Gawker
The Times today found a professor of eating disorders to back up Vogue editrix Anna Wintour, who last fall told the sisters behind fashion house Rodarte they should lose some weight. Wintour put them on a four-month training regimen that saw them drop a combined 50 pounds, the sisters (pictured at left, after/before) wrote up the whole experience for April Vogue and body-image outrage ensued at sister site Jezebel. Everyone needs to calm down, said University of North Carolina professor Cynthia Bulik:
Bulik... defended the offer as it was presented in the magazine, noting that the designers had written that a doctor had also told them to get in shape. She said she was surprised by the controversy, given that Anna Wintour, in her editor’s letter, had challenged designers to use healthier looking models.
"I saw more of an emphasis on healthy eating and healthy fitness than an order, 'You’ve got to lose weight,'" Dr. Bulik said.
See? Big-hearted Anna Wintour really was just concerned. About healthy newstan... er, about health! Ya, that's it.
Times: A Bad Reaction to a Diet
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Eh, they're both still fugly.
Maybe it's just coincidence, but they look a lot happier in the "before" photo.
@CJC: My thoughts, exactly.
Wilson Phillips called. They want Carnie back.
In the before photo, one looks like should could make a mean rugelach and the other looks like that millionaire matchmaker. They look like they'd be comfy to hug.
In the after photo, they look a zombie boy band who has just picked up the scent of those ginger snap cookies you got on your JetBlue flight last week that are now crumbled at the bottom of your purse.
@CJC: Is this proof then, that fat people really ARE jolly?
@Drunken_Philosopher: Word life.
Yeah, stranger than the weight loss is the fact that they look like ENTIRELY DIFFERENT PEOPLE WITH ENTIRELY DIFFERENT THINGS HAPPENING IN THEIR SOULS.
I recommend they get a decent haircut and quit wearing that Goth crap.
Easiest way to lose five pounds: get rid of your issue of Vogue
It doesn't matter to me what you look like on the outside, as long as you're a fattie on the inside.
@CodePink: In their defense, the "Anna Wintour Human Blood Diet" often makes people look like they've been feasting on human blood for 4 months.
Doesn't Anna Wintour know that fat bottom girls make the rockin' world go round?
Next, Dove will pay them to get heavy again.
@Nard38: Ohmygodisowanttogothatdietsobad. I f'ng LOVE blood.
@riskybusiness: Yes, yes!
In the after picture, it's clear what they want.
Brrrraaaaaaaaiiiiiinnnnnsssss.
Looks like all that dieting turned them into dikes -- not that there's anything wrong with that.
Sometimes, people look better with a little chubb on them.
My mom looked like she was a third-worlder suffering from mild starvation when she lost weight. Now she's at a happy medium and looks healthier than ever!
They straight up look like dudes in the second photo. I'll keep ma tits, thx.
vampire lesbians from Sodom, take two!
oh come on, they're much cuter after. Before they look flyover.
For a moment I thought it was Professor Bulk and that was the new ironic-sarcastic name given to Anna Wintour.
Yes, it makes more sense now.
happy-looking may be one thing... but hot-pasty-lesbian-chic- that's a whole other thing. I'll take two, with a side of eyebrows and frowns. yum!
Dieting turns you from jolly chunky girls into scary goth emo boys?
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