omgosh. thats horrible – her thighs are no different from her calves! I think its horrible to have such unhealthy looking people be role models!
WTF!?
Holy shit! I wasn’t pro-minimum BMI, per se, but this is outrageous. Wow.
Most women of color have thickness so she probably has an eating disorder.
how is that even remotely attractive?
I see no difference between this one and jaslene, so why is one disgusting and the other worth revering? Yuck to both of them and their malnourished sacks of skin and bone.
models are not role models….who cares?
She is very skinny…but honestly I’m sure in a post soon you will be telling us that someone or some body part on someone is too fat…when they in fact (especially compaired to that!) they look very healthy/normal.
she’s 16 she’s fine
John Paxson has some explaining to do. If he couldn’t get a deal done because he didn’t want to lose Nocioni, than he should be fired, because he has no perspective on what this team needs and no eye for talent. Its time for Paxson to make a move.
——- http://www.vcao.net
Models are not what we want them to be, they are what all those powder sniffing, designers choose to go with. Those who look up to this image has not mind about themselves and will amount to what we see before us. The madness must stop.
When infants can outweight you and out eat you time to rethink things.
“She’s 16” and “she’s fine”?!
You crazy!
No JK, I don’t think she has an eating disorder
I think she just doesn’t eat at all
all of those who look like this
and photo/film always adds some extra pounds to reality
they just drink, and maybe eat an apple a day once in a while.
It’s business.
at least she doesn’t have a period and once her body shuts down in about three months we can all pretend we didnt know
lol @ snow ball
Snowball is right. Periods suck. Solution = anorexia.
I should be a doctor.
Dang—she looks like she is straight off the plains of Africa–all she needs is a jug of water on her head—
She certainly could use a sammich. Uhh, I’m ‘tarded but what bakes says doesn’t sound right for some reason.
This is the first time I’ve said this “No upskirt shots, please.”
I still think she’s holding weight in those cheeks and her forhead LOL.
That’s Chanel Iman. She’s 18, 5’9″ and 110 pounds. I think that puts her at a size 0-2. She’s a beautiful girl and quite a good runway model. However, she suffers from the same thing that a lot of models do…no muscle tone at all.
During the height of the Supermodel, Claudia Schiffer and Cindy Crawford were a size 8 while “The Trinity” Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington were all size 6’s. Cindy, who is the same size as when she was doing runway, now complains that she can’t fit into the sample sizes.
I don’t mind seeing superskinny girls on the runway, I just don’t want to see ONLY super skinny girls. How about a little variation?
God, I miss Christy Turlington!!!
plummy cake there is no way that child is 110 pounds and you should be dragging her to a cheeseburger instead of making excuses shame on ya
I’m sure she was a beautiful girl at one time.
wow and the camera adds ten pounds?
I heart midnight frosting binges, so this will never be me!
Hey I looked her up and went through images and actually found a picture of her backstage eating a sandwich wrap…lol…wow, who know how much of it she actually ate though…or threw up later…
no seriously she is a young girl that’s just thin she’ll grow up and gain a couple pounds stop freaking out
Are designers making clothing sizes in the negative numbers now? Because this is beyond frightening.
lex, if you look at other pics of her , you’ll realise she was not like this
she was thin but not did not look wasted
at 16 most young women are developed, maybe they’ll grow an inch more, but the couple pounds are already there if they eat properly.
this girl has very little muscle mass
they starve for the runway
otherwise they lose their business
Thank-you, mambaX. Everything that I read said that she was obsessed about being a model. Looks like nothing is gonna get in the way of that dream. Dying to be thin…
My 200 pound ass used to wear an “I Beat Anorexia” T- shirt just for laughs. It’s not so funny now.
and the camera adds 10 pounds.
=/
she probably looks into the mirror and says, “Geez, I’m fat”
I would hate to see her caloric intake per day! It can’t be more than four or five hundred, by the end of 2008, her teeth should start to loosen and fall out. She just may have to be hospitalized… seriously!!!
I think it’s odd that you pick one of the ONLY black models on the runway getting jobs to showcase how thin models are.Yes she’s thin but HELLO Chanel is still a rarity and a blessing in the sense that she is ( by all accounts that i know of ) a normal teen , (normal as she an be under the circumstances )and she is a teen girl! Remember when tyra was a young model ? She too was VERY thin, but she’s “grown into her body”.
