Crystal Renn Is Not Losing Weight on Purpose, Says Agent
May 29, 2010 in Crystal Renn, Hot Models by Versus
We’ve all noticed that “plus-size” model Crystal Renn has been losing weight… quite a bit actually – see this post!. Well, Crystal’s agent claims that she’s not shedding pounds on purpose. From People:
“She is not trying to lose weight at all,” her Ford Models agent tells PEOPLE. “She fluctuates between a 10 and a 14.” At the moment, she seems to be on the lower end of that range, in part, her agent says, because she’s been so active recently. “She went hiking in Patagonia for three weeks over the holidays and she firmed up and got a little smaller,” he says. “She has also been traveling like crazy and tends to be smaller when that happens.
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She’s not a 10 or a 14. She’s at most of the most, an 8. Please, we have eyes.
Maybe it’s because she has broad hips? So she could be all bony and still wear a size 10 (at least on the bottom half).
That said she looks to be a size 6 on top and size 8 on the bottom but you can’t always tell from a picture.
i agree!! i think theyre trying to protect her ‘plus size image’ but she realllly doesnt look like a 10!!
Remember how tall she is. A size 10 on a tall woman can look pretty fit sometimes. It also looks like she carries most of her weight on her hips and butt.
well that’s an actual dilemma, isn’t it ? is a plus size model supposed to lose weight ? and if so, only when she does not do it on purpose, due to an active private life?
i have to admit, it really is strange when someone who is one of the role models of plus size models is starting to lose weight, but then again, i thought the whole thing about plus size modelling was to get used to other shapes of women. chrystal is still bigger than an average model and i like her figure that way.
I don’t really see why they need to defend her losing weight, she looks wonderful and healthy and still plus size for a model.
Yes I know she’s supposed to be “plus size” but I think unless she loses more, she can still get away with being a plus size model, even though she wouldn’t be considered plus size on the streets.
However, even at her biggest in her recent modelling career, I don’t she was ever a 14, i’ve always seen her referred to as size 12, so i think Mimi is right and she’s probably more like an 8 now.
i agree, i think crystal looks fab at this size but she also looks great wen she’s bigger! as long as she’s happy and healthy and not going to any drastic measures to lose weight i think she’s still a great role model for what a healthy, curvy woman looks like. she’s so sexy!!
Agreed! Weight fluctuates – it’s a fact of life. She is modelesque regardless of her size and looks great both now and when she was heavier.
I see people posting on this website, wanting “normal” sized models, somewhere between high-fashion waifs and plus-sized. Here we have one. Who cares how she’s billed? She’s a beauty! Don’t hate; celebrate!
i agree suzie q. weight does fluctuate. we live. sometimes eat more, sometimes less, sometimes more healthily, sometimes less, sometimes exercise more, sometimes less…we are humans! and you are right she is a beauty! (imo). her face looks so pretty there
I think constantly quibbling about her weight and whether she is ‘big’ enough to be plus sized MISSES THE POINT.
CLEARLY she is too big to be a normal catwalk or even commercial model. Size 10 or 14- it makes no difference. Wanting her to be bigger is just as bad as wanting her to be smaller. She is what she is. She is entitled to lose weight- either accidentaly or on purpose.
Why can’t we accept that she is plus sized and that’s it? Who cares if she sometimes looks bigger and sometimes smaller? She will always be plus sized? And it makes the focus her status as “plus sized” rather than just focusing on her beauty like we do with the miranda kerrs et al of the modeling world.
/rant
She looks too small to be plus sized anymore…..
I’ve read her book. She explains plus size modeling is anything that isn’t straight sized modeling. Meaning anything not between 0-4. If she’s above a 4 she’s plus sized regardless of what the sized at nordstrom’s or macy’s plus sized womens rack say. That’s just the fashion industry. She looks healthy and slimmer but not dying. I like the look. I want to see more 4-8-ers.
I just think they should stop using the term ‘plus size’ to describe average size models.
totally agree, she is a model, her gob is to look good and sell, she can do that at any weight and by definition, she is a plus size model s. Maybe they should all just be called models, regarless of their weight
she doesn’t look a size 10 at all
I would love to see more “healthy weight” models, not plus sized, and not rail thin. Although, I don’t think her face looks nice at that weight, she looks a bit gaunt.
