Monday, March 30, 2009

Is there an age limit on top models?

Rocketrend.com delivered a post that caught my eye about the lovely 15-year-old Polish model Monika Jagaciak and other "under age" girls. Makeup maestro Dick Page says:

“It’s difficult for me to think about a cosmetics idea on someone who is basically a child. I’m not crazy about anonymity in fashion or beauty or the fact that we work with very, very young models because they’re supposed to have the ideal body. They’re like ciphers. Bless them, but I don’t really understand it as an aesthetic"

Rocketrend's blogger also dishes out these racy photos of Monika as well as many of her covers in 2007 where she was only thirteen!

In April of 2008, Monika was banned from walking the runway in Australian Fashion Week as critics and the public were outraged at such a young girl to be booked for the show.
Kirsty Clements, editor-in-chief of Vogue Australia, said that she had withdrawn the teenager from its coverage of Fashion Week after learning of Jagaciak's age. She said that 14 was “young and extreme”. Ms Clements added:
“I mean there's the obvious sexualisation of very young girls ... but also the reason that they are using them so young because they haven't actually developed women's bodies yet. They want them so thin they have to get them pre-pubescent.”
No wonder us girls have freakin eating disorders and coke problems! WOW..

I found the "too sexy" photos that were published in the May 2008 Jalouse Issue. They are hot, but she is only 14 in these picture.. thoughts?
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