Miss Australia: Stephanie Naumoska

This young lady is 5'11 and weighs 108lbs.

Her BMI is 15.1.

She claims to have no sort of eating disorder whatsoever, and "eats 6-8 healthy meals a day."

(Would you mind sharing with the rest of the world what your definition of a "meal" is please?)

She says she is naturally built this way- tall and (deathly) thin.

I have a very hard time believing her.

Its so sad to see someone so beautiful be so painfully thin... i was there years and years ago!

When i was 16 i was 5'10 and 114lbs before physically maturing. People thought i was sick, clearly anorexic with a bmi of 16.3 ... but this was right before i grew hips! Now im 30 and 5'11, 130lbs and i struggle not to fall below that.. my metabolism is fast and i will always be slim, but no way is a bmi of 15.1 at her age natural at all. 

Comments on this guys?

I had a hard time finding a picture of her until I found this - and yeah, she is unaturally thin - I have a hard time believing that's a healthy body.  

I'm wondering how she made it to the finals in an event that was, supposedly, promoting "healthy proportioned bodies"  - what criteria were the judges using?  She has a pretty face, but her body is not exactly aesthetically pleasing, much less healthy looking.  The only other times I've seen a body like that is in documentaries about WWII concentration camps or pictures of women suffering from anorexia. 

Yikes!  I looked for pictures too, and most of the ones I found were of her in a gown...  she looked thin, but nothing ridiculous, so I didn't respond.

That bikini picture posted above is GROSS.  I can't see how anyone would find that remotely appealing, and furthermore, that is definitely NOT healthy!

Sheesh, she looks like she's at death's door! There is NO WAY that anyone that tall and that thin could have got that way naturally unless they have a serious illness of some kind.

This is seriously disturbing... just guess how many teen girls saw her on TV and thought: gee, I wanna be a baeuty queen too, I guess I just go starve mself now. Seriously, they should have something like a minimum BMI rule there...

holy moly, her face is gorgeous, but her body isnt at all!

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Sydney-model -Naumoska-poses-in-Sydney/photo/23042009/6/ph oto/photos-n-entertainme-sydney-model-naumosk a-poses-sydney.html

Agreed. Her face is beautiful but she definitely needs to gain weight. That's not natural. 

Wow.....that's crazy. That doesn't look natural or healthy at all!

She looks really pretty in the picture Kaffwynn posted. She looks kinda scary in the other ones.

Really, it doesn't look like the same person.  Her cheeks look round (normal) in the gown picture.  Maybe it's the angle?

In any case, I hope she gets healthy soon.

I'm sorry, but that's just utter crap. There is no way she can be "naturally" thin and look like that. Her arms look like all the muscle has wasted away from them. And 8 meals a day? Yeah, okay, 8 meals a day of WHAT? Vegetables? This makes me sick that they'd allow someone that looks like that in the contest.

i would have to say the 2 pictures are her but at different times.  in the one in the gown she has bigger arms than the one in the bikini.  she was obviously at a better weight in the gown.

Skeletor... maybe Beast Man is hiding somewhere around here...

I want to know how she possibly has the energy for the rigours of a beauty pageant, when her poor organs are probably struggling to keep her upright in general.

Good Lord, that is horrible.  There was a woman at my former gym who looked like that, and she would come in and do hours of cardio on the machine.  I always wondered WHY WHY WHY are you doing this?  I thoought she was anorexic.  No way is Miss Aussie eating healthy.

Original Post by kaffwynn:

Yikes!  I looked for pictures too, and most of the ones I found were of her in a gown...  she looked thin, but nothing ridiculous, so I didn't respond.

That bikini picture posted above is GROSS.  I can't see how anyone would find that remotely appealing, and furthermore, that is definitely NOT healthy!

This picture of a woman in a gown is not Stephanie, who was a finalist in the Miss Australia pageant. The photo you have found is of the actual winner of the pageant, Rachael Finch.

It's pretty clear that the contestant is suffering from an eating disorder. However I don't think some of the name-calling posts in this thread are all that pleasant. If you wouldn't call people suffering from, say, cancer, names like 'skeletor', don't vent on anorexia sufferers!

She is clearly underweight but it would be difficult to say if she had an eating disorder or not as her hair looks glossy and her skin looks good, which normally doesn't happen if you are starving your body.

She may well be one of those people who isn't that into food and perhaps has a high metabolism. I would say that she would look a bit nicer if she gained about a stone of weight.

Original Post by merylwhite1:

This picture of a woman in a gown is not Stephanie, who was a finalist in the Miss Australia pageant. The photo you have found is of the actual winner of the pageant, Rachael Finch. 

Whoops.  How dare Google images mislead me like that.  :)  Strange that it came up with the exact terms "Stephanie Naumoska".  Guess that explains why she was more normal looking.  Haha.

ETA:  http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,6583127,00.jpg

Found that one with a caption.  Doesn't look too bad in this neck up shot.

Original Post by waley_bean:

She is clearly underweight but it would be difficult to say if she had an eating disorder or not as her hair looks glossy and her skin looks good, which normally doesn't happen if you are starving your body.

 

haha you don't think makeup can cover anything up?

She's past underweight.

Makeup and hair gloss - heck, for all we know, a wig!

Those pictures give me the heeby jeebies.

Original Post by amethystgirl:

Makeup and hair gloss - heck, for all we know, a wig!

Those pictures give me the heeby jeebies.

agreed!!! hair looks fake to me....and make up is what they put on before they present themselves....they literally put foundation all over their body.... she shocks me by how thin she is....she can't be HEALTHY at all... SICK!!!!

Hold up....

Entertainment tonight claims her weight to be 119lbs not 108 as access hollywood told the world.

Nevermind... shes still sickly looking unfortunately!

Poor girl. :-(

Original Post by joyhorvath:

Good Lord, that is horrible.  There was a woman at my former gym who looked like that, and she would come in and do hours of cardio on the machine.  I always wondered WHY WHY WHY are you doing this?  I thoought she was anorexic.  No way is Miss Aussie eating healthy.

it's called body dysmorphia. it's a mental condition. and it sucks.