Messages By: gwarrior6

 You think heroin addicts are attractive?  Because that's what were talking about.  Read the articles before you criticize...your sn says it all.

But youre young and don't know everything.  Maybe they should ban the plus sized models, but then again, being big boned is not illegal, being on Heroin IS.

We're NOT debating the point that models should make the clothes look good (although there's NOT much debate over a healthy size 4 and a size 0 coke addict).

The media DOES do a LOT of damage, so don't pretend it doesn't exist.

  Don't stress it, cortisol from stress stores fat...ha ha ha.

Keep eating!  If youre young, you haven't stopped growing yet, don't do damage to your body.  Trust me, it's not worth it!

You could do permanent damage to your bones, to your heart, your liver, your brain, and sadly, your metabolism.  The lady on the show starved herself, and now that she's eating again, she can't lose  wt past a certain point because by starving herself, she slowed down her metabolism.

Have you thought about another profession, because you can only model for so long until they tell you your too fat and too old.  Then what are you left with?

You sound like an intelligent girl, you could do so many things with your life instead of posing for most of it.  If you absolutely have to model, come up with a back up plan, in case you change your mind because dreams are fluid.

Point is, don't hurt yourself, you have the power to tell these ppl NO!  And if they don't give you the job, they're missing out. 

They are banned b/c they do not meet BMI requirements (19-25) for a HEALTHY weight range.  This is the category we're referring to.

The industry sets out an IMAGE, and it's part of corporate responsibility to highlight on women who are healthy.  Promoting drug use is NOT an IMAGE a lot of sponsors want anyway. 

  I'm talking about people who starve themselves and do drugs to look that way.  The two models died b/c they had a BMI of 14 and their hearts stopped.  Read what i'm saying.

You can be thin and a size 4 healthily.  But its about IMAGE, that's what i was saying.  If a girl is naturally a size 00, a sponsor wouldn't want that anyway b/c it represents an almost impossible size for a height of 5'10.  It promotes drug use and starvation among ppl that size that are young and impressionable.  Even if the model doesn't do those things, ppl want to emulate an IMAGE of distorted reality.

The bones in your skull don't literally fuse until youre 25 and have stopped growing entirely.

Runway models with a BMI of 15 look like walking skeletons.  THAT'S what we have a problem with.  You can die at that BMI, and some ppl already have.  The industry doesn't care about that and pushes and prods ppl to lose every ounce of wt off.  Its cruel to women to make them starve themselves to death for acceptance and plant those seeds in young minds to do the same to be accepted in society.

Ty Beeson sells his propaganda for abuse against the homeless for $19.95 per DVD and $34 for a sweatshirt. 

There isn't a network to write to, but we can start by discouraging sales of assault & battery against human beings down on their luck.  Or if you buy it, start a bonfire and burn it all so its not out there anymore, i just don't want this guy getting rich off it, though.

Volunteer at soup kitchens, give to the Salvation Army and Toys 4 Tots, and don't act on what you see.  These ppl just want what everyone wants, to be treated like human beings instead of dogs.

  Children of addicts internalize everything and take it as a personal failure when their parents can't stop.  A lot of times, THEY have to be the parent and take responsibility, which is a lot to ask of a child of ANY age.  They're robbed of childhood and it forms a pattern for who they become later on.  They will never get that back, and they have a huge hill to climb to over come it.

But they can overcome the feelings of abandonment and break the pattern.  They can say "I will try with all my being not to slipslope into becoming my parents for the sake of MY children, if not for me".  It isn't an easy thing to do, and their's a lot of genetics involved with how likely you are to have an addictive personality. 

But if you look back after you've raised your children in the best environment you know how, you'll have self satisfaction in knowing that you did something not only for your children, but for your great grandchildren, and you've left your imprint and you had a positive impact for other people down the line.

 The 15 year old who said those things has neither the education nor the life experience to really know what she's talking about and make well founded statements.

I happen to have both the education, and life experience, which credentials me to talk intelligently about this.  So does Dr. Phil, and look at the stance he takes, he has a degree in psychology.

Point is, we care about what the young and misguided have to say in order to educate them on the way the real world works.  It's sad that ppl want to argue for a cruel, destructive industry that plays on self esteem to market things.  The industry must be regulated, hands down, period.

As aforementioned, not ALL plus sized models are OBESE.  In fact, not ALL plus sized models are overweight period.  They have bigger builds, and just because they don't have a BMI that's low enough to kill them doesn't mean they're fat at all.

You say media isn't an influence, and then you say (and I quote) "Likely, many here who are trying to deem that if they use to be a size 8 and now are a 12, it's okay because they are not officially obese, and now Dove supports their body type."

So yeah, you can go the other way too, but what WE'RE discussing is that it's NOT okay for an industry to abuse it's prestige to harm women.

Also, you contradict yourself by negating yourself.  You say " barring an extenuating health condition", but then you say that "Can't...just doesnt fit.. in my book", when there are women who REALLY can't.

YES, at least you get it!!!

 There are some shallow ppl out there that need to WAKE UP and realize what's going on from ppl on another pov!

There's bone structure, metabolism, height - that factor into size.  Perfection is for a supreme being, not for decaying organic matter like us.  It's just a package, and when you die, it doesn't matter what you looked like.