So my best friend just came back from the Phillipines after working as a model and an actor there at Bigfoot studios for 6 months. She joined a new modelling agency before she left.
She has been over there for so long and I missed her like crazy but she has done some amazing work while over there and I am so insanely proud of her!!
Anyway, she got back to Sydney and rang her agent and went in to see them after being away etc. First thing they say to her was that they need to take some more shots of her because she looks different than her shots in her look book then they did her measurements. They tell her that she has put on weight around her hips and has gained a bit of weight while she was away and she will need to lose it!!!
When she called me and told me this I was soooo angry! If she lost any weight at all she would look really unhealthy and malnurished!
Being a bigger person and formally an obese person, it makes me so angry that modelling agencies are still forcing their models to be uber-skinny. It has and continues to create such a bad image for young girls to try and live up to. And not only that Its an impossible image to live up to.... even my very thin best friend has trouble!! My best friend was so excited to have a little more meat on her bones after struggling to put on weight for many years and was also really angry when they told her she had to lose it!!
I don't think I will ever understand the mentality behind this super-skinny image that is used in every clothing, shoe, make-up etc campaign. Haven't companies realised that that image is not what the majority of people find attractive or appealing anymore. It makes me so mad that people like my best friend are made to lose weight to fit their idea of beauty and the image of a "model"

I think she is beautiful and doesn't need to lose any weight what-so-ever, what's wrong with these people? Can someone please tell me........?

                                                              My beautiful Best Friend