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German fashion industry seeks to ban anorexic catwalk models

German fashion industry representatives signed a voluntary code of conduct in Berlin Friday aimed at banning anorexic models from the catwalk, an initiative backed by the federal government. In terms of the agreement, women models must be older than 16 and have a dress size of at least 36, equivalent to a size 10 in Britain and a size 6 in the United States.

The prime mover behind the initiative, Health Minister Ulla Schmidt, acknowledged that the move would not solve the problem of compulsive slimming among young women.

But an example could be set, in cooperation with other European countries, for the large fashion shows with their extremely thin models, she said.

In December last year, Schmidt, in cooperation with Family Minister Ursula von der Leyen, Education Minister Annette Schavan and Austrian Family Minister Andrea Kdolsky, kicked off a campaign entitled "Life has weight - together against slimming madness."

A recent comprehensive survey by Germany's Robert Koch Institute found that around 22 per cent of youngsters aged 11 to 17 suffer from some form of eating disorder.

In boys, the rate then falls off, while among girls it rises to 30 per cent at the age of 17. Schmidt called the numbers "shocking."

Von der Leyen said 90 per cent of those affected were girls or young women. "Anorexia is overwhelmingly female and it is very youthful," she said.

when i lived in colorado I had a great wardrobe of wool skirts. they could be worn from october to april. but then in alabma they were a rarity and  I only worose shorter ones occasionally in deep winter ( 2 weeks in january) 

So here I am back in winter weather and I have all these great skirts but- argh I hate to admit this - I am no longer a size 8. so I have been slowly altering them whenever they can handle it and this morning I did a brilliant thing. I had two siz3 6 party skirts. one was black velvet and the other was cut velvet on chiffon - also black. well I turned them into one larger wrap around skirt with an assymetrical hem line and it's delicious and swirly. I might wear it to a friends house for christmas dinner.

yesterday I finished remaking a red tartan kilt  buy having fewer pleasts and using a black wool bias facing for the inner waistband. and tomorrow I may rework a fantastic green kilt- the authentic thing with leather buckles. It just involves letting  out a pleat or two and adding to the waistband. quite easy.

it's like getting a whole new wardrobe without spending any money. and fasting then knitting.

.Last Friday, I bought a ridiculous amount of clothing for myself for my birthday (this Saturday). I had never bought a pair of pants online, so I did... I bought pants technically an inch larger than my actual size thinking I would be safe. They don't fit. Or... they do... but not comfortably. AT ALL. You would think they would maybe be a little too big, right? No. They're too small. In fact, they bear a strange resemblance to girl jeans. I'd like to see your average girl fit into them, though.

.This made me think: Should I return them? Get bigger jeans? Or have my love-handles gotten the best of me for the last time? So I decided to go to sleep at 9 pm last night and get up this morning at 5 am to go running.

.This never happened. What actually happened is I never fell asleep and turned off my alarm when it went off at 5.

.Then I decided to go jogging tonight and then again in the morning. Twice a day. Every day. From now on.

.That's never going to happen but it's a nice thought. A thought that could hopefully get me into my new pair of jeans. 

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The UK Model industry is making news again!  A few months back news media, doctors, and even some fashion critics attacked how nasty looking size 0 women were looking on the catwalk.  Various survies even showed that the public dislikes how nasty lookin stick think women look and perfer to see curvy, healty, looking women!  Hell back in the day, Marilynn, Betty, and the rest were a *gasp* size 14-18 curvy sex pots with titties and ass!  Men and women loved how these ladies looked!  Men because it gave them something to hold (yep us thick women are sexy folks!) and the women loved them because they represented actual women with curves! 

The UK is now making news again concerning the Fashion Industry and models!  They are thinking about banning models under the age of 16 from doing catwalks!  They have found that having children in the industry leads to health risks for the children.  NO!  REALLY!  WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT!  Just everyone in the public and seeing how UGLY stick think women and girls are.  I am sorry when I see the hip bones and a guant stomach that is nasty looking.  The critics are also suggesting that models have at least a BMI (body mass index for those of you who don't know what BMI means) of 18.5.  Now see if that was me I wouldn't allow them to be on the low end of that!  I would request they have a healthy BMI of at least a 20!

A few years back, my daughter won a modleing contest and had an agent for young children.  It was suppose to be just for our regional area of the midwest but all of her job offers were coming from the East Coast and West Coast and I refused to have my daughter be at the beck and call of agents!  We didn't renew the contract.  My daughter was a novelty in the modling industry, blonde hair, blue eyed, and fair skinned.  The real novilty was the fact *gasp* I forced veggies, fruits, bread, and meat on her.  My daughter even at the age of 8 is quite the looker (she gets that from me!:D) and Randy keeps threatening to lock her up or put a chasity belt on her when she gets older because she will be one hot girl when she gets older (as long as she doesn't get her daddy's nasty pimply skin tone at puberty!:P:D)  All the clients were impressed that my daughter was healthy and could represent the normal small to medium sized lil girls that are found in all races!  If the agent could have gotten her work in the midwest my daughter would have been still modling, I just refused to have her become her agent's work horse and make her into something else.  My daughter doesn't even miss modling because she knows she is a pretty, healthy lil girl and even makes comments on how nasty looking some of the lil girls and young women of today look!

Pretty bad when an 8 year old looks at some of these young girls on TV and in the news and says what adults say and think!  They are ugly mom, look you see their ribs or hip bones.  Where is their ass at mom?  Their boobs look thin and not there mom, I hope I have bigger boobs then that!  I like the way I look mom, I already got a Fry Bread booty butt and Daddy says if I don't stop growing he is going to have to keep the boys or girls what ever I choose away from me cause I am going to be a looker with curves and good looks!

So remember folks stick think is UGLY!  I think it is time we start an organization to feed these butt ugly modles and show them that the real beauties in this world are a size 14-18 with titties and ass!