Codie Young, Chadwick Tyler & Topshop Join Size 0 Model Debate
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The size 0 anorexic model debate has reared its head again, with Topshop removing the image above of Australian model Codie Young. Photographer Chadwick Tyler wasn’t behind the camera but entered the debate, writing a pretty scathing commentary to the Washington Post.
Topshopand replaced the first image, with this one below.
None of the issues in the Top Shop furor are any different than when this issue broke out big time in fall 2009, with Ralph Lauren photoshopping Filippa Hamilton so that her head is also bigger than her body.
In Filippa’s case, she was fired for being too fat as a size 4 US, and her Photoshop slimdown was astounding. Codie Young was not Photoshopped to be thinner than she is. As for photographers liking to portray women with heads bigger than their waists, what can I say? It’s a look.
Codie Young writes that she objects to being objectified in the discussion about her body.