Victoria’s Secret Model Erin Heatherton Looks Ultra Thin in Marie Claire Italia
June 23, 2010 in Hot Models by Versus
Name: Erin Heatherton
Age: 21
Nationality: American
Height: 5’11″ / 180cm
Models for: Victoria’s Secret, Dolce & Gabbana, Marc Jacobs, Oscar de la Renta, Tommy Hilfiger
Pictured here: In the June issue of Marie Claire Italia
See the rest of this shoot after the jump!
These pictures make my bones hurt. She’s all harshness and sharp angles. There’s a certain stark beauty, she really, she’s awfully thin.
she looks good! some of the pics were just a little ‘off’. maybe just too much stretching and arching and bad angles made her ribs look sick, but in other pictures she looks only as skinng as Ambrosio ( which of course is fine) !! BTW VERSUS, u should post some Kathy Griffin bikini pics! I know she’s not your usual type of post, but she looks amazing!!
also, not to complain too much, but there are like 2 commercials playing at once on this page, and I can’t hear my amazing music at alllll right now
Yeah I really hate those loud commercials too
If I wanted to know that I would look it up so I won’t buy from any company who has no respect for me
“but in other pictures she looks only as skinng as Ambrosio ( which of course is fine)”????? you’re deluded…. Do we even know anymore how’s the human body supposed to look like?
Agreed! The first two pictures are really scary!
Scary sexy!
really bones turn you on??
Agreed!
Those exposed back bones are not good..
exactly what I think
it was the hip bones from the back that got me!!!
I’m with you in thoughts.
wow, I hadn’t noticed those, that’s weird looking
Exactly I didn’t even think you could be skinny enough for them to show on your back…
The shots are great though
Actually she just needs ab work that is her weak spot.
She’s way to thin! It really looks scary to me!
Really? She looks AMAZING!!!! I wonder what her measurements are, because she looks fantastic!
i think she looks fine. being thin = bones showing = how some people are.
being thin = bones showing?? not that much. I’m tall and thin and you can’t see any bones.
catc said how SOME people are. She wasn’t singling you out.
I’m tall and thin, and you can see my hip bones/ribs/chestbones. Doesn’t mean I’m unhealthy, that’s just how I was built.
yes the ones that don’t eat.
Genetics.
I read 33-24.5-34. Funny how other models with the same sort of stats do not look anywhere near as emaciated….different builds I guess.
That’s weird; those are almost my measurements exactly and I’m not even close to that shape.
You´re probably not 5´11 though, that makes all the difference.
some modeling agencies don’t advertise their clients’ actual measurements. It’s not fair, no. But when you look at all the models’ measurements, they all look about the same. For this particluar model, it’s hard for me to believe there is a ten-inch difference between her bust/wasit/hipswith her looking as thin as she does. With that big a difference, a more hourglass shape shows up.
Candice Swanepoel: 34-23-34
Alessandra Ambrosio: 34-23-34
Marissa Miller: 34-23-35
but if you look at all of them in a lineup, you can tell they all look drastically different. Ambrosio does not have Swanepoel’s visible waist, for example. But everyone wants to advertise their models as being tiny, tiny, tiny, but not represented (by the numbers, anyway) as being a ruler.
NOTE: to clarify my above statement, you’d have to look at UN-PHOTOSHOPPED pictures of these models.
I agree, it’s ridiculous that they all have the same measurements, they might wear the same size but they all have different shapes.
Out of those three I believe Marissa’s to be the most accurate.
Your spine sticking out of your back is not natural, no matter how great a metabolism you have
sorry, this makes me hurt
ok, I have to disagree…I’m a totally normal BMI and weight–could even stand to lose a few–and my shoulders, backbone, ribs, and collarbones are bony. Not terrible, but noticeable. I’m a pear.
But I’ve gotta say…hip bones (pelvis? What is that??) sticking out of your BACK?!?! I’ve never even seen that before. I didn’t know they could stick out that way. That can’t be healthy….
i completely understand…i should have been more clear…..i am a pear as well and even though my bottom half is heavy you can still see the bones in my chest very well.
i just meant it cannot possibly be healthy to be that bony all over
i believe that´s your coccyx or tail bone and you´re right, it normally doesn´t stick out like that
Actually, it’s the posterior part of her iliac crest. That’s disturbingly unnatural.
sexy bitch. you know all the boys want a piece of this.
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Starvin Marvin! I really don’t find that attractive. Too many bones sticking out!
she reminds me of linda blair from ‘the exorcist”.
I agree with those who said that this looks hurtful…I felt the same, she looks awfully skinny in some of the pics, it’s far too much…She’s probably naturally lean, but come on, to that point? No way. It’s not pleasant to look at, at all, and probably even less pleasant for her to maintain. Her face looks good, though.
I like skinny, but the day that my pelvic bone sticks out off my BUTT will be the day I stuff myself with food til the point of being sick.
That is just not attractive at all! And I mean it when I say I usually love super-thin girls, but who wants a butt (or lack thereof) like that?
