Obviously the fashion industry has set an unhealthy standard and done some damage to the self-esteem of women everywhere. Why do you think celebrities are so skinny? After all, if you want to wear the free clothes that keep showing up on your publicist’s desk every day, you’d better be able to squeeze into an itty-bitty sample size. That said, I don’t know how I feel about the new rule that bans size-zero models from the runway.

On one hand, I don’t think anorexic women should be held up as the gold standard. Models have generally become clothes hangers with legs, and the ones who don’t have naturally fabulous metabolism have been forced to starve themselves (or worse) to meet the criteria.

Then again, there are a handful of models who naturally fit into a size zero. It’s hard for the other 95 percent of the world to accept, but it’s true. They eat plenty, exercise moderately, and weigh almost nothing. It just happens, and even if we hate them a little, it’s pure genetics. Basically, they’re the Michael Jordans of being skinny. You can tell when you’re looking at one of them, because you don’t have the powerful urge to shove a chocolate-chip cookie in their mouth. Take Giselle, or Heidi Klum, or Petra Nemcova—they don’t look like they’re about to snap in half, but by the new rules, they may be persona non grata on the runway.

What do you think—fair or unfair?

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