What I am baffled over here is the way she fluctuates. It seems that she could be a size 10 all the time if she wanted to! Working out will make you do that. She said in Glamour mag that “she fell in love with activity again” in regards to her hiking trip. It just seems that when she is lazy she is a 14 and when she is not she is a 10. Naturally maybe she is a 12? Don’t get me wrong I like her as a plus size model and am not saying she needs to lose. She is entitled to fluctuate but wouldn’t it be better to stay one size? It just seems she does not have consistency in working out or possibly even diet. They are just making it like she CAN”T stay at one size when in fact she could if she managed herself better. One hiking trip and a little less food from traveling shouldn’t yield losing 2 sizes unless you aren’t watching those things when you aren’t at home. To be a model I think she should just try to ba little more consistent.
Personally, I think she looks great now, and I also think this is her ‘natural’ weight.
And I’ll just go ahead and say it: I think she was too big before, at her heaviest. She didn’t look happy nor healthy, it did not look like she was meant to be that way. It happens to a lot of people who deal with anorexia or very restrictive dieting: when they restart eating, after so many years of deprivation, they just go overboard and binge. After a while they settle back into healthy eating and lose some of the weight. It’s only normal.
I think that right now she’s what is missing from the model industry!She has a normal ,healthy body(which is probably size 8). Not many models look like that. And maybe her agent is right. Right now I’m very stressed because of my exams and I’ve lost a kilo out of the blue in a week. So, imagine her stress of travelling for jobs and the fact that she spent 3 weeks hiking(exercise), somewhere really cold(and her body had to burn calories to stay at normal temperature) and probably without much food(because they can’t carry much food,can they?)!
Wow, she is gorgeous.
She’s the first plus sized model I’ve seen that looks modelesque.
This girl had serious anorexia, it’s normal for former anorexic girls to fluctuate. Because once you’ve had an ED it’s almost impossible to fully recover. She “recovered” by becoming plus size which isn’t too healthy either. Her pub. saying she’s traveling a lot is a lame excuse for her relapse.
I disagree with your statement. That’s the same as saying that no one can ever recover from drug use, alcoholism, gambling addiction and the like. While it’s certainly challenging, it’s nowhere near “impossible”.
in AA and in most rehabs and organizations they acknowledge that no addict can ever fully recover. they are always considered “in recovery.” even if they hadn’t relapsed in 20 years they are still considered to be in recovery and not actually recovered .
There is also a school of rehab that says that addictions – drugs, alcohol, gambling, EDs – are not diseases. Rather, it’s an unhappy combination of genes (predilection to abuse substances, for example, or underlying chemical deficiencies) and life factors that cause people to resort to self-destructive behavior. For some people, the idea that no one can ever fully recover is an incredibly disheartening proposition in itself. I personally think one CAN fully recover – but obviously, the “triggers” must always be avoided and one can never put themselves in the same environment again, and must willfully avoid self-treating themselves through the addiction (because there is a REASON people turn to these things in the first place).
So I do think recovery is possible. This is the theory of recovery behind the “Passages” treatment center. Many people who were unsuccessfully treated through other rehab centers have found success with this approach (and no I don’t work for them, but I have a brother that responded extremely well to this approach is is now sober three years).
Just to provide another point of view. Not everyone recovers the same way.
Where you’re wrong is that with gambling, drugs, and alcohol you can abstain from those behaviors/triggers. You can say “I won’t touch booze. I won’t enter a casino. I won’t snort a line.” But you just can’t say “I won’t eat food, I won’t enter a grocery store” because that’s impossible. I’ve done the AA for EDs and it’s a load of shit. Sorry to those who’ve had different experiences.
I think she is relapsing
she looks great we worry way to much about numbers.
Polly, this isn’t true. I know tons and tons of former Anorexics who’ve recovered fully. Just because it’s incredibly hard does NOT mean it’s nearly impossible. It send the wrong message to say this, makes people think “why bother?” when it comes to recovery, if they’ll never really get there. It’s disheartening to hear someone say this, especially for myself whose been battling Anorexia for almost 13 years.
It is normal for people who’ve had eating disorders in general to have slight weight fluctuations. It is NOT normal for anyone to “fluctuate” four sizes. That’s not a fluctuation, by definition of the word. It’s frightening to me that our society considers a four size drop a fluctuation.
