Size Zero?

The size zero model controversy has been firing up this month after British Vogue editor batted the blame for the craze away from her door back at the designers. She claims samples sent for fashion shoots have become so small that even the skinniest models can't fit into the clothes.

So really really skinny girls get hired, we see the pictures and if we are gullible we think that a body that looks like it is wasting away from a terminal disease is actually beautiful.

Models also agree that getting jobs is getting harder because you have to be minute to get a gig. A friend of mine - a very successful model in NYC - has been on a permanent diet for the past 2 years because the current demand is for her to look like a stick. Truly. She is all jutting bones and looks like a gust of wind will blow her away. But that's what designers are demanding.

“The problem lies at the heart of the catwalk modeling industry, which traditionally demands a girl of a very specific shape and proportion. Only about 10-12% of working models have the right look for this type of modeling, and of these 85% are either eastern European or Brazilian. Nobody in this world is perfect. Who needs this kind of pressure?” Sarah Doukas, chief executive of Storm Management recently told The Guardian online.

I resent all of this. Truly I do. If the designers made clothes that were a size two, then bigger models would be hired. Can someone explain to me why they have a problem with size two? Or even size four?

What do you think?

Anna tells Oprah - you're too fat!

Anna Wintour once told Oprah Winfrey that she was too fat to appear on the cover of Vogue and that she "had to drop a few pounds" before the photo shoot.

In un-aired segments of Wintour's recent interview on 60 Minutes, Ms Wintour admits to telling Oprah that she was too fat for Vogue.

She said :

“It was a very gentle suggestion. I went to Chicago to visit Oprah, and I suggested that it might be an idea that she lose a little bit of weight. I said simply that you might feel more comfortable. She was a trooper! She totally welcomed the idea, and she went on a very stringent diet. And it was one of our most successful covers ever.”

I doubt that it was a successful cover because Oprah was skinny. It was successful because it was Oprah. I am so glad that Oprah was happy and receptive to Wintour's suggestion. But you know, Oprah is Oprah and that's the reason we love her. I don't need her to be 100 pounds or 250 pounds, I just need her to be Oprah.

And you know I look at the cover and she looks kind of ....starved, and unhappy.

What do you think?

That friggin' fatty...KATE MOSS

Kate's been carrying a few extra pounds of late. Is she pregnant or is she just 35 and fed up with eating like gerbil and feeling kind of faint all the time? Around 35 it gets soooooooo hard to keep the weight off. You might have eaten deep fried Mars bars all the way through your 20s but there does come a time when it doesn't disappear into thin air anymore.

Has Kate got a recession body? We are all supposed to whack of a few pounds when the economy sucks. Belt tightening doesn't just mean watching the wallet, it also means expanding waistlines.

She is gorgeous. She really is. She looks fabulous from any angle (bad British teeth and all). And even though there doesn't seem to be a lot of personality going on, she is definitely an icon.

So the jury is out - but you can be the jury too. Kate Moss? Too fat to remain an icon? You decide.