Comments on: Dying to be Beautiful http://www.fiftysomethingwomen.com/2006/09/19/dying-to-be-beautiful/ Serving Women in Their Fifties Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:58:41 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Andrea http://www.fiftysomethingwomen.com/2006/09/19/dying-to-be-beautiful/comment-page-1/#comment-1025 Andrea Tue, 05 Dec 2006 02:04:30 +0000 http://www.fiftysomethingwomen.com/2006/09/19/dying-to-be-beautiful/#comment-1025 The truth ale, is that only one in about 40,000 women have a model's height and proportions and even those who are born with naturally slim waists, hips, broad shoulders, and the height are not naturally 105 lbs at 6'1". Most of the time they have to work at being that thin and that means not eating enough, not being healthy. You don't want to be judged for being naturally thin, and for each one of you there are 40,000 women being judged for not having your body type. What I am proposing is that women should not be held to a standard of beauty that is impossible for almost all of them to achieve. Besides, you wouldn't want the average woman to look like you, then you might not have a job, there would be too many women just like you. Size 0 is the most ridiculous thing anyone ever dreamt up and only came about because they just kept making the existing sizes bigger so that women could feel better about themselves. A size 6 today is a lot larger than a size 6 was years ago and a size 0 is probably what a 2 or 4 used to be. 2 is probably a 4 and so on... Maybe you're larger than you think. The truth ale, is that only one in about 40,000 women have a model’s height and proportions and even those who are born with naturally slim waists, hips, broad shoulders, and the height are not naturally 105 lbs at 6′1″. Most of the time they have to work at being that thin and that means not eating enough, not being healthy.

You don’t want to be judged for being naturally thin, and for each one of you there are 40,000 women being judged for not having your body type. What I am proposing is that women should not be held to a standard of beauty that is impossible for almost all of them to achieve. Besides, you wouldn’t want the average woman to look like you, then you might not have a job, there would be too many women just like you.

Size 0 is the most ridiculous thing anyone ever dreamt up and only came about because they just kept making the existing sizes bigger so that women could feel better about themselves. A size 6 today is a lot larger than a size 6 was years ago and a size 0 is probably what a 2 or 4 used to be. 2 is probably a 4 and so on…

Maybe you’re larger than you think.

]]> By: ale http://www.fiftysomethingwomen.com/2006/09/19/dying-to-be-beautiful/comment-page-1/#comment-1022 ale Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:42:30 +0000 http://www.fiftysomethingwomen.com/2006/09/19/dying-to-be-beautiful/#comment-1022 actually most of us are 100ish to 110ish, about 5'9"+ PREFERABLy (5'8" is short for a model) and we, at least at my modeling agency have,models are a baggy size 0, 1, maybe 2 at the most. i guess it is sad, but the days of size 6 models don't exist. and now with the obesity in america, yuck, the woman's average size is 14. i think this BMI deal is ridiculous, i'm 6'1", 105 lbs. this is my job. and some of us are just can't help being thin. and i hate being judged for it. actually
most of us are 100ish to 110ish, about 5′9″+ PREFERABLy (5′8″ is short for a model) and we, at least at my modeling agency have,models are a baggy size 0, 1, maybe 2 at the most.
i guess it is sad, but the days of size 6 models don’t exist.
and now with the obesity in america, yuck, the woman’s average size is 14.
i think this BMI deal is ridiculous, i’m 6′1″, 105 lbs. this is my job. and some of us are just can’t help being thin.
and i hate being judged for it.

]]> By: Andrea http://www.fiftysomethingwomen.com/2006/09/19/dying-to-be-beautiful/comment-page-1/#comment-982 Andrea Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:24:25 +0000 http://www.fiftysomethingwomen.com/2006/09/19/dying-to-be-beautiful/#comment-982 I like what you have on your blog, mamaVISION, because it makes me uncomfortable. It's straight shooting, gutsy stuff and I hope that what you are doing, what little I have done and what others will decide to step in to do, can save some of these girls from this path of self-destruction. I like what you have on your blog, mamaVISION, because it makes me uncomfortable. It’s straight shooting, gutsy stuff and I hope that what you are doing, what little I have done and what others will decide to step in to do, can save some of these girls from this path of self-destruction.

]]> By: mamaVISION http://www.fiftysomethingwomen.com/2006/09/19/dying-to-be-beautiful/comment-page-1/#comment-978 mamaVISION Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:38:48 +0000 http://www.fiftysomethingwomen.com/2006/09/19/dying-to-be-beautiful/#comment-978 It looks like you and I are on to the same topics, keep up the good work. The death of these two models will undoubtedly become a distant memory all too soon as our girls are bombarded with new, unachievable beauty myth images. I lived the model life, and it is hell. At 16, I was whisked away to Paris and continually told "do not eat, you have a big job" although I was 5'9, 125. There was no size "0" it did not exist. Size 8 was the standard model size, I wonder what it is today? -mamaVISION http://mamaVISION.wordpress.com It looks like you and I are on to the same topics, keep up the good work. The death of these two models will undoubtedly become a distant memory all too soon as our girls are bombarded with new, unachievable beauty myth images.

I lived the model life, and it is hell. At 16, I was whisked away to Paris and continually told “do not eat, you have a big job” although I was 5′9, 125.

There was no size “0″ it did not exist. Size 8 was the standard model size, I wonder what it is today?

-mamaVISION
http://mamaVISION.wordpress.com

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