hisannabelle
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Joined: 12/3/2006 From: Tallahassee, FL, USA Status: offline
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greetings level (and all), i too am glad the beauty industry is starting to look towards healthier examples...but this woman IS HEALTHY. unless they have proof she is starving herself to win beauty contests, i find it just as offensive that they are telling her to fatten up as how most women are basically told to lose weight to fit into jobs or contests. i am so happy that the beauty industry is starting to come to its senses...but banning thin models from the catwalk and healthy (at least healthy-looking, if on the thin side) beauty queens is not necessarily the answer. i mean, yes, banning models with underweight bmis might be an incentive to some to get help...but why not actually attack things that are contributing TO the problem, like ad campaigns such as the one in the latest posts on this blog: http://everywomanhasaneatingdisorder.blogspot.com/ or, y'know, doing some actual, real, healthy body image education in schools, or actually trying to get underweight models and beauty contestants who are sick into treatment, or, well, doing something rather than always making it someone else's problem? it's like saying, "we have cancer, let's suture it." respectfully, annabelle.
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a'ishah (the artist formerly known as annabelle) i have the kind of beauty that moves...
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