True, roro, Tyra was a very thin model when she started. AND SHE STILL LOOKED HEALTHY! The fact that she’s Black (and Korean) doesn’t change that. I want to see a lot more women of color on the runways. But not like this…
Which designer would wish to put their clothing on someone as malnourished appearing as this! The purpose of a model is to sell the clothing, not to induce people to donate to a starving people’s fund or charity!!
she may be a sweet girl , i dont know, but i dont even find her to be that pretty at all! skinny or not, i am just not impressed.
she needs to lose more weight if she is gonna make it as a top model
i have to add to this one but where 2 start?
i think she looks great. i used to look like her wen i was 18. im only 22 now but have since gained a few pounds. (gettin old/desk job/a little too much chocolate) i am now a size 6 at 110lbs and feel fat in comparison to my teenage years. there is no way she is 110lbs.
she may b naturally thin, it is poss u know!
if she all she ate was an apple she cud not walk a runway, she wud ave passed out.
i wish my thighs were that small again :(
models r not role models but they dun half make me feel shit bout myself physically. i quite understand how sum of the not so bright children starve themselves to look like this and thats not gona change untill they do actually change the models for ‘normal’ ppl (like theyre aliens!) things will remain the same. and we will carry on complaining.
one more thing- shudnt we be looking at the clothes not the model? that dress is damn cute! wish i had the thighs to wear it! lol!
^^ Read as the bible up top and this is why somebody has to say something. This is just sad.
I think this look is a little outated – like breast implants and yellow hair. Models should be thin and attractive (more attractive than the average person of course – thats the job!) but this is definately a deliberate ‘look’. Looks like the 90s to me.
Pardon, people! I read about her in a german fashion magazine and was shocked by her weight of 45 kilograms at a height of 1,75 metres. That makes a BMI of 14,9! That’s neither beautiful nor healthy.
It comes to my mind that grown up, adult women simply seem to be out of fashion. These models are like children, no breasts, no hips, no butt at all. If that is the ideal of modern fashion, we definitely need to think about it. Maybe fashion designers should use hallstands instead of models, at least they don’t faint or die. The difference is naught.
And more attractive? Ik couldn’t think of waking up in the morning and looking into the face of almost a skeleton covered with skin and being attracted by such girl…
I wish i was as thin as her. Im 5’5” and 115 lbs…LUCKY CHANEL! These days i wouldnt even wanna be a model cuz EVERYONE is looking at you. It would be too scary.
Chanel’s naturally thin,she does eat.she eats backstage.n i admire her,love her body actually.sorry u guys=/
i cried when i read this. i am 15, 166 cm and around 43 kilos. i look like chanel. im also a model, but that hasnt made any difference to my weight – i have always looked like this. i have no boobs, no ass, no period, my thighs dont touch and i always feel terrible about myself. i wish i could say i eat but i have a fast metabolism so i burn the fat straight away – im a ballet/contemporary dancer – but idont any more. the texture of food makes me feel sick. i will drink anything – so most of my diet is now up and go soy milk or smoothies. im a wierd case; i desperately want to gain weight but i cant. my boyfriend hates that i wont do anything but im just too conscious about my body. it makes me feel even shitter when you guys say stuff like “she probably looks at herself in the mirror and sees fat.” makes me wanna punch you in the face. i hate that i know i wanna get fatter but i cant, i look at the mirror and hate how skinny i am, but then i look down at myself and it looks fine. im confused and spiralling down into depression and anorexia even though im not trying to lose weight. i need help not discrimination.
I’m sorry izzayy, but having been dealing with an eating disorder, and spent some time in the fashion industry, I have to say that all your moaning sounds like complete bs.
First of all, if you are desperately trying to gain weight, and can’t, then either you are taking in the wrong number of calories or need to seek medical help.
I struggled to maintain a low but stable weight for years, and then finally went into a program when my weight was so low I was in crisis. It isn’t because I’m “one of those girls” with a fast metabolism, its because I was starving myself, and working out and suffering from a disorder.
No one was launching a personal attack on you or girls who genuinely want to gain weight. The fact remains, however, that Iman is not a typical female figure -whether she is that way naturally or unnaturally- and therefore sets a standard that cannot and should not be aspired to or copied in any way.
Having spent time in the industry, i know that there are girls who are naturally thin, and then there are also girls who struggle to keep themselves thin, and then there are girls who actually have eating disorders. Regardless of which category Chanel is in, she looks very thin, and if a little girl sees this and wants to be like her, chances are she has to resort to unhealthy measures to get there.
thanks for your time.
omgosh. thats horrible – her thighs are no different from her calves! I think its horrible to have such unhealthy looking people be role models!
WTF!?
