Daily Mail
Israel bans underweight models
Only healthy looking models with a Body Mass Index of more than 18.5, such as the country’s most famous export, Bar Refaeli, will be able to work there.
The law, approved by the Knesset (the government’s legislating branch) last March, requires models to produce a medical report showing they have maintained a healthy BMI for three months before a shoot or catwalk show.
It also bans the use of models who ‘appear underweight’, meaning advertisers are not allowed to make a model’s body look thinner than it really is using air-brushing.
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I thought they had bigger issues….like survival.
Oil Can on January 3, 2013 at 7:05 PM
Apparently they’d like their sexiest women to survive as well.
(BTW, Israeli women are SLAMMIN!!)
CurtZHP on January 3, 2013 at 7:09 PM
Since most of those models look like they just jumped the wire at Dachau, I can see why they might find it disturbing.
sharrukin on January 3, 2013 at 7:09 PM
I modeled in HS. I was getting very close to being a full blown anorexic, a max of 500 calories a day and two hours working out.
One day, my mom grabbed my arm with tears in her eyes and said, “You look like the pictures I’ve seen of those poor starving people at Auschwitz.” I started eating more healthy that day and eventually stopped modeling because of the pressure to be very thin.
Fallon on January 3, 2013 at 7:18 PM
I will be honest…I have never understood the need for women to do this to themselves. I have seen skeletal women carrying themselves with body language that suggests they think they are attractive and they don’t seem to see the men looking at them as they would a two headed poodle.
It must be the pressure of other women, because most men don’t find that in any way attractive.
500 calories a day? They got about two or three times that in the camps.
sharrukin on January 3, 2013 at 7:24 PM
BMI testing will be done by the haredim.
Er….
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on January 3, 2013 at 7:28 PM
“I’ll be darned if I’ll let Bar model in public in her bathing suit. Could start a riot.”
– George H.W. Bush
Seth Halpern on January 3, 2013 at 7:31 PM
Camryn Manheim has finally found her second career. Mazel Tov!
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on January 3, 2013 at 7:34 PM
The reason models do it is because the fashion industry is dominated by gay pedarists who think skinny thirteen year old boys are the epitome of beauty. I don’t think anybody else really finds them attractive.
Walter Sobchak on January 3, 2013 at 7:48 PM
I have heard that is part of it.
http://www.talentmanagement.com/assets/wp-uploads/2011/06/skinny-model.jpg
Well this obviously isn’t attractive, so yeah.
sharrukin on January 3, 2013 at 7:51 PM
Not true. Fashion designers want walking clothes-hangers because women with more comely figures would take attention away from the rags they’re selling. Victoria’s Secret, on the other hand, could not sell their undergarments (most created by men, too) if they used the swizzle stick girls of high-fashion.
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on January 3, 2013 at 7:57 PM
I used to be friends with guy who told me his ideal female body type was that of young teens who were flat chested. I thought he was joking – it turns out he wasn’t. At least he wasn’t so creepy he liked girls that young!
He also was a dead ringer for Lance Bass from NSYNC – ’nuff said!
Anti-Control on January 3, 2013 at 8:17 PM
Possibly a little of both? Funny thing is I also played college volleyball and had my BMI tested one year. I ate like a horse and my BMI was 14.5. I was very healthy and strong. You would not have said I was too thin. Strictly using BMI is a silly way of testing being under or overweight (see football players).
Fallon on January 3, 2013 at 8:22 PM
Explanation: The fashion world is massively over-represented with aggressively gay men (photographers, stylists, PRs, drug mules) and ‘women’ like Anna Winour.
Mario Testino took some famous shots of Princess Diana that managed to, amazingly, make her look like a young boy. Quite a transformation because she was neither little nor androgynous looking.
It’s mostly a gay men and mental women thing though – for every Valentino there are 10 Westwoods and Versaces.
CorporatePiggy on January 3, 2013 at 8:23 PM
When I tried to join the Army, the recruiter told me to get the hell out and lose some weight (I was around ’135′). Came back in 2 weeks 20 pounds lighter (and way weaker). But to Uncle Sam I was perfect!
And you’re right about BMI. My only measure anymore, is how my clothes fit.
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on January 3, 2013 at 8:30 PM
The sad thing is, under the current understanding of the commerce clause, our Federal Government could probably impose this same ban here in the US.
BierManVA on January 3, 2013 at 8:37 PM
And will before long. Can’t have people deciding for themselves if they want to be thin you know. That’s a decision better left to mama government.
xblade on January 3, 2013 at 8:40 PM
They already tell us we can’t be fat…that it’s a “public health issue.”
BierManVA on January 3, 2013 at 8:42 PM
To the people blaming gay men and calming them pedophiles, you can go F U C K yourself. I love how some people here manage to bring up gays, gay sex, gay anything into even the most innocuous conversation. My co worker who is straight likes flat chested skinny Asian women. Does that make him a pedophile who wants Asian boys? What stupid logic. No wonder some conservatives aren’t taken seriously.
nyclakerfan on January 3, 2013 at 9:11 PM
Well, that’s the NAmBLA vote counted then.
CorporatePiggy on January 3, 2013 at 9:15 PM
good, it saddens me how some people think models should be sticks. this attitude that some people have has hurt so many girls, and even killed some. the more we fight against this stupid stick thin trend in the modeling industry, the better. i completely support this law.
Sachiko on January 3, 2013 at 9:19 PM
that’s not sad at all. i will repeat, the stick thin trend has both mentally and physically hurt many girls around the world, and has even led to deaths. it’s not just the models, it’s the regular girls who are influenced by the models. so this has damaged a LOT of girls. and you think it’s sad if gov’t does something to go against that? wow.
and nyclakerfan is right, we can’t just place blame on gay men when we don’t have any kind of proof, just stereotypes. that’s completely unfair.
yeah i mean i am conservative too but there are some times when people on our own side say things that make us look bad. liberals think we have no compassion and we’re “mean,” and that we stereotype others. well look what some of you are doing. don’t give the left ammunition, i’m sure they come here and read our comments.
Sachiko on January 3, 2013 at 9:35 PM