Posted by Me - The model analyser on May 06, 1999 at 06:59:37:
In Reply to: I'm on a roll today, kiddies. posted by Dan on May 03, 1999 at 20:10:50:
Ok... What is going on here?
I'm not quite sure where all this resentment is comming from. Certainly, models are the luckiest people on earth. To be paid $10,000 or more simply for being lucky enough to be born beautiful. It's perhaps wrong, but think about it. An NBA star earns $10m a year.. to play a GAME.. basketball. It's not about how much money the indiviual earns, it's about how much money they MAKE THEIR EMPLOYER. Would you dis yourself if you were born like Heidi - Beautiful? Would you not model? She may not be head of a charity, she may not speak out against annorexia (Hacker). Does that make her a BAD person? Annorexia is deemed a disease. Did Heidi *give* her this disease? If so how was is contracted? Did they meet and touch?
Annorexia is a terrible thing. But to blame a woman (or women) for being slim is not the solution. Many, many women are naturally slim - would you like them to go out of their way - ie, not exercise, eat more than the body needs - to 'put on a bit of weight'? I have known a couple of girls who were annorexic. I say were because they recovered from the horrible affliction. They have told me that they felt pressure from within. I can understand how seeing Daniela Pestova or Heidi Klum in the magazines made them want to look like them. But annorixia sufferers don't look like them. An annorexia sufferer is horrifically thin (when it's bad). No woman who is 5'10" and weighs 30kg is going to make the cover of Vogue. There are more eating disorders than annorexia. There's one (i can't remember the name) that affects men in this age. A man feels he is never big enough. To the point where he takes drugs in improve his size to an unhealthy level. And of course there is belemia (spelling?). The people who never feel skinny enough have a problem... and it's not the models we see on TV. There certainly is pressure to look good, but there's also pressure to be successful, married and more. Think about it. If models were THE reason people became annorexic, the streets would look like a concentration camp or in males case a genetic experiment gone horribly wrong!
Don't blame models.. blame the sickness.
That's my 2 cents.