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Name: Jo
Country: United States
Birthday: 8/15/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: Weather, Australia, tigers, music, violin, contemplating the world, Chicago, Da Bears, Da Bulls, Nertz, and most of all, Joel!
Expertise: Talking waaayyy too fast, swearing (not cussing!) wayy too much, being the extremist and yet, managing to fall in the middle....
Occupation: Retired
Industry: Nonprofit
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| So now for my rant, before I immerse myself in my studies.
Not a big deal, because let's face it, very little of what we find
fascinating today will actually do anything to improve the
world. We are not obsessed with improving our intelligence, but
rather with what so and so is doing. And so, while most of the
time listening to so and so doing blah blah blah, I'm too busy
contemplating programming or relativity theory to give a damn, this
bit, well, I guess I take a slight interest in it due to my own
interest in modeling.
That being said, I just want to say that
H&M and Burberry and whoever else is pulling Kate Moss from their
ad contracts due to the recent discovery that she has done cocaine, are
not only complete and utter hypocrites, but full of complete bull crap.
According to H&M, Kate Moss has been fired for using cocaine
because she is a "role model", and H&M only believes in advertising
"healthy and wholesome". Bull fucking shit.
If H&M, and the other fashion industries
who have fired Kate Moss, truly believes it only uses "healthy and wholesome"
images, then I sincerely hope that they prepare for the wave of "media
encouraging anorexia" arguments that will be pounding down their door.
In order to be employed as a model for the high fashion industry, such
as H&M and Burberry, a model has to either be on "anorectic" drugs,
such as cocaine, or actually be anorexic/anorectic (meaning a
person with a loss of appetite). Disagree? Take Janice Dickinson, known
for her drug habits and partying ways, Naomi Campbell, who has admitted
to cocaine use, or the article at FemaleFirst:
"One-quarter of them [models, meaning fashion models, playboy
centerfolds, plus-size models, male models] met the American
Psychological Association's weight
criteria for anorexia nervosa, a BMI [Body Mass Index] of 17.5 or less,
and the rest had
BMIs that deemed them underweight, a BMI of 18.5 or lower.Only in the
fashion world could Gisele Bundchen be described as
voluptuous. In the real world she is seriously underweight at 5’11 and
115 pounds, giving her a BMI of 16!" So 25% of working models have a
body mass index that diagnoses them with anorexia nervosa.
Considering that not just high fashion models were sampled, but playboy
centerfolds and others as well, with the high fashion models being the
thinnest of those sampled, it's fairly easy to deduce that almost all
high fashion models have to be as thin as an anorexic advanced far
along enough to the emaciated stages (there's a preconceived notion
that all anorexics are emaciated, when technically an anorectic can be
afflicted with anorexia nervosa long before he or she looks emaciated).
To have a better understanding of the range of BMI's in the celeb
world, take a look at an article, albeit old, circa 1998, in the Detroit Free Press:
Kate Moss 5'7", 107 pounds 16.8
Julia Roberts, actress. 5'10", 120 pounds 17.3
Cameron Diaz, actress. 5'9", 120 pounds 17.8
Lisa Dergan, Playboy's Miss July, 5'8", 120 pounds 18.3
Venus Williams, tennis player. 5'11", 137 pounds 19.1
Michael Jordan, basketball player. 6'6", 216 pounds 25
Emme, plus-size model, 5'11", 180 pounds, 25.2
Akebono, sumo wrestler. 6'8", 516 pounds. 56.8
also Jennifer Aniston at 5'5", 110 pounds 18.3, Pamela Anderson, 5'7", 105 pounds 16.4, Heidi Klum at 5'9", 119 pounds 17.6, and Jennifer Lopez at 5'6", 120 pounds 19.3.
One can't blame the models. If you want to work in the fashion
industry and make it as a high fashion model, you have to be in that
height and weight range. Quoted in the FemaleFirst article linked
above:
" 'It's important to me that the people working here, particularly in the
fashion department, will present themselves in a way that makes sense
to the outside world that they work at Vogue,' she said [she being Anna Wintour, editor of American Vogue]."
