-
-
Is This Model Too Thin?
Check out the photo and then vote.
-
Fashion industry made me too thin, says Kate Moss
As summer fashion trends go, it is certainly an unexpected one. In the next issue of the American magazine Interview, Kate Moss joins the growing number of high-profile models who are admitting that they are too thin.
Moss, who rarely gives interviews, talks with candour about her life and career. As well as describing the time Frank Sinatra "lunged" at her and why she branched out into designing clothes for Topshop ("when I was modelling, I got bored"), she responds to suggestions that, at times in her career, she has been too skinny.
Moss lays the blame firmly at the doorstep of the fashion industry: "I didn't eat for a long time. Not on purpose. You'd be on shoots with bad food or get on a plane and the food would be so disgusting you couldn't eat it. You go to a show and there's no food at all ... I remember standing up in the bath one day and ... I was so thin! I was never anorexic ... I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny."
Other models have echoed Moss's comments. In Vogue this month Karen Elson, who has said that in the past she was "not eating, bulimic and taking laxatives", accuses the fashion industry of encouraging models to be unhealthily thin. "I remember I came back from a job in Paris and the stylist said to me, 'have you been eating too many croissants, Karen?'" Elson told the Guardian: "Fashion is obsessed with finding young, beautiful and vulnerable girls, bringing them into the fashion world, praising them, worshipping them but suddenly dropping them like a stone when they hit puberty and grow boobs and hips. It's so dangerous and can potentially harm the girls mentally and physically."
The fashion industry has tried to clean up its act. In the UK, a committee, the Model Health Inquiry, was formed last year to help improve the wellbeing of models during London fashion week. Representatives on it include Sarah Doukas, Moss's agent, and the model Erin O'Connor, who has, like Moss, spoken out about the lack of food at shows and has since set up the Model Sanctuary, which gives models nutritional advice.
But not everything has gone to plan. Last week the industry heard that plans for a model health certificate, which models would produce to show a doctor had certified them "fit to work", had been rejected by New York, Milan and Paris.
Hilary Riva, chief executive of the British Fashion Council, said: "The modelling industry has united against the certificates. We therefore call on model agents ... to find a workable solution, or an alternative, and set best practice for the modelling industry." As summer fashion trends go, it is certainly an unexpected one. In the next issue of the American magazine Interview, Kate Moss joins ... more -
Largest Kashmir protest in 10 years kills 34
Muslims are demanding an end to Indian rule in Kashmir. Two months of un-rest have flared up over the half-century long conflict
-
United Kingdom Talk Thursday 21st August 2008
Thursday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch the show here on CURRENT TV on Tues, Thurs & Sats.
In today's show :
Technical people - here is your answer !
Joe from "Americantalkusa.com" has been elevated.
My geography is not good.
Carl says I am looking thin.
The dentist keeps ringing.
A corn.
What could happen to New York.
Lights on.
Do you swim like a Seal ?
I was wrong.
Ross P does a podcast.
Welcome Robert.
Beep Beep.
Leaving the answer phone on.
Wayne is close to the line.
A new book and good service from Amazon.
Oh dear - lost me toast !
Welcome Jean.
Fireworks.Were they there, or not ?
Water everywhere.
Some more noises to try.
The chemist.
Was the World better before us ?
A little lady.
Go to the cinema, but don't buy the food and drink.
Batman.
Where's that email ?
Repeat after the tone.
Trust.
Matt mentions the wrinkles.
Stunned viewers.
What's it like being 40 ?
Dell customer services.
It's the "W".
Robert wins everything
Email : chris@unitedkingdomtalk.co.uk
WWW.UNITEDKINGDOMTALK.CO.UK Thursday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch the show here on CURRENT TV on Tues, Thurs & Sats. ... more -
Inside scoop: the fatty - Omega 3 - skinny habit
My family just ordered a whole box of fish oil supplements, because we don’t get anywhere near the recommended 1,100 mg of Omega 3 fatty acids a day. Many of you probably already have heard Omega 3 bursting through the headlines ... but what is it and how does it help your body and are you getting enough? There are so many benefits to Omega 3 but 99% of us aren’t getting enough. My family just ordered a whole box of fish oil supplements, because we don’t get anywhere near the recommended 1,100 mg of Omega 3 fat... more
-
Do you know how fat you are? Apparently not
We are getting fatter but we think we are thinner, and the trend could have serious implications for the obesity epidemic, a study has found.
Growing obesity in the population has increased what is perceived as "normal" weight, which is leading to large numbers of people underestimating how fat they really are. As a result, more people are failing to recognise they are overweight, despite an increase in the prevalence of obesity in the population.
However, thin women who are prone to feeling they are overweight have benefited from the change. The findings show they are less likely to perceive themselves as fat than in the past.
Professor Jane Wardle, of the Health Behaviour Research Centre at University College London, said: "Recognising you are overweight is the first step to doing something about it. Those who do not see themselves as carrying excess pounds will not be motivated to act."
Are we all wearing thin-tinted glasses? What do you consider a normal size or weight? We are getting fatter but we think we are thinner, and the trend could have serious implications for the obesity epidemic, a study has... more -
Macbook AIr is iThin
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs on Tuesday unveiled an ultra-slim MacBook Air laptop computer that he billed as the world's leanest laptop. In trademark theatrical style at the Macworld Expo opening in San Francisco, Jobs slid the laptop from a brown envelope typically used for inter-office mail. Apple chief executive Steve Jobs on Tuesday unveiled an ultra-slim MacBook Air laptop computer that he billed as the world's lean... more
-
A 6-Week Journey to the Land of Thin
Most women aren't naturally slim. But that doesn't stop many of them from keeping that way (take a look through any fashion mag or celebrity red carpet and you know what I mean). So what does it take a normal girl to be a size 0? Check out this personal account from a reporter who put her body, mind and soul to the test... with less than appealing consequences.
"Even though my head was a mess my female friends all thought I looked great when I was at my thinnest. The cult of thin is a powerful one and, truth be told..."
I'm not sure I would participate in something like this in the name of work. In fact, I can't believe it was given the ok by her boss. t's just setting up for a downward spiral into madness. I don't think they would support a 6-week journey to the land of alcoholism or drug abuse. Why was anorexia and bulimia supported? Yikes. Most women aren't naturally slim. But that doesn't stop many of them from keeping that way (take a look through any fashion ... more -
WORLD'S SKINNIEST MAN & HIS DOG
THINNEST MAN DISCUSSES HIS LOVE LIFE
-
related topics
Thin
Contributors (82)
Thin
