Anorexia is not beautiful & curvy isn’t fat
40% of fourth grader girls diet either “very often” or “sometimes.” FOURTH grade. According to the National Eating Disorders Association, 90-95% of anorexia sufferers and 80% of bulimia patients are girls and women.
Conservative estimates are that 5-10 million girls and women, in the USA alone, are struggling with eating disorders. That doesn’t include Canada, Australia, or anywhere else. The numbers are staggering.
So, when Fracas said; Be outraged enough to have the courage to tell these people to shut the fuck up, I happily stepped up to the plate. This *is* one of my pet peeves.
You see, a Daily Mail (UK) article reported that stunning model Jen Hunter (left, below) was branded ‘too fat’ for TV competition.
According to the Daily Mail article;
“Judge Tandy Anderson, managing director of Select Model Management, criticised her for having “stocky” legs… Swedish blonde Miss Berglund, 18, who made it to the final with her, was meanwhile praised for having a “sensational” body for modelling despite having a body mass index of 16.1.”
You can read the article here… read Fracas’s post here… and if you should want to tell “Judge Tandy Anderson” a thing or two yourself, you can do that at www.selectmodel.com. Just click the ‘contact’ link.
Curvy Miss Hunter triumphed - viewers voted her to the top female slot in the contest – and claims she owes her success to her favourite dish of hotpot and chips.
fracas said,
December 31, 2006 at 3:44 am
Thank you for posting this. I went to their site and lo if they don’t have stupid flash crap to go through before you can get anywhere. I hate that. Flash belongs where I can choose it, not be forced into it. It’s that whole “just because you can do it on a website doesn’t mean you should” thing. It figures though, doesn’t it?
They have a myspace page. I think I’ll go there and post a couple of obituaries instead of photos of “fresh faces” for them. I think also, that I’m glad I posted a request for support for this over at a couple of sites where I know people will want to tell Judge Anderson a thing or two.
And yes.. I dearly wish Askimet would learn already… I’ve “corrected” it so many times already. I just wish I knew why it started to treat me like spam even in my own blog. My posts don’t even contain links. Go figure. Maybe it was the ones that had the word “p-oh-rn” in them? See… watch, even without actually spelling the word it will still treat me like that gushy pink luncheon meat.
Sigh.