Did you know that BMI is a measure of body fat based on height and weight and the World Health Organization classifies someone with a BMI of less than 18.5 as "underweight." Well most models in the fashion industry are underweight and for the more overweight people this ends up causing eating issues, disorders, or even suicide. Only because most girls at a young age want to be like the fit models and social media also promotes unhealthy issues, like “am I too fat”. On Nov. 17, 2010, anorexia nervosa claimed the life of 28-year-old French model Isabelle Caro, who had spent the last years of her life publicizing the horrors of the disease. Her mother, devastated by grief and guilt, committed suicide several weeks later (The Fashion Industry...).
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In the article “The fashion industry promotes eating disorders” it states that “Their guidelines included a minimum BMI requirement of 18.5 for models over 18 and a graduated system of BMI requirements for younger models. They called for the development of "action steps to identify models in need of intervention." And they proposed an outright ban on airbrushing photos of models to create unrealistically thin images.” This is one of the main things that can hurt others is because these models are so thin that someone might get the wrong idea and end up creating a problem that is not so easily reversed. Dutch model Marvy Rieder, 31, explains, "If you want to work, you have to fit into the clothes. That's not something your agent has to tell you; you come up with it very quickly yourself." (The fashion Industry…) which just shows us that if you can’t fit into the clothes you can’t be a model and then things go downhill, 1. Your self confidence weakens 2. You resort to not eating so that later you can fit into the clothes and become a model. 3. That's when the eating disorders come into
In the article “The fashion industry promotes eating disorders” it states that “Their guidelines included a minimum BMI requirement of 18.5 for models over 18 and a graduated system of BMI requirements for younger models. They called for the development of "action steps to identify models in need of intervention." And they proposed an outright ban on airbrushing photos of models to create unrealistically thin images.” This is one of the main things that can hurt others is because these models are so thin that someone might get the wrong idea and end up creating a problem that is not so easily reversed. Dutch model Marvy Rieder, 31, explains, "If you want to work, you have to fit into the clothes. That's not something your agent has to tell you; you come up with it very quickly yourself." (The fashion Industry…) which just shows us that if you can’t fit into the clothes you can’t be a model and then things go downhill, 1. Your self confidence weakens 2. You resort to not eating so that later you can fit into the clothes and become a model. 3. That's when the eating disorders come into