hm. having a coke habit or addiction (or using recreational) isnt necissarily the way she stays thin. shes quite petite and im not sure she could gain weight if she tried, you know? i think its rediculous for the fashion industry to be up in arms about it. of course its nice for people to be healthy but the environment of the industry does not exactly foster it. i mean- if it is her habit that maintains her looks (as i think it is implied here) then the industry ought to be thanking her for it because its made them all an assload of money.
hm. having a coke habit or addiction (or using recreational) isnt necissarily the way she stays thin. shes quite petite and im not sure she could gain weight if she tried, you know?
Perhaps. The only reason I said that was because the article seemed to imply she had a cigarette, caffeine, and coke habit, all things that suppress appetite and make people lose weight. I guess it's impossible to know what makes her thin, but all of those things are definite contributing factors.
think its rediculous for the fashion industry to be up in arms about it. of course its nice for people to be healthy but the environment of the industry does not exactly foster it.
Yeah, it's weird. It's like when companies say that they care about the health of their employees, yet they sit them in front of computers for 8+ hours. Kind of like lip service, don't you think?
my best friend is the skinniest girl i know, she tries VERY hard to gain weight and just cant. There is the whole thing that if you are overweight and start eating less to lose weight, you dont because your metabolism tries to slow down even more to keep the fat that you DO consume and if you are a skinny minny and you eat more to gain weight, you dont because your metabolism tries to speed up and devour all the calories you consume. What's up, run on sentence?
Of course, coke habits and all DO make you lose weight, but I dont think that drugs are the way she stays thin.
i can only assume you are talking about me? i dont pretend to know weather or not she would be so thin had she not done drugs. i also dont pretend to know how much she does or why. maybe she does it to keep her career- maybe shes got an addiction. also- does she really look 12 to you? to me she looks like a grown woman with a pretty face and a tiny frame.
this article just helps prove the hypocricy of advertising and model culture. the models are supposed to maintain size 0, while still giving the appearance of being healthy, active, happy people. what an impossible standard. instead of bertaing ms. moss for snorting cocaine, people should be up in arms about why ms. moss is doing it in the first place. fingers need to be pointed at the industry, not at the models. the articles surrounding the incident just reek of victim blaming and it makes me disgusted
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instead of bertaing ms. moss for snorting cocaine, people should be up in arms about why ms. moss is doing it in the first place.
My sentiments exactly. While drugs seem to have been her choice, and no one directly, outright forced her into finding harmful methods to maintain the body she's paid to have, she didn't necessarily have all that many options for it, you know? Maybe I'm really reaching here, but all the attacks on her being an evil sneaky cokehead to maintain her evil skinny little ass do fall under the heading of victim blaming. (This is assuming that her modeling figure is significantly thinner than her natural figure would be, and that the anecdote about her admission of trying drugs to stay thin is true.)
I'm sure the mind-numbing boringness of being a model is one of the reasons that so many models take cocaine. Anybody who's ever had to pose for photographs knows how quickly it gets old.
It's hilariously hypocritical for the British tabloids to go after Kate Moss for cocaine use when tabloid journalists aren't exactly known for their avoidance of the substance. Similarly the companies that use her as a model - they know what all their models are up to, they only did something about it when the news became public.
Most of this story is about misogyny, her job is to look pretty and that's about it but you'd think from the reaction that she'd committed mass murder. It's hard not to notice the treatment she's getting here in UK compared to Roman Polanski, the child molester, who has a new film out here and is getting sympathetic coverage in the press, whilst a woman who takes a couple of lines of cocaine has her career effectively destroyed.
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i think its rediculous for the fashion industry to be up in arms about it. of course its nice for people to be healthy but the environment of the industry does not exactly foster it.
i mean- if it is her habit that maintains her looks (as i think it is implied here) then the industry ought to be thanking her for it because its made them all an assload of money.
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Perhaps. The only reason I said that was because the article seemed to imply she had a cigarette, caffeine, and coke habit, all things that suppress appetite and make people lose weight. I guess it's impossible to know what makes her thin, but all of those things are definite contributing factors.
think its rediculous for the fashion industry to be up in arms about it. of course its nice for people to be healthy but the environment of the industry does not exactly foster it.
Yeah, it's weird. It's like when companies say that they care about the health of their employees, yet they sit them in front of computers for 8+ hours. Kind of like lip service, don't you think?
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What's up, run on sentence?
Of course, coke habits and all DO make you lose weight, but I dont think that drugs are the way she stays thin.
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I drank a 40 of PBR last night and I felt so disgusting afterwards.
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i dont pretend to know weather or not she would be so thin had she not done drugs. i also dont pretend to know how much she does or why. maybe she does it to keep her career- maybe shes got an addiction.
also- does she really look 12 to you? to me she looks like a grown woman with a pretty face and a tiny frame.
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My sentiments exactly. While drugs seem to have been her choice, and no one directly, outright forced her into finding harmful methods to maintain the body she's paid to have, she didn't necessarily have all that many options for it, you know? Maybe I'm really reaching here, but all the attacks on her being an evil sneaky cokehead to maintain her evil skinny little ass do fall under the heading of victim blaming. (This is assuming that her modeling figure is significantly thinner than her natural figure would be, and that the anecdote about her admission of trying drugs to stay thin is true.)
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It's hilariously hypocritical for the British tabloids to go after Kate Moss for cocaine use when tabloid journalists aren't exactly known for their avoidance of the substance. Similarly the companies that use her as a model - they know what all their models are up to, they only did something about it when the news became public.
Most of this story is about misogyny, her job is to look pretty and that's about it but you'd think from the reaction that she'd committed mass murder. It's hard not to notice the treatment she's getting here in UK compared to Roman Polanski, the child molester, who has a new film out here and is getting sympathetic coverage in the press, whilst a woman who takes a couple of lines of cocaine has her career effectively destroyed.
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