Fired for being too fat? 5'10" an 120??? Excuse me??

It doesn't surprise me at all that a less than average sized woman was fired as a model. I'm sure that this has happened on countless occasion without it being made public. While much of the country is overweight or obese, the size of models continues to shrink to less than 0. I don't understand why it is that the modeling industry thinks that in order to sell their clothes women want to see someone half their size wearing the outfit. I am a healthy women of proper weight, and still I am not attracted to clothes being worn by a person who is a size 0. In fact, because I have curves, I sometimes choose not to buy clothes being worn by a thin girl because I know I would never fit them. I do not have a dislike of thin women by any means, however I do disprove of a woman starving herself in order to have the approval of others. While people constantly complain about the modeling industry, it will take a long time and a huge event to change things.

If you are 5'10" and 120 lbs., you are still skinny. Weighing 120 kilos, you are fat, don't you think so? Yes, it is terrible to feel that a woman of 5'10" at 120 lbs. is fat. Well that's fashion industry, we cannot do about it if they require their models to be 100 lbs. or less.

that's really too bad to hear.. but the fact is now a days... even the airlines are doing it.. and not only the fashion industry.. who's going to make ppl understand to care more for human life rather than human figures..

Sadly I'm not surprised! I recall an episode of the next top model & one of the ladies who as say like a 8/10 was told she should try "plus size" modeling! WHOA! PLUS SIZE? A small plus sized person is a 14/16. I wish I was a 14/16!

5'10" and 120 is fat? More like anorexic. I am 5'8.5" and I weight between 130 and 135. Granted, I could stand to lose a few pounds and tone up but, I am not overweight, just not firm. When I weighed 120 at my height, I looked sickly. My best weight is about 128 or 130. At that height and weight, whomever this is about, he or she really needs to gain at least 10 more pounds. That is not a healthy weight for anyone at that height.

I am about 5'11" and in high school I weighed 125. I ate a lot but people still asked me if I was anorexic because I was grossly skinny. When I look at old pictures I am glad that I finally was able to gain a little more weight. 120 is not fat unless the person is under 5 foot, and even then maybe not.

That is definitely unreal. I never knew 120 pounds was considered to be fat. I think it is too stereotypical these days as to what looks good and what doesn't when it comes to women and what they look like and weight. It is sickening.

Yeah I saw soemthing about that. Fired cause she was a size 4 instead of size 0 or soemthing. Thing I have never understood is why models have to be so thin to be on the runway? I mean, in society.. there aren't many women that look like that... the largest portion is size 10 basically. So why make fashions to show off for huge amounts of money in a size that is so scarse that the designer couldn't even make a living if only those size women bought their clothes? I don't get the whole thing...

I saw that article. If 120 is too fat at her height id hate to know what healthy is!

Just working with this and not trying to look it up or research it at all. The fashion industry is about superficial appeal and attraction so... if they seem to be caught up in superficial ideas about how small a woman should be it does not come as a surprise.