The questions brought up by people are quite spot on, but nobody is saying she needs to be plus size of that she needs to gain weight. The issue is, it’s actually a great deal harder to be a plus size model than a “regular” runway model. There is a VERY small bracket for high end plus size modeling, you can’t just be “big”. For what she’s doing, she needs to not dip below a size ten or go above a sixteen. If she loses too much weight, she will not be deemed plus size but also won’t be deemed “regular” and she will be in limbo between the two and get no work. If she gains too much, she’s out of a job. Also, plus size models are expected to be full figured BUT toned and athletic at the same time. They are not expected to be “fat”, because that is excepted nowhere in fashion. The pressure, if you can believe it, is actually much higher for a plus size model. I used to work in the fashion industry and you would not believe the things that the plus size girls do to themselves to stay in margin…it’s just as bad, if not worse than the underweight girls.
I do think her drop in weight is alarming, particularly because it happened so quickly. She was in Vogue less than five months ago looking much curvier and has probably lost over 25 lbs since then, it’s most evident in her face and collarbone area. Not only is she compromising her health (which is paramount), but she will lose her job. I really, really hope somebody handles this before it’s too late. This much weight lost on a former Anorexic is a startling, scary warning sign.
I don’t see the issue with her losing weight. I read somewhere that her losing weight purposely would be a “slap in the face” to the plus-size industry. I could not disagree with that thought more. Plus-size models are allowed to lose weight, just ad a size 0, 2 or 4 model would be allowed to gain weight. It is her body (and yes, I get that her whole career is built on her body) and she should be able to lose or gain weight however she pleases.
Plus size models are NOT allowed to lose weight, not if they want to keep their jobs. As I explained, she would need to stay above a ten and below a sixteen to stay a high fashion plus size models. If she loses weight, she loses her job. If she’s anywhere above a four to a size eight, she can’t get work at all in high fashion. There is no work available now for those sizes. It isn’t right or fair, but it’s how the industry works.
The issue isn’t that “it’s her body, she can do what she wants”…because we live in a democracy, she can to whatever. But as a recovering Anorexic, you absolutely under no circumstances can lose four size that quickly. This reignited a relapse faster than you can imagine. It also makes her look like a massive hypocrite for all she’s said recently about size acceptance. As another poster said, if she just admitted it was purpousful it would be different. But she isn’t, and you don’t fluctuate four sizes by accident.
She’s still stunning and looks “healthy”, but she’s playing with fire right now.
Yes, I agree completely that what she has done by losing weight is not a good career choice, but I don’t think anybody should be pressured to stay at a certain shape because of a job they do. I know that she has to if she wishes to remain in work then she should not be doing this, but ultimately it is her choice.
As for her recovering from anorexia- I agree with you. It is obviously not a good sign for her to be losing this much weight so quickly (and do they honestly expect us to believe that she went hiking and BOOM, she has lost a load of weight? Please.). Personally I think this is more of a concern than her position in the fashion industry. I know from experience that it is incredibly easy to relapse and I don’t think her publicist is doing her any favours by enabling her weight-loss, passing it off as a ‘fluctuation’.
Man, I can’t imagine a job that would require you to stay fat. It’s as bad as being encourage to lose weight or stay thin.
You shouldn’t try to judge clothing size by looking at a person. My roommate is the same height as Crystal, is super fit and athletic, and wears a size 12 because she’s a pear shape. I’d never have known it if I didn’t see the tags myself. If Doutzen is a six, its not impossible for C.R to be a 10. Losing two dress sizes can make a huge difference.
I really dont care what size crystal is, shes not a model I’m particularly interested in either way, regardless its the hypocrtical attitude I hate. Harping on to anyone who will listen about how much she lurrrves her body and wouldnt want to be any smaller, she’s the size she is meant to be etc etc, then going and dropping several dress sizes in a relatively short period of time, coupled with the same B.S excuse that all the super-skinnies in hollywood use (oh I’m just sooooo busy, thats why I’ve gotten so thin, I eat loads!), it just stinks of hypocricy.
If this chick would actually come out and say “yes I made a conscious effort to lose some weight so I could be healthier and feel even better about myself” – then I would respect her, because she is at what I would call a healthy weight and that can only be a good thing. I dont CARE about her losing weight, its the fact she said all that stuff in the past, and has her agent come out with the typical cliche rubbish that I think is insulting to the public intelligence.
My take on all this is that instead of lobbying for women to embrace obesity and call it plus size, the focus should be on healthy sizes. So instead of only having a market for girls size 0-4 the “plus side” should be more girls 5-12. A very happy medium in todays world would be a size 6-8.
