Should we blame the modeling industry for having a 'skinny' image of beauty?

Hey! I'm doing a research about this. Do you agree that because the modeling industry is trying to promote being skinny as the ideal image of beauty, many people, especially girls would develop eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia? Why? Thanks!Should we blame the modeling industry for having a 'skinny' image of beauty?
no, blame the fashion designers who book the very skinny girls,


as a model i feel pressure to be very skinny,


i have to constantly diet, exercise a lot and be very critical of myself,


if fashion designers started hiring models that were slightly larger (i would be out of a job) the modeling industry's image would also change,


the girls who develop eating disorders are usually girls who see fault with themselves and have a desire to correct it so much that they take drastic measures, like starving themselves. i know this as i used to be bulimic and trust me, it had nothing to do with wanting to be skinnier for modeling, yes many models do develop these disorders after trying to lose weight after a manager or designer told them to and they took to to the point where they couldn't stop.


being a model actually helped me get rid of my eating disorder as i did not want to become a stereotype and also as i had been told i was too skinny and looked sick by my manager.





hope i helped to explain this to you


chonny xxoShould we blame the modeling industry for having a 'skinny' image of beauty?
huh? Well isn't that a little over-simplistic and defeatist? Do you really think that the modeling agencies all got together one day and had a secret meeting where they all colluded and agreed to change the concept of American beauty by forcing men and women to find thinner and skinny girls attractive? They then got the magazine editors together and got them to agree that no matter how low their magazine sales fell, they were only going to be supplying and printing skinny girls and eventually Americans will start to like them.





No! Models are thin because that's what IS considered beautiful in this country. It's not because the modeling agencies, they're only providing what people want. If you've noticed, they've getting away from the sticks and going back to a slightly more athletic and curvy (the real meaning, not the make-fat-girls-feel-good meaning) look.





As far as the Bulemic and Annorexic girls go. They have a lot of other places they can look to other than models, starting with themselves. Their piss poor eating and exercise habits come from their parents and their schools, their poor self image is a personal and parental problem, their feeling of lck of control has nothing to do with images they see, it's the environment in whihc they're being raised in and out of the home. It's the quality of the friends that they keep, etc...





The bottom line is that people can point fingers all over the place if they really want, but the gods honest truth is that they really have nobody to blame but themselves. They are the ones that have control over their feelings, thoughts and actions. Nobody else.
the thing to do nowadays is to make the fat girl who rebukes self control feel better, and make the naturally thin girl feel like crap. of course there are exceptions both ways, but its ridiculous to blame the modeling industry. they are a private entity, a business, they want to make money. the idea of beauty is already set, they simply market it
nah, no one's every wanted to be fat. even before modeling%26amp; all that - people used to wear really tight corsets that would bruise their ribs %26amp; suffocate them, just to be skinnier. it's not the modeling industry's fault. %26amp; it's not necessarily a bad thing, it just depends one how someone takes it in %26amp; reacts to it, but being underweight is just as unhealthy as being overweight
i think it has to do with people learning that overweight is unhealthy and then advertisements took it too far and too skinny. Healthy is beautiful, but too skinny is unhealthy as well as being overweight.





So whatever is healthiest will turn into what is the most beautiful in my opinion. Then women can complain they are sexually discriminated by health. lol
No it wasn't their fault


it was ours for taking it all in and changing ourselves according to what they thought was beautiful


The modeling industry couldn't have done it without buyers.





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I do not. The modeling industry likes tall and skinny. But that doesn't mean that we idolize and try to be like every single model we see on a catwalk, now do we?
Yes, it affects young girls who look at the pictures in magazines and they try to be as skinny as them. But they don't realize that 95% of those photos are air brushed and made to look skinnier.
Blame the food YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT





eat healthy and you won't be ridicously fat or anorexic skinny.
Listen, designers are gay! They like men, so they make shapeless clothes without curves.
maybe.