Journalism / America's Next Top Model
I was watching a marathon of America’s Next Top Model when to my surprise I realized that this season there were two plus size models in the running to become the next Top Model.
But after taking a good look at those two girls I realized that they weren’t plus sized at all. They were average sized women with beautiful looks and great potential. It just goes to show that labeling people will never be any good.
Why would anyone want to be a plus sized model when they can starve themselves and excersise to death. If we would just put all models in one big clump, no plus sized or “reagular”, people would feel much better about their bodies.
The modeling industry must realize how much of an impact they have on teenage girls, infact the whole skinny craze is starting to reach many ten and eleven year old girls.
We have to stop all of the labeling before it gets out of hand.
I for one am disgusted with ANTM and all those so called beauty pagents. If you think that seeing a persons ribs through their skin is pretty and sexy then feel free to watch all of those degrading programs.
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You have a misspelled word in this piece, “reagular”,
Fix that and I am with you on the content. I think you are beginning to see the shift in pageant perception in this country.
It is interesting, however, that viewership in pageants in predominently female. The public message needs to be directed at the female subset if change is to be permanent.
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It’s funny. The “plus-size” girls were average- you’re right. Next to the other “model-size” girls, they looked kinda chunky, though when you saw the “model-size” girls at large, in public, they looked freakish, hardly human. It was entertaining to me.
However, the modeling industry sells an image which the society it is sold to both projects and consumes. In other words, if it stopped being purchased, it would stop being produced. All the blame can’t go to modeling companies, most of it needs to go to consumers. Don’t like it? Don’t buy magazines, don’t buy clothes that use those models. That’s the only way it would change—and it won’t. Sadly.
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