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This is how mad things have become...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 05:36PM 
Image: Heidi Klum in a Victoria's Secret parade
AnyBody was outraged to hear that Heidi Klum has been deemed too heavy to model on the catwalk by the leading German fashion designer Wolfgang Joop. "No way," Joop told German News website BILD.COM. "She is no runway model. Heidi Klum is simply too heavy and has too big a bust. And she always grins so stupidly. That is not avant-garde - that is commercial."
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This is how mad things have become...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 05:36PM
Posted by Registered Commenteranybody
Image: Heidi Klum in a Victoria's Secret parade
AnyBody was outraged to hear that Heidi Klum has been deemed too heavy to model on the catwalk by the leading German fashion designer Wolfgang Joop. "No way," Joop told German News website BILD.COM. "She is no runway model. Heidi Klum is simply too heavy and has too big a bust. And she always grins so stupidly. That is not avant-garde - that is commercial."
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Absolutely ridiculous--this kind of attitude is creating anorexic and suicidal teens!
February 21, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterQueen Claudia
OMG! Wolfgang Joop either seriously needs to renew his glasses or has a serious problem..... Heidi Klum looks amazing after having kids.... and when was smiling a faux pas???? In these depressing times.... its uplifting to see a REAL woman.... happy with herself..... looking amazing... having fab kids... and an amazing hubby and happy marriage to boot!!! Wolfgang is a sad prat!!!! anyone agree???
ever think all these skinny models are doing america a favour? it's one of the fattest nations. it has motivated so many of my overweight friends to lose weight. and i only have one friend who has developed an eating disorder. what would happen if we suddenly had big models? would the world be okay with obesity? no longer would fat women watch runway shows and think, that's it i don't want to be fat anymore. instead they'd watch them and say, hey, maybe it's okay to be big.
wth is his issue, and having insanely skinny models will NOT get america to be less obese, being obese is bad but being to skinny is worse, and having curves and a body thats not all skeletal. is not obese.
if you're all going to freak out about equality and open mindedness why are you so quick to judge the skinnier models.
2. If your comment were coming from a place of genuine concern for the health and wellbeing of overweight people, that would be fine, but I get the sense that you're offended by fatness. It's an odd but surprisingly common reaction because being overweight has come to be treated in much of common culture as a moral issue - as though by being fat, people are somehow doing something morally wrong. Fat is not a moral issue. It can be said to be of aesthetic debate and have an impact on health one way or another, but it's just fat. It's only a biological component of our bodies - one evolved to help us survive I might add - not the very substance of sin.
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it ain't her fault god gave her good boobs .
these people are so dang stupid .
I wouldn't look at him twice and I doubt Heidi Klum would either...
TONY who said they were 'artists'???!!
These fashion designers are nothing but arrogant unattractive self titled 'artists' I never said they were artists and I doubt most people ever have. They call themselves artists. BUT Michaelangelo was an artist, Vincent Van Gogh was an artist, my incredibly talented younger female cousin is an artist.
No woman would look twice at half of them if they were walking down the street because fashion designers are not artists - most of them are self absorbed narcissistic personalities who've made a living out of passing judgement on people who are far better looking than they are because quite frankly they wouldn't succeed on the other side of the fence. And I suspect they'd have a pretty mediocre life otherwise...
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