Supermodel Perspectives On Weight
FashionGates reports on Sports Illustrated's latest all-American cover model Carolyn Murphy. Murphy makes some intriguing comments regarding her selection:
"I never thought I'd make the pages of Sports Illustrated, because I've always been skinny. But after I had my daughter, I had hips, I had boobs," says Murphy, who have previously appeared in SI's Swimsuit Edition in 2004, but never on the cover of the magazine. "It takes some adjustment. My partner, he loves it, but it's something I had to embrace."The new 5'9''-tall SI cover model, who weighted 182 pounds during her pregnancy and got beck to her current 120 pounds within a year, says, "I'd like to reach out to more women and different body types."
I'm not quite sure how being an underweight (BMI 18) SI cover model will "reach out to more women and different body types".
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by all health advocates and doctors a BMI of 18.5 or lower is considered underweight.
Replyits not that shes disgustingly thin its just that when i woman wnats to reach out to others with different body types she usually HAS a different bidy type. 120 at 5'9 is pretty normal among models. my teenage sister is working to be a model and shes about 110 at 5'8( and still growing at 14) and is in no way anorexic! she eats almost twice as much as me and not healthy at all. i eat vegan and im an athletic dancer and im 5'6 at 118. it just comes to show you that models have different standards that the average thin girl walkinmg around. theyre usually just born to be tall and thin and hopefully theyre healthy about it. it would be awesome for models to reach ou to ppl with different body types but there arent many models with different body types. so yeah whats shes saying abo9ut her body being "so different" is an exageration. ok ill stop rambling lol. interesting topic
ReplyI dont think she looks underweight, but I know that height wise and boney wise, she is a little too skinny but, if she feels comftorable that way and she's not throwing up forcabeley or not eating, then she should be fine the way hse is. :)
ReplyWere not bringing them down because were jelous (though granted, sometimes I am). I don't really care if someone wants to be a little thinner, but it gets to a point where it's ridiculous. I mean, how skinny do you have to get?! And are models really wanting to be that skinny, or do they just feel like they have to. I mean even though I'm at a healthy weight, I still feel pressured to lose weight. I think our culture is a little too absored on the outward apperance, I mean there's nothing wrong with wanting to look your best. But, I mean, come on, this isn't wanting to look your best anymore, it's about being THE best. Which I think is a little sad, there are more important things to do with your life.
ReplyIt's really annoying when people assume that thin girls have some type of eating disorder. I have always been thin. I'm 19, 5'9" and 110 pounds. I eat quite a lot. I get reverse discrimination from overweight people condescending on my weight.
Just because I'm thin, doesn't mean my feelings aren't hurt when people throw out every skinny joke in the book (daily... since I was in 1st grade!), the way larger people are hurt. But, society tends to be more sensitive to fat jokes, it seems.
Yes, "trees," "twiggy," "olive oyl." Got any more?
ReplyWhere does it stop, though? BMI may not be perfect, but it's SOMETHING. Some people will keep losing weight until it affects their health... I KNOW, I'm a recovered anorexic (I hate that word recovered, because you never really do recover; it's always in the back of your mind). And NO, I'm not fat (5''11 140lbs, size 2)...I just wish people would take the disorder more seriously, and stop tossing around insults about peoples' weight. Anorexics have the highest death rates of any mental disorder, 20% within 17 years of onset, with average onset beginning between ages of 14 and 22. So, yeah, a 1-in-5 shot of dying by age 40. Anyone still think it's worse to be overweight than anorexic?
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