I’m baffled by the Christmas sweater tradition. They’re hideous, yet popular. Is it a generational thing? Ethnicity? Do women lose their sense of fashion once they hit menopause? One of my new favorite blogs, Catastrophe, published a collection of these handmade-horrors. Check out the full collection here.
“I have tried to get into modelling,” she said. “But I have been turned away as I’m apparently too big to be a regular model. I’ve been told I’m too fat and I need to lose weight. One agent told me I would have to work hard to achieve the gaunt look he was after.
Enjoy an actual meal and read more of this very sad story here
For perspective, the model below Alice Burdeu is a size 2 (U.S.), and is “big” compared to the size 0’s that have been walking catwalks around the world for the last several years.