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this is very interesting really,
i dont think this will get these girls to eat it is a very nice gesture but in all honesty these girls have eating disorders and i doubt very much that they cant afford to pay for their food.
fair enough the fashion world is trying to show that they dont promote stick thin but the only way these girls can be shown i think is for the designers to make the garments in bigger sizes, the fashion world is trying to say they dont want them skinny but they still make the clothes tiny if the girls stopped being booked for shows simply because they dont fit in clothes for being to thin then maybe they will try and add a few pounds to fit the new sizes.
the fashion world is very harsh and i think these girls are simply tring to follow the guide lines set by designers.
i do think that banning stick thin girls is the way to go but surely the designers should take some of the blame?

I understand that many people will go to any end to reach their dreams of fame or ideas of beauty but I honestly cannot understand the methods they choose, starvation or excessive plastic surgery.

This is a wonderful gesture on the part of the restaurant, but they most likely won't lose much money giving free money to these girls; I doubt if anorexic models will take them up on it, unless it's for salad without dressing and diet pop! I think that the fashion industry is finally showing some sense with these new rules. By current medical standards, a BMI of 18 is still considered to be underweight. The healthy range is 18.5-24.9. It's about time that the industry began to present models in clothing that is designed for "normal" sized women and not a bunch of anorexics. There are very few healthy people in the world who wear a size 0. Society puts too much pressure on people to be thin and fit, and the modeling industry has been pushing the "thin" to "ultra-skinny" for far too long, contributing to the development of eating disorders in the models and among young women. I don't want to see a switch to all "plus sized" women, either, as this is portraying an unhealthy image at the opposite end of the spectrum, but it would be nice to see models that are held to being strictly within the healthy range.

It would help if the majority of the men would change their attitudes towards women. After all, men seem to want us to look like Twiggy. When I was growing up in the States, the guys wouldn't even look at girls if they had a bit of beef on them. It is not just the designers, or the people at the fashion shows, it is everyone who thinks the average size of a woman should be tiny. What ever happened to wanting to look like Marilyn Monroe? She was a size 14 US, which is a 16 UK. What was wrong with the way she looked? When I was a teen, I could hardly find any clothes in my size. But there were plenty of clothes in the smaller sizes. So, girls had to lose weight. The skinny girls always got whistled at, the heavier ones were always made fun of. We need to take control of what weight makes us happy and not worry about what anyone else thinks.