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!
The problem is, they never discussed that opinion with anybody in the "real" world to see if they agreed. There have been probably millions of women who have destroyed their health and self-esteem trying to live up to role models that are totally unnatural and unhealthy.
IMHO, the idiots should be shot. I can't speak for anyone else, but I want to see some meat on those bones! Some of these gals look like they have been in isolation cells on bread and water for 6 months. Yuck!
I'll take curves any day, thank you very much!
P.S. I think Tyra is hotter now than she was in her "prime".
Haha, I think modeling should get personal with health, not just ban the ones with "too-low" BMIs.One of the main indications of health for a woman is that she gets her period every month. Of course, there could be other reasons behind a missed period, but that is how most women know they are getting too skinny.
Sad but true, the average American is a size 8 to 12, but models are all size 0.
She is not even big. Stuff like this pressurises the younger generations of girls, and sometimes boys as well, to become thinner. It's no wonder that the amount of people with anorexia has increased - it's because of stories like this and the stick-thin models in magazines and on television....
I'm a size 2 (34-22-34) but too big for modeling. I would like to note that sizes change and it's about measurements - even if you have the proper measurements for bust, waist, and hips, you're thighs and arms need to be proper too.