Model Coco Rocha lands NY Daily News cover…for being fat
The cover of today’s New York Daily News features an image of Canadian model Coco Rocha with the headline “Is she too fat to be [sic] runway model?” (We checked our calendars, and no, it’s not April 1.) The article refers to a New York Times piece published yesterday in which Rocha, who walked in the Diane Von Furstenberg show over the weekend, says she’s booking fewer jobs nowadays because designers think she’s not thin enough.
It’s fashion week season around the world, and the debate over extremely thin models has heated up. In Toronto, the National Eating Disorder Information Centre recently appointed a streetcar shelter with a trash slot into which women can deposit their fashion magazines; above the slot are the words “Shed your weight problem here.”
“I’m not in demand for the shows anymore,” Rocha, who is a size four, bluntly told the Times. She also talks about the psychological effects this has on models. “Girls are told they’re not skinny enough, or they hear, ‘She’s old, she’s boring, we’ve had her, she’s not tiny anymore.’ A lot of people don’t take into account the vulnerability of these young girls.”
“You know what? I’ve stopped caring,” she continues. “If I want a hamburger, I’m going to have one. No 21-year-old should be worrying about whether she fits a sample size.” Rocha has responded to the pressure by diversifying her career: she’s starting a clothing line titled Rococo, has worked as a correspondent for ET Canada and modelinina.com and writes frequently on her blog, Oh So Coco.
• At size 4, Fashion Week model Coco Rocha, 21, is latest of many women considered fat by industry [New York Daily News]
• A model’s prospects: slim and none [New York Times]
• New ad doubles as fashion mag dumping ground [Toronto Life]
• Coco Rocha debuts clothing line at the Grammys [Toronto Life]
And we wonder why there is a problem with models and then our daughters, sisters, aunts and friends dying of eating disorders?
Coco Rocha has a commendable attitude. She exemplifies sane thinking which is often not a part of the fashion industry. Looking forward to seeing her designs.
Size 4 is too fat????!!! What utter nonsense. When are fashion designers going to stop this. You can bet that when the original Coco was designing for women that they were bigger than a size 4. How about appealing to a larger demographic people and actually designing beautiful clothes for women that don’t resemble a skeleton covering skin aka 99.9 % of the population. When are the rest of us going to start saying ENOUGH — we are normal and beautiful and DON’T need to be a stick person to proof it.
Finally!!! A beautiful women with balls. Unfortunately the fashion industry doesn’t care about her view points because if they did there would be allt more of Coco Rocha’s out there. I think she is gorgeous now than ever before.
It’s interesting. Designers’s muses are often actresses or singers – women who are, yes, size 0, but much, much shorter than a typical model. For a 5’11” model to have similar proportions to a 5’2″, size 0 actress, the former really needs to be closer to a six! Designers have two choices: Either use size six, model height women or bring on the short girls.
Models are used only as walking hangers. Nothing has changed since the 90’s and the “Moss” movement. At size 4 myself I do not consider myself fat however having a healthy body image is a constant chanllenge. When are things going to change? I love fashion however the negatives are starting to really out weigh the positives.
How odd is it that one of the most beautiful and unique looking women in the world at a size 4 is considered fat? Never mind that at her height, by medical standards, she may be considered underweight. It so happens that Coco Rocha is my very favorite model and has been for the last few years. Indeed she does appear to be only more lovely with age and she often smiles while delivering spectacular photos in amazing positions never forgetting to sell the products she is modeling.
As a fashion enthusiast and physician in a region of the USA (Scottsdale, Arizona) where eating disorders are the norm among women young and old alike and where breast implants are a frequent “birthday gift” for 16 year olds this trend is literally sickening. First of all, what is so special about being nearly six feet tall? In what way does that make clothes appear better? Why is being emaciated considered desirable? I suppose that the clothes make the model look better because they cover her exposed bones.
I suggest a new policy be instituted requiring that all fashion designers must be at least 5 foot 10 and weigh about 100 pounds. Then, perhaps we shall see a change. Consumers can vote with their dollar and sense, buy Coco’s line!! Don’t support the designers who won’t book models like her because they think they are not thin enough.
says she’s booking fewer jobs nowadays because designers think she’s not thin enough.
Oh, no~~~I don’t think she is fat!!!
you guys think so ?
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Lady Fashion
well if she is ‘fat’ I must be extremely obese then. ha ha