I'm a great believer in inclusivity and showing clothes on real people with lumps and bumps. Healthy people come in a variety of shapes and no one should be made to feel that they should have to conform to an unrealistic fashion driven shape at the cost of their long term health.
Being underweight is dangerous to health and the fashion industry is trying to address this by banning models with a BMI of under 18.5 in most runway shows. This would seem to be a great step forward, but having a BMI of over 30 is also very dangerous to heath and (in my opinion) would also warrant being banned to avoid impressionable people being driven to a similarly unhealthy body goal.
Sadly this documentary seems rather exploitative of the body positive movement. Most of these models are undoubtedly in the healthy weight zone so why not draw that out?
Being underweight is dangerous to health and the fashion industry is trying to address this by banning models with a BMI of under 18.5 in most runway shows. This would seem to be a great step forward, but having a BMI of over 30 is also very dangerous to heath and (in my opinion) would also warrant being banned to avoid impressionable people being driven to a similarly unhealthy body goal.
Sadly this documentary seems rather exploitative of the body positive movement. Most of these models are undoubtedly in the healthy weight zone so why not draw that out?