"Too Fat to Model"?

We need average looking women (and men!) modeling they clothes we may potentially buy.

Calm down Zoolander!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

persoanlly I Enjoy Beauty and find Models often attractive,,,I also Enjoy a Beautiful heart and Mind any trily feel Fortunate when You Find the True goddess Daughters of God whom is Without Beggining or end!

Judging is so humanish.....

Correct and judging by the pics...they are working.....just no in part of that business.

all these ladies are Looking like not able to do anything but Good to Me the modeling industry uses all sizes

None of them are "too fat" to model. Certainly not to fat to be in TV shows, films or calendars. The bikini thing is back as fad, marketing...etc. We now have bikini coffee houses in So Cal. All those people could jobs.Too fat for certain runway work. Yes not all though.

Interesting because skinny women usually stop having a monthly cycle. Women need fats in their diet to produce estrogen. Which you need if you are going to have any kind of fun in the sex department.

Besides I've heard men say that a woman with curves has more cushion for the pushin'

Takes all kinds for marketing. Just depends who you are...they are...the product and brand. Also, people always run off at the mouth to get attention. See? I just did!

Kurkova ? Too PHAT not to model.

think that some use the term "fat" on great looking girls or guys to derogate them or put them down.
(some people do that to anyone regardless of model look or just any beauty)

it happens in any place, probably more so in the fashion world.

It also happens to people of all looks & sizes.

unless u are unhealthyily obese or anorexically underweight be confident in who you are.

its hard i m sure when yr employer determine yr size in case of modeling industry but isn't that discrimination?

pretty soon some fashion houses may run out of people to hang their clothers on, tell them to get
a wire hanger if they want a thin frame!

i like a little meat on my bones if you catch my drift. skinny chicks naturally aren't bad but the "model" skinny ones are not really attractive

I think she's a little chunky to be a model...but thats just my opinion.

Personally, I find it hard to be attracted to a guy I feel like I could beat in arm wrestling.

Eva Mendes looks gorgeous in that photo! best one their i think...

I've never looked to models as the standard anything. I've never been to a runway show. I don't know anyone who has. From what I've seen on TV and the web, I don't know anyone who would wear what they wear on runways. I really don't know why models and runway shows get so much play. Generally speaking, I think models look frail and weak.

You really just have to be a model of a skeleton these days to walk the runway. All humans will be replaced one day by robot skeletons..... Hopefully.

I know that the fashion industry is a critically important economic sector, and I feel pretty darned good when I find a suit with just the right fit and cut. But when I listen to people in the industry speak or read what they have to say, the word "SHALLOW" is hard to put aside. There ARE a number of truly gifted people whose work is a wonder to behold...but I think they are in a much smaller minority than is the case in most other industries.

The great irony in the U.S., of course is that the models keep getting skinnier (which doesn't even seem possible) while obesity has gone way beyond epidemic proportions to the point where the "average" American is approaching the obesity threshold. 20 years ago models didn't "look like the rest of us." Now they might as well be Martians for all they represent "our" species.

But I think we all know that if confronted with a choice of fashion magazines before a long flight in which one used beautiful but skinny models and the other used average Americans as models, very VERY few people would pick the latter. I know this makes me shallow, too, but I see enough "average American" real estate in the mirror after my shower each morning.

WTF let's see more pictures of the critics! unless they're as skinny as they expect the models to be, who are they to decide?

Look samples and "model wear" is cut in a size 2, the average woman is a size 14, no wonder so many women have body image issues....

poor girls they are absolutely beautiful and peopple are telling them they are fat and ugly and shouldnt be in the fashion industry,man this generation is wierd.

All I gotta say is "I like big butts and I can not lie"

Terrible! Those models look great. That guy looks like he weighs 90lbs. Eva Mendes is a hottie as is the Victoria Secret model. Just WOW!

That junkie look is distracting . Even with actors and actresses , I want to follow them around with a spoon of peanut butter , saying " Eat this and grow strong !" .. Remember Marilyn Monroe ? Even as far back as the 70s it was fine to look healthy . If you are healthy , you feel great and keep that attitude , then you are beautiful . Unless you find powerful vivacious people intimidating or unnerving ... I think actors are getting too emaciated looking these days as well .

This has really gone too far. Girls in my generations minds are being warped if we are taught to believe that she is too fat. This probably is not going to change anytime soon either.

This industry is/has become frightening...it needs serious attention...3/4 of aspiring "models" on "Australia's Next Top Model"...uuuurrrrggg, were seriously underweight...thankfully, the girl who won, was not a picture of malnutrition...but showing our young girls that it was acceptable to even be accepted looking anorexic...well...no explanation needed...damage done...

I'd say these people are healthy.........

but it's their fault for joining a shallow industry.

A lot of designer's design with a young boy's body in mind and so that's what the clothes look good on.
This model is NOT FAT.
She's HEALTHY!
We should quit buying these designer's clothes until they design for healthy women not anorexic models.

good article. and um, whoever kicked that male stud out of fashion week, I'll give him a good home ;)

I'm kind of blown away by this, I mean, to see the beautiful people who are being called fat! :(
And I kind of want to boycott Dior, but i do love their handbags...