Hell Yeah, Models Diet!
Posted by: Nina Carbone
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8:10AM, Thursday June 25th 2009
Newsflash! The New York Times interviewed the next hottest male model—a half-Arab dude from Kentucky named A. J. Abualrub, who was “discovered” by Ford Models last year—about his eating habits. He just landed himself an exclusive contract with Calvin Klein and is walking in all the top designer shows in Milan at the moment. That’s him, above, looking a wee bit hungry. You’d think he’s just blab about the usual, how he’s “naturally skinny,” how he was a total “beanpole” growing up, how he can “eat anything he wants,” but nope, he went with the real, live truth! Abualrub admitted that his normal weight is somewhere around 200 pounds and to drop the runway “necessary” 30 pounds, he’s been only eating “like, maybe twice a day” and it’s been a “challenge to take off the weight.” Refreshing! A model that actually cops to the fact that being that skinny isn’t always about genetics. [NY Times]
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jimnist10
wrote on June 25 2009 @ 07:49 am: [report]
I’m waiting for a currently working female runway model to admit that too. Tyra doesn’t count. Doubt it will happen.
mlyway
wrote on June 25 2009 @ 09:57 am: [report]
I am so offended by this article. I am a dancer and a part-time model and I weigh 110 pounds. I am 5’4”, but I am only 18 years old. I know I am on the thin side but I work out so much because of all the dancing I do. I also have several food allergies which makes it hard to eat food in restaurants and food groups entirely. I also do have a great metabolism so any extra junk food that I happen to eat truly does not affect me, in terms of weight. It actually is much harder to gain weight (the right way) than it is to lose weight. Countless times throughout my life people have accused me of being anorexic, without knowing anything about me. I hate the word skinny—it is such a negative word—yet people, typically larger people, always tell me how skinny I am—how I am skin and bones. And I think to my self, ‘well look at yourself, of course I am skin and bones compared to you’. I am so sick and tired of people blaming and accusing thin people of being anorexic and “blaming” it on other conditions. Because many people truly do suffer from conditions that make it hard to gain weight or keep a steady, healthy weight. Of course, I realize that there are many models and other people who suffer from anorexia. But I do wish people would not just assume that all thin people are anorexic (no matter what business they are in).
CraftLass
wrote on June 25 2009 @ 10:09 am: [report]
@mlyway
Thank you! I think everyone should be honest if they are going to talk about their weight publicly, but I am so with you on being sick of the assumptions! I’m 5’ and 95 lbs and staying this “heavy” is a constant struggle. A lot of models ARE people who are naturally skinny, it’s what inspired them to get into the business. I mean, I’m way too short for modelling and yet people have said I should try it just because I’m so thin naturally and wouldn’t need an eating disorder to stay that way.
What bothered me about this story, though, is that eating twice a day is not only unhealthy but is far from the best way to lose or maintain weight. Completely counterproductive and rotten advice to publicize. Still, better to be honest.
And hey, did you notice no mention of exercise?
Humble Bee
wrote on June 25 2009 @ 10:35 am: [report]
Mlyway,
I don’t know why your offended, his issue is opposite of yours, he has trouble loosing weight, so he must keep a strict diet. Since when is skinny negative? Last I heard almost everyone is trying to get there. If people blame and accuse you of being anorexic imagine how overweight people feel. People assume that when you have a big build or bone structure you automatically pig out and must eat a lot of junk food. You yourself treated them just as bad with your comment, ‘look at yourself compared to me’. Like if being thin is better. Your a model for crying out loud, if you don’t want people to scrutinize your weight, don’t put yourself on public billboards. I also think that its a model stereotype that they are anorexic because like this male model mentioned its “necessary” for runway to be extremely thin.
mlyway
wrote on June 25 2009 @ 10:45 am: [report]
@craftlass: I agree. And if someone is trying to lose weight, its best to eat several, smaller meals throughout the day. And yes, I noticed that there was no mention of exercise. I am too short for modeling too, but I do catalog modeling part-time because it’s easy money and because I am in school to major in fashion design so I am interested in that industry. But because of my excessively long legs, many people think I am 5’6”-5’8” which helps me get modeling jobs, but it is yet another reason people think I am thinner than I really am.
mlyway
wrote on June 25 2009 @ 10:56 am: [report]
@Humble Bee: The model in the article has trouble losing weight because the modeling industry he works in demands that he lose the weight, which is obviously not healthy. I never tell overweight people that I am thinner than them or better than them at all (it’s not true) and there is no point. But I have friends of all sizes, and my friends that are bigger than me are the ones that call me skin and bones and they do not realize that that is an offensive term and it’s really not true. Obviously, there is jealousy that goes on when people say such things. But growing up, many times I was teased for being too thin and having a small frame—much in the same way that overweight children are. And people assume that I ‘undereat’. And I mentioned that I am a part-time model, and with my height, I only do catalogs…which basically means that I model clothes for department stores and appear in their catalogs. I do not display myself on public billboards—that’s not my interest. But it is not just the model industry—me being a dancer as well, people scrutinize why I am so thin. But lots of exercise results in being thin—but I eat a lot, typically very healthy foods. It is just hard to keep the weight on when I exercise so much. My point is that people do not realize that there really are medical conditions of why some (not all, of course) people are thin, and I am tired of the generalizations that all ‘too-thin’ people are anorexic or bulimic. And with all the pressure for Americans to lose weight and be healthier is certainly not helping Americans understand a healthy way of living where there seem to be only two extremes (anorexics and overweight people). Thin and other curvier people need to be recognized as normal.
fallenangel915
wrote on June 25 2009 @ 11:15 am: [report]
He has a very handsome face, but his rib cage turned me the hell off…
canadiancutie
wrote on June 25 2009 @ 09:28 pm: [report]
My cousin was a model, who was dangerously underweight as a result of the dieting that accompanies it and was ordered by her doctor to gain weight. I’ve been approached to model 3X in my life and everytime in happens I smile politely and give my “No, thanks!” response. Not for me. I like to eat.
TetheredCat
wrote on September 6 2009 @ 10:24 pm: [report]
If you were offended by this article, it was merely because you are a fat cow and can’t stand to see anyone else succeed in their goals and become more successful than you. AJ practices martial arts and was a wrestler in high school. Just because this is not the full New York Times article in which that was mentioned, apparently gives you the right to make snide remarks. Fallenangel, the only reason his rib cage turned you off is because it wasn’t slathered in BBQ sauce and the last time you saw a rib was at Big Ronny’s BBQ TO-Go. Get over yourself.
CheeeeEEEEse
wrote on September 6 2009 @ 11:24 pm: [report]
@TetheredCat: Thanks for affirming your 97 pound waifness. Feel free to throw up in the sink on the way out.