Next Top Model girls slim down
First season controversy for Australia's Next Top Model claims 16yo contestants were told to lose weight.
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First season controversy for Australia’s Next Top Model comes in the form of media articles that claim 16 year old contestants were told to lose weight.
The Herald Sun says contestant Alison was told to lose “centimetres from her thighs”.
“It was a shock to the system to be told I needed to lose weight,” she said. “At home a lot of people say I’m too skinny. I was 50kg at one stage, which I thought was a bit scary.
She said she was coming from a place where people were telling her to gain weight, to now being told to lose weight.”
Another contestant, 20yo Chantal Croccolo said,”I have been thin my whole life but I understand the need to be healthy. I don’t agree we all have to be skinny.”
Show scout Lizzi Leighton Clark said that producers had not searched for particular body shapes but “at the end of the day you have to be tall and skinny to be a model”.
“Hopefully, we have a range of body shapes, faces and personalities, but tall and slim is what works,” she told the Daily Telegraph.
Australia’s Next Top Model is notorious for attracting controversial press as young girls compete to win the FOX8 series. The show, hosted by Sarah Murdoch, will return in July.
Source: Herald Sun, Daily Telegraph
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Who are these imbeciles telling 16yo girls to lose weight? Do they want to stunt their growth? They certainly won’t be models then…
Isn’t Sarah Murdoch the poster girl for that whole ’embrace your body’ thing?
oh well They won’t get any work if they broke the ‘confidentiality clause’ in their contracts which states they can’t talk about the show they are in until After the show airs.
get over it australia! everyone knows you have to be a rake on that show, its nothing new!
They never say the girls need to lose weight. They could weigh 100 kg for all it matters as long as they are somehow still toned. Being toned is what matters, and it comes from exercise, not starving yourself.