Karlie is super skinny. But she’s a supermodel. And you’re not.

Karlie Kloss and her already famous apparition in Vogue Italia have caused a lot of buzz around those controversial pictures. Many crazy girl posted the photos on pro-anorexia blogs and probably starved themselves even more at the sight of Karlie’s legs. I’ve been one of those girls as well. Not pro-anorexia but obsessed with being skinny. But one day I realized what a waste of time this obsession was. Don’t get me wrong, I still prefer skinny people to fat ones but I no longer prefer unhealthy over skinny. Because some time ago I got to the point where I didn’t mind being unhealthy for the sake of fitting in a SSX pair of trousers. However, I looked in the mirror and thought that I am not even a model so why try so hard to look like one when I won’t attend those parties, have a friendly chat with Karl over a glass of diet coke or be in the pages of Vogue. That doesn’t mean that I should stuff my face and “embrace my curves”, no. What it means is that I should leave the job of looking *super* skinny to the models who are paid to look like this. 

Models need to be so thin because they’re blank canvases (I prefer this expression to clothes hangers) and they have to make clothes stand on the catwalk. Yes, clothes look better on skinny people but they also look great on gorgeous women. Think about most famous, young and beautiful actresses. Pretty much all of them have amazing bodies but they don’t look like models. Because they don’t have to. And unless you’re trying to become one, you don’t have to either. So it’s not the fashion magazines, the models, or the media to blame for all the girls out there who can’t grasp the difference between them and models and try so desperately to look like Karlie or Natasha Poly. 

Eat healthy without dieting and try to consume a minimum of junk but if you have a slice of cake don’t throw it up the next minute. As long as it’s just one and not everyday, it’s perfectly fine. Exercise, but don’t become a slave of the gym. And most important, don’t compare your legs to those of Anja Rubik. There’s no point, really.

The harsh reality is that if you’re not in the business or intend to be, starving yourself to look like a model it’s a huge waste of time. Maybe you will get more attention but the model life style won’t come with it. And finally, your health seems like something you would easily trade for a ‘perfect’ body until you’ve lost it. 

It took me quite a while to understand that this:

looks better than this:

The irony is that both Lara Stone and Karlie Kloss are super models, however, Lara looks healthier, more alive and a lot more attractive. Just my humble opinion.