I personally am a size 4 at 5’8 it is just where my body falls on the scale. But keep in mind I do watch my diet and exercise because it is a two pack deal. I don;t have a crazy metabolism and as a person who did struggle with an ED and still does each day, I see the models on the cat walk and recognize sign of muscle loss, fatigue, and of course emaciation. Those are not healthy girls and that is not a natural state of thiness. Most are in denial because you cannot see yourself truley no matter what people are telling you you think they are wrong.
In regards to Crystal Renn this weight is wonderful on her. She looks healthy and apparently she is active so if I had to choose her figure over the size zeros on the runway I would have hers.
If she’s lost weight healthily then I’m happy for her. You do feel healthier and more comfortable. I just hope she stays healthy and happy – that’s all that matters, not her dress size.
This sounds like BS to me. Who fluctuates like that just because you’re a little more active? Your body naturally increases your appetite when you’re more active, and CR is obviously someone who likes her food!
As a model she can’t afford to ‘fluctuate’ by one dress size, never mind two!
I wish these people would just be honest!
Dropping that many sizes without trying sounds a little odd. Like illness odd. Or dieting. Basically, it would be difficult, outside of illness, to do this by accident.
But im no expert on weight.
For me, Im cool with her at any size. She looks good, models well, and that’s what matters. But im one of those weird folk who doesnt care about people’s weight. I do like this blog though, I like to check out the styles, etc. The weight focus disturbs me. A sign of our times i guess.
what i want to know is why is everything “extremes” in the fashion industry? you either have to be an extremely thin 0 and maybe even… god forbid a size 2! or if you want to be plus size model they go for girls that are usually size 10-14. just saying, it’s like… below a healthy BMI or over a healthy BMI. why not girls that are just healthy and normal? and not these extremes… what about girls size 4-8? just because those girls aren’t overweight or underweight…
I agree. Unfortunately, it seems like the extremes on both ends are mounting. Maybe moreso for the thin “regular” models. If you compare them to the models of the past (minus the 60s and Twiggy – but then everyone thought she was unusual), and even as recent as five years ago, you’ll see that they’ve gotten smaller. It’s really disturbing. Then they wonder about the rising rates of eating disorders? They don’t see a correlation?
Oh for goodenss sake, leave this woman alone! it is her body she can do whatever she pleases. And for the record she is not “too thin” now and she isn’t “plus size” either. She is just a normal healthy weight. And whatever she chooses to be it’s her business.
agreed. I think that if she’s taking care of herself thats all that really matters. and i think its funny that we are so offended by just an average sized model. We are truly never pleased with anyone it’s a little pathetic.
She looks awesome, I love her body especially nowadays
She rocks
She is probably working out, staying active, eating healthy and the weight is just coming off like it should. The problem is that she got famous for being an overweight model, now that she became popular and is taking care of her body, her body no longer has the ability to stay overweight.
It’s really a great thing, good for her! I guess the only problem is that she might have some plus model contracts at stake. Thus the press releases. However I’m sure she can do far better modeling at her bodies proper weight, than plus size.
NOW THAT’S HOT!!!
Weight does fluctuate, and I know she has a history of disordered eating, but isn’t 10-14 a pretty big fluctuation?
Everyone loves to claim she’s super healthy, however if your weight is fluctuating between 3 dress sizes regularly, that doesn’t seem healthy.
I don’t see Crystal as a healthy role model at all.
She looks kinda big anyways
Why lie? She looks great, more “ideal”… ie, not fat but not rail thin. This is what I’d like to see more of… clean, pretty, healthy-sized women.
If anyone could not “lose weight on purpose”, it would be done. Just be honest, the public loves it Crystal! Start a revolution of “real women models”… emphasis on still “models” and not so much “plus” size!
what scares me the most is that people call her “plus size”. I stand between 8 and 10 and I don’t think I’m ” plus size” at all in a 10!
*sigh* why can’t she just admit she’s tired of being “the plus size model”?
I’m 5’10″ and have rather broad hips. Whenever I tell someone what size I wear, they never believe me, they think I wear less than what I say (right, if I were to lie about that, don’t you think I’d say I wear LESS than I actually do?).
Maybe that’s the case with Crystal right now.
I remember someone once said “But M wears a size less than you, and she’s so fat!”. But M was like 5’2″. And fat, yeah.