Not only that, but it's noted by authors that actresses and models follow "anorexic guidelines", again from Female First:
"In her book The World’s Best-Kept Diet Secrets, Diane Irons - 'beauty
and diet advisor to models and actresses' reveals the oddball
techniques some stars use to keep thin. They mirror many of the tips
given out on the pro ana sites. For example: 'Suck on a fruit pit for
15 minutes after you're done eating the fruit because it keeps the
flavour in your mouth, and makes you think you’re still enjoying the
fruit.' Or: 'Don't swallow. Models and other successful bodies are also
known for taking a forbidden bite, chewing and spitting it out.' "
I see. So H&M fired Kate Moss because she isn't "healthy and
wholesome" because she used cocaine...but if she had just become
anorectic like everyone else, then she would have employed the "healthy
and wholesome" image. **Jo attempts to make light bulb go off in head,
but is electrocuted instead as the switch was dripping wet with
sarcasm**
Actually, just to rub salt into the wound, Kate Moss is one of those
celebrity supermodels that always HAS been accused of being anorexic: "Moss, however, is
uncomfortable with her super waif image. Of the infamous images of her
that are posted on all the pro-ana sites she says, ' I'd like the Vogue
pictures that they harped on about anorexia, to be forgotten,' adding:
'What can you say? How many times can you say, ‘I'm not anorexic’?'
" , this article was written before the coke scandal came out, and goes on to say:
"It’s the same with the fashion rags. Kate is still adored by the
designers and the magazine editors, while her more voluptuous peers
have long since been dropped by the way side." So Burberry and everyone
else loves Kate when she's simply got an eating disorder; it's using
coke that's the problem. No Kate, you didn't have an eating
disorder. You were
actually of sound mind and judgment and couldn't convince yourself to
starve. But, career comes first, and so you used coke to achieve the
anorexic effects so desperately needed to be employed. So H&M
is upset over what...the fact that she cheated? Because she isn't so
depressed and psychologically unhealthy to actually starve herself, so
she subjected herself to coke instead? And of course if she had just
been using diet pills, it all would have been fine, not that taking too
many of those would ever kill you. So H&M is trying to spark a
moral debate of why having anorexia is better than doing coke.....to be
perfectly honest, I'm not quite sure which will kill you faster. Let me
go ask Karen Carpenter, or Christy Hienrich, or better yet, Chris
Farley, who struggled with both an eating disorder and drug abuse. It
just pisses me off that Kate Moss was fired because she's a "role
model" in a world which for years has been pressing the media to stop using
such skinny models as role models because they supposedly encourage
anorexia. While I actually disagree that the media is to blame
for encouraging anorexia, something I won't discuss now, it's still
ridiculous that H&M is still arguing that Kate Moss was a role
model, but fired because she wasn't anorexic enough and had to cheat.
Ok everyone, listen up, according to H&M, having anorexia nervosa
portrays an image of a person who is "healthy and wholesome" but an
image involving a person who secretly snorts coke does not!! ** Note:
that last sentence was climax/concluding statement, as is the following
sentence **
It isn't possible to be a high fashion model and be, medically
speaking, "healthy and wholesome".
My own experience?
My current BMI is a bit less than
where it was a year and a half ago when I was doing a photoshoot with a
BMI of 18.2. After the shoot my agent, who was also the photographer, came up to me and said that
while I had done well, I was still encouraged to drop just a few more
pounds. It was implied that upon reaching that lower weight,
which would give me a BMI of 17.5, I would have even more job
offers.
Modeling isn't my career. I can't say that a bmi of 17.5 is my goal
right now, even though I am closer to it. I also can't say that
my mental health is the greatest at this current moment. Very
little has to do with my weight (it's
not like I'm competing for some huge contract here in the land of
modeling opportunities called Oklahoma), but I could definitely see a
connection in the diagnosis of anorexia nervosa and one's plummeting
bmi.
Three cheers to H&M and Burberry for fighting the abuse of drugs
and encouraging depression, psychological instability, and
self-destruction/mutilation. Let's face it, society doesn't
give a rat's ass about the improvement of our world or the thousands
dying of actual starvation in 3rd world countries, but deeply cares
about Zac Posen's fall line and supporting Karl Lagerfield in what he
said this past spring: "On learning that Hennes had produced his
designs in plus sizes, he [Lagerfield] complained: 'What I created was fashion for slim, slender people.' ".
Either way, someone needs to wake up. Either the general public
needs to leave fashion and celebrity gossip to the extremely rich and
extremely dumb (or at least reduce it to a hobby, not an obsession), or else fashion designers need to realize that they've
been brainwashed into thinking that the anorexically-skinny are
"healthy and wholesome", or accept what models have to do to keep
themselves employed.
Bored? Interested by the post, but not in either improving the
current mindset, or destroying everyone who encourages it? Don't feel
like discussing relativity theory or quantum theory, and Einstein's
history? Then Calculate your BMI and either feel great or terrible about yourself, if you decide to give it the power to make you feel a certain way at all.
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