Readers brought these two examples to my attention.
Wonderbra finds Katie Green too fat to model bras
Katie Green won an audition to model bras for Wonderbra, which used her on billboards with the message, “D to G, because we’re more than a handful.” Wonderbra had her sign up with Premier Model Management, a leading modeling agency. Premier told her to lose about 28 pounds of weight. It is irrelevant how much Katie Green weighs because her pictures and videos, shown above, reveal a woman who is well-suited to modeling bras. Katie was told that her size – size 12 U.K. – was unacceptable, and that she needed to be a size 8-10 U.K. She was told that most lingerie models managed by top-rated modeling agencies were a size 8 U.K. Incidentally, Katie happened to weigh 145 pounds at 5-foot-10.
Here is more of her ordeal.
“So I said, ‘With respect, my curves got me the Wonderbra job and brought me to you. But now you’re saying I’m too fat.’ They made it very clear they wanted me to lose two dress sizes.
“That would mean shedding two stone. I’d have been a bag of bones.
“But instead of listening to me, they just gave me dieting tips and told me I had to train at the gym every day.”
“I was banned from eating carbohydrates after 4pm and even told I couldn’t go out for a curry with my mates. I’m embarrassed to admit I started following their regime. I even started skipping dinner and fibbed to my mum that I’d eaten earlier.”
Katie lost 7lbs in just eight days and thought modelling work would flood in.
But she went on: “Every time the phone rang it wasn’t with an offer of work, it was to check on my weight loss.
“I was invited back to London by Premier. I thought, ‘Great, this must be for a new photoshoot,’ but they just wanted to MEASURE me to see how much weight I’d lost. I had to stand on scales then a tape measure came out to do all my vital statistics.”
Katie Green did the right thing and walked away. Subsequently Katie landed a job with Ultimo, another company selling underwear.
Traci Moslenko at the Janice Dickinson show
Traci Moslenko has appeared in the Janice Dickinson modeling show. Looking at her, it should come as no surprise that her ‘weight would be cause for concern.’
But Traci would be fat by whose standards?
Who are the people that find Katie Green and Traci Moslenko too fat for modeling?...
...even though Katie isn’t being considered for anything close to high-fashion modeling.
When Katie’s family contacted Premier Modeling Management for asking her to lose weight, the agency said,
“We advised Katie that commercial and lingerie models need to be an average size 10 as is requested by the market sector she wanted to model for.”
What market sector is this? A market sector is a group of businesses selling similar goods and services and hence directly competing with each other. So the market sector concerning Katie comprises of companies selling underwear to women in the general public. But judging by the comments, most people, including most women, are shocked that Katie and Traci are considered too fat for modeling.
We all know the answer. The homosexual fashion designers! Even when it comes to modeling underwear or lingerie, the homosexuals will prefer as little deviation from their adolescent-boy-look ideal as possible.
you are right Erik it's unfortunate that gays have so much power in fashion. If they were not a part of the fashion world they would probably be in danger in their work, discrimination. What should they do?
Andrea: The problem isn’t power but abuse of power. Most homosexuals are not involved with the fashion industry and it isn’t that they face rampant discrimination outside the fashion industry. The relationship between anti-homosexual sentiment in the general population and discrimination against homosexuals isn’t a straightforward one. Whereas the stronger the anti-homosexual sentiment, the greater the chances of homosexuals being discriminated against, the proportion of homosexuals who remain closeted also increases, and hence the chances of people finding out who the homosexuals are and then discriminating against them decreases.
The solutions to discrimination against homosexuals are educating the public about setting aside their biases when evaluating a job applicant, specifically focusing on whether the characteristics they consider undesirable are related to job performance; and carefully worded legislation that prohibits discriminating against homosexuals if their homosexuality is unrelated to job performance while protecting religious groups from abuse and maximally upholding freedom of association.
i think you may have accidenetally deleted my comment, so i will post it again. katie green could easily lose 10 pounds and tone up, meeting the size requirements for a lingerie model whiel still be feminine. i maintain appropriate size, with natural curves at 130 and 5.11. one does not need to be 145 to have a large chest. also, in the pictures posted, her thighs and waist have clearly been photoshopped beyond recognition. may be she needs that since she out to tone up... by the way, i wear a sz 8 in uk sizes and eat healthily, etc. it is possible.
the second girl is not particualrly curvy, i.e. busty or high fashion (long/lean) so there is no market for her. she woudl make a great actress, but the average cute girl has not place in the modeling world. if you put keeley hazell or lateicia casta up there--then i would understand your argument. but they have great bodies. point blank. their medium height and softness become non-issues.
Actually that homosexuality thing is more or less a myth... I have a few friends who are fashion designers (women and men) and they all say it is much easier to design clothes and go crazy on thinner, uniform models... It's just more practical for them but unfortunately it makes things quite impractical for models and models-to-be that aren't naturally washboard flat/straight.
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