How can THIS be beautiful? That’s so sad… She looks like she should go to the hospital, like right now… Disturbing… You know, when I see this kind of women represented as a beauty ideal, I fear for my little daughter…. She’s still a baby and I can just hope things are gonna change… You know, as a man, I didn’t live all the pressure that you girls can live about your body image… That certainly won’t help anyone to feel better… That is unhealthy for anyone. UNHEALTHY. It makes me angry. It makes me sick. And please, there’s no offense in what I say, so don’t go say that she looks beautiful, that I have no idea if she’s healthy or not and so on… I am just a dad that is affraid to see the world in wich he put his little girl… What kind of ideas does this kind of skinny promotion will give you ladies… What kind of ideas it will give to my daughter…? Frightening.
Daniel,you seem to be a loving, responsible father. I am sure that with role model like that your daughter will grow up to be a beautiful, strong woman. Show her that she is beautiful, show her that everyone is beautiful. Let her learn to appreciate food, to enjoy it, healthy way. Show her how to be healthy and happy. I’m sure you’re already doing it
I’m from Poland and today we celebrate Father’s Day, so Happy Father’s Day
I agree with CoffeeGirl, I think children are influenced by their parents even more than by society. So your daughter might learn from your attitude. I also think you sound loving and responsible, this is so nice to read.
Btw, I agree it’s disturbing to see this as a beauty ideal.
Congrats for becoming a father, btw, and good luck with everything.
I SOOOO thank you for these words!
I agree with you on that Daniel. But I also think CoffeeGirl has a point, so don’t worry too much about your little girl and instead give her lots of appreciation and love – that’ll buildt a strong mind !
But If you find her scary on these pics you should meet her in reality. I had the “honor” to be introduced to her last week during a fitting session and oh boy, she actually is much skinnier than what she looks here. She looked otherworldly being so hyper skinny and so tall, like she was stretched out.
I agree , not a good look at all.
this disgusts me. it’s so irresponsible! this should be every bit as unacceptable as putting an overweight woman in a bikini but sadly fat = ugly, lazy and gross and emaciated = glamourous, great will power and sexy to the majority of people (or at least people in the fashion world)
I believe all body types are beautiful as long as they’re natural. Being overweight isn’t healthy but neither is being this boney and underweight. Some people are naturally thin and that’s fine but like people stated in the above comments your bones in your back sticking out like that is NOT NATURAL!
When will people start seeing HEALTHY as sexy you can be a size 8 and be in the healthy weight range and you can be in a size 0 and be healthy but if it’s not natural for your body type and if you have to go to extreme measures to attain that body (i.e. over eating or under eating) then it’s not healthy.
Showing a woman with her spine and ribs sticking out should not be accepted but it is… so frustrating.
so true. so often being sickly thin is seen as glamorous and having a great deal of self control……i think it shows how being controlling can become out of control
I actually think she looks good. Very skinny, but good. She looks good in a high fashion- way, but propably not in a VS- way.
Not cute. V. uncool of Marie Claire.
Normally, I’m a big fab of the very thin look. It doesn’t work for everyone, but it can be very beautiful when one’s body type supports it. However, that picture of her back is actually disturbing and what’s worse is the editor’s didn’t even try to soften the look of the exposed bones. Apparently, that sharp bony look was completely intentional.
Wow this is disgusting,this pictures looks like they have been taken for a pro-ana site or somethin and this is really sad,i dont want to say she is unhealthy,i cant be sure and i dont even care but im just wondering what kind of skinny promotion will give she to the young girls like me?
I don’t entirely agree about the back bones, i mean my back looks kinda similar, and so does my mother’s, even though she’s got a bit of belly and extra meat on her arms. It’s just our body type. (Same goes for any particular bones imo, you can’t judge thinness just by one area) But ALL of this model’s bones are jutting pretty bad, so i agree it looks painfully thin kinda. But i still like the pics, and she’s a pretty girl.
I guess this is what they call a ”curvy woman” in the fashion industry
Wow, not attractive. I think the most disturbing thing is seeing the back of her hip bones popping out in pic 2. It is such a shame that the industry puts girls like these in pictorials and makes people believe this is “normal”. And also sad for the models who feel they need to maintain this unhealthy, unnatural physique just to obtain a job.
normal or sporty – haha – like she would have the energy or desire or endurance to go surfing..??
Silly that is what a young girl looks like. Normal young females have that hip bone. Mature women for the most part do not. It is one of the ways you can judge age.
All these bones disgust me but i have to say that i kind of prefer the honesty of these pictures than pictures that feature a really skinny model whose sticking out bones have been softened. At least they’re not showing us something that can’t even exist like they usually do.
The lightning is interesting though, too bad for the choice of the model.
Agreed. The pictures make me shudder in mild horror and nod at the more or less honesty of it. The lightly also makes her look skinnier/bonier, so apparently that was the point… I just don’t understand why.
you can be pretty skinny without bones showing… she’s just probably not built like that… so I don’t think they need to soften their bones always.
Good heavens you can see her ENTIRE ribcage. If you’re thin a bone will stick out here and there, especially if you contort but this poor girl.
I’m surprised she doesn’t get bedsores from her bones pushing onto her paperthin skin, like 80 year old frail people.
Word to the wise – when you see model pics, 90% of them look like this. What happens is that they photoshop the sharpness and bonyness away until you get a completely unrealistic picture.
This is the ugly secret of being so skinny.
