Too fat to be a Model (The Fashion Myth of Girls)

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As per a comment of Cindi Leive (editor of US Glamour) – ‘It’s a photo that measures all of three by three inches. In the industry, anything over size six is considered a plus-size. , S size 12-14 is either average or slightly below average. There are some events happened with the girls struggling to be a model and who had been rejected or dropped out from a show just for the reason of being fat. Below article deals with such facts about these girls, who were Too fat to be a Model but now are model.

Too fat to be a Model: Lizzie Miller

Too Fat to be a Model - Lizzie MillerA beautiful, creamy-skinned naked model, with a small roll of stomach fat, is shown in a picture of Lizzie Miler (the 20-year-old model), which got very much popular (Photographed by Walter Chin as pictured in the September issue of US Glamour Photograph). Lizzie Miller agrees that it astonishes that, at 5ft 11in and 12.5 stone she’s considered a “plus-size” model. At the age of 13 and having around a US size 12-14, Miller lost about 60lb but today she is considered too large to model for plus-size lines Marina Rinaldi or Elena Miro. She says that the world is hungry to see pictures of normal women. The outcome for Miller, though, has been more positive as Leive said that the US magazine wants to celebrate “all kinds of beauty”. She has received more offers of work since the picture was published.

Too fat to be a Model: Tyra Banks

Too Fat to be a Model - Tyra BanksJust looking sick and frail from being a mean bully, cute little chubby little girl, Tyra Banks went to shooting up, 98 pounds at the age of 11yrs. People thought there was something wrong with her. She hated her reflection in the mirror and was the brunt of every joke, every bad thing. She later gained weight and became a supermodel. Tyra Banks is trying to change the perceptions of what a supermodel is and what one should look like. Girls under the age of 16 or who appear to have an eating disorder were pledged to stop being featured by all 19 international editors of the legendary fashion magazine. Banks is applauding Vogue Magazine’s new ban on underage and too-thin models. The abuse of underage models and the prevalence of eating disorders are worse now than earlier, says Banks (43 age)

Too fat to be a Model: Ulrikke Høyer

Too Fat to be a Model - Ulrikke HøyerHøyer, who is 20, was dropped from a Louis Vuitton cruise fashion show due to the reason (claimed by her) that her size-4 body was considered too fat by the casting people for the show. But Høyer decided she’d had enough because of the way she was treated. Her Instagram and Facebook posts about being dropped from the show have been widely shared as well as death threats for some Louis Vuitton execs. But these events suddenly turned into a major PR headache for the company. There’s the depressing fact that Høyer actually isn’t quite thin enough to meet “normal” fashion model standards. She also advised that because of how models starve themselves, it’s common for them to stop having their periods or have their skin change color.

Conclusion if Too fat to be a Model

The article ‘Too fat to be a Model’ is for the girls who are afraid of taking a step in modelling because they ask only one question to their self, Am I too fat to be a model? Surely they’ll get a confidence reading the stories of these women given above. It’s good to build your confidence by this article to enter into modelling field.

Sources of Too fat to be a Model

All the information is taken from the sources given below. Keep sharing the article with your friends to boost their confidence.

Source 1: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/sep/02/lizzie-miller-model-fat
Source 2: https://blackdoctor.org/9477/tyra-banks-too-fat-to-model/

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