Comments on: Sister of model who died of heart attack, also modeled & just died of heart attack

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:03:08 +0000

Cheers to Andrea and the other naturally small women. I hate it when women talk about what a “real” woman’s body does or doesn’t look like. We’re not all meant to look like Marilyn Monroe.

Can you imagine someone looking at a handsome thin man and saying he has a childlike body and isn’t a real man because he needs to gain a few pounds? We can accept different body types in men, so why can’t we do this among ourselves?

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By: kim

kim — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 13:02:46 +0000

I think that rather than debating whether the girls were “thin enough” to have died from it, we should look at their health and behaviors. Not everyone that is anorexic or bulimic is 60 pounds. Anorexia and bulimia are serious and deadly and come in all shapes and sizes. Someone can be thin but not skeletal and still be extremely unhealthy and killing themselves. It doesn’t matter than these girls weren’t Nicole Richie or Allegra Versace, they were killing themselves.

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By: leni

leni — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 05:36:05 +0000

Someone whose ribs are very obvious, who’s hip bones stick out, and whose ankles and wrists look like a skeleton’s is Not all right. There is a Very big difference between lean, slim, skinny and looking like a starving child which is what the model above looks like. This is not about anyone having tiny boobs or being skinny. Yes, if you look like that model you do not look womanly. You look like a very skinny child.
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Anorexia and bulimia cause cause heart failure. Yes, it could be genetic, but look at her in pictures which have not been airbrushed as the above have-she looks painfully thin. Not healthy thin.
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This is not a critique of all women-the subject matter is tall, very skinny females who are used as models-anyone who takes these opinions as personal needs to remember that.

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By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:02:49 +0000

Dear designers,

If you really want to use your sample size 0 or 2 on models, then please, please, please use shorter girls. There’s a reason magazines often put actresses and singers on their covers. These women fit into the tiny sizes, but they’re almost always not 5’9″ or taller. Someone like Reese Witherspoon, Eva Longoria or Avril Lavigne just looks more natural in teeny tiny sizes. Please get over the fact that only tall women look nice in clothes, because that’s clearly not so. If it were, more than half of the women in Hollywood and the music industry would not have careers.

Thanks

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By: Christina

Christina — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 14:33:45 +0000

My thoughts and prayers go out to their family

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By: Andrea

Andrea — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 08:51:27 +0000

although this is terrible and something does need to be done, i agree with miss luigi. some of you do need to stop generalizing about people who are just naturally small.

i already don’t feel good about the fact my boobs are small becasue i’m skinny (its genetics for me, my dad is skinny too…. i eat quite a bit though) but i really don’t need to read you guys saying that that makes me any less of a woman. and i really hated it when people used asked me if i was aneroxic, when i eat regularly!

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By: Viv

Viv — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 06:52:15 +0000

This is such a touchy subject I hope I don’t offend anyone when I say that I think she looks really good– I think they look okay and not anorexic at all in the photographs. In the third photo she has enough curves to fill in her suit. She doesn’t have a pallor or sunken in eyes.

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By: larissa

larissa — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 05:12:24 +0000

oo7 – i hear you. i’m just coming out of a relationship where my bf referred to me as “chunky” and said i could stand to lose ten pounds though i’m a size 2/4. i’ve considered starving myself, even bought a bottle of diet pills, but deep down i know i look and feel great even if i seem like a fat giant at 5’9″ compared to the ultra-skinny short girls in his porn mags. i agree that girls are concerned about their weight for other girls…i’ve never been told by a guy that i’m “so skinny” though i’ve heard those words from other women plenty. it would seem that men DO prefer girls with a bit of curves…you and i have just found a couple of bad apples it seems.

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By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 03:08:37 +0000

her mother would beg and cry for her to eat something, but she wouldnt listen….thats what her mom was saying after she died.

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By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 03:07:23 +0000

i was reading an article about a south american young woman who died as a result of anorexia…her mother was interviewed. her family was dirt poor. her modeling enabled her entire family to improve their standard of living, and she took that responsiblilty so seriously that she absolutely did what it took to get in with the right gigs modeling.
its very sad

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