[War Eagle]

Models Barred for Being Too Skinny

Madrid bans too-thin models from catwalk

Fri Sep 8, 10:30 AM ET

MADRID (AFP) - Excessively skinny fashion models will be barred from a major Madrid fashion show later this month for fear they could send the wrong message to young Spanish girls, local media reported.
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Madrid's regional government, which is co-financing the Pasarela Cibeles, has vetoed around a third of the models who took part in last year's show because they weigh too little.

The authorities collaborated with a Spanish health organisation to come up with a minumum body mass -- a height-weight ratio -- of 18 for the models.

Spanish daily ABC said it was the first time such restrictions had been imposed on a fashion show, although a recent wedding dress exhibition in Barcelona banned fashion models who took a dress size below 38 (British size 10, US size eight).

Several models at last year's show provoked a row when they claimed their careers would be under threat if they put on weight.

Organisers said they wanted to "help ensure public opinion does not associate fashion, and fashion shows in particular, with an increase in anorexia, a disease which, along with bulimia, is considered ... as a mental and behavioural problem".

The event will take place on September 18-22.

[superubicon]

Am I the only one that finds "most" runway models unattractive?

[cmasfca]

Originally Posted by superubicon

Am I the only one that finds "most" runway models unattractive?

Nope.

[pbrutsch]

Originally Posted by superubicon

Am I the only one that finds "most" runway models unattractive?

Nope

If I wanted to look at skeletons I would dig some up from the graveyard

Too many girls have their weight at one extreme or another... too skinny or too fat. Why can't anyone be just right any more?

[War Eagle]

Originally Posted by pbrutsch

Why can't anyone be just right any more?

Well that's certainly not a subjective statement.

[superubicon]

Originally Posted by pbrutsch

Nope

If I wanted to look at skeletons I would dig some up from the graveyard

Too many girls have their weight at one extreme or another... too skinny or too fat. Why can't anyone be just right any more?

Oughta be a law.. Women have to be at least 120#'s but no heavier than 200#'s.

[cmasfca]

What would be the punishment?

Oh I know I know!

Chain the skinny girls down and have the fat ones farm food for the skinny ones while the fat ones can't eat!

[pbrutsch]

Originally Posted by superubicon

Oughta be a law.. Women have to be at least 120#'s but no heavier than 200#'s.

Hard numbers like that are part of the problem...

On a 5'2 frame 120lb is too much while 120lb on a 5'10 frame is too little.

[WhtJeep]

its all about proportion

its all about, as kid rock put it, corn fed midwestern hos

[Timmy]

A BMI of 18 is still really skinny. I looked it up for myself, and I would have to weigh 115 pounds to have a BMI of 18. I haven't weighed that since 6th grade. With my bone and muscle structure, my doctor wants me at 180/185.

[chim]

A lean horse for a long chase....................chim

[Fropleyqk]

[xxxflhrci]

Only a dog wants a bone. Give me some meat on mine, please.

[S C]

Originally Posted by pbrutsch

Too many girls have their weight at one extreme or another... too skinny or too fat. Why can't anyone be just right any more?

move to europe, theres a much lower percentage of fatty's.

[ixl4]

mo cushin' fo the pushin'