VS models are supposed to be ‘sexy’, this is rather unpleasant viewing.
Right?!
I ended up buying a dress from the VS website that Heatherton just so happened to be modeling (in my opinion I look much better in the dress than she does, for the simple reason that I do not look emaciated). I showed one of my friends the picture from the website because I wanted to show her the dress I’d bought. My friend is naturally very slim (5’3, narrow frame, about 100 lbs) and even she thought Heatherton looked “brittle” and literally cringed away from the image.
she looks too thin
one of the best bodies ive seen..love the second photo HOWEVER i do think that this weight is unatural for her
ideal body in my opinion! she’s gorgeous and i’m aiming for a figure like hers, currently i’m 5’9” and 120 lbs, i still need to slim down a bit
What the heck is wrong with you?? 5ft9, 120lb is ALREADY at least 10lb underweight.
first of all, i dont have much muscle on my body, i actually have a really high body fat percentage, which is bad. and second, i have a really slight build and 120 lbs on me looks fat, trust me.
Well perhaps you might want to think about gaining muscle as opposed to losing weight.
There is just no way a 5ft9 person should be dropping below 120lb regardless of fat percentage.
Try weight training plus a clean high protein diet, it will really help your situation. You can always drop any excess body fat once you’ve gained a reasonable amount of muscle.
And it’s not something that you can achieve overnight, it’s going to take a while so dedication and perseverance are a must.
I’m going to go with Kate here. I used to have the same problem as you. I was technically underweight too but kind of flabby. I had very little muscle, not because I didn’t do anything, but that’s just how I am. Muscle-building goes a long way. It’s really hard, and you’ll definetly need to add protein supplements into your diet, but it looks a lot better than just getting thinner and thinner.
You can look severely emaciated and flabby at the same time. A lot of models who don’t work out have that look. It’s called skinny fat and it’s not attractive.
You are correct!
i’m 5’10 and 123 pounds..and im trying to lose weight. Some people just have a smaller frame and can afford to lose a few pounds of fat
i have been trying to eat much healthier these days and i have been eating some protein, i’ll make sure to increase it though. i was much more toned when i played sports and i was only like 5 pounds less, so what you’re saying does make sense.
abby, that’s good!
You’ll definetly need to be eating more protein than what is recommended for your body weight.
For example, you should be eating 0.36 grams of protein per pound of body weight. Let’s say you were a 100 pounds to make it easier. Then you should be eating 36 grams of protein.
However, if you want to increase the amount of muscle you have, you need to eat somewhere around 45-50 grams of protein. That’s where the protein supplements come in.
As for which exercizes you need to do, weight lifting is the best. You can look online for which routines you like. The rule of thumb is, if you’re a l ittle sore the next morning, but not too sore, and you’ve had enough protein, you’re building muscle.
FYI: Saying you have no muscle actually makes you sound more unhealthy, not less. When a person has very low body fat (for example, when that person is considered to be medically underweight) their body will start to consume the protein in their muscles for energy.
You’ll forgive me if I don’t actually “trust you” on this one.
I hope you ask a reputable doctor what he/she thinks about your weight loss plans, and “trust him” (or her) when you’re given an informed medical opinion.
Rachel, you probably don’t have THAT much fat to lose, more likely lack of muscle which gives the illusion of being out of shape or flabby.
It is possible to alter your entire body composition without drastically altering weight.
FYI: when i said i had no muscle i wasn’t trying to sound “healthier”, i was explaining that i have a body that is not toned, and essentially, that i’m skinny fat. muscle weighs more than fat and a girl who is exactly my height and weight who has more muscle than me will look much slimmer. and i don’t know what you were going on about with the low body fat. my bmi states that i’m underweight, but i’m sure most people know that bmi is a VERY flawed thing. my body fat percentage, however, is like 30%, which is entirely too high.
Not for a model And dump BMI as it is way inaccurate.
Slim down? Maybe you mean tone up.
you’re aiming for a figure like hers?! donate your entire food for 3 months to people that actually want it and look like that because they are poor, and if you’re lucky, you’ll still be alive. Excuse the sarcasm.
i second that!
And this is sexy because….?
I’m glad that the majority of people who have commented on this see that she is unhealthy and that this isn’t an ideal body for anyone. For those of you who think she looks good, I’m sorry what whoever gave you that bad body image. She looks as if her bones would crumble with one harsh-landing jump.
I would honestly love to see what these photos looked like before the photoshopping. Since the “bones” look was clearly what they were going for, perhaps they actually photoshopped her so that they showed more? I would like to think that Victoria’s Secret doesn’t promote this type of body. I remember reading a quote from Tyra Banks saying that VS was where she went AFTER her body stopped looking like this.
wow..sooo skinny..but fine, that is a perfecttt body imo
and she has on STUNNINGLY BEAUTIFUL face…yowza! <3
that’s just gross Ö
i like her face, but she needs to gain!
Looks like some pro-ana shiz niz. Not a good look. Waaay too many bones, not enough meat. Have a burger..
This is sick. She looks absolutely emaciated.
I think she looks great! yes, a tad thin, but l’d kill to have hips and legs like hers!!!
This is the first time I’ve ever seen someone’s hip bones poking out of their bum.
