Thin Model

Questions:

-What triggered the ban?

One of Uruguayan Young skinny models who died of heart failure during a fashion show which held in South Afraid. She was only 22 years old when she was dead, and in order to pursuit her model career more successful, she almost did eat nothing except some soda for three weeks.

-What's BMI?
BMI is short for Body Mass Index. It is used to estimate your total amount of body fat and normally it's designed for adult(over 18 years old).

-What BMI should a model have to be allowed to participate in fashion parades in Spain?

The BMI index should be over 18.

-What's the average height, weight and BMI of a runway model?

The average runway model is estimated to be 5 feet 9 inches tall and to weigh in at 110 lbs. and a BMI index is 16.

-What are the arguments for and against?

The arguments are for trying to stop more skinny & feeble fashion models appearing on the fashion shows. More and more skinny models and young women are starving themselves in order to make them look extremely skinny. They think the less fat in their body, the more beautiful they are, especially for some young fashion models who desperately want to be more successful in their careers. So most of them are unhealthy & feeble, and disorder in eating, some people already lost their young lives for that. So the Organisers of Spain's top annual fashion baned the models if whose BMI below 18.

But someone against this ban. Some skinny models think they are thin because they are natural thin.

-Check the meanings of gaunt, emaciated and wan. You can find many dictionaries on the Internet (just write dictionary into Google). One of them is the Merrian-Webster

gaunt: excessively thin and angular ;

emaciated: very thin and feeble;

wan: suggestive of poor health or lacking vitality

-How can you calculate someone's BMI?

Dividing your weight in kilograms by your height in metres squared(m2).

My opinion

In my view, this is a very good action for calling for more healthy fashion models on fashion shows. I do think that the skinny models not only are not beautiful indeed, but also very unhealthy. They are going too far away for losting their weight.

Definately, I completely agree with the fashion models should have a reasonable weight according to their height. You see, these models especially for some well-known models, such as Kate Moss, they are the public celebrity, their images could make a strong impact on young women and teenages. If these skinny models are chronic suffering from disorder eating in order to keep their weight lower and lower, one side, their body and health must be seiciously damaged; the other side, some of their fans would follow their ideals unhealthy life style. That would be terrible.

I hope that more and more fashion show organisers around the world should take the same action to ban too thin models to appeare on the fashion show, and calling for more healthy looking, more reasonable weight fashion models to be on the show. I supposed that this action should be taken in some eariler time, but it is good to see more and more people in the fashion industry are aware of banning too thin models on the fashion shows it is a very necessary and important thing. The organiser of Spain Fashion Show did a really good first step for that.