Does The World Of High Fashion Modeling Project The Wrong Message To Young Girls And Adult Women?
SAO PAULO, Brazil (Nov. 16) — A 21-year-old anorexic model who weighed only 88 pounds has died of generalized infection, a hospital said.
Ana Carolina Reston, who had worked in China, Turkey, Mexico and Japan for several modeling agencies, died Tuesday, according to Sao Paulo’s Servidor Publico Hospital.
The model’s cousin, Dani Grimaldi, told the Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper that Reston also battled bulimia; an eating disorder marked by binge eating that is followed by vomiting or the use of laxatives.
The world of high fashion and modeling has long been targeted by critics who say it encourages women and girls to emulate rail-thin models.
In September, a Spanish fashion show responded to such criticism by banning models with a body mass index of less than 18. Body mass index is a calculation doctors normally apply to study obesity, and anyone with an index below 18.5 is considered underweight.
Is there a clear and present danger emulating from the world of modeling?
Eh….the world of celebrities is such a fickle and fleeting thing with so little substance. One day, the ideal of beauty is one thing, and next year, it is something else. Thus I never follow the dictates of fashion or anyone else’s’ rules.
It is a shame to think that there are enough young girls around who’d sacrifice themselves on the “alter of ideal beauty” when it is so empty and superficial. If you must worship a worldly god, make sure he isn’t so capricious and cruel, one who would abandon you at the turn of fortune.