Skinny models, What's your view?

Ali Michael, at a time of dire health and extreme skinniness before her wake up!
A more radiant image of the model on the road to recovery Left to right fellow models; Karlie Kloss, Chanel Iman and Ali

Just thought I'd let you all in on my view about the skinny model debate with the latest stand taken by Ali Michael, the highly talked about beautiful model who recently revealed her story about why she wasn't at Paris Fashion week and who has also decided to speak up about the distorted view on the model size and what she has seen and what it's done to her. So here's an email I sent to Wall Street Journal, Journalist Christina Binkley a couple of months ago in response to her truly spoken article on the issue, 'Wasn't Skinny supposed to be out of fashion?', included is her reply. (Click on this posts title to read the article)

----- Original Message -----

From: name removed <email removed>

To: Binkley, Christina

Sent: Tue Mar 04 03:50:36 2008

Subject: RE: Thank you



Dear Christina Binkley,



My name is name removed and am 17 years old.

I am a strong supporter for a more natural sized model but nevertheless still adore

the gorgeous girls that strut our runways. Your article "Wasn't Skinny Supposed to

Be Out of Fashion?" on the 28th of February was simply fantastic and hit just the

right note in regards to the skinny model debate and for this I thank you very much.

I believe that the models on the current runways are extraordinarily beautiful but

the casting directors, designers and other industry insiders who demand that these

girls be as small and as flat as a 12yr olds for an adult market and industry are

the one's to be put to shame. I would also like to give my full support and

 gratitude to Ali Michael just as the likes of Anna Wintour have for saying

'no' and taking a proactive approach to stopping this uncouth trend. So once

again thank you for reporting on such a strong social issue of today's culture

and society.


Yours truly,

name removed

Christina's Reply:

Name removed,
Thank you for such a nice note. I hope that things will soon change to allow more realistic shapes on models!
Best regards,
Christina Binkley

So as you can see this is my view on the issue and I hope with more media like Christina out there reporting on these disturbing issues hopefully will help the industry reach a more realistic view on body image.

Until then..

Love Always xoxo 
S.A.A.