2.18.2010

No Zoolander, she.

One of my favorite models is the beautiful Canadian Coco Rocha. She's gone public on her blog about the recent debates regarding models' weights. I found what she wrote to be eloquent and moving.

"Surely we all see how morally wrong it is for an adult to convince an already thin 15 year old that she is actually too fat. It is unforgivable that an adult should demand that the girl unnaturally lose the weight vital to keep her body functioning properly. How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashions aesthetic should enhance and beautify the human form, not destroy it."

Read more here.

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