Model dies of anorexia - at 19
 

Here it is again: a recent example of a recurrent tragedy in the modelling world - a young girl (only 19 years old) dies of anorexia.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ps-6-stone.html

What is especially tragic is that this model was working - and yet still was brainwashed into thinking that she needed to starve herself.


The last point is especially significant. The diet-starvation and exercise-torture industries push the falsehood that body-diminishment is "healthy," but in fact, the opposite is true. Weight loss takes a severe toll on the body - whereas studies have shown that being curvier actually benefits health and allows women to live longer.

It's criminal propaganda that brainwashes women into ruining their own health for a physical standard that is unnatural (and against which the body naturally and rightly rebels). And the entire media is promoting this lie - with, as we see, tragic consequences.

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It recently came to me that the fashion industry has managed to weasel its way through several federal regulations. For example, OSHA is known to impose fines for anything that remotely could be a safety hazard in most industries. How has the fashion industry requiring models to starve themselves to death not gotten OSHA's attention? Also, these un-human skeletons that the fashion industry calls "models" showing up on TV screens and wherever else has to be in violation of some indecency or obscenity law.

I was recently looking online for a winter coat, and I came across two custom clothing companies run by (what appears to be) a husband-and-wife team of Lianna K. and A.J. Machete. Reading the about us section, specifically the part that Lianna worked for "10 years in the fashion industry designing for Liz Claiborne and other brands," made me wonder how much of designer clothing is just putting a label on something and inflating the price, and if these big name designers actually do any of the designing. After a bit of Google research, it seems as though intellectual property laws, such as copyright laws, do not apply to the fashion industry.

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Here's a truly horrifying article about one model's near-death battle with anorexia, which, she points out, is not only mainstreamed but practically mandated in the fashion industry.

http://www.stylelist.com/read/forme...26pLid%3D386929

It sounds more like life in a concentration camp than a career:


So much for the "glamorous" world of minus-size modelling. These girls are living near death.

There's more about the misery of her life in this article:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...booked-her.html

She says:


But that's simply unrealistic.

The only way these criminal abuses --for that's what they are -- of young girls, and near-fatal workplace conditions will stop is with government legislation that puts an end to them and mandates the use of plus-size models (i.e., the only models who are not anorexic) in all campaigns, and bans the use of underweight girls.

Anything less, and these abuses will continue forever, at the cost of countless women's health and lives -- not only of the models themselves, but of the girls who inevitably emulate them, brainwashed as they are by their skeletal appearance into thinking that a cadaverous look is what they should be killing themselves to achieve.

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A Link in one of the articles posted above reveal even more alarming facts about the fashion industry, featuring insight from Katia Elizarova.


How are the agencies getting away with not paying their models?


This is highly illegal everywhere in the US, and most likely in most of the world.


I am no doctor, but I am certain fainting regularly and eating tissues is not good for health.


The article does mention that in "June, the New York State Senate passed a motion to protect models under 18 in the state of New York". While this may at first seem like a first step improving the fashion industry from the sickness it has become, further insight on the bill reveals that it is very poorly thought out and severely flawed in its execution, with easy work-arounds and too lenient consequences to be effective.

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I recently heard a rather lengthy (and false) detail-filled diet-starvation ad on the radio that completely drove homeM. Lopez's point.

Here are a few points that stood out to me, and not in a good way.

"A woman should be as thin as possible to be healthy and live longer"
When hey said "as thin as possible," my brain translated that as negative-size anorexic, which is DEFINITELY not healthy.

"Losing weight reduces cancer risk"
Considering the statement before, my guess is they figure once you are that thin, you will die of some malnutrition-related illness long before cancer can even develop. They did not even say anything about clinical studies or anything of the like.

"Be thin to look younger"
This has to be the biggest lie of the 21st century. All of the mainstream anorexic models I have seen looked to be in their 60s to 80s, even though they are in their teens or early 20s. On the other hand, plus-size models and other full-figured ladies I find often look younger than they really are.

The ad was basically a quickstart guide to developing a serious eating disorder. A scam in any case.

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That's just awful!

I agree, it really is the biggest lie that one must "be thin to look younger." Curves and beautiful fullness are plump with moisture, and not deprived of nutrients like thin frames are.

Even when i was young and body conscious, I remember wondering why every larger woman I saw always looked fresh, youthful, and had beautiful skin. Today I realize that it's because fuller-figured women nurture their bodies, while those with thin frames are being taught to do the exact opposite, which is OF COURSE going to be very aging on the body and face!