Should underweight models be used in the fashion industry to promote a product?

Being underweight affect models and their surroundings physically and mentally. In the article “Killer Fashion: An Industry in Denial”, it was stated that “Models fear they will be replaced by a thinner alternative if they do not conform to the sample size-(par1).” By every models thinking like this, no matter the age, will be affected mentally or lead to something fatal. This is a huge issue express by the writer of “Killer Fashion: An industry in Denial.”Rodenbough express how much underweight models was an issue. “28 year old French model Isabelle Caro spent the last years of her life publicizing the horrors of the disease”(Rodenbough par.1). She died from the eating disorder of anorexia. Yet she is not the only one who died from this spreading issue. “Caro unsettling death recalled a string of fatalities in 2006 and 2007 of fashion models who suffered from eating disorders, which, while highly publicized at the time, had since largely faded from the public’s-and the fashion industry’s- memory”(Rodenbough par.2). The fashion it a major issue when you have a handful of women at varies ages dying? “In Montevideo, Uruguay 22 year old fashion model Luisel Ramos collapsed and dies from heart failure believed to have been triggered by self-imposed starvation”(Rodenbough par.3).To a normal person who do not pay attention to their weight, this would be absurd, idiotic, and crazy. Yet like one said before the models are petrified of being anything but tiny which sometimes can be consider a size o. “...The sample-sometimes a size 00, which is, incomprehensibly, one size less than 0”(Rodenbough par.1). Fitting inside a size 00 would be perfect to a model because that is spot no other model could fit unless they was the same size. Like w...

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... media affect everyone no matter the age or sex, the only difference is who voice their opinion and don’t. As Lin stated before boys don’t voice their opinion like girls do, so the shared problem is with females. “Media and peer pressure to be thin and not ‘heavy’, build big biceps, and create those hard, toned bodies and six-pack abs has become society’s ide of the ideal body for boys and men”(“Females Body Image” par.2). “Two-third (66%) said they had heard their mom complain about her own weight and 56% of the girls have mothers who are on a diet, despite the fact that 68% of the girls described their mother’s body size as perfectly normal”(Lin par.4). This is the bad effect that media have on society. Grown women think that there is something wrong with their bodies when in reality it’s something wrong with the models on the fashion industry who use Photoshop.