With fashion shows just around the corner the spotlight will again shine a light on the 'thin' frame of many models. Source: Supplied
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MODELS are long, lean, lanky women who look nothing like the rest of us. Get over it and give them a break, writes Melissa Hoyer.
Miranda Kerr flying home for David Jones and Jennifer Hawkins casting models for Myer signals the start of a new fashion season.
And with the high-end frocks will come a slew of 'Oooh models are too skinny' stories - yet again.
Before Miranda or Jen even sashay down the runway, the latest skinny-minny scandal surrounds Sports Illustrated star Nina Agdal, who recently took to Twitter to set her model body straight.
On January 31, from her @NinaAgdal Twitter handle, the model posted: "To all the haters. Yes I DO eat. I work out. I am a HEALTHY 20 year old with high metabolism. Let's just put things straight!"
Agdal was reacting to comments after a post from the magazine's @si_vault Twitter account showed her at the gym at 10pm. (Who'd be at the gym at that time apart from shift-workers? Well, that's another column).
In the picture Agdal is twisted like a pretzel which admittedly makes the long-waisted Miami-based 20-year-old look very lean, but how it prompted followers to refer to her as having an eating disorder is just taking things too far.
Sports Illustrated model Nina Agdal and the picture she posted on Twitter. Picture: Splash Source: Supplied
Agdal has since deleted the post but her need to justify her body online got me thinking about how models always need to explain their weight and even their beauty.
Historically, mannequins (also known as models) are tall, slim, healthy men and women. Genetic freaks, actually.
A model is booked because she or he is a coat hanger, there to play second fiddle to a pricey piece of designer clothing.
Do they depict what 'real' women look like? They certainly do not. But 'real' isn't what many of us want to see. We don't want any more reality in our already too real lives.
As we flick through fashion, home or celebrity mags, we want to see images that are dream-like. A dream that varies from person to person but a dream nonetheless.
I haven't heard complaints about the height of basketball players, or the weight of sumo wrestlers or the slight frame of jockeys, so why do model get so much online grief?
Victoria Secret model Candice Swanepoel found herself in a 'skinny war or words' after posting a picture of her stomach on Twitter late last year. Picture: Splash Source: Supplied
A model's job description includes that of being tall, trim and healthy. No one wants to see the return of the awful 'Heroin Chic' look which was championed in the 90s and led many people to assume every model either had an eating disorder or was a junkie. Or both.
But having sat through runway shows in designer capitals around the world, and hundreds of the same in shopping malls and retail stores, I have heard sniggers from audience members when a model dares to show a little cellulite, or a small tummy, or back fat.
We diss a model if she is lofty and lithe, then doubly diss her if she has what most of us already do.
In most cases, models can't win. Damned if they're beautiful. Damned if they're not beautiful enough.
So let's just push the too-skinny model skirmish to one side and accept that they're just doing their job. For this season anyway.
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