In Madrid, Spain’s most prestigious fashion show has rejected thirty percent of the scheduled fashion models that were just too fucking skinny. Organizers of the fashion show used the body mass index method of comparing a model’s weight to height, which means that mathematics and models are no longer mutually exclusive entities. Gotta love it.
The objective – to keep out seriously underweight models that encourage an unhealthy body image and promote eating disorders among impressionable females:
“The association said Friday it wanted models at the show running from Sept. 18-22 to project ‘an image of beauty and health’ and shun a gaunt, emaciated look.’
“If the resulting number is between 18.5 and 24.9, the person’s weight is normal. Below 18.5 they are underweight. In the case of the Madrid show, organizers rejected women with indices under 18.”
This certainly poses some difficulty for certain celebrities as well…
UPDATE: Calculate your very own Body Mass Index right here.
5 comments
Finally some sense. Good move. Even though a BMI of 18.1 is very slim. Give me a BMI 24, a nice round arse goes with that.
Every time I do one of these Nicole Richie or Victoria Beckham posts, I get email from anorexics who call me jealous.
I just calculated my own BMI, which is 19.9, and I’ll take that over uberskinny any damn day.
I just calculated my BMI and got 19.9, which is down from my usual 20.5 and a rather eerie coincidence. Does it tell everybody they’re 19.9?
.. the thing must be broken… it said I was ‘normal’…
im accually kinda dissappointed. fashion is all about fantasy.if uber skinny models are what they want so be it . im naturally slim and thin with no psychological or eating disorder.girls like us will have to gain weight and thats hard for me.so ill be out of wrk for a while
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