[~invisible~girl~]

Obviously it's great that someone in the fashion industry is taking a stand on this.

The only thing that bothers me though is that in the whole "size-zero" issue, it seems like there's always an underlying assumption that a wearing a certain size or having a certain BMI is always unhealthy or is always dangerous. It's not. My sister and I both actually do wear a [size removed] most of the time, and can almost never get away with bigger than a [size removed], and while neither of us is tall enough to be a model at that level anyway, we'd actually in some instances even be banned from modeling for being too thin even though we're both just naturally small. My eating habits are debatable, but I've never really tried very hard to lose weight and I'm definitely no where close to meeting clinical criteria for anorexia, and my sister eats a ridiculous amount and hasn't been able to gain weight when she's tried, and definitely does have breasts even (I barely do, but that runs in the family) and just has really tiny bones (which don't protrude at all since they're in proportion to the rest of her body, which is part of why she looks healthy even though she's tiny). But like there was something I read about with some fashion show, I think it was in Spain, that actually set a minimum BMI for models, which I wouldn't have met by quite a bit (I'd have had to gain like [weight removed]), and since my sister and I are pretty much exactly the same size (I'm about a quarter of an inch taller, and last we checked she weight about 2 pounds more than me), I'm pretty sure she wouldn't have either, even though we actually are both at a healthy weigh for our bodies. Even though honestly, I think that if my sister did somehow gain enough weight to not be considered underweight according to her BMI, and to wear like [size removed] or so, she'd probably look like she'd do well to lose some weight even though by any standardized measure she'd be barely even "normal" weight, because it's just not her natural size and she'd look too heavy for her frame. But then there are also people like my grandma, who I'd have to say actually does have an eating disorder, who's not underweight by medical standards, and wears like a [size removed], which isn't controversial at all, but she still looks too thin for her bone structure, and my mom and sister and I all agree that she'd look better a bit heavier than she is.

I guess that while it's good that they're trying to do something about the pressure for models to be so thin, it just bothers me that it still feels like trying to decide on an ideal clothing size and BMI for everyone rather than emphasizing that people look best at whatever size is right for their body, and the problem is that people feel pressure to fit into a clothing size that's not right for them. Like in high school my sister was teased some for being so thin, and felt really bad about it for a while, and if she'd been also getting the [size removed] are too thin (let alone a [size removed] like she wore then), it definitely wouldn't have helped her feel better about herself. I think that ideally we should see models of all different sizes, and there's no reason why that can't include people who do wear a size 0 as long as that's their natural size. The problem isn't models wearing a size 0, it's models being expected to wear a size 0 when it's not their natural size, and to me that's an important distinction.