Me too! That is the crazy part of this whole shoot. Those bones!
This looks like it belongs on a pro-ana site.
I think she looks great. She certainly can be naturally this thin. Just because her ribs show in certain angles, it doesn’t mean she is unhealthy.
her body is too skinny for VS model (even though they’ve all shrinked for the past years), but perfectly skinny for runway.
I don’t like her face and her body, to me she’s just unattractive.
It shocks me a little bit that they show pictures like this. I thought they remove it with Photoshop if someone looks too thin, and this model IS too thin!
where do we go? with skeletons on the front pages…I´m shocked.
I wonder why they didn’t photoshop the bones out… That’s usually what they do with such skinny models!
Okay, well i think for one the lighting doesn’t help (looks like it’s a heck-strong spot shining through something so that it’s hits her in a mottled pattern).
She’s obviously on the bony side…but there are pics (like the one of her back), which make her appear more emaciated than she actually is, and I think this is from the pattern of light both highlighting actual bones and creating the impression of a few that aren’t actually there.
She has really thin legs…but her upper half actually isn’t that bad. Sure when she’s stretching out or arching her back it’s making the ribs protrude…but in the pic where she has normal posture (3rd from the bottom), it’s like sure she’s skinny, but not like a skeleton or anything.
Anyway, I think these pictures are lit, shot and posed in a way that takes a tall, thin model on the underweight side, and makes her look extremely bony and even emaciated in some pics.
Not the best thing in my opinion, but probably there’s a bunch of market research that says that it gets people’s attention and that’s what sells magazines and clothes in an otherwise shrinking market. GFC…death of the print media…etc…
Conclusion: she’s thin but not as gross-thin as this editorial makes her look.
Agreed. She is pretty thin, and to me she is not attractive, but her thinness and bones are exaggerated by this editorial. For what purpose, I don’t know, but I’ve seen pictures of the girl herself and while she is too thin, she’s not scary like this.
She’s not really a VS model, like a VS Angel, she just works occasionally for VS. But out of all the girls that work for VS she has to be one of my least favorite. Her face is so plain, aside from her boniness. At least scary-Chanel has a cute face.
I didn’t know that about her being only an occasional VS model, but it makes sense. With those legs she looks like she was made for runway!
Anyway, I totally agree that she’s not unattractive, but her face isn’t as “cute” as the typical VS model. As with the legs, her features seem more runway than editorial. Quite pleasant looking but not overly striking.
Actually she is a VS angel, look it up. I think she has a beautiful face, she is gorgeous!
how can people actually think this comes by nature? Some of you try to defend this girl.
she is way to thin (you can not even call it thin)
To me she looks totally fine in all the pictures except the picture of her back – her hip bones are visible on her back, that is something I have never seen on a healthy person before, actually I’ve never seen it on anyone. It seems strange to me because in the other pics she doesnt look unhealthy, yes her hip bones/ribs are visible but many people are just like that naturally and if you have seen a lot of women of different shapes and sizes, cross-cultures (average american beach may be a bad example? Just what I hear in the media, I dont know for sure) then you will know this is just the way some people’s bodies are.
Buuuut saying that the fact that her hip bones are sticking out her back makes me wonder if she is meant to be this thin at all and I do find that one pic, due to those bones, unsightly.
Natural or not i’m not a fan of this look at all.
I have no idea if she is naturally this way or not. I know nothing about her but I can say that I don’t prefer this look. I really don’t like her in VS.
I am a 5’11 girl and i weigh 133 pounds. Therefore I have a bmi of 18.5 which is the lowest bmi for being a normal weight. This girl looks so much slimier than me about 110-115 she is way underweight. Though her bones protruding on her collar bone that normal for some people even my bones and hips protrude and I defiantly am not as skinny as her. Being a models height kind of makes me feel bad about myself, because I don’t want to be as skinny as these girls but being as tall as I am sometimes I feel like I should be like them too. Then the rational part of me kicks in and I eat a burrito! lol
Are you aware that BMI is inaccurate and weight is a misnomer as you could have greater muscle density and BMI does not take muscle into account.
Does this girl look like she has high muscle density??? Don’t think so, the only reason muscle definition (plus bones) show is due to the little body fat she has on her.
Justin Bieber looks hotter in a bikini.
lol
I’m a nurse, and I have nursed women in their 90′s who are seriously ill, weighing little over 6 stone, and the way in which you can see her hip bones through her BACK (like in the second pic) is what you will see in these ladies. And the fact that she is just 21 is what is so worrying. No body can who maintains such a low weight can ever be considered to be healthy.
That’s exactly what I mentioned. Like she’s 80 years old, and about to get bedsores from her bones pressing hard against very thin skin.
Absolutely sad.
I’m all for super skinny but she just looks gross. Maybe it’s all the bronzer accentuating her protruding bones and muscles–whatever’s going on here it’s not good.
are they trying to sell bones or swimsuit??
the girl looks just sick. and anorexic.. say whatever you want, but this is a naturall healthy weight for skeletons. im disappointed by VS that they allowed this and im sad for the model. i hope she will get better..
This is VS??! Wow. The times have changed since a few years ago! I’m inclined to say she’s starving, but I don’t know. She might want to eat something. I mean, I’m all for thinness and having discipline, but this takes the cake.
