Last week on my blog- http://thepowerofpretty.blogspot.com -see below- I posted the scary digital diet picture manipulation of the Ralph Lauren spokesmodel Filippa Hamilton, where her head was bigger then her hips. Well now she is speaking out. She said in a recent interview with the NY Daily News, her almost decade long contract with Ralph Lauren was terminated in April because she was told she was too fat to fit the clothes. She's a size four. Please let that sink in. She is a size four. She is around 5'8'' and weighing 120 lbs according to her modeling website, a shape that she says has remained constant for the last eight years of her contract. A size four is too fat?? really??
WTF??
Now explain why anorexia is common among young women, why girls as young as eight years old are already dieting and hating their bodies, why a healthy beautiful young woman's career is washed up at twenty three. Does she look fat to you? Does it make you crazy how narrowly (and I do mean that literally) fashion and beauty are defined? Does it make you look with slitted eye at your own womanly hips and baby there baby belly that you hate! hate! hate!? or does it just make you feel bad realizing you can never ever measure up to a standard that so few can healthily obtain?
Sometimes I think beauty and fashion aren't fun. I think they are cruel and mean. When a size four is fat we all really need to take a long look in the mirror and love what is looking back. Even the power of pretty needs to eat.
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Right on Power of Pretty! We have become so booorrriiiingggggg!!!! in our acceptance of an image that most of us don't fit. The problem is with us accepting the unacceptable images. So thank you for voicing what should be the start of all of us saying no way. Let there be art, let there be fashion, let there be PRETTY in the myriad of beautiful, pretty women and men out there. R
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