Karolina Kurkova normal?
This picture was shown to me by one of my fashion friends. It’s from Sao Paolo fashion week courtesy of Celebrity Smack!
Pictures like these are always going to illicit comments about the disparity between models and the general public. Fashion insiders will declare this women unfit to walk the runway. They’ll say she’s too fat and unsightly to walk around in a bikini. This straightforwardness will evoke a defensive element in women and others who believe that the fashion industry does not portray an accurate portrayal of society. This idealization is what some believe to be the root of several mental disorders like body dis-morphia, anorexia, bulimia and the such.
I will never trivialize these diseases. I believe them to be serious and cause-worthy. However, diseases like this are based on a set of factors that are internal to the victim. As long as we as a society idealize human beings, these diseases will exist.
Having declared this, Karolina Kurkova is indeed unfit to walk the runway. We have to think about this from an economic perspective. This woman is paid crazy amounts of money to portray a specific idealized image of the human body. Her job is to maintain herself. She is paid to be something that we cannot be. If models were normalized, what would separate us from them? Nothing. Anyone could get up onto the runway and walk a few paces to some stupid music.
This woman’s job is dependent on the way she looks. If I didn’t do what I got paid to do, I would get fired. Likewise even if she looks normal compared to people on the sidewalk, that’s not what she gets paid for. She is unfit to perform her assigned task.
This may seem harsh, but this reasoning is exactly why models have short shelf-lives. Their period of perfection is usually short term and based on what the look for the season is. Modeling is a business based on someone’s appearance.
That’s why they are called models. They’re not supposed to look like us.
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