Model Killer: Dying to be Thin
posted 10:43 pm Fri November 16, 2007 -
Maureen:
Rebecca on Set:
THIS PHOTOGRAPHER HAS SPENT YEARS IN THE MODELING INDUSTRY - AS ONE OF THE BEST. BUT NOW HE'S BLASTING THE MODELING BUSINESS - BLAMING THE INDUSTRY'S
OBSESSION WITH WEIGHT WITH ONE WOMAN'S DEATH.
Story:
WE'VE USED TO SEEING THIS ON THE RUNWAY. STICK THIN WOMEN CHOSEN FOR THEIR SOMETIMES EXTREME SLENDER FRAMES.
BUT THESE IMAGES ARE SHAKING UP THE FASHION WORLD...AND RENEWING THE QUESTION "WHEN IS THIN TOO THIN EVEN FOR THE RUNWAY?"
SHE'S HILA ELMALICH - A ONCE TOP MODEL WITH THE ISRAELI BRANCH OF FAMED US MODELING AGENCY ELITE.
Ksenia Stepanov/Model: "Everyone that suffers from pressure like that, they keep it secret. So you never know about it."
THIS VIDEO WAS TAKEN A FEW MONTHS AGO - WHEN ELMALICH WAS RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL AFTER THE MAN HOLDING HER. ISRAEL'S TOP FASHION PHOTOGRAPHER - ADI BARKAN - FOUND HER UNCONSCIOUS IN HER HOME. HE'S BLAMING THE MODELING INDUSTRY FOR HER DEATH...
Adi Barkan/Fashion Photographer: "They take a skinny girl. After that, we change the light. And after that we photoshop. She's already skinny. Then we cut another 35% off her size. Who can be like that girl? Nobody!"
THIS WEDNESDAY THE MODEL DIED, WEIGHING LESS THAN SIXTY SIX POUNDS. NOW BARKAN IS ON A CRUSADE AND HAS CONVINCED ELITE IN ISRAEL TO SET HEALTHIER BODY MASS INDEX REQUIREMENTS FOR THEIR MODELS.
Michaela Goddard Quesada/Elite Model Worldwide: "You do have beautiful girls that come to see you who's body just does not want to be slim. We tell her, go to school. Be a lawyer, a doctor. Don't struggle with it because your body is happy the way it is."
Rebecca on Set:
BUT THAT MESSAGE FROM AN ELITE WORLDWIDE SCOUT SIGNALS THE STILL TOUGH STANDARDS DRIVING MODELS - AND OFTEN WOMEN AND GIRLS WHO WANT TO EMULATE THEM, SOMETIMES LEADING TO THEIR DEATHS. REBECCA COOPER, ABC 7 NEWS.
Latest Comment on Model Killer: Dying to be Thin
1partoftheplan
6:49 am on 01/07/08
Health first, fashion trends last. There is nothing smart, cute or sexy about death.
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