Part 3 Reading

In response to Part Three, the article “Not Just a Paper Doll: How Models Manage Bodily Capital and Why They Perform Emotional Labor,” really caught my eye. It’s amazing to me what models will do to get the body they need to be recognized by modeling agencies. Modeling is such a stressful occupation in its self. Between the emotional labor and the physical labor, it can really be a lot for a girl to handle. Models are usually young in age, and all this stress at such a prime time in their life makes it even harder.
Models tend to become anorexic or bulimic because their weight is such an important thing. I’ve never understood why the models we are supposed to look to for fashion advice are always these girls that are so unreal in size. It’s almost kind of discouraging when it looks one way on the model and then looks totally different on someone of normal size. Why can’t models just be people of normal size?
I think the media is corrupting these girls by making them think they need to be super skinny to be able to be successful. I know it was their choice to become a model, but the lengths these girls are going to is way too far.