That girl is way too skinny and the weak justifications given for her emaciated frame are simply fucking INSULTING.

How stupid do they think we are?

It is quite obvious that she is not getting enough nutrition.
If she were one of Hollywood's starlet's she would be plastered all over the covers of the gossip mags for having an eating disorder.
I agree with T2. I really hope that she wasn't brought up to believe that this is okay. 'Cuz if that is the case it is going to take her lots of counseling to ever see it differently.
Poor thing.

That's why I was referring to the beaches where I live. I wasn't saying all over Australia, but there are different parts. The majority of girls around here are small and pretty skinny.

Listen.
There ARE people who are underweight and aren't anorexic. Fast metabolisms do exist.

I know. I had one. I was 117 pounds when I was 14. I had lost a lot of weight, almost 100 pounds. At the time, I was 5'8''. I'm a guy. CONSTANTLY being asked if I was anorexic or bulimic, I was not. I had a fast metabolism, which had just gotten really really fast over time, from exercising and losing weight, etc

But you see, that didn't matter. My own mother just wouldn't stop. She thought I was going to die or something. I was eating comfortably and ate till I was full. My only crime was that I was still eating healthily and exercising.

The pressure was unbearable. So in response, I "broadened" my eating horizons, eating all kinds of junk, and I stopped exercising, and eventually, I was fat, not just overweight, but obese!

This woman could very well end up in the same situation.

Honestly, I don't care if she's got a fast metabolism, if it's something in her genes, or if she sticks her finger down her throat. If she's got a fast metabolism, good for her (even though I wouldn't want to look like that, ever). If she sticks her finger down her throat, she needs help. Hopefully she'll get it.

What I do care about is that this 'woman', if you can even call her that, is promoted as being beautiful, healthy and fit.

She's none of that. Beautiful....well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but my eye tells me that she looks like a skeleton in a vacuum bag, her bones are protruding, she's got no boobs, no backside, not a curve in sight. Her face looks haggard, and much older than she is. There is nothing even remotely attractive about her.

Healthy? Even IF she has no eating disorder, she doesn't look healthy, she looks starved. Curves are healthy, bones are not.

FIt? Same as above really.....fitness and skinnyness don't go hand in hand. There's not a muscle in sight, just bones and skin, so looking at her I don't necessarily think of fitness....more of Live Aid...makes me want to go and give her a sandwich for crying out loud!

Seriously, I am not having a go at her. She's a product of her the surroundings she is in, probably one of those who's parents dragged her on stage when she was still in diapers. What scares me is that somebody like that is even allowed in a competition promoting health and fitness, let alone make it into the finals. The people running the contest should be sued and fined, and disallowed from running any further contests.

But then again, it's all about money, so personally I am not holding my breath for any changes....

I don't think her body is beautiful, nor do I think she is at a healthy weight. She should gain some weight (in a healthy way) because she is a model and she should look good, but the media has already convicted her of being anorexic with the only evidence being her BMI and her appearance.

I have a huge problem with this restrictions on BMI that are being proposed. I believe that they should have standards expected of models for more healthy looking bodies. But I don't think they should ban people based on their BMI. It's hysterical and sensationalist.

SOMEBODY QUICK! GET A BIG MAC!!!

That girl is staved! if my daughter looked like that she would be in a hospital for anorexia.

I did see the articles online but not any decent pics. The pics i saw she looked ok, where did these pics come from?

Here she is defending herself.

Skinny people unite!!

I'm glad she got her say and I'm even happier she's up to 117 (just like magic, go figure)

Perhaps the part of the story that wasn't covered was cutting weight for competition like they all do, much like jockeys and wrestlers etc.. It's part of the job.

Funny how she's wearing a puffy sweater for the interview.

im sorry, shes just disgusting and full of shit.

This really goes above and beyond the call of duty when it comes to trying to discriminate.

Now, people considered by BMI to be of normal weight (<18.5) aren't even allowed.

Not every doctor out there has smart things to say....

Cant say as I ever met any anorexic that was willing to admit they were one.

Thank You.

I really find it interesting that they singled her out though, you know? Look at the rest of those girls in that pageant! They all look bloody the same. So like I said in my previous post, it's the pageant, the modeling world, that needs to take a look into themselves and up their flaws.

Ok, i am from Australia, and girls like her are defiantly NOT in the majority at all!!!!!

Thats wayyyyyy too skinny.. Not attractive in the slightest..