Tyra Banks concerned for young girls as she is blasted about her weight

I have the most respect for Tyra Banks and the very few singers and actors who are not on the Lets starve ourselves and nruin our life wagon. I 100% agree that these women now days are deadly thin. Young girls, young women and teens are playing with thier lives just to be thin. This is not something that you can just fix either. It takes years and maybe your whole life to get over eatting disorders. That is not healthy and is not attractive at all when you are that thin. It is disgusting. I really do admir the ones who do not follow this and do have some weight on them. That is what you call healthy and very sexy. Beyonce is another one who has curves and she looks great!I would rather see people with a little bit of meat on thier bones then be skinny and look horrible. We need to get the message across to these young people just how dangerous it is to that thin and life with an eatting disorder is not glamerous. So to tyra and everyone out there who is making a stand against " the skinny " Thank you for what you are doing in trying to save these kids from the long hard road of these disorders and possible death.

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Michele said: "100% agree that these women now days are deadly thin."

I don't agree that they're "deadly thin". My pre-pregnancy weight was 115 at 5'11. I'm now 130# at 6 weeks postpartum. I've never starved myself, and in fact eat almost compulsively (and no, I'm not a "purger").

I'm sick of bashing on people that are naturally thin, or calling them "abnormal". It's just as counter-productive as bashing on people that are naturally larger.

Yes, some people that are very thin are starving themselves. Yes, some models that are very thin are starving themselves. Others are not. Just the way some larger people are eating unhealthy foods and not exercising, and some are... not.

Can any forum ever discuss the idiocy of bashing people for having gained weight.. Without bashing thin people? It's no more healthy for thin people to hear that they're grotesque, unhealthy and unnatural than it is for larger people to hear it.

*Note: I'm sensitive to this issue because I was always getting too much flak as a teenager for my weight, and made myself quite sick eating a boatload of fattening foods/oil to try to "look healthy".

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I completely agree with you! Everytime someone mentions fat bashing a bunch of people start skinny bashing. I am another who is naturally thin with a slight frame though I am 5'7, I usually weigh in around 105 and after 2 pregnancies in 2 yrs the weight melted off to my pre pregnancy weight in less than a month. Theres nothing wrong with me. And I would have to disagree about Tyra being a healthy weight as well, she has cellulite on her legs! She has a bulging tummy though shes never even been pregnant! Thats healthy?

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I like big butts and I can not lie
You other brothers can't deny
That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist
And a round thing in your face
You get...Baby got back!

I'm with Mix-a-Lot, I like women that have some curves. I hate those women that have big chests that are obviously silicone. Give me a naturally curvy woman any time.

Baby got back!
Yeah, baby ... when it comes to females, Cosmo ain't got nothin'
to do with my selection. 36-24-36? Ha ha, only if she's 5'3.

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Tyra's current weight is pretty much on target for a 5'10" woman with a medium frame. She's only fat by fashion industry standards. Of course, at 105 pounds and only 5'2", I'm probaby fat by fashion industry standards. The cellulite? Well, most women have it and it's not really related to size. There is no lack of dimpling on the runway.

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You guys who are talking about being underweight are just idiots...plain and simple. Knowone is discriminating against skinny people fuckface, we are angry at an industry that glorifies being unhealthy and having eating disorders in order to achieve an unrealistic weight. We are worried about our young daughters who are supposed to be happy and confident about their bodies, yet instead they obsess over their appearence and weight. And why is this? It is because the media puts out an image for females that is nearly impossible to achieve. Knowone is bashing "skinny people" ...thats YOUR issue and you obviously read into this way too deep. Get a life and stop taking things so personal. Maybe I'll support you when the headline titles "SKINNY PEOPLE SUCK"...but until then, you are picking pointless battles.

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Um no, cellulite is from excess fat under the skin making the skin buckle and dimple from the pressure on it. Thin, healthy people do NOT get cellulite.

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I'm just curious, I read this stuff for a lark. I'm an average sized woman (5'9" - 140 lbs, I have a 13 year old daughter). Why is it that the people that read and respond to these articles can't spell and don't use proper English? I guess that's my complaint in everyday life as well though, why are most people we come across not too bright??

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Thin, healthy people do get cellulite. Ever seen a marathon? There are plenty of dimples on display, and you can't say those people are unhealthy. The appearance of cellulite can obviously be exacerbated by weight gain, but it's not something that affects only "heavy, unhealthy" people. (As an aside, not all "heavy" people are unhealthy and not all "skinny" people are healthy). Cellulite is a product of skin "architecture" (i.e., connective tissue affecting the distribution of fat), not the amount of fat under the skin. There have been a number of studies (by the NIH among others) on this issue. Maintaining good muscle tone and a healthy percentage of body fat will certainly help reduce the appearance of cellulite, but it will not get rid of it.

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I don't think anyone is picking on naturally slim people. We're talking about an industry that promotes starvation to sell products.

My girls eat like truck drivers (no offense intended to any "knights of the road" out there) and are all slim. Two of the three worry about their appearance. One, just turned 12, because she still has a little of her baby roundness in her tummy and thinks she's fat; the other, now 11, because her friends have told her she's too thin and will die of anorexia. That's about the time I start banging my head against the wall.

They're perfect just as they are but, for opposing reasons, they can't see it.

I agree with Lil Liberal that it's unfair to attack anyone who is naturally slim. But I also agree that many of the models present an unnatural, unhealty image.

If that's a recent picture of Tyra, she looks good to me, cellulite or not.

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I think we've missed the point. The point is that, Tyra Banks, with a BMI of 23, is being blasted for being "Fat." That. Is. Ridiculous. As a role model for girls and women, she definitely has a reason to be upset over this. If having a normal healthy weight is going to get her ridiculed, then what kind of message does that send the millions of women and girls who are of similar weights and are perfectly healthy?
This isn't about bashing skinny, it's about bashing healthy, which is what the media is doing at the moment with Tyra.

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But isn't Tyra here a victim of the very values she perpetuated on the runway and on her show?

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