Modeling Industry Discriminatory

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How the Modeling Industry is Discriminatory The fashion industry projects an ideal image to what they believe beauty is, which does not always match reality compared to any woman in their eyes. Due to this image that is portrayed many young girls are forced to go to the extremes to change the way they look so that they can live their dreams, the sad part is the amount of pain and suffering a lot of people do which becomes routine a lot of these models. To become a model so many factors come into play, your age, weight, height all are big factors and even race. They turn down woman who do not ‘belong’ to these physical traits. Big magazines such as Vogue were even questioned on why the colored or African American models hardly ever get hired. …show more content…

It is supported by the industry, and encouraged so they can get the women that they want for the clothing, in time frames. The Council of Fashion Designs of America adjusted their health guidelines to raise awareness on eating disorders in the modeling industry, and recommend a ban on models under age 16 for the worry of their own health. This is obviously a well known problem in the business, but recommending a ban is not taking severe action. They created this image of what the perfect body is, and those women with it will make the headlines of magazines and get the money, so in a fast paced and competitive job such as modelling women will go to the extremes and sacrifice their health to be on top. According to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders, nearly seventy percent of fifth through twelfth grade girls say that magazine images influence their personal ideas of what makes a perfect body. There is no actual data stating that this can relate to girls outside of the modelling industry becoming bulimic or anorexic but it most definitely can play a part. Crystal Renn one of the most paid plus size models has had trouble with anorexia and had fell victim to wanting to be a perfect size 0 to be able to be on that catwalk, living the American Dream for a women. Down the line she had noticed how much of a …show more content…

We see a trend throughout the industry, whether it is a colored woman, or a caucasian woman, there is a glam that every lady must hold when coming into this industry. Even the women with the most potential are turned down, all they have is potential, if they cannot take that and turn it to result they are unwanted. Just like former model Katie Halchishick had said, they can find a woman with a thin frame and still make her drop 10 pounds for a photo shoot. They had degraded woman to the point to have eating disorders, the most beautiful women were the most self conscious and this industry had mind controlled them to make them feel the size they fit had defined them. Even for the women who had less chance and hope in areas simply off the color of their skin and being denied to be work with were degraded simply off something they could not even change. To be a model is hard work and is not cut out for everybody. Whether you are overweight, black, too short, or even to old this all falls under one category which is bigger than just bullying it is discrimination. We can define a person by their actions and how they carry them self, but in this industry you can simply get judged off of your physical attributes too your face, and get turned down with no apologies. The modeling agency has various cases of discrimination, but thanks to the women who are strong enough to fight against this and still be

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