I was fine until I saw her hip bones on her back. Not my cup of tea at all.
weird face
she’s very skinny
love the last outfit
Disgusting and enraging.
As someone who has been (and is currently) under their natural body weight, my bones protrude like this as well and it is NOT HEALTHY. When bones show like that, it is an indicator that someone is too thin for their body frame, hence the fact that their skin is stretched over their bones like that. It is also a sign that they are not eating enough. I know that I eat an unhealthy amount (far too low) but at least I am aware of this problem and making steps to better myself. That is why it enrages me that such a magazine would promote something like this, possibly even throw it off as normal. This is not normal, and if you think she looks “good” and that your skeletal structure is supposed to be noticeable, that is very sad. Its sad mostly because that is what these magazine are doing, making young girls think that this is “healthy.”
I’m not such a fan of her face but I would absolutely LOVE to have that body. I think it’s amazing.
I’d like to add I’m clearly not a fan of people starving themselves and she would still look great with some extra pounds, I’m not advocating being unhealthy, just stating that I am very jealous of this bod!
Actually, having watched the VS show videos and seeing her there, her face is really pretty. Must just be the shoot.
keeping in mind how magazines work, this may be photoshopped, they have a tendency of slimming down slim women.. look at rihanna in her last cover and how she really is
I guess I’m used to seeing protruding bones in high fashion, so this doesn’t strike me as surprising. Yes, she could gain more weight, but this could also be photoshopped – just by the lighting and the sharpness of her body against the background, it appears to be. I don’t like this look in real life, but it works very well for a high fashion shoot.
That`s not a body,that`s a skelton look ewww
Looking at these photos actually makes me feel ill. I will never understand how this is “beautiful.”
After looking at all the pictures…. I don’t think it’s too bad. She has a lot of muscle tone in her arms & legs.
I like it :]. I wish I had muscle tone like that.
The only reason her muscle shows is due to lack of body fat. If anything she needs to gain both muscle AND fat.
This just reminds me of when I was really ill. Having your ass bones stick out is not normal for anyone!
It’s the ANGLE! Come on guys, I am sure nearly all the VS models would look just like that if they were doing those poses..!
you have a point.
not true, I highly doubt Adriana, Candice, Emanuela and so on have their hip bones sticking from the back. At 1.72 and 50 kg (which is pretty similar to Marisa’s stats) my bones do not stick out like that no matter the pose.
i googled her to see if she looks like that in other sets of pictures, and the answer is a resounding no. in other pictures she looks to be exactly the same size as other vs models like Alessandra, Miranda, MarisaMiller, etc…i think they were trying to go for an athletic feel with this photoshoot, but it was obviously a miss.
how is emmacipated associated with beauty/sexiness? my first thought is “give that girl some food” not “wow, she’s hott”
lol, emancipated.
whoah. welcome to the english language. emaciated is the word you are looking for. “emancipated” means freed. wow.
it boggles my mind when people speak only one language and they still screw it up.
Sheesh leave her alone, honest mistake? You ever spelled anything wrong before?
Her lower ass bones are showing. I think its called the posterior ilium. That doesn’t seem healthy to me. Its also silly thats she’s carrying a surf board when she doesn’t look strong enough to carry it. I know you can be super strong and healthy and be very skinny but she just does not look like she is that kind of skinny.
*lower ass bones* I meant just ass bones in general.
She has my dream body, but those pics with her ribs and hipbones sticking out…..no. they shouldn’t have those in there. in truth someone who is that thin has even more ribs and hipbones sticking out. they don’t only photoshop to take things away.
There are clearly some angles where she looks thinner than others but I am disgusted at Maris claire for advetising such an unhealthy body image, definetly won’t buy the magazine if that’s what they are showing
Yikes. Bet these are tearing through the pro-ana community like wildfire. This is some shocking glorification of emaciation.
Only a few more lbs until I look like this! I’m not joking. My waist is 24 but I’m not quite as tall as she is, so I need to put in a little more effort.
We needn’t hear about your starvation goals.
DON’T DO IT LISAAA!!!!!! …. Disappointing how Marie Claire is promoting this look. I always thought, hey, high fashion can prefer this look, but most women really don’t aspire to it, but reading through the comments I can see a few women who are really trying to get this body. Why????
Lisa, you shouldnt starve urself. I used to be anorexic and i looked like this. Even those nasty looking ass bones. I was disgustingly skinny. When you starve your body, u r just killing urself faster. I was anorexic for 6 years and ate literally nothin. I dont kno how i survived at all. I started to have blackouts where i couldnt see. And it really scared me. I knew if i didnt change i would die. Anorexia kills ur brain, ur body and ur spirit. Dont be dumb girl. It wont make u happy any way. I hope u realize be 4 its too late
She is way to thin. It’s worrying to know that young girls are going to see these. Her ribs are poking out too much in the first pic and in the second one you can see her hip bones out the back. That’s not natural or sexy. There’s a difference between being thin and too thin, this is too thin!
