Controversy over model being dropped for being "too fat"

A seriously distorted image of Fillippa used to advertise Ralph Lauren in Tokyo

The Times reported on 15th October 2009 that a Ralph Lauren model, Filippa Hamilton, is claiming that she has been dropped by the brand after six years working with them because she was supposedly too heavy and couldn't fit into the company's sample sizes.  A size 8 too heavy?

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/fashion/article6874826.ece

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/fashion/article6874990.ece

Comments

[Ms. Whips]

you GOT to be kidding me!!

DISGUSTING!!!

[Anne]

this is photoshopped out of all recognition - even models are no longer perfect enough!

And do designers (particularly male ones) have mirrors in their homes - Ralph Lauren is no oil painting.

[caitlin]

I'm sorry but a size 8 IS too heavy. If you're above a size 4 you shouldn't be a model and that's pushing it. I'm in between a size 2 and 4 and I don't even think I'm in shape enough. Just work out instead of sitting on your computer complaining. You could've run half a mile by the time you read all of this. Just work out and stop complaining!

[Chenai]

A size 8 isn't too big. It's a normal size to be, it's a healthy size to be. If you're a size 2 and thinking you're too heavy, you have problems and you need help. this is what's wrong with society, thinking stick thin is sexy. It's not. You should be happy with your REAL size, if it happens to be a size 2 or a size 10. Real women are beautiful.

[Lee]

Chenai, it really depends on the height of a person. For that model who was dropped, I'm sure that size 8 would be normal. However, for people like me who is a size 0, 4'8" woman, a size 8 would make me obese.

I've heard plenty of little lies saying you can't be curvy/healthy as a size 0 but it's really not true, it all depends on height. I'm short and I'm sure that a size 1 would still work well with me but anything more than that might be UNHEALTHY for me due to proportion issues. If you're really tall then you SHOULD have more weight on you than some one who's short.

[Lee]

(Note I'm also talking in US sizes...)

However, I think that the author of this article left out the fact that the model was a size 4 in US sizes, which is a size 8 in UK... which... for Americans if you leave out that tiny little fact then yeah, size 8 sounds pretty large compared to the size four that the model really is.

[N, gleeson]

The above model ought to sue for misrepresentation verging on obscene distortion. Comic episodes, the bleak sort. It ceases to be human cladding and becomes a peculiar form of spatial expression by the poorly engaged for the poorly educated.

[AnneR]

The image is so distorted - could anyone have taken this seriously?

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