I completely agree with you Cathy! Tyra is not only promoting a thin waist. She promotes diversity, uniqueness etc. If people actually watch the clip, they see she's just fascinated by the girl's "look" from head to toe. Just so happens that one of the girl's features is "the world's smallest waist" SO WHAT? no one would be complaining if Tyra was up there trying to give an obese person a career. People read into things WAY TOO MUCH these days.

Cathy, I don't think you were in error about Tyra's statement, at least not the meaning behind it. I'd guess that if Tyra could do it over, she wouldn't use those words. The long, tall model was fascinating to see (what little I could see of the clip); she was bizarre. In a bygone era, she might well have been featured in a traveling freak show. I'm not calling her one; I'm just saying what might have happened many years ago. But back to you, Cathy. At your height and weight, no doubt you look thin, but hardly anorexic. You don't realize how blessed you are, to be able to say that no matter how much you eat, you can't gain weight. You say that you get as frustrated as people who are trying to lose weight. Please don't say that; be frustrated about something else, because you don't know what you're talking about. I hate to say it, but having a very obese body is akin to having a physical deformity. Were you ever shunned and called hateful names as a child? Did you go to your high school prom? Did you have to wonder if anyone would be willing to take you, to be seen with you without being laughed at? I very much doubt it. There are always a few exceptions, which in my opinion, have a psychological component attached to them. But most straight men are attracted to a slim or average sized woman. The same is true for the reverse, but I'm sure there are more obese women than obese men. By their very nature, men don't gain weight as easily as women. There are many heavy women who will go with any man who looks in their direction, just so they can say they have someone. There is a woman at my job who is short and extremely obese who married a man who has been in prison more than once. He rarely works, so she is the breadwinner in a family of four. People know this and joke about it, or shake their heads in disgust. You say that you eat more than your husband, Cathy. But at least you do have a husband. There are some women who won't settle for the first bum that comes along. The sad result is that they spend their youth alone. I'm for raising the dress sizes of runway models from 0 to at least a size 6 or 8. This will probably happen when more women designers dominate the fashion world.

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I think she either has a rare condition or she could have removed a rib. This doesn't look normal. When I was younger I remember being at a restaurant with my family and my father noticed a woman walk in the restaurant with a similar figure. My father made a joke at the table saying how her body looks like the shape of a wasp. If this girl, Ann, was born this way than more power to her to show the world what a "real woman" looks like. A "real woman" comes in all shapes and sizes. There is no standard size or standard shape of a woman. At one point skinny was in, then skinny is out and curvy is in, and vice versa. This should end! Our body shapes should never be "in" or "out"....it is not fashion. In this case, girls will not have plastic surgery to have butt implants, breast implants, stuff themselves in unhealthy ways to gain weight to look curvy and end up getting heart attacks and diabetes. AND...stop girls from starving themselves to look skinny. JUST EAT HEALTHY, keep portion sizes reasonable, exercise and be proud with the body you have. The media should show "healthy" woman of all shapes (hour-glass, pear-shaped, apple-shaped, square,etc) and sizes (naturally skinny, big boned, etc).

America's next top Bulemic is on a roll. It's obvious the female is skinny to a fault and one tic tac away from passing out.
Tyra is a pompous, cluelesss, dumbass created by a sector of society who thinks anything she represents really matters.
Show me someone who truly makes a difference by directing people to get real jobs that promote what's really important (Agriculture, healthcare, nutrition, teacher, Plumber, Electrician, Carpentry, etc) and we'll make them an example for others to follow.
Tyra and shows like hers do zero real good as they flit through life telling others if you don't look and act a certain way you're not relevant.
For all the money generated there's a whole lot of disappoiting heartbreak left in the wake while the greedy "one" gets rich.

If you keep watching the show progressivly adds more and more black girls in the contest.

Also, if Tyra loves her natural looks, why is it she wears blond wigs and uses colored contacts. Doesn't seem very natural to me

Cathy Im 5ft 3 and weigh 103 on a good day. I can eat what ever I want and not gain any weight. Some people are just made this way.