Holy shit! I wasn’t pro-minimum BMI, per se, but this is outrageous. Wow.
Most women of color have thickness so she probably has an eating disorder.
how is that even remotely attractive?
I see no difference between this one and jaslene, so why is one disgusting and the other worth revering? Yuck to both of them and their malnourished sacks of skin and bone.
models are not role models….who cares?
She is very skinny…but honestly I’m sure in a post soon you will be telling us that someone or some body part on someone is too fat…when they in fact (especially compaired to that!) they look very healthy/normal.
she’s 16 she’s fine
John Paxson has some explaining to do. If he couldn’t get a deal done because he didn’t want to lose Nocioni, than he should be fired, because he has no perspective on what this team needs and no eye for talent. Its time for Paxson to make a move.
——-
http://www.vcao.net
Models are not what we want them to be, they are what all those powder sniffing, designers choose to go with. Those who look up to this image has not mind about themselves and will amount to what we see before us. The madness must stop.
When infants can outweight you and out eat you time to rethink things.
“She’s 16” and “she’s fine”?!
You crazy!
No JK, I don’t think she has an eating disorder
I think she just doesn’t eat at all
all of those who look like this
and photo/film always adds some extra pounds to reality
they just drink, and maybe eat an apple a day once in a while.
It’s business.
at least she doesn’t have a period and once her body shuts down in about three months we can all pretend we didnt know
lol @ snow ball
Snowball is right. Periods suck. Solution = anorexia.
I should be a doctor.
Dang—she looks like she is straight off the plains of Africa–all she needs is a jug of water on her head—
She certainly could use a sammich. Uhh, I’m ‘tarded but what bakes says doesn’t sound right for some reason.
This is the first time I’ve said this “No upskirt shots, please.”
I still think she’s holding weight in those cheeks and her forhead LOL.
That’s Chanel Iman. She’s 18, 5’9″ and 110 pounds. I think that puts her at a size 0-2. She’s a beautiful girl and quite a good runway model. However, she suffers from the same thing that a lot of models do…no muscle tone at all.
During the height of the Supermodel, Claudia Schiffer and Cindy Crawford were a size 8 while “The Trinity” Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington were all size 6’s. Cindy, who is the same size as when she was doing runway, now complains that she can’t fit into the sample sizes.
I don’t mind seeing superskinny girls on the runway, I just don’t want to see ONLY super skinny girls. How about a little variation?
God, I miss Christy Turlington!!!
plummy cake there is no way that child is 110 pounds and you should be dragging her to a cheeseburger instead of making excuses shame on ya
I’m sure she was a beautiful girl at one time.
wow and the camera adds ten pounds?
I heart midnight frosting binges, so this will never be me!
Hey I looked her up and went through images and actually found a picture of her backstage eating a sandwich wrap…lol…wow, who know how much of it she actually ate though…or threw up later…
these images of her where even more disturbing:
http://coacd.blogspot.com/2007/05/chanel-iman-at-ford.html
…gosh her arms and waist, I dont think she is a size 2 either…unless thats by some odd supermodel standards.
And her myspace?
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=15423719
K, I’m done.
great body, wish I had her bonestructure
no seriously she is a young girl that’s just thin she’ll grow up and gain a couple pounds stop freaking out
Are designers making clothing sizes in the negative numbers now? Because this is beyond frightening.
lex, if you look at other pics of her , you’ll realise she was not like this
she was thin but not did not look wasted
at 16 most young women are developed, maybe they’ll grow an inch more, but the couple pounds are already there if they eat properly.
this girl has very little muscle mass
they starve for the runway
otherwise they lose their business
Thank-you, mambaX. Everything that I read said that she was obsessed about being a model. Looks like nothing is gonna get in the way of that dream. Dying to be thin…
My 200 pound ass used to wear an “I Beat Anorexia” T- shirt just for laughs. It’s not so funny now.
and the camera adds 10 pounds.
=/
she probably looks into the mirror and says, “Geez, I’m fat”
I would hate to see her caloric intake per day! It can’t be more than four or five hundred, by the end of 2008, her teeth should start to loosen and fall out. She just may have to be hospitalized… seriously!!!
I think it’s odd that you pick one of the ONLY black models on the runway getting jobs to showcase how thin models are.Yes she’s thin but HELLO Chanel is still a rarity and a blessing in the sense that she is ( by all accounts that i know of ) a normal teen , (normal as she an be under the circumstances )and she is a teen girl! Remember when tyra was a young model ? She too was VERY thin, but she’s “grown into her body”.
