Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn are under fire for comments made on a recent Project Runway episode about plus-size women. Former Veronica's Closet actress Kathy Najimy sent an email to a friend of hers, who is also a Bravo exec, which has now been posted online. Najimy discussed the societal pressures to be thin faced by girls and adds, "And I especially hope that Heidi Klum's beautiful daughter never has to grow up in the self-hatred and self-mutilation that occurs when girls and women are suffocated by irresponsible, dangerous comments like the ones Heidi made..."
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8.25.2006
Project Runway under fire
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What did they say? Anyone know?
Something about the outfit made the model look fat and that was unacceptable. I don't really know the full quote, but something on the lines that making a model fat or fat models are unacceptable.
That is out of context, the point was that making a larger woman look bigger is unaccaptable, for a designer the whole idea is to make them look better by the clothes they wear. The judges even made a comment about one of the professional "thin" models looking heavy because of the clothes not the model and that also was unacceptable.
I used to be a model, an anorexic one and now that I'm healthier I am a plus sized woman. Don't get me wrong, I still think in terms of "thin is better", but I fortunately have a fiance who likes women who look like women and not boys with boobs. It has helped with the self hatred one gets when actual food creates some poundage. Let's hear it for Real Women, and the men who love them. ~ss
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