To what extent are you girls influenced by models?

I admit to have been influenced by them alot in the past. When i was a teenager, i thought i would be happy and beautiful just like the peppy models you see walking down the runway.

What do you consider to be a healthy weight for a model?

I never really paid attention to models. Actually, I still don't. I think I was more about actresses. Have no idea why, but I seemed to be fascinated with them. Some singers as well...but models? Nah...

i'm not influenced by models. i think a lot of them have disgustingly flat chests and skinny little bodies.

i'm more envious of like, singers and actresses :]

Honestly, I've been completely mind-warped. I am addicted to Vogue, and frankly, I'd probably be happy at my current weight if I wasn't so influence by them.

Its really weird too, because when I was younger and skinnier I thought models were too skinny and curves were beautiful. Now I find curves totally unattractive. I just want stick thin arms and legs.

Boo on me.

Sames-ies.

I loove curves on other women. Hate them on me.

I want thin, muscley arms like Keira Knightley or Audrey Hepburn. Grant they are/were both 5'7.

I'm lame. I know! I have a similar shape to Keira but I'm about 5'1 or so. Maybe 5'2. havent been measured. I love Elle and Harper's Bazar soo I drool over the models. Drool. haha

However, I will only have the body I am genetically given. I mean I'm 105 lbs so obviously I dont have a huge amount of weight to lose, but still. I keep telling myself that best I can do is eat healthy, the correct amount of food (hunger! not boredom) and exercise. whatever happens after that well. thats it!

Well, I love looking at pictures of models in my plethora of fashion mags.  I like learning makeup trends (I am a makeup artist and esthetician) and in general, I like to take cues on how to pull my own look together by emulating their simplistic, minimalistic "chic" beauty.  Otherwise, I have come to realize that there are people who genetically have different body morphologies (body compositions) Just like animals, some of us are zebras and some of us are giraffes...  I realized I am a zebra - If I were to get model skinny, I would likely be sickly.  But I look great athletic -when I work with what my body can achieve.  On the flip side, I used to compare myself to the girls on Oxygen Magazine, before befriending some Pro Fitness models and learning about what they go through to prepare for photo shoots and stage competitions - it's not your usual work-out and diet.  Heck - their prep work can begin 6 months to 1 year out, before a show or shoot.  And these women start out fit!  They play with their calorie and carb ratios, dehydrate themselves and all kinds of things before those pictures are taken - then almost immediately afterwards, they resume their usual healthier routine and lose that "super cut" look until the next show.

Realistic is different for everybody,  I still look through Oxygen for a model who has a similar body type to me (curvy, long limbs but short waist, broad shoulders and small joints.  Then, assuming the photo I use as my goal-vision is that woman after a few months of prepping, I imagine reaching  a body close to hers - I might not have a cut 8 pack, but I can achieve the nice lines and some definition on my stomach... 

I also learned that I would likely never pack on the impressive muscle mass like some women I know do, naturally.  So, I learned to accept that I am what they refer to as a Mesomorph/Ectomorph.  I can put on long, lean muscle and have great endurace!  So now I am looking like a good, strong, fast zebra.  A tall thin and lanky giraffe, I will never be.

get me?

Actually, you have no way of knowing for sure weather Gisele has had breast implants. I know a lot of skinny women who also have large breasts for their size.

In my opinion, long legs and limbs, a thin body, combined with a stunning face looks fantastic; that is why those girls are models - because they are more pleasant to look at than we are.

Simply being as skinny as a model does not equal attractive though; models are genetically thin and also have great bone structure on the faces, great cheek bones, and usually nice features such as large eyes ( and they all have perfect teeth - the ones who are not born with perfect teeth get hem perfected)

So, skinny does not necessarily mean a women looks attractive. Having a face as pretty as a model does not meal you have a lean and attractive body. However, having a tiny body and a great face with perfect bone structure equals a super model.

Those of us who waste our time trying to achieve that unrealistic image will only diminish the attributes that we have, and make us less appealing to every one and will decrease our opportunities in life because less people are drawn to women who are too caught up in valuing themselves based on how thin they feel, and think too much about food due to restriction.

A tall thin model with a beautiful face is far more attractive than me, but I am still slim, have some good features, and have two legs that work. Even at BMI 19, 114 -115 lbs at 167 cm I still have days where I feel upset that I am much larger than models, however, I no longer let it dictate how happy I feel with the rest of my life.

Yes, I think that models look far more attractive then myself and most normal women, but I believe that I can still have just as good a life as they do my making the most out of all my opportunities; I can achieve my potentials and attract worthwhile people in my life and be just as fulfilled as the models who look MUCH better then I do!

Coming from a recovering anorexic/bulimic I'll admit they still have an affect me. When I watch a movie with my boyfriend and their is a really hot girl in there I get jealous and want to look like her so my boy friend will want me as well, even though I know he loves me just the way I am. Your mind can play some pretty sick tricks on you. You all should watch that thinspo stuff. It almost makes me sick now to watch it, thinking I used to want to look like that more than living.

looking at pictures of models used to make me feel disgusting and ugly... then i realized that most of it is fake... as in the pictures are touched up and their flaws are hidden under makeup. now they don't influence me that much, because i know it's not real. sometimes i wish i could be as pretty/skinny as some of them are, but it passes.

