Runway Model

As we see models on runway shows and social media exhibiting clothing they got paid to show off, we often do not pay attention on how the clothing looks but how skinny the model is. Modeling is a very competitive career because there’s millions of beautiful women in this world, but as we come to notice many of these women starve themselves so they can win that position they’ve dream of on the runway show. We hear about eating disorders all the time and we don’t really pay attention about it, because it sounds crazy for someone to not eat. Many famous models such as Georgina Wilkin became anorexic because of her career, and even though agents knew about this illness she still got booked. This shows many young women who dream of being a model that they are going to have to make some scarifies, such …show more content…
As soon as they get booked models start training harder than ever, and yes when I say train they are training their mind not to eat or sometimes even drink for a couple of days and maybe weeks depending on how small they had to be. If a designer wants a model to have hips that are thirty-four inches wide and a waist that is twenty-five inches, then all these models are trying to train their body to be that small because that is the only way they can get booked for that runway show. A model in New York who was just join modeling industry for the first time was in completely shocked. because she had never believed anyone who told her that there was a lot of girls starving in the modeling agency she was in. She explains how every girl looked at each other and they all whisper about how fat a girl was or how much competition they had. “The woman… who, feeling fat, monitors everything she eats, has become, just surely as the inmate of the Panopticon, a self-policing subject, self committed to a relentless self-surveillance,” (Mears,