Too Fat for the Runway???

A few weeks ago, fashion designer Wolfgang Joop spoke of Supermodel Heidi Klum, saying she was too fat for the runway.

Watch this video of the supermodel here: Heidi Klum Guitar Hero

Here in a provocative Guitar Hero ad, she strips down to bra and panties (it's still PG-13) and you can see she has a healthy and slender figure. If she's too fat for the runway, I don't know what to say.

What worries me about this however is that the idea of being "rail thin" or even anorexic is okay because it's fashionable or beautiful. However, such a lifestyle is neither fashionable nor beautiful, but unhealthy, even deadly, and men like Joop only work to encourage such behaviors.

I just wonder how "skinny" and "rail thin" became synonymous with "sexy." This image infects our culture and leads to impressionable teenagers going at ridiculous lengths to achieve an unhealthy figure.

Rather than attempting the super-thin look, models and people like Joop should be encouraging a healthy body type.

Calling a slender woman "fat" is not only uncalled for, but in this business, dangerous.

J Kuhl Signing Off