Victorias Secret Model Criticized for Being Skinny After Birth

I just watched a really interesting piece that was really about a Victoria’s Secret model, Alessandra Ambrosio, being too thin less than a year after giving birth to her first child.  Critics feel that she, along with Victoria’s Secret for employing her and keeping in photo spreads, is sending the wrong note to young girls.  I saw the pictures in question, and my oh my, she does look painfully thin. In fact, I am amazed that woman gave birth to a child less than a year ago, her stomach looks so thin that it’s a wonder it was ever stretched out by being pregnant.

Another statistic I heard that was flabbergasting was that research has shown women who see photos or images of very thin women that are pretty much unattainable in the real world, get depressed for up to four hours after they see these images.  That just goes to show that we women really do take that stuff to heart too much sometimes.

I think that we all need to work on it ourselves and recognize that that is not healthy, and it’s not really the job of the industry to do that, but they should be a bit more cognizant of the messages they are sending to the particularly vulnerable teen and preteen women who peruse that type of material all the duration. They are at the founding stages of what they will view their body image as, and are particularly susceptible to unrealistic images of thin women.

I have seen other Victoria’s Secret models that seem to be way too thin on the runway, and I have to confess that after I see them I do tend to look at myself and criticize my body more. It’s woman’s nature unfortunately to constantly compare ourselves and put ourselves down, and we have to work on that, considering it’s really just a counterproductive waste of duration.

We can’t all have the genetics that assemble us tall, lithe and thin, but we can all be beautiful, healthy and fit and confident in our own ways, I think that should be the focus, not being something that you are not.


Original post by EatingToLive

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