body shaming

well I just read short news about that France made ****** anti-skinny model law.. and I feel like a crap. why being oversize nowadays is ok, well I don't want to sound mean but if someone has some body, you can't even say that you just don't fancy this type of body shape because others would call you names and all.. but when someone posts stuff like 'when I see her I wanna give her a hamburger', 'she looks so sick' etc it's ok and so many approves it.. I myself am very skinny for all my life and been bullied about it since I was very little, even by my own family... even when I love food, I could eat all the time but I'm just born this way, can't gain weight and I hate my look... and I feel so upset and want to cry, I feel like I wouldn't be a girl because 'real women got curves'... hearing and seeing this so often... it's humiliating.. I know everyone are different and that's cool because the world would be a boring place if everyone would be the same, but seeing how big boobs and asses are glorified everywhere makes me feel less human..
just felt I need to speak this out loud in a place where maybe someone would understand..

I read the article on the Times about the law. I don't see mentioned about choosing oversized models, just that model agents will be required to produce medical clearance for the models and will base mainly on the body mass index, with one dissenter mentioning being 1 point below her whole life, so maybe there's a little room,but it's a big push in Europe to try to reel in the anorexia epidemic that plaques the industry.



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no they didn't mentioned oversize models but that's not my point, my point is that there's no upper line of weight and 'that's fine', socially accepted, but models and normal people naturally thin are treated like a trash. body mass index as a method of deciding if model may be working or not is stupid. I used to be a model for a short period of time, never starved myself and other models ate everything too, but we always were under BMI norm. so it's ok now to forbid working in industry when you just can't gain weight because of thyroid, anemia, or by just own metabolism? that is ****ing unfair.
and I'm talking about normal non model people too. I want to cry everytime I hear ****in mean comments about my weight. It is so mean but socially accepted, but if you would say openly 'she looks fat' others would comment that. where's justice nowadays?
besides because of anorexia many models have to check health often. it's not that epidemic as it used to be. I think being unhealthy oversize is way bigger problem, because of easiness of todays life, buying everything online, talking with friends online etc so many people get unhealthy fat. in UK obesity is one of the leading causes of preventable deaths. but nobody talks about that, media says that it's fine to be overweight. only thin people are shamed. called 'you're not a woman' when you have no boobs and *** naturally.

That's where I wonder if doctors can clear models who are a little under. Because frankly, it is possible to be tall and skinny and healthy.
You are correct about being thin. I've been both, thin now, thinner than I ever was. And speculation at times irritates the p*** out of me. I'm also resentful for being told I'd never be this size, deal with it. I'm not in the double digits for sizes, eu or states. I think women can be thin and healthy. There's other means to monitor health, as the article discusses hair, skin, and teeth health. They are looking for models of health. They need med clearance, which isn't uncalled for in other industries, when you think about it.

It's big business, I can't see them dropping models like hot cakes based upon a couple of numbers on one chart...

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To add, there's some comments in the nytimes article that speaks well to what you are saying. One number is that in the US, 1-3% of women may have suffered with anorexia, while 30%obesity. Both have effects on a woman's health. Going by the bmi, Gisele doesn't meet the minimum, neither does Naomi Campbell, yet, to me, they don't represent anorexia, either.

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I think there are moves to try and show the fashion industry as "healthy". Young girls especially like to be thin and while there are both sides of the spectrum more girls aspire to be thin rather than overweight. I know which I would rather be, but in a healthy way..