America's new top model ...or top skeleton

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Ugh, I just got a look at the new "America's Top Model". Am I nuts or does this girl look like a starved skeleton??? Will the industry NEVER wake up to how damaging and negative this whole starvation look is to millions of women and girls' self images? Why do they keep promoting this anorexic "ideal"????
http://cwtv.com/thecw/gen-gallery-an...59-500x680.jpg
http://cwtv.com/thecw/gen-gallery-an...06-500x636.jpg
http://cwtv.com/thecw/gen-gallery-an...75-500x667.jpg
I look at her and her emaciated state shocks me. Is it just me?

[KnottedYet]

that first picture is VERY creepy!!!!! (and I'm not even referring to the phallic imagery yet)

Send that girl to me, I'll feed her up right and get her some nice Pacific Northwest Padding on those lil' bones! She'll be sleek as a seal in no time!

[pastrypam]

I can make her some of my best desserts. That should put some meat on those bones.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

that first picture is VERY creepy!!!!! (and I'm not even referring to the phallic imagery yet)

Yeah, she should EAT some of that ice cream instead of just slathering it on her body and WASTING it all!!!!!

[surgtech1956]

That first picture reminded me of Grace Jones. Its scary what message is being sent to the young girls - the look of a malnourished super model then followed by all the fast food commercials.

[Zen]

I'm fairly certain most people don't find this appealing.

Adult women know it's unattainable and unhealthy.

Unfortunately the girls who aspire to this look are just that-girls. They don't have the wisdom or self confidence that comes with age and look for external validation of their self-worth.

You could write a thesis on this subject.

[mimitabby]

that is really disgusting. at least she doesn't have to worry about periods.

she has no curves, only bone bumps!

[ridethewind]

Unfortunately the girls who aspire to this look are just that-girls. They don't have the wisdom or self confidence that comes with age and look for external validation of their self-worth.

This kind of crap is a direct attack on girls' sense of self-worth. It's beyond disgusting.

[plantluvver]

I'm fairly certain most people don't find this appealing.

Adult women know it's unattainable and unhealthy.

Sadly, I not sure that it is really all that true.
(You are thinking about us, your biking sorority.)

The first picture really creeped me out too, and I didn't even see the phallic imagery because the bottom of my browser window was off the screen.

[meridian]

One word... yuck

I'll take my curves over her boney butt any day

[LBTC]

One word... yuck

I'll take my curves over her boney butt any day

Nice curves, meridian! I'd take those arms over the supermodel's any day!

It's interesting to see this thread now. About a year and a half ago we had to cut our costs way down in order to move, change jobs, buy a house in a more expensive real estate market, etc. One of the costs I cut was buying magazines each month - FitnessRx, Oxygen and YogaJournal. A few weeks ago, we stopped by the magazine rack and I took a look in the mags I used to buy. I was shocked at how skinny the models all were! The fitness magazines, back when I used to buy them, used to have pictures of women who had muscles! The last magazine I looked through I couldn't believe any of them could sustain a physical effort for any length of time. I mean, really, YogaJournal would typically have had the skinnier models of the three magazines. I'm happy to say they haven't seemed to change their standard, but it seems so strange for the YJ models to seem to be bulkier and more muscular than the fitness models!

And this couldn't be at a worse time for me. I admit I am influenced by images of women - I often wonder how I compare, whether I could wear that, etc.... So now, while I'm forced to not exercise intently, where my food intake is completely messed up (and therefore I spend a good deal of time eating things I can eat that aren't necessarily healthy - can anyone say Pamela's chocolate brownies?), so my body is definitely *not* in the shape it was or where I'd like it to be, these images are really confidence eroding. *sigh* Not the super model - she's shockingly thin; but the fitness ones are a drag for me right now.

Hugs and butterflies, everyone,
~T~