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= __Anorerexic Models__ = = = How skinny is too skinny? You tell me, should anorexic models walk the run way? Personally I would have to say no. Think about it do you want to see boney little models modeling your favourite clothing? To me I probably wouldn’t by the clothes. The clothing wouldn’t look flattering, you know when you see a beautiful model walking down the flashing run way and see the most gorgeous dress and you know your going to by that dress. But when you see a horrific, boney, skinny model your not going to want to by the dress she is wearing. That’s not all so many people die from anorexia each year. The population is getting smaller and smaller each year. But wait, what if your teenage daughter is watching this disturbing model and she says" mom I need to look like her" what are you supposed to say to her. Teenagers all over the world are getting caught up in anorexia.

3,000 young people die each year of anorexia. Anorexia is so bad, not only can it kill but it rots out your teeth. How? Well most anorexic people do not admit it at first so they will eat a whole lot of food and then lock them selves in the washroom and make themselves vomit. So then they vomit so much that the acid in the vomit rots out there teeth. Primarily, anorexia affects young women between the ages of 14 and 25. Mostly young women develop anorexia because at this age they worry about there body figure and if they get bullyed about it then that is when they stop eating. It is said that ten percent of teens die of anorexia. That is because they think skinny is the new fashion. But wait for it,statistics show that 30 percent of people suffer from eating disorders. You know when your little and you couldn't leave the dinner table until you ate all of your dinner, well did you ever think that your parents just didn't want you to have an eating disorder and suffer from it. My sister lives on carrots and cucumbers dipped in ketchup and for supper we always have to make her something different from the rest of us because she doesn't try anything. The worst thing is that she is a vegetarean, well sort of, she can eat hotdogs and bologna but any other kind of meat she can't eat because she says it tastes bad on her tounge.

Let's move on, if you were watching a fashion show and looking for the latest fashion to buy for your store and you saw a boney, little skinny model wearing the skimpiest dress you could find you would't even think of buying the clothes. Ask yourself why would designers want to put anorexic models in there clothes. There not flattering, there not gorgeous and there defintiley not going to sell the clothes. listen to this article In the April issue of [|Ladies' Home Journal], editor-in-chief Diane Salvatore addresses the big issue in the fashion industry right now: anorexic models. But unlike so many other reports that focus just on the fact that models are starving themselves, Salvatore hits the nail on the head about a possible reason -- designers will only provide tiny sizes for their samples. Simply put, if you can't fit into the clothes, you can't model it.After speaking out about the issue in July 2006, Salvatore was challenged by readers to use models above a size 4 in her photoshoots. In this issue, she did just that -- she used a size-14 model without flagging her in every photo as the token plus-size girl. But it was a real challenge to get designers to send samples in bigger sizes."...designers still provide only tiny sample sizes for shoots, which means only ultra-lean models can wear them. Why? Apparently some designers feel their clothes are shown to best advantage when uninterrupted by the natural curves of a woman's body," wrote Salvatore (LHJ April 2007, p. 14).Well said. If the designers won't provide bigger sample sizes, nothing is going to change. Aspiring models will continue starving themselves to fit into the elusive size zero because it's necessary in order to be a model. Unless, of course, you want to be considered a plus-size model, at a size 6.

But there is one problem to all of this, yes anorexic models are way to boney and way to thin but you can't get all wraped up in that because you have to think of human rights. Everyone should have the right to walk the cat walk no matter what size or shape or how heavey or how light you should always be able to walk the runway. To me it is almost like being racist if you band anorexic models from modeling because they can't really help well they can but they can't do you understand? It is like a desease once you get it is hard to get rid of it.

Okay know close your eyes, imagine your watching a fashion show with your daughter who is about 12 years old and sees an anorexic model and she says " wow she's beutiful I wanna be just like her" what are you suppost to say. All over the world young women and some young men look up to models as there romodel. If they see a skinny model then they think that's how they should look, it is not teaching them anything good. This is how more and more people die. Body image is such a big thing for young women. Imodels are so slim and shaped that young women think they should look like that. So when you have an anorexic model as your romodel your definitley going to try to look like her or him. If you look up to an anorexic model then your basicly just waiting to kill yourself.

Is anorexia a beuty or an insane obsesion? You tell me.

__**Interesting Facts**__

• 3000 young people die each year • As much as 15% of their total body weight can be lost • Anorexia primarily affects young women between the ages of 14 and 25 • Ten percent of teens die from Anorexia • It is estimated that 1% of teens develope Anorexia • At least 30% of people suffer from eating disorders • Ten million men, women and children suffer from eating disorders every year in the U.S. alone.