This is a very curious story. Shortly after being caught altering a model's photo to make her look even thinner (she's a size 4) Ralph Lauren fires the model.
She says, and there does seem to be some basis for her assertion, that she was fired for being too “fat.” “They said I couldn’t fit in their clothes anymore,” she said claiming Ralph Lauren wrote a letter to her agent saying, “We’re terminating your services because you don’t fit into the sample clothes that you need to wear.”
Ralph Lauren issued a rather inconclusive statement regreting the photo alteration and then saying the model was being fired because she could not meet her obligations to Ralph Lauren.
Let's be clear here -- at 120 lbs and 5'10" the model is probably too thin (my sense is she is but that depends on a host of things I have no knowledge of). Certainly she isn't overweight and suggesting she is sends a remarkably bad message -- indeed, the sort of message that will make me think twice before I buy Lauren for men next.
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Do you think it is only limited to Ralph Lauren?
To be fair though,she knew that going in. She has been beat at her own game. She used her beauty and physique to land the gig and now it is not quite good enough. It is a vain business.
Ralph Lauren is probably telling the truth. She probably isn't anorexic enough to fit the size 0 clothes they expect their models to wear.
Look at her photo - she actually has breasts and you cannot see her ribs - obviously not skinny enough for the Sicko fashion industry. Michael Moore where are you.
I am sick and tired of seeing models that don't reflect how women really are! 99.99999% are not a size 0. Who can wear their fashions other than the models. If an average woman were to buy the clothes, they wouldn't look the same in them. Can't anyone out there make clothes that are actually for the real women of the world!
Her BMI is actually 17.25 which is considered underweight (by just a little)
Her weight should be between 128 to 173 lbs.
She is possibly still healthy, as the BMI is not a firm statistic, but as they are saying she's too fat, that just tells us how unhealthy models need to be.
What a cow!!!!
Strange the difference is for me as the late Carry Grant was 6' 1" and he was 170 and he considered himself fit guess another example how men can weigh more according to an interview written prior to the birth of his only CHILD.
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