I agree, Sheridan. I can’t believe some people find this attractive or want to look like her. These kind of ads are horrible for young girls to see. They think this is acceptable and that they should look like her. Young girls are very impressionable….especially when it comes to media. These images are scary!!
what kind of body shape does she have? apple?hourglass ? triangle? i dunno.. anybody?
She is pretty straight up and down (at least in this shot), she has long legs and arms and a very lean figure, so she is a ruler shape, also named column shape.
I remember when the right fit was 90-60-90 … what happened to does days ????
Designers realised that skinny people are the best equivalent for 3d, mobile coathangers. That’s not meant to be offensive to anyone at all- but clothes hang off tiny individuals better
You say that, but this girl is apperantly not far off those stats with 83-62-86.
When 90-60-90 was the ultimate ideal, the average height woman was 5ft3….this model is 5ft11.
i always heard 86-60-86, and those were supposed to be the ideal measurements in a 5´9 /1.75 cm woman.Those were never thought as the measurements of an average height woman, but were meant for a 5´9 model which is skinny anywhere.
i’m really surprised at how much they accentuated her bones sticking out in these photos… and that they have her posing with a surfboard… as if a girl that scary skinny could surf!
I’m sorry but this girl looks ill. Shame on the magazine for printing these photos. I’m sure she is probably quite skinny naturally, but to get to that size I think some starvation is going on. I once too had a body like this – result of a major eating disorder.
http://media.onsugar.com/files/upl1/23/236279/46_2008/vs4.jpg
on the left i think, without any photoshop
it isnt lighting, they photoshopped her to look like that, probably for a reaction
she’s perfectly healthy
Yeah I really do think that this magazine purposefully made her look as skeletony as possible. Which is wrong in so many ways.
First of all, it’s sending the message to an already too thin model that she’s not thin enough.
Second of all, it’s kind of destroying her image by making people think she looks like that in real life. So there is a public outcry against HER when it should be against the magazine.
I tried to find pictures in real life (candids) where her ass bones are sticking out and I couldn’t find any. So either they were photoshopped in, or she got thinner. I defend a lot of thin people on here, and I am a firm believer that a lot of models are naturally thin and that’s why they model. But I honestly think Erin is toying with anorexia. The last time someone’s ass bones stuck out was Ana Reston, and she wound up dead from anorexia complications. If this girl is sick, I do hope they get to her in time.
Actually, you’d be surprised, it does happen. Normally they photoshop bones out but sometimes in, for a reaction I guess. And she’s not really a super famous model. they can really do anything they want to photos, I think models sign a release form before any shoots so they can’t do anything. If you want some proof, here:
http://community.livejournal.com/fashin/5367525.html
the milan fashion week paragraph, starting with “Katrin says”
She went from being shot in white underwear, to appearing naked in the magazine- and she didn’t know until she saw it. If Marie Claire Italia wanted to make Erin bony there isn’t anything she can do. I don’t know why they’d do it so don’t ask me but the photos you see in fashion mags are usually a lot different to the candids that were taken.
http://marilynnewyork.blogspot.com/2010/04/erin-heatherton-riding-waves.html
It’s from late april. This editorial was probably shot around January. They do it months in advance.
Either, the editorial wasn’t photoshopped and she’s put on some weight since, or they just photoshopped it in like that. Or a combination of the lighting/pose made them stick out a lot when the photo was taken and if she did the same pose in normal lighting in real life, you wouldn’t be able to see it.
http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/6114/546x.jpg
candid from june 10, her hips dont really stick out much at the front at all, you can barely see them, if they dont stick out at the front i doubt they would at the back.
I would be mad if I was her and they photoshopped those on.
That pic appears to have been taken 2 years ago…she may have lost a significant amount of weight since then. We need more recent candids of her.
OMG… It’s photoshopped and we can see her bones anyway. It’s disturbing… Extremes are bad. Too thin or too fat (when it’s not genetics, some people are naturally like that, which is not the same). It’s not healthy at all… Not even talking about physical appearance, just about health. But wow…. BONES !!!!!
when your butt bones start to stick out it’s time for a burger jesus christ…
i’m sorry to say it but the some of these photos are gross, especially the 1st pic!! i can’t believe the photographer thought that pose looked good. not a healthy image to be portrayed in the media to young girls. she looks like someone they plucked out of a clinic somewhere!
Also, I wanted to say if this girl IS starving herself, then she is clearly suffering from anorexia. Which makes a lot of your guys’ comments completely out of line.
Suffering from anorexia doesn’t make one a horrible person, deserving attacks, blame, and hate. It’s not her fault she has the disorder or is suffering from it. That’s like blaming a depressed person for being depressed. Or a schizophrenic person for not understanding reality.
And if you think it’s her fault for not going and getting treatment, then you must not understand mental disorders. There is a very big distortion effect that happens with all disorders, that makes the behavior of the disorder appear normal, so that it’s repeated. It takes a lot of effort to get a person with a mental illness to realize they have it.
We don’t know if she sufffers from anorexia or not, she’s a model, so she has to be super thin to have a job, it’s sad but true. We don’t blame her at all, on contrary, it’s pretty sad to see that. She looks pretty and it’s terrible to see how this fashion industry denies the human body and health.
Disgusting and disturbing……When I see this I’m so happy with my 1.64m and 56 kilos…
Photoshop did the job here.
