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of interest to curvy girls, potterfans, and those who love either/both.
Rowling slams 'emaciated' models
Wednesday, 5 April 2006
JK Rowling has criticised models whose "only function in the world appears to be supporting the trade in overpriced handbags and rat-sized dogs."
The Harry Potter author said her daughters, Mackenzie, one, and Jessica, 12, would not be "empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones." Writing on her personal website, the Edinburgh-based author hit out at those who promote thinness. She said she was sick of seeing models who suffer from eating disorders.
She said: "It started in the car on the way to Leavesden film studios. I whiled away part of the journey reading a magazine that featured several glossy photographs of a very young woman who is either seriously ill or suffering from an eating disorder (which is, of course, the same thing); anyway, there is no other explanation for the shape of her body. She can talk about eating absolutely loads, being terribly busy and having the world's fastest metabolism until her tongue drops off (hooray! Another couple of ounces gone!), but her concave stomach, protruding ribs and stick-like arms tell a different story."
"This girl needs help, but, the world being what it is, they're sticking her on magazine covers instead. All this passed through my mind as I read the interview, then I threw the horrible thing aside."
She added that some people at the recent British Book Awards were more interested in her weight than her latest book. "So the issue of size and women was weighing on my mind as I flew home to Edinburgh the next day," she said.
"I've got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don't want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I'd rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny, a thousand things, before 'thin'."
Yay Rowling!
Rowling slams 'emaciated' models
Wednesday, 5 April 2006
JK Rowling has criticised models whose "only function in the world appears to be supporting the trade in overpriced handbags and rat-sized dogs."
The Harry Potter author said her daughters, Mackenzie, one, and Jessica, 12, would not be "empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones." Writing on her personal website, the Edinburgh-based author hit out at those who promote thinness. She said she was sick of seeing models who suffer from eating disorders.
She said: "It started in the car on the way to Leavesden film studios. I whiled away part of the journey reading a magazine that featured several glossy photographs of a very young woman who is either seriously ill or suffering from an eating disorder (which is, of course, the same thing); anyway, there is no other explanation for the shape of her body. She can talk about eating absolutely loads, being terribly busy and having the world's fastest metabolism until her tongue drops off (hooray! Another couple of ounces gone!), but her concave stomach, protruding ribs and stick-like arms tell a different story."
"This girl needs help, but, the world being what it is, they're sticking her on magazine covers instead. All this passed through my mind as I read the interview, then I threw the horrible thing aside."
She added that some people at the recent British Book Awards were more interested in her weight than her latest book. "So the issue of size and women was weighing on my mind as I flew home to Edinburgh the next day," she said.
"I've got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don't want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I'd rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny, a thousand things, before 'thin'."
Yay Rowling!
you trying to tell me that all real girls don't look like a bag of antlers ? (insert humor here). I totally agree. I hate watching any type of runway model event....they all look sickly.
*impish grin*
;-)
She's saying she wants her daughters to be a thousand things before thin, but she's putting the models in a "thin" box. She doesn't know anything about them other than that they're thin. Maybe they're a thousand things before thin too. I think parents need to teach themselves and their children that some people look that way. Sometimes it's due to a problem, sometimes it's not, but it's in a magazine and as we've all seen, the folks who airbrush the magazines do more gross retouching than needed. Those aren't real people when the retouchers are done. I can't say the same about runway models because some really do look terrible. And then parents need to encourage their kids to be healthy. If healthy, for them, is slightly overweight, then so what. There needs to be acceptance of all body types and not bashing of either one.
With that said, I think models are grossly overly paid for what they do. If you're not changing the world for the better then you do not deserve anything above minimum wage in my opinion. Teachers, police, researchers... those that make a difference in our society are usually underpaid and not acknowledged nearly enough.
thank you for linking this.
AWESOME
That said, I think for the most part, there are signs that point to whether or not a girl is just naturally thin or weather she's unhealthily so. It's hard to explain, but I notice it on real-life girls. Unfortunately, when you only see girls on the cover of a magazine, they are so airbrushed that the signs that point to them being ill get erased and edited out.
Bottom line: yay for moms like her! I'm lucky to have a mom that didn't push thinness--ever--and I'm glad to hear there are other moms out there like that.