Fashion Industries' Impacts on Models

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What standards and limitations have occurred to make the face of models different from the actual public? When hearing the word “model,” flawless images in magazines are normally created. However, upon hearing the word “supermodel,” tall , thin, graceful images of women from New York City’s fashion week come to mind. Throughout the fashion world’s history, problems in the fashion industry have shown up. Hidden under the radar, models are often asked to lose weight if they wish to continue working for major fashion industries. Models are also in their own battles to fight for more color on runways: more ethnicities need to be present. Working for major fashion companies can make models and supermodels feel insecure about themselves and force them to have surgical procedures. The models are not the cause of the lack of healthy role modeling and diversity on the runway- fashion companies are.
Fashion companies have a habit of constantly advertising abnormally thin models. While waiting in a doctors office or in line to check out at the grocery store the first thing someone will pick up is a magazine. Most women skim through dozens of pages full of flawless super thin women wishing that they looked the same. The author of "Teen Model Georgina Got so Thin Her Organs Were Failing" , Helen Caroll, wrote about sixteen year old Georgina Wilkin who had been fighting anorexia to keep herself successful. Helen Caroll wrote, "...she survived, and now wants to expose the modeling industry that so nearly killed her. She says: 'Everyone should know about the pressure models are put under.' Georgina, now 23, insists that the only way to prevent models succumbing to eating disorders is for customers to boycott labels employing girls...

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