Comments on: The stunning size 12 model branded ‘too fat’ for TV competition

By: Shannon

Shannon — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:18:05 +0000

oh yeah and Raya, wouldnt you want to be recognized for an ACTUAL accomplishment? I’ve been in many newspapers…and people know my name because i’m an exceptional athlete. being annorexic will get you NO WHERE in life. you think you will acheive anything?! no. not one thing.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:09:43 +0000

I think the one on the left looks wayyy better then the right. she looks DISGUSTING! I bet she can’t play any sports or go on a hike or anything enjoyable! I’m 5′8 and 135 lbs. I’m a 7 time track state champion as a sophmore in highschool. I have a 26 inch waist…BUT I HAVE BIG MUSCULAR LEGS! and it looks good! I would MUCH rather be healthy and muscular then a TWIG! EAT SOME FOOD!!!!!!!

By: Jem

Jem — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:37:14 +0000

Why do all of you keep saying that she’s too thin? I mean, look at her face. She’s really TOO FAT for her length. If she would lose ten pounds she would look a lot better!

By: happy&healthy

happy&healthy — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:20:37 +0000

obese is ugly, anorexic is ugly. they’re both unhealthy. get of ur ass & exercise and eat healthily. if u are naturally skinny and are healthy u will look it and vica versa. the girl on the left looks like she eats too much sugar and greasy fatty food(there’s nothing wrong with her size, she just needs 2 exercise and turn the blob into muscle), the girl on the right’s face is haggard and ill looking, but maybe its just a bad photo. lefty isn’t that pretty and probably only won because most people who votted are fat and lazy. even if she was the same size as the other girl she doesnt have a model face. the other girl is too skinny but her face is prettier and she poses better(i googled them). she just needs a few pounds(of muscle) anyway i’m going for a run, lifting sum weights and then having some steamed veg and fish for dinner yum!happiness

By: Stevie

Stevie — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:03:46 +0000

I think on behalf of both of these pictures there a happy median, as long as you feel good and feel confident in how you look (aswell as being healthy) be how you wish. In life people waste so much time judging others and worrying how people are judging them, sooner or later everyone needs to realize your life is yours and no-one eles, live it how you wish and if that involves being “skinny or “curvy” so be it.

By: ellen

ellen — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:39:56 +0000

marilyn monroe was classed as beautiful and still is today she was a role model to 1000s of women out there, and she was a size 14 curvy and naturally beautiful, i think its pretty obvious who looks better in this picture, she looks healthy and happy, unlike that bag of bones to the right SKINNY PEOPLE ARE DISGUSTING

By: Peita

Peita — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:51:40 +0000

Ok ok all you ‘thin’ lovers, remember your point of view is just a fad too (and comments like ‘ugly as shit’ are indicative of the real problem, Mia. Remember, its self-projection.). Only in the past 100 years or so, compared to the entire recorded history of humanity, has thin = attractive (normally it equalled weak, diseased and barren, ie not a good genetic line to continue). And in that time about 50 years (the early 1900s, and the last 3 or 4 decades) have been devoted to worshipping thinness. Marilyn Monroe, the symbol of feminine beauty of last century was a size 14; the 1940s and 50s marked a reprieve from thin worship. This of course coincided with women being yanked back out of the workforce (after the war years) and shoved back into the safe ‘containment’ (for many, downright imprisonment) of the home.
Many people recognise that the oppression of women just shifted focus as we again came out of the confines of the home and the only role for women of the time, in the 70s, and women’s bodies became the terrain of oppression. Don’t kid yourselves, unless you get yourself educated and break down some of the negative views that you were raised within the context of and that surround us every day, your opinion is not your own. Its the result of advertising and the media, the result of corporations in fashion, ‘beauty’, weightloss and ‘fitness’, investing in your insecurity, presenting you with an almost impossible ideal that you’ll have to spend so much time and money trying to live up to. These corporations only exist because you’ve been duped into thinking that the way you were born is not ok, not inherently perfect. Industries dont care about people, about you or your health, they care about money. The real problem with this whole thing is that we buy it, hook, line and sinker. Unless you completely accept yourself (and for you thin-addicts this could mean experimenting with giving up dieting or going to the gym, putting on 20 pounds and STILL loving yourself without judgement, ie being psychologically out of the grips of the brainwashing of these corporations), you are the product of the greed and cynicism of a boardroom full of suits who WANT you to hate ‘fat’ people so that you’ll be terrified of being that way yourself & they can take your money. Your opinion is not your own. Instead of hating what you see in others, why dont you spent a little time imagining what it would be like if you really thought that a natural, healthy, vibrant fuller body was utterly beautiful to you, and more importantly, something powerful and meaningful to you? How free would YOU feel? How strong would you be? We all struggle with this. Lets get real about it. Turn it back on the money machines that started it and desperately want to keep it going! It may not be easy, but it is simple. Open your eyes. Ps, I think everyone that wrote anything here is very courageous, even if you dont think you are.

By: Mia

Mia — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:19:53 +0000

Vouch to what nikki said she’s completely right, the modeling industry is and should be completely superficial, it all comes down to money and advertisement, it saves money and time to have a standard ideal of beauty in terms of weight and size. And there is always a right way and wrong way to do something, it’s not the modeling industry’s problem that girls are starving themselves as an easy way out. If you workout religiously and have an extremely healthy diet its completely possible to have a very thin figure, yes, it’s work, but it’s what models are paid to do. If you didn’t have to be so thin or fit an ideal body type, it would be too easy for anyone to become a model which would decrease the industry’s demand for models, which in turn would decrease pay roll dramatically. Also, that “full body” girl is ugly as shit anyway, regardless of her body weight.

By: Peita

Peita — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:56:27 +0000

Hey does anyone here think this “Raya” person is a hoax? I mean, we all know what ’she’ is writing is ridiculous. And it certainly sparked conversation!
But if not: Raya, there are clinics out there for the mentally ill like you sugar (oh, woops, did calling you ’sugar’ make you put on 5 pounds? Quick go vomit again to keep your quite obvious self-loathing at bay!!)
Pick up any psychology textbook and turn to the chapter on self projection. What you hate in the world is just a rejected part of yourself.
Hey babe, you’re a gorgeous, big voluptuous woman trapped in the body of a starving idiot filled with judgement and fear.

By: Bethany

Bethany — Fri, 16 May 2008 05:48:13 +0000

i have read through all these comments and i have to say i agree with Karen. Everyone is different and unique. and everyone finds different things attractive. to me, obviously Jen looks more attractive between the two pictures and marianne is too skinny. but i also think that it’s not a fair comparison. marianne’s photographer should be shot for that picture. it’s terrible. I think the main thing people need to keep in mind is this: no matter the size, whether its 4 or 18, it matters that the girl is healthy both in mind and body. and it matters that the girl knows that she is beautiful, no matter what others say. WE are different people with different likes and dislikes. I say, Be healthy and love who you are.