Fashion is heavy with tales of beautiful girls chasing after a dangerously thin physique with hopes of a famous modeling career. Unfortunately, most of the time many are lucky to leave with their health intact.
We have heard these stories, pointed the blame at the girls, the industry, their mothers, other bitchy models, the designers, the evil journalists.
mon dieu , there is a lot of finger pointing!
Undoubtedly, the industry and our contemporary culture bears a lot of the responsibility. But there are other factors, and i believe this is why i like Crystal Renn's book; it looks at the problem as a whole!
Once upon a "normal-sized" model with a dangerous eating disorder, Crystal is now earning a ridiculous amount of money as a plus-size model. She published the book "Hungry: A Young Model’s Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves" a few weeks ago.
In the autobiography she details her rise to fame from a curvy 14-year-old discovered in Clinton, Mississippi to a much skinny girl on a diet of sugar-free gum and peanut butter, killing time between shoots with by exercising 8 hours a day.
Can't believe there is a gym in this world that allows someone to exercise for 8 hours straight? So sad
She points to the industry standards for much of the pressure , but she also mentions that her family life was not ideal. And i think that's what i appreciate. the fashion industry is not the healthiest of environments, i know this better than most people.
But i think this problem of girls starving themselves goes a lot further than wanting to fit into size zero outfits; fashion might add to the flames, but it didn't start the fire.
Either way, Crystal is beautiful and smart! She realized one day that enough was enough and started eating , got herself a new modelling agency and kicked ass!
At 5ft 9in. her vital statistics are 38-31-42.
Would love to have her over for dinner. We can have brownies for dessert!
Snapshot of Kinder Aggugini's pop-up store
