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The ad geniuses at Ralph Lauren and their ilk deserve every bit of criticism and more for those notorious photoshopped images of already grotesquely thin women looking even more freakish.
Talk about absolutely twisted:
A spokeswoman for Polo Ralph Lauren has apologized for the photo of the stick figure with the freakishly out-of-proportion head, albeit after the company tried and failed to suppress dissemination of this image on the Web. But the story has a final twist. Last week the company fired the model in the ad, Filippa Hamilton. She says she lost her job because the company thought she had grown too fat. She’s a size 4, 120 pounds on a 5-foot-10 frame. The company says it ditched her because of her “inability to meet the obligations under her contract with us.” Just a crazy coincidence, I’ve no doubt.
How in the hell is a size 4, 120 pounds, on a nearly six-foot tall frame considered fat? That's anorexic. Sorry, but that scrawny a body is no beauty standard.
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