Allowing Sources to Speak

Quote one: "Modeling Stole My Confidence And Gave Me An Eating Disorder"

""I was defined by being a model, and if I gained weight I wouldn't be a model anymore. I told myself I needed to stay skinny to be relevant and attractive. Who would pay attention to me if I were average? I'd been riding this skinny model wave for the past few years. The thought of not looking like a model was frightening."

1. Model Melissa Stetten talks about how modeling took over her life and that without modeling she thought that she was nothing. She was not important enough or relevant enough to live on.

2. Modeling caused model Melissa Stetten much distress in her life. She believed that in order to be important and keep people noticing her was to stay on a very strict diet that was slowly killing her. She was worried that without modeling she had nothing.

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Quote two: "Former Victoria's Secret Model Accuses Industry of Promoting Deadly Eating Disorder & Exploiting Young Girls By Making Them 'Sell Sex' "

" 'I went as far as doing crazy crash diets to lose the weight after my agency called me fat and told me that I needed to lose weight off of my thighs and hips. I did very unhealthy things to lose the weight, but I was told if I didn't do it I wouldn't book jobs and become successful.' "

1. Model Kylie Bisutti talked about the insane diets she would do in order to lose weight because the modeling agency she worked for would tell her to lose some inches because her thighs and hips were starting to look a little big. The model would go such far lengths to lose because of fear of failure and not getting booked for any jobs.

2. Victoria Secret model, Kylie Bisutta, was pressure by her agency to stay harmfully skinny in order to be able to be booked for jobs. She went to detrimental lengths to keep the weight off in fear of being unsuccessful.

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I believe that the fashion industry is putting pressure, and an extremely high amount of pressure at that, that is causing fashion models to create a life style that is slowly killing them. There are too many accounts of models begging for their lives to change because they have been sucked up by the way of life that the modeling industry has insisted that they live. Kylie Bisutti, former model of Victoria's Secret was interviewed by Savannah Guthrie. The model talked about her belief of how the Industry is taking over the lives of models and brainwashing them into thinking "skinny is beautiful." Bisutti talked about her experience of trying to keep her model body. " 'I went as far as doing crazy crash diets to lose the weight after my agency called me fat and told me that I needed to lose weight off of my thighs and hips. I did very unhealthy things to lose the weight, but I was told if I didn't do it I wouldn't book jobs and become successful.' " Bisutti thought that staying disturbingly skinny is the only thing that would make her successful. Her mind was so fried by the idea of this perfect body, that she forgot what a healthy body looks like. She was disgusted with herself because she ate half a bagel that morning. This is what the industry makes the models involved think. Similarly, another model named Melissa Stetten wrote a tell all story about how she struggled with an eating disorder because of her struggling in the modeling industry. "I was defined by being a model, and if I gained weight I wouldn't be a model anymore. I told myself I needed to stay skinny to be relevant and attractive. Who would pay attention to me if I were average?" She believed that she needed to stay detrimentally skinny in order to be important. These two models are only one of millions of models that struggle to be noticed and important in the modeling industry. It has become so much of a problem that models are beginning to believe that the only way to be successful is to be so skinny that even thinking of food makes their stomach wrench in pain and disgust.