UPDATED POST! Miss Universe contestant "malnourished"??? How about ANOREXIC?!
***edit to this...The Today Show had another show on this topic today (Friday, April 24th) and did a really good job of highlighting the dangers of "too thin"... Thanks, Today, for not letting this fade into the background... Peace! ~K
I am not surprised, I suppose...but really, really disappointed in the comments regarding Miss Universe's contestant from Australia. Folks, at 5'11" and 108 pounds we're WONDERING IF SHE IS TOO SKINNY?? And doctors are calling her "malnourished"??? When I was 5'7" (and 1/2 if we're going to be talking about numbers here) and DYING from my eating disorders, I WEIGHED MORE THAN 108!!!! My doctor, my friends, my family ---EVERYONE thought I looked grossly thin (except for people like the one woman who I worked with who said, "I don't think you're too thin; you're model-like thin...it looks good." ...and for the random men and women whose image of "hot" was as mixed up as they were.) What in the world is this QUESTION of "too thin??"
Anyone interested in a (polite) letter-writing campaign to The Today Show? What I wouldn't give to go on air to educate them and their audience (especially Deborah Miller, pageant director) about the DEADLY SERIOUSNESS of "malnourishment"! If it's not OK for babies to be malnourished, then why in the world would ANYONE in their mind (Ms. Miller!!) think that it is OK to be malnourished as an adult woman (ok, teenage 'woman' --19)?? Who in the world ever thought that a woman who is emaciated is SEXY or HOT!?! Side note: Has anyone who thought that (super thin = sexy) ever been in a long-term relationship with a woman who starves herself to be this "hot"?? ---if they have, I'm guessing after a few romps they ran as fast as they could to find someone who was healthy...because starvation is ugly --mentally, physically, emotionally, and especially relationally.
Let's get active!! Letter-writing campaign here I come!
peace all...and make no mistake: Miss Australia is an anorexic weight --not simply 'malnourished'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously.
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Miss Universe Australia model too skinny?
Australia's Miss Universe contest was thrown into controversy on Thursday with doctors and dieticians complaining a leading finalist was "skin and bones" and dangerously malnourished.
Sydney model Stephanie Naumoska, 19, was one of 32 contestants from more than 7,000 hopefuls to make the glittering final at an event promoting "healthy, proportioned, bodies."
"Bony or beautiful?" newspaper headlines said over photographs of a gaunt Naumoska posing in a red string bikini.
Health professionals said Naumoska, who is 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) tall and weighs just 49 kg (108 lbs), had a body mass index of just 15.1, well under the official 18 benchmark for malnutrition.
"She would be categorized as underweight and I would certainly want to be doing an assessment of her diet to make sure she doesn't have some type of eating disorder," dietician Melanie McGrice told local newspapers.
"She needs blood tests, diet analysis and an overall assessment."
Pageant director Deborah Miller said brunette Naumoska, who was defeated in the final by 20-year-old television presenter and model Rachael Finch, had Macedonian heritage, which accounted for her extreme thinness.
"They have long, lithe bodies and small bones. It is their body type, just like Asian girls tend to be small," Miller said.
But Australian Medical Association president Rosanna Capolingua, whose organization represents Australian doctors, said the contest should impose a minimum BMI cut-off of 20.
"The most unhealthy part about it, though, is the image it is showing other young women who may view this as normal, when clearly it s not," Capolingua said.
While Naumoska refused to speak to media, nutritionist Susie Burrell told the Herald Sun newspaper there was no such thing as a Macedonian body type.
Eventual winner Finch will compete in the Miss Universe world finals in the Bahamas in August.
URL: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/30364743/?GT1=43001
posted by The F.R.E.E.D. Foundation @ 10:27 PM
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