She’s not a skeleton:
http://www.elle.de/Elle-Blog/Bilder-2608-Models-Street-Style-Erin-Heatherton-with-Marilyn-Agency-NY-0.jpg
Don’t get me wrong, she’s VERY thin. But I don’t think there is an eating disorder here.
If anything, bad photoshop and weird angles and posing. I know if I stretch my torso out, you can see a couple of my rib bones. I’m 5’9.5 and 128 pounds. A solid size 2.
And I ate a burger and fries last night.
Kudos (:
Again, how long ago was that pic taken? It could have been a couple of years ago.
Said 2009 on the blog.
I don’t think she has an eating disorder. If anything maybe dieting, all models go through highs and lows with their weight.
And I would know, I model.
wow you consumed around 500 calories. well done, another 1500 and you’ll be healthy. oh and thats every day not every week.
And Versus –
Might be worth a post that even editorial/fashion blogs think she looks anorexic on this shoot…….
http://fashiongonerogue.com/erin-heatherton-rennio-maifredi-marie-claire-italia-june-2010/
shall i make you a sandwich? extra bacon?
I can’t believe they would publish these. It was obviously intentional to get the mag some publicity which is a pretty twisted thing to do.
That is perfect!She beautiful. so you people are saying you have to be fat to be healthy erm,,,, no. Plus size is just another word for fat. There is this surposable pressure ongirls to be thin however, all i seem to see is skinny girls slated. Runways for one. Clothes look better on tall, skinny girls not a short fat girls. Just in brace your naturally shape i say. So if this girl is anorexic that’s a serious mental issue you you lot slamming her will onlymake it worse. i think shes beautiful and no-doubtyoulot are just jelous
Erm ever hear of middle ground?
‘fat to be healthy’?
If she were the same size as Jessica Alba I wouldn’t think she’s too thin.
As Kate says, there’s such a thing as middle ground.
What??? She is perfect??? She has no body fat, do you even comprehend the health problems that derive from that??? I would never, NEVER be happy looking like that. In fact I am more than pleased I’m not skinny, but I have a nice bum, perky round breasts and big hips. I have a womanly figure and the men love it, especially my husband. I’m more than sure he would leave me if I would let myself become like that. It’ s you who should get your head checked, seriously!
So he is only with you for you figure. Thats not love. Somes girls are very naturally thin. I dont think this girl is for one but like me some girls are and people like yourselfs think you have to have curves to be healthy
Again, you have no idea what “no body fat” means and the dangers that derive from that, do you? And don’t make stupid assumptions about my marriage. I know plenty of naturally slim girls and they look a million times better than this poor girl….
is that what you tell yourself to justify your weight? alocholics do the same thing- tell themselves that it is everybody else who has a problem not them. i am starting to feel that this site attracts a lot of girls with ED’s, and clearly most of you are not yet ready to admit there is a problem.
At least it’s not as bad here as at the ‘skinny website’…but really any site with the name ‘skinny’ in the title is going to attract the pro-ana crowd.
‘you have to be fat to be healthy erm,,,, no’
First off, no one says you have to be fat to be healthy, however you DO need fat even if a little which this model is lacking.
No I am not jealous looking at this makes me proud to be womanly, i am NOT fat there is such thing as a middle ground. Being fat isn’t healthy, but having your bones jutting out if far from beautiful – get a reality check
lol, removed by admin. I’m under 40kg and I think she looks too thin. No one is saying she needs to be fat.
maybe if you didnt call people stupid your comment would have sounded more credible…
Sorry, but saying that this is perfection and implying that anyone who thinks otherwise must be fat and jealous is pretty dumb.
Great body, bad pictures (or at least the quality).
I just don’t like to see hipbones at someones back. You should only see that in eating disorder hospitals, not in magazines!
are you blaming the photographer for her hip bones sticking out her back??????!!!!!!
Whose gonna ride who on that wave?
not really a fan of all these bones..
Anyone that wants to look like this should realize that it means you want to be anorexic. You already need help because when youre anorexic you r just killing yourself. Dont any of u girls see that. Some problems caused by this disorder can never be corrected. You can damage brain cells, mess up your reproduction area, mess up your digestive system and the list goes on. You may thiink u will be happy looking like this, but believe me in the long run you will be worse off than be4. Please dont make the same mistake as me. Dont sell ur soul to anorexia. It could be lost 4ever
So, so unhealthy. Having this little body fat, being skin and bones, is really detrimental to your health unless you’re genetically this extremely thin (which hardly anyone is). She’s so thin, her body has been wasting muscle for energy.
I suspect that, minus the make up, this model has thinning or brittle hair, dull, dry skin, dark circles under her eyes, amenhorrea (stopped periods), feeling cold easily due to poor circulation, and possibly mood swings. She’s also at a high risk of oesteoperosis (brittle bone disease) and the amenhorrea means she’s risking her fertility. All of these things, which this model will have at a body weight and body fat percentage this low, are due to lack of nutrition. She looks TERRIBLE.
i think you read too many magazines – your comment doesn’t sound very scientific or realistic
Are you able to examine me my health by a photo … so please become the new doc of the future.
