Is Fashion Week Bad for Body Image?

With Fashion Week ending this week, I decided to add it into my blog. Fashion Week is the home of rail thin models and non existence food. When girls see how thin the models when they walk down the runway, it makes them change their ideas of "normal." I think that Fashion Week hurts many girls around the country, from normal girls to the models themselves. Media thrives off of Fashion Week and publicity is crazy. One article that stuck out to me was about Fashion Week being bad for body image and I totally agree with the author. The models at Fashion Week have it well. They "attend lavish parties" and all of Hollywood's finest watch the shows. "It is no wonder that supermodels have become role models for many women in our society," says Robert Tornambe, M.D. Seeing the bones poke through most of the models skin is horrible to look at because you know they are in pain whether physically or mentally. "Many are in their teens or early 20's, nearly six feet tall and have a BMI in the minus column,"says Tornambe. Looking at how women are supposed to look you never really know what is the average women and what she really looks like. " The average dress size for women is 12 to 14!," says Tornambe. Tornambe really does understand how much women want to look like a runway model. "Women are unduly influenced into negative opinions about themselves and forced to chase an illusion," Tornambe said. I think that every Fashion Week has problems with the models weight, but women should look more at the fashion rather than supposedly "role models" into today's society.


 Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-tornambe-md/is-fashion-week-a-good-id_b_822569.html