I'm not at all influenced by models because their photos are completely fake and retouched, and besides they work with hair and makeup stylists and designers for hours to look the way they do in the photos. In reality most of them aren't that much prettier than the average girl. I'm much more influenced by the real girls I see around me all day, on my college campus and in the gym.

I didn't even compare myself to models or think of them until people asked me if I did when  I was interviewed for treatment. Nope I wasn't, I was influenced by the beauty of my close friends and sisters, and how I just stuck out like a big fat sore thumb in my 5th grade glass at 145 lbs -.-

I am more influenced by actresses like Scralette Johansson and models like Kelly Brook

that is my dream body..curvacious..slim..big boobs..pretty face..

so......

Christina Hendricks has the sexiest body I have ever laid eyes on..and she is busty *giggles*

I'd prefer to be like that..

I would totally go lesbo for her

I'm usually not influenced by models, actresses, singers, or famous people in general. Most of the pictures taken of them have either been airbrushed or altered, and even if they haven't their flaws are all hidden under makeup.

If I had to pick someone I admired, it would probably be Scarlett Johansson, she's thin, but not grossly skinny, plus she has curves, and large breasts that aren't fake. :)

I would never want to look like a model. They look so disgustingly skinny to me, it's unhealthy looking. I'm more influenced by real people. I get jealous when I see toned, healthy girls at school or at the gym, but it motivates me to work out more so I can look more like them.

I'd rather be at a healthy weight and have toned muscles, and still have a curvaceous hourglass shape. ;)

Well, the really skinny ones, I never want to be by them. But the thin/ skinny-but-not-bony ones that are also good-looking, I get depressed when seeing them. They look great in clothes!

but some models look great in clothes but not naked or in bathing suits. I want to have a chest and butt and curves, but be very thin.

I hate it when OTHER people think 90-pounds people are better jsut because their shaped like a straw.

I'm mostly influenced by thin, attractive people in my school/grade/age range.

I never pay attention to any models that don't look healthy. It actually really annoys me sometimes that all of us teenage girls, some of whom aren't very comfortable with their bodies, have to look up to models who look like they're dying. I wish they would put people with actually bodies on the covers of magazines.

I have to say I am influenced by famous people in general... But for models, I'm more influenced by fitness models than anyone else. I loooove muscles (not the man-like, steroid ones, but the fantasy-novel women ones), and I would really like having more of them. I'm also influenced by actresses with curves (boobs, slim waist and hips) because I'm one of those girls who lacks both boobs and hips... 

I also love women with very feminine bodies and a little meat on their bones, but I would *hate* not being able to see my own abs! I guess I'm a little weird...

Although I am very interested in fashion, models have not affected my view of body image.  I have never wanted to look like them.  First off, I am short (5'4") so to imagine myself like them seems odd to me.  I am only interested in their makeup, the clothing they are wearing, and the styling done... also their hair sometimes.

I like my short stature, so i am happy to see short people wearing clothes i like. In this way, models just seem distant to me.  I think short people just look cuter in general, especially shapely short folks.

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by shapely, i don't mean overweight or plump, just mean enough curves in the right places

Original Post by pastacheif:

Although I am very interested in fashion, models have not affected my view of body image.  I have never wanted to look like them.  First off, I am short (5'4") so to imagine myself like them seems odd to me.  I am only interested in their makeup, the clothing they are wearing, and the styling done... also their hair sometimes.

I like my short stature, so i am happy to see short people wearing clothes i like. In this way, models just seem distant to me.  I think short people just look cuter in general, especially shapely short folks.

Ouch.

Original Post by crazyperson01:

Original Post by pastacheif:

Although I am very interested in fashion, models have not affected my view of body image.  I have never wanted to look like them.  First off, I am short (5'4") so to imagine myself like them seems odd to me.  I am only interested in their makeup, the clothing they are wearing, and the styling done... also their hair sometimes.

I like my short stature, so i am happy to see short people wearing clothes i like. In this way, models just seem distant to me.  I think short people just look cuter in general, especially shapely short folks.

Ouch.

what do you mean?

Original Post by pastacheif:

Original Post by crazyperson01:

Original Post by pastacheif:

Although I am very interested in fashion, models have not affected my view of body image.  I have never wanted to look like them.  First off, I am short (5'4") so to imagine myself like them seems odd to me.  I am only interested in their makeup, the clothing they are wearing, and the styling done... also their hair sometimes.

I like my short stature, so i am happy to see short people wearing clothes i like. In this way, models just seem distant to me.  I think short people just look cuter in general, especially shapely short folks.

Ouch.

what do you mean?

Way to diss tall people- very offensive! This place should be a kind environment for weight loss.

Haha not a big dis. but as a tall person, (5'8") I know all types of people can be pretty. (: