Portrayal of women: (split) - Page 13

Mick · 08-11-2006, 08:27

It does not matter what your size is its what's inside that counts.
I have made a lot of friends here on Accyweb,
I dont care what size,colour, shape,age ect they are you are all good mates and fun to be with.
I just love YOU ALL
now can we stop this and get back to the thread ta

PLEASE

WillowTheWhisp · 08-11-2006, 08:59

Er, I thought this thread was about size, hence it being cut off like from t'other one about t'fashion parade.

WillowTheWhisp · 08-11-2006, 09:00

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Who IS that?

garinda · 08-11-2006, 10:33

Again I would like to appologise for the hurt I caused because of the thoughless terminology I used earlier.

However I do think it is a serious issue.

An interesting note about the issue of the fashion industy's attitude to size can be seen on Channel 5's programme Make me a Supermodel.

I mentioned before that one of the girls is a single mum from Wigan. She gets hassle from the judges all the time because they tell her she's too big to be a model. She was measured last night and weighed, and has actually gained weight and put two inches on her waist size in the three weeks she's been on the programme.

Each week the judges, Rachel Hunter, Dylan Jones, Tandy the owner of one of the UK's top model agencies, and a photographer, put up the models who haven't in their eyes followed their advice. Jen the Wigan lass was put up for the public vote last week, and the public voted to save her. Mainly because she has a cracking sense of humour as well as being gorgeous.

Ironically, even though she isn't the judges favourite to win, and if the public vote her as the ultimate winner, she will struggle to find work as a model because she isn't the perfect sample size.

jen's gallery | make me a supermodel | five.tv

garinda · 08-11-2006, 10:35

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

Who IS that?

Krizia model on the catwalk this Spring in Milan.

Neil · 08-11-2006, 11:02

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

Who IS that?

More like WHAT is that.

WillowTheWhisp · 08-11-2006, 11:24

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Originally Posted by garinda

I mentioned before that one of the girls is a single mum from Wigan. She gets hassle from the judges all the time because they tell her she's too big to be a model. She was measured last night and weighed, and has actually gained weight and put two inches on her waist size in the three weeks she's been on the programme.

I bet she's been dieting to try to lose weight to please the judges and in her case it's having the opposite effect just like I described with me - whatever small amount she does eat is automatically being turned to fat.

It is wrong, wrong, wrong for the judges to keep perpetuating this harmful ideal.

WillowTheWhisp · 08-11-2006, 11:27

I've just been looking at those pics and Jen is absolutely gorgeous.

garinda · 08-11-2006, 12:36

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I've just been looking at those pics and Jen is absolutely gorgeous.

She is.

Sadly the judges decided to put her up for the public vote again this week, citing her weight as the reason. After leaving the room she then went white and fainted.

It showed a clip from the next programme, and in it she explains why she fainted. Lets hope she hasn't been making herself sick or starving herself in a last ditch attempt to win over the judges.

A close relative, sporty, healthy and intelligent, and ten years old, told me this week at my Mum's birthday tea that she needs to lose three pounds. That I find sick.

WillowTheWhisp · 08-11-2006, 13:16

Oh I wish I could get hold of those judges and bash their heads together! Trouble is as a fat person I would never be taken seriously they'd just say I was jealous.

In a way I do hope the reason she fainted is that she's been making herself ill trying to get thin enough to please the judges and I hope the media kick up an almighty stink about it and perhaps people will start to get real.

I've just been thinking (it happens sometimes) following a little chat I've just had (in real life) on this very subject. If there weren't all these offensively starved bodies portrayed as ideals then perhaps normal slim people wouldn't be subjected to insults about their size which imply that they are annorexic. They'd just be seen as one of the many varied examples of normal because we wouldn't have been bombarded with anything abnormal.

Just a thought.

harwood red · 08-11-2006, 14:13

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

I've just been thinking (it happens sometimes) following a little chat I've just had (in real life) on this very subject. If there weren't all these offensively starved bodies portrayed as ideals then perhaps normal slim people wouldn't be subjected to insults about their size which imply that they are annorexic. They'd just be seen as one of the many varied examples of normal because we wouldn't have been bombarded with anything abnormal.

Just a thought.

Hee hee, that real life chat wasn't the one with me by any chance was it willow????

WillowTheWhisp · 08-11-2006, 14:14

Nah, it was one of the cats!

harwood red · 08-11-2006, 14:16

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Nah, it was one of the cats!

Hmph, well I'm not coming round to yours again if you think I'm one of your cats now!!!!!

WillowTheWhisp · 08-11-2006, 14:52

lindsay ormerod · 08-11-2006, 17:24

It's a sad world we live in;my daughter's father is of the opinion that she is overweight and has told her so,very helpful for a hormonal 10 year old to hear that! She is turning into a young lady and developing virtually before our eyes! She is never gonna be Kate Moss as I am 5ft 4.5 and her dad is about the same,neither of us are slim so what does he expect! It's a constant struggle to get her to focus on the more important things in life and realise that we love her as she is!