It’s Just Not That Simple

Veronika Sudková

Could you handle this world? If you were a model and you would have to count calories of everything you eat?

At first glance, modeling may seem to be a simple profession. You just walk in luxurious clothes. There can be nothing complicated about that. It is not always as pink as it seems. The fashion industry can be full of dangerous traps that not everyone can handle.

Appearance is not the most important thing to make a girl or woman successful in modeling. To be successful they need a strong personality. The competition and the pressure of the surroundings are aspects that have a noticeable sign on the mental health. At the beginning they try to convince you that you should look perfect, that you need to have a symmetrical face and athletic figure even though in these years it's not exactly the most important thing.

EATING DISORDERS

A lot of modeling agencies put these young boys and girls under a lot of pressure. For example I would like to tell you about a Louis Vuitton case, when the model was sent home just right before the show. She didn't fit the dress at the last rehearsal. Reportedly she was told not to eat for the next 24 hours and only drink water, nothing else. She was called fat at its size 34. And that's definitely not the last case, when this happened. This happens all the time and if you are a model you should neatly choose with which brand or model agency you want to collaborate with. Such behavior is the reason that models became dependent on weight loss drugs and suffer from eating disorders mostly anorexia or bulimia. Thanks to starvation they often collapse and sometimes these cases result in death.

I read an interview with a Polish model and she said that she had got into that trade when she had been young and stupid (most of the model starts being a model when they're teenagers, so it's a lot of easier to trust people and being naive) so she did everything what she was told to do. Before her modelling career she had had an athletic figure, but all of sudden they wanted her to stop exercising and eating to reduce her muscles. " I was also very weak, I had no menstruation at all, I had problems with my teeth, my skin was grey and dry, my hair was falling out. It was a terrible period of my life".

At the end I just want to say, that if we have a little bigger hips or stronger hands, it's nothing to be ashamed of. It's not a problem. The world of fashion and media should finally stop supporting unhealthy skinny girls and focus on the girls who are healthy, who do exercise and have a normal body.