A new study has uncovered something that will shock — shock!
— millions. Supermodels don’t eat seconds.
A Danish beauty-industry group conducted a survey of 3,000
models employed at every prominent agency in the world and determined that 94
percent of them are woefully underweight.
The researchers from DreamModels.dk came to their conclusion
about the general low Body Mass Indexes for models by first obtaining their
height, bust size, waist width and hip measurements from public data available
on their employer’s Web sites.
DreamModels.dk then used a “body visualizer” system to
estimate how heavy they were, since the Web sites don’t include the models’
weights.
Those numbers were then combined to calculate the
catwalkers’ BMI.
Surprise, it was found that models are skinny — really
skinny.
Only 75 of the 3,000 models surveyed had a healthy BMI,
which ranges between 18.5 and 25, the group found. None had a BMI over 21.
The average model stands 5-foot-10, weighs about 119 pounds
with a BMI of 17.3. The World Health Organization classifies anyone with a BMI
under 18.5 as malnourished.
That means Victoria’s Secret’s Alessandra Ambrosio, who has
the average height and weight of a model based on DreamModels.dk’s analysis, is
starving.
Last year, France enacted a law banning runway models whose
BMI is below 18.5.
California lawmakers have proposed a bill that requires
models in the state to get a doctor’s note stating they are healthy.
“Studies show that up to 40 percent of fashion models have
eating disorders and as many as 50 percent of girls in fifth to 12th grade
think that they’re not thin enough because of the images that they see in
magazines,” California state Assemblyman Marc Levine said.
-New York Post-
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