I completly agree with you. How can you judge her from a photo? Photo’s are constantly photo edited to give a certain look. Obviously a lot of lighting was also used to portray a certain look. I know for a fact that she is not unhealthy and that she has no eating disorder.
yea and guys dont find that attractive i mean… being that thin does not indicate child bearing attributes and gentically woman with hips and enough fat on their bodies, are the ones that are fertile ( not always but biologically this is why those features are attractive to men). Non the less, I have known other women who were thin, mabye not as thin as this girl but still really thin and one of them didnt even look sick! however neither got their periods! Doesnt this all mean something?!
I know that scientifically, men are supposed to go for women with child bearing hips and all that malarkey, but saying “guys like this” is too general. It’s just the same as saying “only this body type is attractive” and someone would get slammed for saying that on this site. I know you’re not being offensive so sorry if it sounds like I’m attacking you, I’m not, but I know plenty of guys who go for veerrry skinny girls over curvier ones.
each era has different more. WE are in a society that is pushing unhealthy food so people get fat and pressured lifestyles. So when a truly healthy person is around we do not had a template. So many want to justify their fatness. She is good for age and style
You are deluded and don’t use the obesity epidemic to try and justify someone who is probably just as unhealthy (if not more so) than those who are overweight.
This girl looks malnourished and almost emaciated….maybe it’s due to photoshop and IRL she looks healthy but from these shocks it does NOT look good or healthy IMO.
She has virtually no muscle, very little fat and her bones are protruding!
She is a Victoria Secret model, a brand that made there name by having women with boobs and butt to promote there products. And Erin is one? Where are her boobs? Where is everything, my stomach hurt from looking at this girl. I want to go eat something for her. I don’t find this spread cute, nothing I would even consider to buy. If she is still promoting for Victoria, I will be very disappointed.
SEXY! i just cant believe we’re both 21 lol..
anorexia?
the pic of her back is disgusting..tooooo bony!! u no when u can see every bone in your body ur too skinny!
were they deliberatley trying to be provocative? its alomost as if they have highlighted her bones, when normally they photshop them out and just leave a tiny frame with smooth skin. i am feeling manipulated, i think.
i dnno mayb they know they will get more publicity because it is quite shocking.
i think she looks great!
Yes – she looks really great and i am a guy who loves women.
There is nothing wrong if you can count some ribs – hey, come on – in such poses i can count my ribs too and you can’t count or see every bone on her.
You need to be really fat to cover every bone in every pose.
It’s not the ribs (although ribs shouldn’t stick out), it is her iliac crest sticking out from her lower back/butt area. She looks like she is about to decompose or something. No matter how skinny you are, it is too much if you see your iliac crest. I’ve never even seen such a thing before.
I used to play basketball with this girl for years.
She was NEVER this skinny. It’s not genetics. She must have lost like 40 pounds. Makes me sick… it’s not a healthy weight for her height and she looks sickly.
She was beautiful before… it’s sad to see how people think being that skinny is beautiful. Especially when that’s not even close to what she looked like before which was a normal, healthy weight.
1. You knew her from basketball, you don’t know her life. how do you know that it’s not genetics?
2. She is a beautiful girl, you have no right to say otherwise.
3. maybe you all should find better things to do than judge this very beautiful model.
I’m annoyed by all this talk from people who think they “know” her. Truth is, none of us do so it is completly unfair to judge her off of pictures. pictures that i’m sure were photo edited to look a certain way. Some of you sound hateful and jealous and quite frankly that makes me sick. this is her career so why dont you all back off.
I agree! She’s just really good at adapting. She would make a good diver…
i used to do taekwondo 6-7 times a week for years and i had my bones sticking out just like that. I wasn´t unhealthy in any way, I ate what I wanted and lived a normal life but my bone structure and the exercise made me look like that. She isn´t scary skinny it’s angles and poses that magnify her already thin and fit body.
Hahaha! Well honestly, the picture where her hipbones are sticking out of her lower back just made me feel a lot better. My boyfriend’s hipbones stick out of his back like that except EVEN WORSE! But the weird thing is… He’s not really all that skinny. I mean definitely skinny for a guy, but no where near emaciated (he has normal legs, not those bird legs). So maybe some people really are just built like that…? I’ve only seen that twice, but if he’s not emaciated or too skinny, she might not be either. As for the ribs & the hipbones in the front, mine do that. And at 5’5″ and 112 lbs., I’m a perfectly healthy weight. I’d say no problems there.
I know this girl and her family and the whole family is naturally skinny. She works out to keep in shape but it’s not unhealthy. If you see her in real life or in other sets of pictures, this is not how she looks. it’s the shoot
This is thin but not scary thin
Oh look Gollum came back for it’s precious…
I think Erin Heatherton is good looking no matter what anyone says without makeup or with makeup she still has it going on keep up the good work Erin
Hey my comment goes out to Erin Heatherton no matter what you are always gorgoes and look really hott and sexy in that one short purple skirt hey Erin I would love to date you and go out with you take care your friend and I will always back you up your the best ever Victoria Secret Model Your Friend Always and forever J.T.
Am I the only one who has noticed that majority of the guys on this site say that she’s perfect and majority of girls say she’s scary skinny? I think that she’s beautiful, but if she lost anymore weight she would be scary skinny.