Honey they shrunk the supermodel
As a teen, I thought Cindy Crawford was the epitome of hot.
Cindy "Chunky" Crawford rocks a runway in 1995, years before forcing me to buy a house full of Rooms To Go furniture.
Imagine my chagrin today as I perused an article in the January issue of PLUS Model Magazine that alleges Cindy wore a size 6, the same size as many of today’s non-super models.
It was quite a blow to learn I should have been buying Kate Moss calendars all those years.
The article says Cindy and other renowned hotties from a more portly era of posing (Paulina Porizkova and Billy Joel’s ex-wife) would be too chunky to make it onto the runways of today’s slimmer, and perhaps dangerously trimmer world of fashion. To prove their point, the magazine provides pics of a plus size model alongside a much thinner “straight size model.”
Fox News has a worksafe writeup, but for the pics you have to click on the full meal deal.
The pictures should “open the minds of the fashion industry,” which is stepping further away from reality, according to PLUS founder and editor-in-chief, Madeline Figueroa Jones, who is probably at least a size 8.
Jones, who may be frailer emotionally than physically, said she nearly cried when she first saw the pictures, but still ran them.
The magazine points out fashion models appear to be shrinking: “Twenty years ago the average fashion model weighed 8 percent less than the average woman. Today she weighs 23 percent less” and “most runway models meet the Body Mass Index physical criteria for Anorexia.”
Now, Cindy is 45, a mother of two and still easy on the eyes. She says she feels sorry for the supermodels of today and points out the obvious — “straight size models” have no curves.
Maybe that’s why my calendar collection stopped in 1989.
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Sorry Folks
January 12th, 2012
4:29 pm
Dear really:
No one said you have to be thin. They only said you have to be thin and attractive if you want people to like you.
Sure, be yourself all you want. No one is looking.
If you want to be poor you definitely should ignore all the advice from “some fool making millions of dollars a year.”
Great logic!
How about google it!
January 12th, 2012
4:29 pm
@ JT – How about googling what women’s plus sizes actually are (since you are already on your computer) instead of offending the great majority of size 12-14 women out there?
peter deter weter III
January 12th, 2012
4:31 pm
If the 4-6 range is the right size for the belles, what is the correct size for the gents? I am sick and tired of seeing these little men like sorry folks squeeze and grease their beer kegs into those polos and dockers as if they are having twins.
g
January 12th, 2012
4:32 pm
Sorry Folks, you are a complete jackass.
Angle missed..
January 12th, 2012
4:38 pm
Sizes themselves have been made actually bigger in the last 10 years by various designers. Cindy’s 90’s size six is not the same as today’s. Today’s 6 was an 8 in the 90’s and so on. In the past few years I have been able to wear a rage of sizes (we’re talking like 3) while remaining the same weight. It started when rack designers had the idea that if we make our 14 say 12 while the customer still only fits into the competitor’s 14 – they’re going to buy the 12; and they do. When out shopping and trying on clothes, if a woman finds they need the “smaller” size it makes them feel great and bam, ya gotta a sale.
TL
January 12th, 2012
4:38 pm
http://vimeo.com/34813864 shows how they stay so skinny.
Kevin
January 12th, 2012
4:46 pm
True, obesity is a serious problem in America and all modernized nations. It’s not just us. We have a culture that breeds inactivity and overeating. But, anybody who thinks that eating disorders are not also a major problem for teenage girls AND BOYS, as well as adult men and women, have never worked with teenagers in any capacity (ministry, school teachers, coaches, etc.). Your STUPIDITY nullifies your opinion, or rather, your opinion shows your stupidity.
Whatever!
January 12th, 2012
4:48 pm
I watched a program several years ago that used Olympic skier Picabo Street as an example of the problem with BMI and most current measures of health. At the height of her career, Street was considered obese according to those methods. She weighed approx 150 lbs and based on her height, she was obese. It does not take into consideration the fact that she was a world class athlete that had a ton of muscle on her frame. It was this program that showed me that BMI was bunch of bunk! At 43, I am in the best overall condition in my life! Currently wearing a size 10-12 and working on my green belt in karate! They might not want to tell me I’m obesed to my face!
Who Cares?
January 12th, 2012
4:50 pm
@ really, you get it! @ Sorry Folks, wow, I feel sorry for you. I’d like to buy you for what you’re worth, and sell you for what you think you’re worth. I’d be a happy dude. Get over yourself, please.
Kevin
January 12th, 2012
4:52 pm
Whatever, you’re exactly right. BMI is a senseless measurement. It assumes everyone is the same and doesn’t take muscle vs body fat into consideration, or any of the 3 different body-types (mesomorph, endomorph, ectomorph). I’m a man, 5′10″ and 210 lbs. I’m “morbidly obese” but I have 10%body fat or less. I guess Trent Richardson, Alabama’s RB, is morbidly obese, too.