Modelling scouts target anorexia patients

[Super Nova]

I have been concerned for a while, having a young daughter, what body image is being promoted by today's models. What is happening where a healthy young curved female form is no longer attractive. Who are they appealing to. Girls so skinny they look like skinny boys is just wrong. No wonder we have an increase in kiddy fiddlers when society promotes the prepubescent look as sexy.

Wrong wrong wrong......... shakes head

Date April 21, 2013 - 11:21AM

A Stockholm treatment centre for eating disorders says talent scouts from modelling agencies had approached their patients outside the clinic, hoping to recruit them.

"They were outside the building and waited for the girls to go out for a walk," the director of the public institution, Anna-Maria af Sandeberg, told Swedish news agency TT, without naming the agencies.

The unscrupulous head hunters were familiar with the patients' everyday routine and would stop at nothing, she added.

"One of those contacted was in a wheelchair because she was so skinny," af Sandeberg said.

The incident took place several months ago, and the girls' schedules have since been changed.

The director of the Elite Model Management agency in Stockholm, Fredo Kazemi, denounced the methods as "disgusting and unethical".

"I do not think that any large, serious agencies work this way," he told TT.

The Stockholm centre for eating disorders is the largest facility of its kind in Sweden, currently treating some 1200 in-patients and day patients, most of whom are girls, but also boys and adults.

The fashion industry is regularly accused of promoting extreme thinness and working with models that suffer from eating disorders.

Earlier this year, Israel banned models with a BMI (body mass index) level below 18.5 from photo shoots and advertising campaigns.

Other countries have so far only introduced non-binding professional codes of conduct.
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[IQS.RLOW]

To be fair, it's hard to target anorexics.
Not much meat to line up the sights on.

[Super Nova]

To be fair, it's hard to target anorexics.
Not much meat to line up the sights on.

I just don't get it. Who finds these models appealing?

I certainly wouldn't target them if I was out looking for a pickup. (caveat.. when I was younger)