True, roro, Tyra was a very thin model when she started. AND SHE STILL LOOKED HEALTHY! The fact that she’s Black (and Korean) doesn’t change that. I want to see a lot more women of color on the runways. But not like this…
Which designer would wish to put their clothing on someone as malnourished appearing as this! The purpose of a model is to sell the clothing, not to induce people to donate to a starving people’s fund or charity!!
she may be a sweet girl , i dont know, but i dont even find her to be that pretty at all! skinny or not, i am just not impressed.
she needs to lose more weight if she is gonna make it as a top model
i have to add to this one but where 2 start?
i think she looks great. i used to look like her wen i was 18. im only 22 now but have since gained a few pounds. (gettin old/desk job/a little too much chocolate) i am now a size 6 at 110lbs and feel fat in comparison to my teenage years. there is no way she is 110lbs.
she may b naturally thin, it is poss u know!
if she all she ate was an apple she cud not walk a runway, she wud ave passed out.
i wish my thighs were that small again :(
models r not role models but they dun half make me feel shit bout myself physically. i quite understand how sum of the not so bright children starve themselves to look like this and thats not gona change untill they do actually change the models for ‘normal’ ppl (like theyre aliens!) things will remain the same. and we will carry on complaining.
one more thing- shudnt we be looking at the clothes not the model? that dress is damn cute! wish i had the thighs to wear it! lol!
^^ Read as the bible up top and this is why somebody has to say something. This is just sad.
I think this look is a little outated – like breast implants and yellow hair. Models should be thin and attractive (more attractive than the average person of course – thats the job!) but this is definately a deliberate ‘look’. Looks like the 90s to me.
Pardon, people! I read about her in a german fashion magazine and was shocked by her weight of 45 kilograms at a height of 1,75 metres. That makes a BMI of 14,9! That’s neither beautiful nor healthy.
It comes to my mind that grown up, adult women simply seem to be out of fashion. These models are like children, no breasts, no hips, no butt at all. If that is the ideal of modern fashion, we definitely need to think about it. Maybe fashion designers should use hallstands instead of models, at least they don’t faint or die. The difference is naught.
And more attractive? Ik couldn’t think of waking up in the morning and looking into the face of almost a skeleton covered with skin and being attracted by such girl…
I wish i was as thin as her. Im 5’5” and 115 lbs…LUCKY CHANEL! These days i wouldnt even wanna be a model cuz EVERYONE is looking at you. It would be too scary.
Chanel’s naturally thin,she does eat.she eats backstage.n i admire her,love her body actually.sorry u guys=/
i cried when i read this. i am 15, 166 cm and around 43 kilos. i look like chanel. im also a model, but that hasnt made any difference to my weight – i have always looked like this. i have no boobs, no ass, no period, my thighs dont touch and i always feel terrible about myself. i wish i could say i eat but i have a fast metabolism so i burn the fat straight away – im a ballet/contemporary dancer – but idont any more. the texture of food makes me feel sick. i will drink anything – so most of my diet is now up and go soy milk or smoothies. im a wierd case; i desperately want to gain weight but i cant. my boyfriend hates that i wont do anything but im just too conscious about my body. it makes me feel even shitter when you guys say stuff like “she probably looks at herself in the mirror and sees fat.” makes me wanna punch you in the face. i hate that i know i wanna get fatter but i cant, i look at the mirror and hate how skinny i am, but then i look down at myself and it looks fine. im confused and spiralling down into depression and anorexia even though im not trying to lose weight. i need help not discrimination.
I’m sorry izzayy, but having been dealing with an eating disorder, and spent some time in the fashion industry, I have to say that all your moaning sounds like complete bs.
First of all, if you are desperately trying to gain weight, and can’t, then either you are taking in the wrong number of calories or need to seek medical help.
I struggled to maintain a low but stable weight for years, and then finally went into a program when my weight was so low I was in crisis. It isn’t because I’m “one of those girls” with a fast metabolism, its because I was starving myself, and working out and suffering from a disorder.
No one was launching a personal attack on you or girls who genuinely want to gain weight. The fact remains, however, that Iman is not a typical female figure -whether she is that way naturally or unnaturally- and therefore sets a standard that cannot and should not be aspired to or copied in any way.
Having spent time in the industry, i know that there are girls who are naturally thin, and then there are also girls who struggle to keep themselves thin, and then there are girls who actually have eating disorders. Regardless of which category Chanel is in, she looks very thin, and if a little girl sees this and wants to be like her, chances are she has to resort to unhealthy measures to get there.
thanks for your time.