Valerie Bertinelli blasts Gisele Bundchen for skinny model trends
Actress Valerie Bertinelli has blamed Gisele Bundchen and her supermodel pals for modern eating disorder trends - because the leading fashion names are doing nothing to promote a healthy image. The Jenny Craig weightloss spokeswoman insists too many girls and young women are starving themselves to emulate “skinny” catwalk stars, and the models fail to understand that sizes zero and two are not the norm.
Bertinelli tells Ladies Home Journal magazine, “When there were several of those models dying from anorexia and I read that Gisele Bundchen said something about it’s not being the designers’ fault but the parents’ fault, I was like, ‘Well now, wait a minute, Miss Skinny Girl.’ “(I said), ‘Designers do have something to do with this because they hire women like you.’ “There was one designer who was proud of herself because she hired models that were a size four. And when asked why she didn’t hire a (size) six or eight, she said, ‘Because the clothes don’t look good. They don’t hang right.’ “Aren’t you supposed to design clothes that look good on real women?”
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Let me see. Doctors advocate keeping a healthy weight. bertinelli enters into a program to lose weight, therefore validating a personal premise for doing this. BUT, it is Gisalle’s fault that she is not overweight and suffering as some are.
BS!
God, this ticks me off. I work for a major modeling agency. You can’t blame the girls. They just do what their bookers/agents tell them - which is driven by what the designers are looking for.
There are a couple reasons for this:
1. Fashion, especially high fashion, is designed to be fantastical; ethereal. It’s not supposed to look like your average day at the mall.
2. Clothes DO look better on thinner frames; deal with the reality.
3. Setting aside women’s innate desires for youth and slimness, which I believe result from evolutionary psychology - most American women are overweight - more than 1/3 of them are grossly overweight. Therefore it’s going to be seen as far more exclusive/desirable to be really skinny. In societies where everyone is skinny and starving, it was seen as exclusive/desirably to be curvy.
4. If you think Gisele is really skinny, you haven’t been following the fashion industry. She’s curvy by high fashion standards. The top models this year - Vlada Roslyakova, Olga Sherer, Snejana Onopka - make Gisele look like a beast.
5. The problem in America is not thinness - it’s fatness. For every few thousand fat people, there might be one underweight person.
Five free clues from me, kids! For free, even.
This free lesson had zero carbs, zero calories, and no fat!
two other things - it’s NOT MEANT TO REPRESENT THE NORM, Valerie. This is the fashion industry, not Wal-Mart.
second, what i meant was that for every few thousand fat people there’s probably one true anorexic.
anyway, it’s BS
Go Natasha! Go Natasha! Go Natasha!
Um, no Valerie - it is the weak minded that fall for these eating disorders… I am so sick of hearing about this “disease” that vain women have to look like a stick. You were fat, now you are average - get over it, and you don’t need Jenny Craig to eat sensibly and exercise, it is common sense, DUH!! Quit stuffing yourself with fries and exercise 3-4 times a week - it is not that difficult.
Valerie B. has LOST any respect I once HAD for the woman now that she has a TELL-ALL book about what she was REALLY like (doing drugs, etc. etc)! Some things DO not need to be told!
twiggy anyone, kate moss? it wasnt giselle that started the trend and it is not her that is going to stop it!
The thing is, Giselle was blaming parents not the fashion industry. She claimed that having a strong family base would prevent eating disorders. Because of this, I think that in a lot of ways Valerie has a point. To say that eating disorders are not at all caused by the fashion industry, but rather an unstable home life, as Giselle claims, seems pretty inaccurate.
Can Giselle, or anyone else for that matter, honestly say that the fashion industry doesn’t play a part in setting the standard of women’s physical appearance?
I agree with your points Natasha, especially that many of the clothes are really not meant for the average woman– that high fashion looks better on very thin models. However, while the clothing may not make it to the local Wal-Mart, the photos of models, actresses, etc. who represent the labels do.
I think both Valerie and Giselle make excellent points, but you can’t blame JUST models, the industry, or parents. It has to be a combination of everything.
“2. Clothes DO look better on thinner frames; deal with the reality.” - Natasha
Yes, I agree, clothes that are produced now by the fashion industry do look better if one is skinny.
BUT clothes are what we make of them! The designers have the power to alter that but are they brave enough to do that (or even willing )? I dont’t think so.
I THINKS SHE IS ONE UGLY ASS BITCH!! FUCKEN U-G-L-Y!!!
Natasha,
Have fun in your delusions…………….(and for the record I am not one of those GROSSLY overweight people) I just don’t think you make any sense whatsoever.
Jo, I 2nd that. I LOL off when reading her comment. So, silly!
Too much America’s next top model, it’s time to put the remote down.
Why can’t clothes be designed to flatter medium-sized frames, rather than stick-thin frames??????
I think both of them (G & V) need to just sit down and be quiet.
I wish people would realize that we all don’t have to look exactly the same or even have the same body build/size. There’s room for skinny and large and everything in between.
The fashion/apparel industry should be designing attractive and wearable clothing for ALL sizes not just favoring ONLY the pencil thin amongst us.
Also, I think people should focus more on eating right whenever possible and DAILY exercising and they should stop obsessing about dress sizes and the numbers on the scale. You can still be fit and appear overweight, even classed as obese…and you can be skinny, look like a model and be unfit and unhealthy because your immune system is lower due to lack of nutrition and exercise. Any doctor can tell you that. All this obsession with size is NOT about health, it’s about looks and using those looks to think one person is better than someone else. It’s pathetic really that we women tear at each other like this. NO ONE puts men under such pressure or judges them based on their looks and weight. So why do we keep doing this to ourselves?
“NO ONE puts men under such pressure or judges them based on their looks and weight. So why do we keep doing this to ourselves?”
Because, lets face it, men have all the power and we as women need to get over ourselves!