Super Skinny Style

The latest news about the fashion model industry being over hauled regarding the health of their models is welcome news.

Victoria Beckham was on ‘The View’ in American defending the right to use super skinny girls on her latest catwalk show.

It has to be said that the styles Mrs Beckham produce can only be worn by women who don’t have hips or boobs!

Health watchers who monitor the industry have a right to be worried.

I recall a few years ago an advert in Italy from a clothes designer showing an anorexic woman naked, apparently to stop young women succumbing to the disease, there has been a public outcry about using such images. An Italian doctor stated that it would encourage women to stop eating.

There have now been calls for full medical checks and random drug testing on the models that grace the cat walk in the UK.

This is good news as we did always suspect that models prefer to sniff chemicals rather than eat cookies.

That’s why a few of our ‘super’ models that have remained stick thin for so long, it was never a fast metabolism.

How we ached to get into the clothes of those strutting skinny babes, yet most women knew that those skimpy jeans wouldn’t even fit over their left thigh never mind around their waist.

The fault lies with the people who create teeny-weeny clothing lines for today’s females.

Every woman worth her handbag knows that most of these clothes are designed by gay men who rarely understand what a real woman’s body resembles!

I recall the scandal when Karl Lagerfeld had a dirty public battle when his exclusive designer clothes for the Swedish fashion chain H&M had been manufactured in a size16 in the UK.

The achingly hip Mr Lagerfeld felt that this resizing of his classy clobber misrepresented his clothing line and refused to work with the company ever again.

What he really meant was- he didn’t do clothes for fat girls!

"Those who are undisciplined become fat. There is something distasteful about their inability to control themselves” he said when defending his right to make clothes for women who weigh less than their lapdog.

My point is- how does a septuagenarian homosexual fashion designer in a powdered ponytail get to decide what size a woman should be? And more so, what women starve themselves to agree with him?

The average woman in the UK is a size 16, which is hardly obese or terrifyingly fat. Think somewhere between Kate Winslet and whatever stage Kelly Osborne is at in her BMI and you are nearly there.

I also believe the media surrounding body images projected at young women need to be more responsible.

The reinforcement of being skinny and perfect is endorsed by the ever increasing celeb-watching mags that are targeted at today’s young women.

These magazines in Britain are on the increase with headlines declaring

“See the scariest most shocking beach bodies of the stars”

And there on the cover is a picture of a lovely looking young female with a wee roll on her tummy in a bikini running into the surf.

Hardly scary or shocking, certainly not Jabba the Hut in a tiny G string as they had led us to believe in their headline.

They target all the UK’s female soap, film and pop stars, displaying candid shots of them eating a burger or have highlighted enlarged photos of their cellulite as they sit on a beach.

You would think it was unusual to have a line where your tummy bends, or a wrinkled eye as you smile in today’s image conscious society.

Yet the editors of these heinous magazines’ blow up these innocuous body parts into a huge disproportioned images and have arrows pointing at them.

You could be led to believe having a chubby upper arm makes you a candidate for stomach stapling.

Making an issue out of these ‘so called’ abnormalities only feeds the insecurities of image fixated young girls today.

The latest pictures of pop mum Britney Spears in the gossip pages confirmed my fears about this issue.

The newspapers screamed that ‘Britney is Fat’ as it showed her in a glittery bikini dancing and miming her latest song at a recent awards ceremony.

She is a young mother of two toddlers and looked perfectly trim to me. Her mental state is a whole other issue.

Having a lolly-pop head and emaciated body is not a good look, yet it’s what the press seem to insist of their pop icons, and then immediately shoot them down for being anorexic when they conform to the demands.

Women are meant to be curvy; it’s what separates us from the boys.

We are not supposed to be childlike waifs with grotesque fake silicon globes surgically fastened onto our ribcages.

I personally don’t know many men who would lust over a woman who has the body of a nine year old girl with gigantic boobs.

It’s good to be healthy and slim, but girls shouldn’t be dying to be thin.