In August, 22-year-old Uruguayan model Luisel Ramos died at a fashion show in South Africa.
In the past three months, she insisted on eating only salads and vegetables and drinking Diet Coke, in order to achieve the "extremely thin" standard respected by the fashion industry.
Not long after she stepped onto the catwalk, she suddenly collapsed and died of heart failure, thus becoming a victim of "fashion."
Died due to extreme anorexia "Skinny rule" killed supermodel On the 15th of this month, 21-year-old Brazilian female model Ana Carolina Reston died of complications caused by anorexia.
Miss Reston's tragedy has once again sounded the alarm in the fashion industry, which encourages female models to diet desperately in order to achieve a "perfect" figure.
In today's era where "skinny" is regarded as the most beautiful thing, weight loss and dieting have become one of the killers that endanger people's health. Not only do models lose weight excessively, but female stars in the entertainment industry are not far behind. People who love fashion are also following behind to support "skinny".
"Clothing" and "reducing food" have forced governments around the world to intervene and call on everyone to "gain weight" together.
Anorexic female model "Killer" Reston is a model whose fame is gradually rising. She is the image spokesperson of the famous Italian fashion brand Giorgio Armani.
According to reports, before her death, Reston, who was 1.74 meters tall and weighed only 40 kilograms, mainly relied on eating tomatoes and apples to sustain her life.
This is not the first time a female model has died due to dieting.
The untimely deaths of several young models have put enormous pressure on some other fashion shows.
According to the standards of the World Health Organization, any person with a body mass index, which is the number of weight (kilograms) divided by the square of his height (meters), less than 18.5 is considered thin. If it is near 15, he is hungry.
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According to Reston's doctor, at the time of her death, her index was only 13.5.
Just at this year's International Fashion Week in Madrid, Spain, the organizing committee announced that models with a body mass index lower than 18 would be banned from walking on the T-stage.
Fashion giant Armani was outspoken in his support.
He said, "I have never liked girls who are too thin, and I have never let them go on the T-stage." The famous French fashion designer Gaultier even let a large female model show off his three-year career in fashion design.
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The bulky female model was wearing a set of black sexy lingerie. Her size clearly dwarfed other famous "skinny" female models participating in the catwalk. Not to be outdone, the Hollywood actress transformed into a "lollipop"
When the "skinny" trend prevails on the catwalk, Hollywood actresses are not to be outdone.
From big-name celebrities to rookies, they are all trying their best to turn themselves into "lollipops" whose bodies are getting thinner and their heads are getting bigger and bigger.
Hollywood's "Lollipop" era began in September 1998.
At that time, the image of Krista Flockhart, who was as thin as a waif, at the Emmy Awards caused an uproar.
She was once plump and cute in "Honey Girl", but after losing weight, she was left with a pale face like an anorexic and thin arms like a tree.
She also suffered from exhaustion and fainted on the set.
It didn’t take long for people to discover that “lollipops” abounded at the Oscars and Grammy Awards in the past two years.
Renee Zellweger gained weight and sacrificed her image for the filming of "BJ's Diary".
But after the filming of the film, I still have to lose weight quickly and think that thinness is beautiful.
It is said that in order to lose weight, she can spend 60,000 US dollars at a time.
However, it is difficult for female stars to get roles if they don't make themselves as thin as teenagers who have just grown up.
The director prefers thin female stars, and many of the costumes used in filming are small samples worn by thin models lent or donated by fashion designers.
On set, she would be embarrassed if someone couldn't fit into the costume and had to ask the costume designer to find another one.
Joan Reeves, the host of American Entertainment Channel, exaggeratedly described the rising trend of thinness in Hollywood: "Forget about size 10 or even size 6, in Hollywood, size 2 is fat, and everyone wants to be size 0... If God
Grant us a wish, and we will all make a wish and say: 'God, let me become thinner! '" The "thin trend" on the T stage has disrupted ordinary people's lives. A group of thin models represented by Kate Moss have ignored it from the beginning.
Numerous controversies in the public opinion circle have pushed the aesthetic taste of thinness to its peak.
With the help of the fashion industry and various media, the skinny style has spread all over the world, attracting people from all over the world to follow the trend. They put naturally thin models like Kate Moss on the T-stage and on the covers of fashion magazines, making slimness more popular.
Thinness evolved into a popular beauty standard.
With the weight loss trend, anorexia has become an increasingly serious social problem like obesity in relatively affluent societies such as Europe and the United States.
People are trying their best to lose every ounce of fat on their bodies at all costs, and various weight-loss tricks are emerging in an endless stream: throat-picking to induce vomiting, diuretics, laxatives, all kinds of weight-loss drugs, excessive exercise...
As a result, more and more people are suffering from anorexia nervosa due to excessive dieting and weight loss. 7 out of 8 anorexia patients are women.
At present, anorexia has become one of the five new diseases in the world. What is particularly worrying is that this disease is not easy to cure, and the mortality rate is as high as 20%.
Moreover, an experiment conducted by a British psychologist proved that fashion magazines have a decisive influence on teenagers' pursuit of a slim figure.
Psychologists surveyed more than 200 teenagers aged 13 to 17 and divided them into two groups. One group often read fashion magazines, and the other group did not.