Whitney Thompson: ‘Models get treated like crap’
October 16, 2010 in Celebrity Quotes, Hot Models by Versus
America’s Next Top Model plus-size winner Whitney Thompson is a spokeswomen for National Eating Disorders Association and she recently opened up to Huffington Post about the modeling industry – she makes some interesting points:
Oh yeah, models get treated like crap. Worse than anyone. We get fed last, we don’t sleep, they treat you like nothing. When you think about it, everyone thinks modeling is so glamorous, but you don’t get to say what you wear, you don’t get to say how you look, what your hair color is, what length it is, where you live, what you do — you have no voice at all. And the bookers — because I was a straight-size model growing up in high school, and my hips were always one inch too big — and, yeah, you have 45-year-old men saying, “You’re too fat.” You’re a teenage girl. It’s really disgusting. It’s an awful industry and, yeah, there is no soul in modeling.
A lot of girls get depressed, some girls commit suicide, some girls starve to death, literally, and we kind of just don’t pay attention to it in the industry. We don’t really talk about it, but it’s very common. I lived in a model apartment with all straight (size) models. One of the girls was on the lemonade cleanse for, I think, three weeks and her skin broke out all over in boils. But she was working in Paris every weekend and that’s all that mattered to her. And does the agency say anything? They’re not worried she’s too skinny, they’re worried she looks nasty because she has boils.
… says Whitney.
What do you think about Whitney’s thoughts?
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