Dr. Wayne PernellCEO and Founder, DynamicLeader, Inc. · Leadership Advisory and Development - vision and strategy

Breaking Beauty Standards: My Journey as a Model Advocate #shorts

Name: Breaking Beauty Standards: My Journey as a Model Advocate #shorts
Uploaded: 2023-07-08T20:00:09+00:00
Duration: 54 s
Channel: Dr. Wayne Pernell
Description: A former model describes being pressured to convince teenage girls as young as 15 to lose weight for jobs. Only 5% of models achieve lasting success, she…

8 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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A former model describes being pressured to convince teenage girls as young as 15 to lose weight for jobs. Only 5% of models achieve lasting success, she says, and the industry rejects natural body shapes. She left modeling to advocate for more inclusive standards.

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Young girls would come in and my job was to sell them a program that would help them get work. So my challenge, if I can go on, is that's where the whole body image thing actually started. Yes. Where I would have to tell a 15 year old girl that she needed to lose weight to get to get jobs. And this was an absolutely normal, healthy girl that I knew in the modeling industry. She needed to lose weight. And if she did all this, it didn't matter because only 5% of models actually make it. And that did not sit well with me. And there was no diversity and it did not accept people who had a real body shape. Now, 20 years later, 30 years later, that's all in vogue. But it wasn't at that time, and that's why I left the industry.

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