Skinny unto death

La Hyacinth has taken up her mighty pen and pounded Karl Lagerfeld into a jelly:

But what do I know? I’m just a fat, uneducated cow–and a breeder nonetheless–and he’s the dandy queen with the perpetually puckered puss. I mean, he wears women’s jeans–he’s obviously my superior, even though I also wear women’s jeans… but it’s best not to think too deeply on such matters.

Ladies, why are we letting queens in skinny jeans tell us that we aren’t good enough?

She's just warming up. Click here for the unexpurgated version.

What he said:

Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has accused critics of thin models of being 'fat mummies who sit with bags of potato chips'.

Stirring up controversy is a "fat" model who is speaking out against the pressure from some designers for skeletal models. Coco Rocha is refreshingly unwilling to starve herself to death:

'You know what, I stopped caring,' she said.

'If I want a hamburger, I'm going to have one. No 21-year-old should be worrying about whether she fits a sample size.

'Girls are told they are not skinny enough, or they hear "She's old, she's boring, we've had her. she's not tiny anymore."

'A lot of people don't take into account the vulnerability of these young girls.'

And vulnerable they are. From the same article:

Luisel, 22,suffered a fatal heart attack during a fashion week in Uruguay in 2006.

She had lived on a diet of green leaves and diet coke for three months in a bid to be ready for a the catwalk show.

Her model sister Eliana,18, died from malnutrition six months later in 2007

Related: Hiding the decline on the childhood obesity rate


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