I am 5'11" and 115lbs. I've been skinny all my life. I am skinny BUT healthy. I gave birth to 3 very healthy 8 1/2lb baby boys. With each pregnancy I gained 40+lbs and lost it all within a year no diet or exercising. I have never been on a diet before. I eat some good food but a lot of junk food too (steak is my favorite food btw, ooh and stromboli!). Anyway I eat a **LOT** of food, my mom is skinny and her mom is skinny and her mom's mom etc etc. Some people just have a crazy-fast metabolism. I have to eat every 4hrs or I get lightheaded and dizzy, because my body burns food so quickly. That's the down side. That plus people always assume I don't eat or try to say I "need to gain weight" like it's easy - it's NOT! at least not for me. I'd be happier with 5 or even 10more lbs but whatever, no body is perfect and I am not going to worry about what other people think. Live for yourselves gals, not others. Take pride in what you have and enjoy.

Thanks so much for your comment. I get a little twitchy under the collar every time I read one of these articles that seems to think we should all ban together and force feed skinny people with one foot nailed to the floor.

I'm about you size too - I can gain but eat a lot and don't feel my best heavier.

I really want to respond to the comment below that asks if you've ever been "prejudiced" against. With a resounding YES! I've been made fun of in all the way you read in this article, i.e. go eat, looks like you haven't entired puberty, like a boy etc etc. It gets old.

AND, I want to add that while the first look at the girl is startling it is carefully choreographed - corset, black clothing, big guy behind her. She's 6'2; that means long long torso, which in turn means unless she's bloated she's going to have a really small middle. If you bother to look, her arms and legs looks average runway model. Her waist is by no means "smallest in the world" - remember when all women wore corsets, not to mention the fetish world of making the waist smaller and smaller - at least this is just her shape.

Don't hurl insults when you don't know the facts - she may be totally healthy. And by the way - no one removes ribs, ribs are what keep your waist IN.

I see this trend of skinny bashing more and more and I also see obesity more and more - not a good situation.

i'm still pissed off over the "petite model" series. 5ft 7 is not petite. 5 ft 3 and under is petite. petite clothes are chut shorter to fit short women, and 5 ft 7 is not petite.

that show is rigged. it becomes clear about half way who has been pre selected. seriously, whitney? she was always at the bottom, never improved, and any thin girl would have been bumped off for it.

hurry back with america's got talent. now there is a fun show.

uhh thats what they said.........

Uh John...where did you see IHOP mentioned??

fat girls can become models, but they can't be true top models or supermodels. that's a whole different standard.

i don't understand why you think it's okay to accuse thin people of not eating.. you're probably extremely overweight and jealous. you have such a problem with thin people and jump to conclusions about them being anorexic, yet you haven't said a word about the problem we have in our country with obesity (which affects MORE people than anorexia). you disgust me.

I don't understand why when someone accuses these models of not eating (which most don't) that someone else has to jump in and accuse them of being fat and jealous. It is what it is...Most don't eat as much as they should. I am sure there are some that can eat whatever they want, but that is the exception not the rule. I had a friend who modeled and I heard "wonderful" stories of swollowing cotton balls to feel full and not actually eat....

I agree with you Jolly. It is sad how alot of girls think this is the way a woman should look. I watched something on tv about if the classic stars were around today they wouldn't have a career they would be considered fat. I think they were timeless and beautiful. More so than some of these girls now. The women were natural normal looking not like they were in some camp during the holocaust.Hollywoods new size is 0 .There are some women that small but when a woman is 6 ft or you see this actresses get smaller and tht sunken eye look it is horrifying. I have a best friend whos daughter think she is fat and she was 13 in a childs 13 She thought the victoria secret models were fat. The modelling industry and people in charge need shock treatment .They do nothing but promot insecurity and eating disorders. So many women die from this.