper of a womanly curve.
They're following in the footsteps of waifs like Kate Moss, who recently gave us her words of
wisdom: "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels."
It didn't feel good for Ana Carolina Reston, the 88-pound Brazilian who
died in 2006 of complications from anorexia.
Don't feel sorry for the models: They live in a country where there's access
to food, and are actively starving themselves to make money. They're making a
choice.
Crystal Renn, a size-12 model who spent the early
part of her career starving herself, says she was chasing a dream.
"No one chained me to a treadmill; no one forced me to starve," she told the
Daily News. "I made those decisions to reach for the standards that were set for
me."
Want to throw blame? Look straight at the people who are paying them.
Last week, the Council of Fashion Designers of America threw a
symposium where designers, models and editors discussed raising the "sample
size," the industry standard set for runway and magazine photo shoots, to a size
4.
Right now, it's a zero.
Designers and agents alike know that they're setting the bar for boniness -
and that it's set pretty high.
Stunner Doutzen Kroes was at that panel and told The Associated Press she doesn't do shows because
she doesn't fit into the sample size.
So she joined Victoria's Secret's brigade of sexy girls. "I eat
and I am happy," she said. "I want a healthy lifestyle, and I hope other models
can have choices like that."
Rocha spoke out at the event, too, saying, "It took
a while to grow the confidence to say, 'This is who I am, take it or leave
it.'"
And fashion, she has now revealed, decided to leave it.
Two years ago, at the first of these useless events, she admitted that when
she was at her thinnest - just 108 pounds (she's 5-feet-10) - someone told her
to lose weight.
So she did, and made herself ill with diuretic pills taken on an empty
stomach. She vowed never to do it again - and made a plea then to the people
present at the dog-and-pony show to make a change.
It was a cry for help.
And no one has listened.
Read more: https://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/fashion/2010/02/16/2010-02-16_sick_world_where_size_4_is_too_fat.html#ixzz0fiZQpQyB