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"Why too thin isn't 'in'." //USA Today// n.d.: //MAS Ultra - School Edition//. EBSCO. Web. 31 Mar. 2010

"These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television," Lagerfeld sneered.

"No one wants to see round women." Need proof? Just listen in to last weekend's National Tween Girl Summit in Washington for 9- to 14-year-olds. It was designed to encourage a more healthy attitude toward weight. "Every single person here wonders whether they've got the right body or the right look," a body-image columnist for Seventeen magazine said at the summit. All too often, it undermines self-esteem and encourages eating disorders. The Tween Girl Summit showed that a serious cultural shift is possible -- with a little assistance. Others providing that help in the past few years have included Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty, which features women of different shapes and sizes; the Council of Fashion Designers of America, which two years ago issued voluntary guidelines against overly thin **//models//**; and fashion officials in Madrid, who set a minimum body-mass index of 18 for their catwalk **//models//**. Many tweens at the summit seemed to get the message. A 12-year-old said a stick-thin **//model//** made her "feel sick" because the **//model//** looked "un-normal."

[] SCHWARZ, FRED. "Not Our Stars But Ourselves." //National Review// 61.3 (2009): 22. //MAS Ultra - School Edition//. EBSCO. Web. 2 Apr. 2010.

Looking into a mirror and seeing yourself should make you happy with your self image and even if you are unhealthy the mirror image should make you want to be health. Being healthy is not being skinny always. It can be eating right and just becoming thinner and to a healthier weight.

[] "ANOREXIA TAKES A LIFE." //People// 66.23 (2006): 120. //MAS Ultra - School Edition//. EBSCO. Web. 2 Apr. 2010

"That wasn't how Reston appeared earlier this year at the Mexico City airport when, returning from a job in Japan, she was **//too//** emaciated and weak to carry her luggage. "I helped her," says Idibar. "I was holding myself not to cry." Once luminous, Reston had become a virtual skeleton. "The skin was gray. The eyes were sad and without light," recalls Estela Saenz, owner of a Mexican modeling agency, who last saw Reston at that time. Still, the ambitious **//model//** continued to work, posing for a fashion Web site as late as Oct. 18. The next day she canceled a bridal magazine booking to enter a Säo Paulo hospital, carrying only 88 lbs. on her 5'7" frame."

Friends were grieved, but not entirely surprised, to learn that on Nov. 14 Reston, 21, had died from multiple organ failure caused by anorexia. Following the August death of an Uruguayan **//model//** from heart failure during a fashion show, Reston's passing adds fuel to the outrage over **//too//**-**//thin//** models. "I understand that in the industry there is pressure to be skinny," says Gisele Bündchen, the Brazilian supermodel, who had never met Reston. "But [this] is what happens when people take things to extremes."

[] Cockburn, Lyn. "The Skinny on Skinny." //Herizons// 2008: 56. //MAS Ultra - School Edition//. EBSCO. Web. 8 Apr. 2010. For all of the born-again concern about the health of its models, the fashion industry still promotes skinny. Thin is still in and gaunt is still good. In the last year alone, four young models died of anorexia.

The messages from the fashion industry, the media, Hollywood and society in general are enough to brainwash young girls into thinking they’ve got to lose weight—that there is some ideal weight out there just waiting for them to under-eat their way to. And then, of course, they will be happy. And maybe even become models.

“If they don’t go along with [the new rules] the next step is to seek legislation, just like with tobacco,” said Carmen Gonzales of Spain’s Anorexia and Bulimia Association. But this column didn’t start in Madrid; it began in Montreal, and that’s where it’s going to end. Yves Jean Lacasse, a Montreal designer, said recently: “The majority of designers in Montreal or Toronto take natural bodies.When I say natural, I mean sizes 6, 7, 8, not 2, 3, 4.” Give that man a lettuce leaf. Every four hours. For six months.

[] "being thin is not a mark of divine factor." //Woman's Day// 70.2 (2006): 60. //MAS Ultra - School Edition//. EBSCO. Web. 8 Apr. 2010.

The article discusses the warning issued by Mary Louise Bringle, a professor of philosophy and theology at the Brevard College in North Carolina, about joining any weight-loss program that equates **//being//** **//thin//** with **//being//** holy and good. Bringle also recommends determining how weigh-ins will be handled. She also advises to stay away from groups that implies that if a person did not lose weight, that person did not pray hard enough.

[] Thomas, Brenner. "The Way She Moves." //Advocate// 1035 (2010): 42. //MAS Ultra - School Edition//. EBSCO. Web. 21 Apr. 2010

"The fashion industry used to be much more closeted for girls," she says, noting that ascension of lesbian models is a good thing not only for fashion but for culture. "I think it's great for people to realize that we are everywhere and not a stereotype," she says. "We are everywhere, and we look like everybody else."

"I needed to express the freedom of my own body," she explains. "I didn't want to be a blank canvas for somebody else. I wanted to own myself and to say, 'This is me. If you want me, fine.'"

But part of her beauty is that she doesn't act like she might appear--genetically superior to 99.9% of humanity. And hers isn't false modesty; it's based largely in Tilberg's refusal to be defined by the image her industry often projects.