Would Tyra Banks Be Considered 'Too Heavy' to Be a Model Today?
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2012/05/17 17:12:16
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Tyra Banks has transformed her modeling success into an impressive career spanning fashion and TV. But if she were getting her start today, looking like she did as a teenager, she says she'd be considered too fat to get hired. Find out what her mom had to say about it at 1:10 in the video below!
In an open letter congratulating Vogue for its recent decision to ban "too skinny" models, Tyra writes in The Daily Beast: "Many of you have graciously said that you want to have the same type of career that I’ve had....But the truth is that if I was just starting to model at age 17 in 2012, I could not have had the career that I did. I would’ve been considered too heavy. In my time, the average model’s size was a four or six. Today you are expected to be a size zero."
In an open letter congratulating Vogue for its recent decision to ban "too skinny" models, Tyra writes in The Daily Beast: "Many of you have graciously said that you want to have the same type of career that I’ve had....But the truth is that if I was just starting to model at age 17 in 2012, I could not have had the career that I did. I would’ve been considered too heavy. In my time, the average model’s size was a four or six. Today you are expected to be a size zero."
"In my early 20s I was a size four," she writes. "But then I started to get curvy. My agency gave my mom a list of designers that didn’t want to book me in their fashion shows anymore. In order to continue working, I would’ve had to fight Mother Nature and get used to depriving myself of nutrition.
"As my mom wiped the tears from my face, she said, 'Tyra, you know what we’re going to do about this? We’re going to go eat pizza.' We sat in a tiny pizzeria in Milan and strategized about how to turn my curves into a curveball. In a way, it was my decision not to starve myself that turned me into a supermodel, and later on, a businesswoman." Do you think young Tyra would be considered "too heavy" to be a model today?
"As my mom wiped the tears from my face, she said, 'Tyra, you know what we’re going to do about this? We’re going to go eat pizza.' We sat in a tiny pizzeria in Milan and strategized about how to turn my curves into a curveball. In a way, it was my decision not to starve myself that turned me into a supermodel, and later on, a businesswoman." Do you think young Tyra would be considered "too heavy" to be a model today?
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+22If Tyra Banks is too fat, then there is no hope for me. Might as well say f**k society and have a twinky!
What is fat to that industry is at or below normal/healthy body weight for a woman.
Women aren't supposed to have flat bellies, perfect/tiny butts, and huge breasts.
Sure, some are naturally really thin, but that doesn't mean everyone should be or should be told they need to be.
I know that there's an argument that slimmer models make the clothes look better because they hang more nicely but isn't that a form of misrepresentation? Have a range of models of different sizes so that you can see what the clothes will look like when you wear them!
Silly me... no one will buy them then!
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will thicker chicks please STOP making nasty jealous comments about skinny chicks? Implying that someone is anorexic and "not a real woman" just because they are slender is hurtful and rude. YOU don't want to be called a big fat cow, right? Don't take your insecurities out on skinny girls. I lost a lot of weight a couple years ago (120+ lbs.) and when I was fat, I was jealous of the thinner girls and (wrongly) thought their lives were perfect just because they were thin, so any teasing I did at their expense was fine. Now I'm a size six, and while complete strangers don't call me a "fat ass" any longer, I do have to deal with being told that "real women have curves", like I'm a fake woman or something, and friends of mine who liked me when I was fat (and they are fat too) all think I have a bitchy pompous attitude and don't talk to me anymore, but the only thing that has changed is that I'm thin now.
I don't think ANY woman should ever be nasty about ANY woman's weight. If you think you're beautiful, love yourself for it, but DON'T try to justify your body type by calling someone else FAT or ANOREXIC.
Way I see it, you can have really skinny and really curvy girls, and they can all be beautiful. My nerd may be showing here, but I'm thinking compare Summer Glau and Christina Hendricks. Both are drop dead gorgeous, and are both very different body types. And I also feel like we are ignoring that our sedentary life style leads to us being too heavy, and thats in addition to genetics. If you are overweight, male of female, that's not a good thing: It may be a small thing in comparison to your intelligence, personality, and drive, but still, if you take the effort to lose, well...120 pounds...then you are awesome, you have put a lot of effort and sacrifice into bettering yourself, and that deserves celebrating.
I think that having these ideals of beauty are fine, as long as they are obtainable, appropriate ideals exist for all women, and are not obsessive and don't replace more important traits. Personally, I see male actors in shows and movies and the like, and it makes me want to commit to my XC running regiment that much more strongly. I think that's a good thing.
i'm not missing out on anything.
I think that Banks would have a better chance today then when she started. Maybe i'm wrong, maybe i'm misreading, maybe the people who choose the models haven't caught up to public's slowly growing more reasonable expectations. One way or another, she's a beautiful girl.
If i wanted to try for a slick recovery, I could say that the slow transformation of beauty standards from sickly thin to athletic, healthy builds is, "Going from Heroin Chic to Heroine Chic".
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