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Model and serial actor-dater, Giselle Bundchen, has a few words for anorexics around the world. Oh goodie, I feel a pep talk coming on. “I never suffered from this problem (anorexia) because I had a very strong family base. Parents are responsible, not the fashion industry,” she said in the Friday edition of O Globo newspaper. “Everybody knows that the norm in fashion is thin. But excuse me, there are people born with the right genes for this profession.” Gisele said that as a child her peers teased her for being skinny with names like Olive Oil, the character from the Popeye cartoon. “In fashion I felt accepted … I never felt lonely because I always relied on my family.” Well, that’s just what we need. A skinnny model telling girls everywhere that she has the genes to be thin and they don’t. And if these girls feel overwhelming pressure to be thin it isn’t the fault of the endless barrage of ridiculously thin fashion models, but because their moms don’t bake them enough cookies. If you want to send a message to girls of today try this…those model smay have thin genes, but they’ve also got a stash of heroin, coke and speed, enough cigarettes and caffeine to wake up a vegetable and a dozen skilled airbrush artists ready to cover up the track marks and alcohol bloat. |
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January 22nd, 2007
