{"id":113,"date":"2006-09-20T23:20:26","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T23:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/newblog\/?p=113"},"modified":"2006-09-20T23:20:26","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T23:20:26","slug":"skinny-models-which-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/skinny-models-which-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Skinny Models &#8211; which one ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"xin_5409031310129523078211.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shekharkapur.com\/blog\/archives\/xin_5409031310129523078211.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"272\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"paulkail.famine.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shekharkapur.com\/blog\/archives\/paulkail.famine.jpg\" width=\"169\" height=\"256\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sudan2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shekharkapur.com\/blog\/archives\/sudan2.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"168\" \/><br \/>\nMadrid&#8217;s Fashion Week, the Pasarela Cibeles, announced last week it was banning models with a Body Mass Index, or height to weight ratio, below 18.  A 5-foot-9 (175-centimeter) model weighing 125 pounds (57 kilograms) would have a BMI of 18.  I agree, and hopefully the same rules will be applied to those that do not have that  choice all over the world.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nAnd now a British Cabinet minister has taken up the controversy, asking the London Fashion Week also to ban super thin models.<br \/>\nThis is such an unequal world. Why should the international press be so fascinated  by this strange controversy  when 95 % of the population of our planet are so thin becasue they just cannot get enough to eat !<br \/>\nAre we surprised that there are revolts all over the world against such unequal consumerism ?<br \/>\nshekhar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madrid&#8217;s Fashion Week, the Pasarela Cibeles, announced last week it was banning models with a Body Mass Index, or height to weight ratio, below 18. 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