“I gained 1.6 pounds in three days…Not a single person has told me that I have gained weight since the start of the shows. Not during the castings, and not even my European agent has said anything. Everything fit. This confused me, because I thought people could see every gram…My legs and cheeks have become fatter. I really need to do something about that.” –An excerpt from Kim Noorda’s disturbing diary in next month’s Vogue.
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I read this article online and couldn't really tell if Vogue was patting itself on the back for discussing such a “difficult issue”, or if they were shaking an ineffectual and highly hypocritical finger at the modeling world. Ideas?
I hope there are models out there with something more in their heads and with a little more self-confidence than Kim
She's freaking out over 1.6 lbs!!!!!????? What is this world coming to?
Well put. I would lean more heavily toward the former. The irony – as though this one article would absolve their complicity in, or creation of, the heavily disordered ideals and expectations in the fashion world. That they do so little with their influence makes their publication of Kim's journal seem almost exploitative, a spectacle.
There's a child out there in a third world country who would love to have an extra 1.6 lbs.
These are journal entries of someone with disordered eating/thought patterns/perceptions, if not an eating disorder…I hope people understand this. Her words are not mere frivolity in an otherwise healthy individual. She is clearly struggling.
This is an amazing article. Very powerful. And extremely admirable of Kim to do it.
I actually admire her for the courage of admiting her problems….maybe she really has an eating disorder and she just needs to say it out loud without giving any…”names”visit my blog http://www.iscariotteh.wordpress.com
She is so brave for sharing this with the world. Thank you, Kim.
I think that's the point.
yes, but the article isn't about them… it's about the fashion industry/modelling.
She is very brave. Hopefully she'll be able to get healthy.What issue is this going to be? (month)
For someone like her , 1.6 pound can be considered as a dramatic increase considering that its just for a period of 3 days. But well, who cares? I am sure it's better than to have nothing to eat at all :.
April, the “Shape” issue.
You know, it's all about ratios. 1.6 might not seem like a huge increase, but when you only weigh 67 pounds, that's like 3% of your body weight. That's like a normal person gaining 10 pounds….Okay, I think maybe my math was a little off on that last number….
I feel a bit icky reading diary entries like this. For the whole world to be privy to this kind of emotional, physical, and psychological struggle seems like media voyeurism at its worst.
I just read the entire article today, and I must say it is extremely moving, extremely saddening, and you can not help but like Kim at the end of it. The article illustrates how much emphasis and pressure is put on girls in the industry to be unhealthily thin. On the vanity and selfishness of some ridiculous stylists who only like to use extremely thin girls to fulfill their self-important “creative” vision. It is abusive. There are far more horror stories out there, of top models doing drastic measures to stay thin, that we would be sick to hear. The article overall made a large part (not all of it, but a great deal) of the fashion world seem abusive and utterly unconcerned with other human life.