Reuters.co.uk: "'Outright bans and indeed legislation is definitely not a route we want to go down,' said Marks and Spencer chief executive Stuart Rose, who is chairman of the British Fashion Council that is organising the event which starts on Monday."
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There is a good point here - that BMI is only an indicator and not the authority. I'm glad that this article was posted, just to get an idea of what someone else with some sort of authority on the subject thinks. I think that this article was starting to get at something, but then stopped short. That is the idea that we are basing our ideal body on a model and then telling girls not to look like that when really we should be educating people to be healthy and take care of themselves and seeking an image like that. I am looking forward to seeing how this is all going to pan out in the end...
- Jen Owen
It is nice to hear that people in power think there should be a better measure than BMI, but to me the most interesting bit of the article was the quote at the end - J.K. Rowling's equating "waif" models with "empty-headed, self-obsessed clones". Curious to me to take thin to mean "empty headed", or conforming to the physical demands of a modelling-industry job as being "self-obsessed".
After doing a little bit of research on exactly what a BMI is, I was surprised to find (on the website I looked at) that the range of 17 to 22 is where all women should want to be. I was surprised to read this since the BMI cut off for the models is 18. It seems that since a healthy BMI is lower than what most people are (surprise surprise), those same people will have a problem with the "too skinny models." This is not to say that I don't think there are models who are skinny to a fault. Only, I have to agree that what the industry should be doing is hiring models who are just healthy and showing whoever strives to be like said models that they should simply take care of themselves.
-Natasha Alejandro
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