YIKES! Meet The Model With A 20-Inch Waist!
by Tracey Lomrantz, Glamour Magazine
We've talked super-skinny models before, but Ioana Spangenberg definitely takes the conversation to a whole 'nother level. Check out her story--and weigh in with your thoughts--after the jump.
At 20 inches, Ioana Spangenberg's waist is just five inches bigger than a compact disc. She was profiled in The Sun UK recently, where they shared that the 30-year-old Romanian model eats three square meals a day (including indulgences like pizza and kebabs) and simply can't gain weight around her midsection. "I just have a small stomach," she told the paper. "It's a bit like having a natural gastric band — if I eat too much, I feel sick."
She had been self-conscious about her body her entire life, but when she met her now-husband, "Jan was the first person who saw me as beautiful and encouraged me to celebrate my body. He asked me to pose in some photos for him." He put the photos up online, and the response was good enough that it eventually propelled her into professional modeling.
Human beings come in all shapes and sizes and of course, they should all be treated with dignity and respect and as the beautiful creatures they are...but what do you think of Ioana as a model?
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Is it a strange choice of work for someone with such a unique body type? Is glorifying her skinny-ness by making her a model dangerous for our collective body image?
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Would it be different if she had any other type of unusual frame other than extreme thinness, which is, unfortunately, so celebrated in the fashion world? Do you think it encourages women to want smaller waists and thinner bodies, or do you imagine there just aren't many people out there that actually want to look like this?
What do you make of Ioana Spangberger? Discuss on our Facebook page.
Photo: Barcroft Media/Landov
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Having grown up in the 1950s it was not unusual for women to have waists of 22-24 inches. We wore very tight dresses and stretch belts and some of us just had natural MM figures. And I can tell you that that can NOT be a 20 inch waist. It is more like 14-15 inches at the most! I have no idea what she has had done to herself, but my guess is that either she has starved herself and the hips are fake or there is sadly some surgery involved with her midsection in some way! Whatever it is it is gross!
Get her off the runway now.. Her kind of figure will just encourage young girls to try and emulate her.. That's something none of us wants to see happen!!
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