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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95 comments Add your comment
peter deter weter III
January 12th, 2012
4:55 pm
LOL YOU ARE A YELLOW BELT NOW OR AN ORANGE BELT? THOSE ARE PRETTY LOW FOR 40 (FAW-TY) IN MY SOUTHERN TWANG
Fred
January 12th, 2012
4:55 pm
It’s really quite simple. Most “fashion designers” are gay men and they want the models to look like 14 year old boys, so they do.
peter deter weter III
January 12th, 2012
4:56 pm
MY BMI IS GOOD! I KEEP MYSELF UP
Whatever!
January 12th, 2012
5:00 pm
Peter deter weiner! I am an orange belt and I just started taking karate in May! Sat out for about two months with a rotator cuff injury and will be testing for my green in two weeks! Go back to your hole!
Crystal Evans
January 12th, 2012
5:02 pm
The average woman wears a size 14. Plus size should start at size 12. I believe Marilyn Monroe wore a size 16. What is wrong with curves? Aren’t women supposed to have breasts and hips?
Miss P
January 12th, 2012
5:08 pm
@Sorry Folks…you’ve GOT to be kidding? Life is better and easier for thin people? Bahahahahaha!!
You obviously don’t work with the public! (Which sounds like that’s probably a blessing for the rest of us actually.)
Vanity sizing has become an industry standard as pointed out earlier, but that doesn’t mean that everyone who wears a 6 is really an 8 or even in good health. Nor does it mean, or even imply that someone who wears a 14, 16 or even larger is in poor health or unattractive.
Hollywood has become Uber Obssessed with Youth and Beauty. Which also includes being so waifishly thin that you’ve become translucent. You shouldn’t be able to see someones intestines when they stand in front of a light!
People really have GOT to stop believing the (media) hype!
Human beings come in all different shapes and sizes and not only that…always have, always will.
Notice how the Fat Bashers talk about “working” at their body modifications…they don’t have natural bodies. Why would anyone listen to them? They work to change the skin they live in because they hate themselves. And want everyone else to hate theirselves too.
Don’t believe the image hype people! Stop being the Media’s Sheeple!
fat@love.com
January 12th, 2012
5:11 pm
Y’all think you’re “thick” but you’re really just obese… especially you heifers on the Southside.
fat@love.com
January 12th, 2012
5:12 pm
Make that dusky heifers on the Southside…
peter deter weter III
January 12th, 2012
5:14 pm
fat love you let a thick shake and break your heart.
@orange belt they got you moving fast can you sparr?
fat@love.com
January 12th, 2012
5:20 pm
and then they have the nerve to walk around the airport wearing a tube top and flip flops… and eating at Popeye’s.