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| September 25, 2010 | Fashion models are forced to eat cotton balls to keep their weight down | |
New York: Talking about the gloomy side of the glittering fashion industry, supermodel Amy Lemons revealed that when she was a model, her agent asked her to eat one rice cake a day. The Vogue cover model was 17 years old when her
agent told her to do so to keep her weight down. "And if that didn't work (eat) only
half a rice cake," the New York Daily News quoted Lemons as saying in a segment
of a new miniseries on the modelling industry for 'The Cut'. It is based on topics
covered in the documentary expose 'Picture Me: A Model's Diary' by filmmakers
Sra Ziff and Ole Schell. The young directors interviewed several young models for
their three-part series and the final segment was particularly jarring. Lemons said that
she had seen girls dipping cotton balls in juice and eating them as a way to keep their
weight down. "The level of the money you are making, it's like you can't say no," she
said,
underlining the reason. "I think one of the reasons the film is so compelling is
because we are showing footage that we never thought anyone else would ever see.
It was only over time that we realized we had some really unique footage of a
world that is so kept under wraps," concluded model turned director Ziff, who
has walked in shows for Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger and Marc Jacobs.
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